Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-22
NOTED IN TWO COUNTRIES
SIR JOHN PULESToN'S CAREER
A Most LAUDABLE ONE.
Served Both United States and Eng
land Well-Work During Civil
War Knighted Later.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
| NEW YORK, October 22.-Sir John
Puleston had a career in this country
which. for an Englishman. was uncom-
mon. Sir John had for good many
years before his death lived in England
and for eighteen vars he was a member of
parliament, being known for good part
Of that time as 1.-The American member Of
| the house of commons" This title he
achieved by reason of the unusual Amer
| lean history that lay behind him.
| Sir John was pretty nearly eighty years
old when he died. and although he was
born in Wales he came to America when
| he was quite young man and started
| in business in small way in Pennsyl-
vania. He was of a thrifty turn of mind
| and made money modestly from the very
| first In the years just before the civil
war broke out he became acquainted
with Andrew Curtin, and by the time
| Curtin became the war governor of the
state the Englishman was one of his best
| friends.
Good Work During the War.
| 1t was to this friendship that Puleston
owed his appointment as financial agent
for the state of Pennsylvania, a position
which he held until the end of the war.
| From the very beginning OF HIS work III
! this place the future knight showed UNI
usual qualities. He made money, too.
That, to be sure, was not unusual in the
case of financial agents. but In addition
to making money for himself Puleston
managed to see that the volunteer SOL
diers of the state of Pennsylvania in the
field were as we'll equipped and cared
for as any troops that fought for the
Union.
In order that his represent atoms to the
| Efrir mig hay iont
and that he might be able to speak with
the voice of authority Gov. Curtin made
Puleston colonel of volunteers, and
many Americans who saw him years
later in London used to say that the
best way to get into his good graces was
to call him colonel and not Sir John.
He used to don his volunteer colonel's
uniform and go straight to where the
them. distributing cigars. smiles and
hopeful words right and left. If the
blankets We're torn and worn cut he woult
assure the boys that new ones would
relate they usually arrived on scheduled
time If the pay of the volunteers was
overdue it was up to Puleston to quel
the murmurs Of discomfort by announc.
ing that the money was on the way
Marvellous to state. it almost always was
i Elected to Parliament.
After the war Puleston went to New
; York to live and got a partnership in a
banking firm that represented the New
York interests of big London house
He added money to money. In the early
los he returned to England and in 1871
he was elected to parliament from Dew
onshire remaining there until 1892. He
never forgot his American friends and
interests and when matters that con-
cerned America came up in the house he
Was often heard from. In 1887 he wa!
made knight.
At one time Sir John desired to be
elected to parliament to represent the
borough of Carnarvon in Wales In thi,
campaign he made many speeches and
one of his favorite appeals for election
was based on his statement that a good
many years ago the government had
hanged one of Ills ancestors on the bat
Elements of Carnarvon castle. 1t ap.
peared to him, he used to say, that sim
pie justice required his election from the
borough where his ancestor had been ex
ecuted.