The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-22
PERSONAL.

COi. EDWIN r. Brown, InSpectOr-S3en-
eral Of the National Military Homes, died
in New York, Jan. 10, from heart trou-
bic. He was born in Medina, n. T., in
1923, served as Lieutenant Colonel of the
2Sth N. T.. from 1861 to 1868, when, hav-
| ing lost an arm in battle. he was mustered
out. He was appointed Governor of the
| Central Branch at Dayton, o., upon its
Inauguration, and served in that capacity
until promoted to lnspectOr-General.
The citizens of Carlinville, ILL.,, have
| started a movement to erect q monument
| to the memory of Gen. John NJ. Palmer.
| commander of the Fourteenth Corps, Gov
ernor of Illinois, and Senator from that
State. He was born in Tennessee, but
removed to Carlinville, where he became
prominent in the law and started upon his
public career. His widow still lives, but
she has hardly means enough to make
comfortable her declining years, and IN
less something is done, the grave will re-
main practically unmarked. The Legisla-
ture will be asked to make an apprOpria-
ton, which it should certainly do. for
Gen. Palmer was one of the most eminent
men produced by the State.
Gen. Robert A. Friedrich died Dec. 81,
at Juneau, Alaska. and was buried at Ala
media, Cal. He was born in Lincoln
County, Ky, migrated to Topeka, Kan,
and took an active part in the politics of
at one time u candidate for Governor. He
enlisted as a drummer in n Kansas regi-
ment, and rose to be Captain. He was
n jealous Grand Army man, and held
many important positions. Four years
ago President Mckinley appointed him
District Attorney for Alaska, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt reappointed him.
Maj.-Gen. Ernest Won Vegesack died at
Stockholm recently. He was an educated
Swedish soldier, who came to this coun-
try at the beginning of the war and Of
fered his services, which were gladly ac-
copied, and he received an appointment
in the Regular Army as Major and Abide
Camp. He was instrumental in raising
the Goth N. Y, also known as the United
Turner Rifles, two years regiment,
which he commanded until 1t was muster
cd out. June /, 1868, when he resigned
from the army and went home. He was
brevetted a Brigadier-General. Marcel. Is,
1865. He resumed his place in the Swed-
ish army, and rose to the rank of Major
General.
Col. John W. Ella, who served as q
Captain in the 18th n. H., and was a
strong factor in the Civil Service Reform
Association and the National Business
League, died suddenly Dec. 10, two days
after attending a meeting of the Civil
Service League at Philadelphia, at which
he made an excellent speech. He was
born in Meredith, N. H., in 1893, and be-
came President of the Civil Service As
ISOLATION of Chicago in 1894.
Ex-Governor Roswell 2. Farnham died
Mt his home in Bradford, VT. Jan. 5. He
was the eighth in descent from Ralph
Farnham, who came from England to
America in 1853, and settled in Andover,
Mass. He graduated from the University
of Vermont with honor in 1910. entered
upon the practice of law, achieving prom
ineDce, and was three times elected States
Attorney. lie went to the front under
President Lincoln's first call as Second
Lieutenant of the 1st VT, a three months
regiment. and returned to the service in
1862 as Lieutennnt-C Colonel of the 10Th Vt.
He commanded the regiment when it re-
pulsed Stewards attack at Fairfax Court
House, Dec. %, 1862, and was in the bat
tie of Gettysburg. In 1880 he was elect
ed Governor of Vermont by upwards of
25.000 majority, the largest ever cast for
that office in Vermont. He was a men,
Der of the G.. A. r., Loyal Legion, and of
the Congregational church.
Mrs. Mount, wife of Col. I. Y. Mount,
leading ieweler of Petaluma, Cal, has a
loyal record. She was the daughter of
Capt. w. f. Pickerel, who served through
the Mexican War, and then raised Co. G,
9Th Iowa, for the war of the rebellion,
and commanded it until he was taken
prisoner at Mission Ridge, where he was
kept in prison until the end of the war.
In both wars he served nearly six years.
His daughter married I. v. Mount, who
served in the 9Th Iowa. was captured at
Shiloh, returned after eight months to the
regiment, and served till the close of the
war-in all four years and six months.
He was in command Of regiment of the
Iowa National Guard when the war with
Spain broke out, organizing company for
that service and went to Manila as part Of
the 51st Iowa, which did grand work in
the Philippines, where he served hear.y
two years. Mrs. Mount thinks that war
service of six years for her husband and
six years for her father can challenge the
record.