The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26

Crimean war.
Baron SStrathcona, high commissioners
for Canada.
Sir John Tenniel, cartoonist. who II.
iistrated Siice in Wonderland. -
Lalla Rookh ,nd the ''Ineoldbv
ont full half century with the Tnn.
don Punch ''n'
And who will greet these three worth.
les when they pass within the naIa
OF the tenth decade7 Here they arc
mounting up, up, on the ladder Of The
years whose rnugs we will number on
posite their names-still reckoning ON
birthdays scheduled for 1910:
Age 9l-,lulia Ward Howe, autbo, ~
the - Battle Hymn of the Republic =.
poet, abolitionist editor, peace aeitator
women S suffragist and Unitarian min,
lister She was lately at work upou A
new poem
Age 92-Maior General Samuel Gibbs
french, 6; ;, A., who was in Grants
class at West Point and who was
lieutenant in the Mexican war.
The Earl of Wemyss and March. WIN
tins month came down to vote on the
budget. He married the second time
when 50,
Age 93-John Bigelow, editor of the
| New York Evening Post over sixfv
| years ago, who was consul to Paris dur
ing the civil war, and minister to
| France under Johnson and Grant. who
has been turning out books continuous.
| " for hftv-seven years, and who Last
month carved the family Thanksgiving
| turkey
SIR Joseph Hooker, surgeon and natu.
ralist; He was elected president Of the
Royal society 5hirty eight years ago sn'
and visited us in 1877. '
Bishop Thomas Bowman of the
Methodist Episcopal church, the oldest
American bishop and ex-presldent Of
De Pauw University while Lincoln was
president.
Age o5-Dr James C. Hepburn, who
compiled the first English dictionary Of
the japanese language and who trans
lated the bible into japanese, He and
his wife celebrated the sixty-sixth an
niversary of their marriage I had a
letter from him some weeks ago writ
ten IN firm hand
Age 9S-Brigadier General Daniel Fl.
Rucker, {. S. A. father-in-law of Cen
cral Sheridan. He was born before the
member back 10 the time of the battle
Of Waterloo. He was commissioned n
lieutenant In 1887, was captain in the
i Mexican war, and was a brevet major
general at the close Of the civil war
He retired twenty years ago, and has
been an officer of the regular army con.
tinnously for nearly seventy-three
years. He is not yet marking time, but
still marching,
And now for the centenarian grade
that of the great-grand old men OF
1910;
Age 1O1-Rev Sedgwick W Bidwell
Middleburg. n. Y. On his Tooth birth
day. this year. he preached sermon o,
twenty-five minutes duration at th,
church in which, at the age of ninety
he had completed his active pastorate
after sixty-six years in the ministry
He is reported 10 still walk three mile
daily, rain or shine, to read and writ
with ease and to have voted in ever,
election since he was eighty He ha
held pastorates in twenty-five towns O
New York and Vermont, has offciate,
at $40 weddings, has conducted 100
funerals and preached 10000 sermons
He remembers the roar of the artiller,
at the battle of Plattsburg, in 1914
J when he was nearing his fourth birth
day. and every man who ever held tn
Office of president of the United State:
except Washington, has been alive with
in the span of his years.
, JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.