The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-09-06
WAR GOVERNORS REUNION,
Plans to Bring Three Venerable ON
cals Together Next Week.

! Army OF the Republic az saratoga N
a reunion of the three living "war
governors of the United States,
Frederick llolbrook of Vermont, sam
uel j. Crawford of Kansas and vii
liam Sprague of Rhode Island.
Following the Civil war for many
years the war governors of the various
northern states held annual reunions,
but their ranks became so thinned out
that they abandoned the reunions
about 10 years ago. The friends of
the three governors still living, how
ever, believe there should be ut least
one more meeting before the final roll
call and are insisting upon them com
ing together at the Saratoga eneamp'
ment. If they do they will be given
Il place of honor in the parade.
Governor Crawford of Kansas is
hale and hearty aud just ms spry as
he was when he chased the John
MES" and later the Indians. He is
still actively engaged in the practice
of law, and spends every winter IN
Washington looking after the interests
of his Indian clients before the gov
eminent departments and congress.
Governor HolbrOok lives at Brattle-
boro, VT, and Governor Sprague at
Narragansett Pier, r. |.
Governor Hobrook celebrated his
9ith birthday recently, and while he
is in splendid health for n man of
that age, his legs are somewhat wob'
bly, and he gets around mostly in
carriage. He has been president OF
bank in his home town for more than
81 years and just recently presided
over the Goth annual meeting of the
board of directors of that institution.
1t is said he has never missed meet
ing of that board in the last 81 years.
Notwithstanding his great age, Gov
ernor Holbrook is "A great reader ana
letter writer and is the life of every
gathering he attends He is a gentle
man of the old school, and affects the
DAYS of Lincoln and Grant both in
dress and manner.
Governor Sprague in recent years
has devoted his time to scientihe re-
search work and writing at his nome
in Rhode Island. He has not enjoyed
the best of health lately, and it will
be real ldsh luI MN " NUM- 49,
trip to Saratoga Still he wants to
meet his comrades once more, and VIII
do so unless forbidden by his family
and physician. ..,,
of the three war governors stu
alive, Governor Crawford Of Kansas
= has perhaps had the most strenuous
career. He fought in the war and
came out a colonel with a breVet OF
brigadier general. He was one of the
most daring and successful union Of
, fcers west of the Mississippi, ana
was in every battle on the border but
, two. He was elected governor Of
Kansas while in the field and resigned
2 as colonel to accept his new POSITION
= After the close of the war Governor
Crawford established an immigration
. bureau to encourage the settlement IN
g Kansas of ex.union soldiers, and to
him. more than anyone else, is due the
= credit of making Kansas the great
a soldier state that it is. During his
t second administration the INDIANS
y were devastating the western plans:
E Governor Crawford resigned as chlet
= executive of Kansas and organized d
}. regiment of cavalry and joined Gen
!. erals Sheridan and Custer in winter
d campaign against the redskins, who
t were driven to eager and forced to be
II GOOD in the future. The people OF the
e state decided to make Governor CraW'
{ ford a United States senator and IN
l. structed enough members Of the leg
}. ;slatire TO insure his election. But
o.
!. Enough of them quit him to elect the
j. other man. This so disguised the gov
ernor that he never again engaged III
= active politics. He went back to the
law and to the farm, and has made
= great success of the combination
Tie is counted one of the richest men
There were just so different gov
ornors of the northern states during
the war period. Nearly every state
had from two to three governors dur
ing the war. A half dozen mad Tour
However, Connecticut only had one
William Buckingham. lie serve'
from ,5S to '66. Indiana elected
oliver P. Morton after the war mac
broken out and retained him until 'o'
Austin Blair served as governor o.
Michigan from 81 to 20, D TlIlI
the early strife West Virginia brok'
ofT from the Old Dominion and elected
Arthur 7. Foreman as governor ID
served until go. During the carr
Stages of the war all the no "t r
goyernors met in convention at A,
toona, Penn, and prepared an ao
dress to President Lincoln pledgln
him the loyal support of their states,
Two of the three governors nov nov
living attended the meetingCho
p brook and Sprague. Governor Ora"
ford, the other survivor, mad ne no
been elected governor When VI
meeting was held He was out ngn
inc rebels.-Boston GLOBE.
NEW DIVORCE CASES.