Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-04
JUDGE GIVEN DEAD
Prominent Iowa Soldier, Jurist
and Citizen Passes Away in
DcS Moines
HIS CAREER WAS NOTABLE
Served in Both Mexican and Civil
Wars and Attempted to Enlist in
Spanish American War - Many
Years on tho Supreme Bench of
elowa-Commanded Grand Army.
HIS CAREER WAS NOTABLE
Special 10 rimes-Republ,can.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 4.-Judge Josiah
Given is dead.
Among the men who made large i'm
press upon affairs in Iowa during tho
past forty years, Judge Given was one.
and few men have passed from life to
death so generously loved and SO
widely mourned For his life has been
filled with great activity, the activity
of duties done. He had u wider circle
of acquaintance than most men, and
his capacity for winning esteem and
enlisting the affections of men was
the cornerstone OF his success.
His death was due to old age. He
was in his S0th year. and for two years
has been failing especially for the past
year AT his side when he passed
/, away at 2.20 o'clock were his chill
dren Welker Given, Mrs Joseph Ct
Gardner. at whose residence. lA42
West Ninth street. he had been living.
l.,
Two sons. Frank and Thomas Given.
reside at Spokane and were unable to
be here Mrs Given. who was Miss
Elizabeth Arlnor. died twelve years
ago. They were married in 1851 at
Pittsburg, .. Judge Given was the
youngest Of his immediate family, and
survived both his parents and all OF
his brothers ard sisters
Al his own request the Grand Army
of the Republic and the Pioneer lodge
of Masons will have full charge of his
funeral. he had been commander OF the
former and master of the latter me
time has been fixed for o'clock
Thursday afternoon from the Gardner
home on Ninth street.
Judge Given served in two wars, but
in fact he was the veteran Of three.
He was a lad of II when the Next
can war broke out. With Rollin V.
Ankeny. who died in this city few
years ago, he was sent into the conn-
try about Milersburg. O., commits
stoned to cali out the militia In
Holmes county. The boys emulated
Paul Revere's ride. at full run, speed
ing across fields and down the lanes,
silmmoning the brave men from the
fields and their homes in the country
side to bear arms for the nation. 1t
was a service performed with energy,
dispatch and intelligence. Both of the
boys enlisted in the war and gained
distinction. Judge Given. it is believed.
was one of the two survivors Of the
Mexican war, having residence in Polk
county at the time Of his death, the
Int
When the civil war broke out Judge
Given was practicing law He had
been a democrat, but a follower OF
Stephen A. Douglass. The message OF
the firing on Fort SUMTER reached the
court house in Coshocton. o., when
Judge Given and many of the bar We're
engaged in the trial of case. He
instantly announced that he was In
favor of the union when several of his
colleagues, democrats. urged him not
to be hasty about the matter, or too
outspoken for the moment. to take
things cool and watch developments.
Gentlemen" said Given, "the. man
who raises his hand against the
American flag is my enemy tho we
We're born Of the same mother" And
he left the court room and enlisted,
among the very first from Millersburg.
When the Spanish-American war
broke out in 1898, the first Iowan to
offer his service to the nation was
Judge Given. He called at the office
of Governor Leslie M. Shaw and
pleaded for the chance to enlist Gov
ernor Shaw promised that if any regu-
lation was adopted which would per-
NIT two-time veterans more than 70
years Of age again to bear arms for
the nation, Judge Given should be
allowed first chance to go on. And
with that he had to be content
Judge Given enlisted first for the
Mexican war as a snare drummer in
Company l., Fifteenth infantry but
1847 he enlisted at the age of 10 in
Company G, Fourth Ohio, and was
made a corporal, remaining in the
service till the end Of the war.
When he abandoned the trial Of the
case in the Coshocton, o., court house
in response to the firing on Fort
Sumter, he organized Company x,
Twenty-fourth Ohio, and went to the
front in command Of the company For
three months his command was in Vir-
ginia then he was transferred to the
army of the Cumberland, being made
lieutenant colonel Of the Eighteenth
Ohio regiment, serving in Kentucky
and Tennessee during the height of the
campaign there. He was in twenty
two battles, altogether, including
Bowling Green, Nashville and Stone
river. He was wounded at Stone
river. He was made colonel of the
Forty seventh Ohio, succeeding Fight
ing Parson Granville Moody in 1863
and went thru the Atlanta campaign,
commanding the Third brigade of the
Third division, Fourteenth Army corps.
during part Of the time. He retired
from service a brigadier general.
He was the first commander OF
Croker post, G. A. R., in Des Moines,
being elected March II, 1879, and was