Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-12
SIOUX CITY VETERAN FINDS SON
Ne HAD NOT SEEN SINCE
INFANCY.
oAshlNo NORTHERN OFFICER
WooED SOUTHERN GIRL
Babe Given Into Cars II Relatives
When Mother Died. ssersts Child
seeauss Of III Fss.iss Towards
Nerthsrnsr-sen, Now Middle Aged
Business Man, Long sssks Father.


man paced restlessly up and down the
lobby Of the Martin hotel yesterday.
Now and then he pulled a heavy gold
watch from his pocket and glanced at
1t.
He will be here in a few minutes
with him.
Presently gray haired man of SOL
dierly bearing entered the door and
walked to the desk.
will you please have j. T. Kirkland
paged?" he requested of the clerk.
The waiting man and woman heard
his request.
! They rushed joyously to the old man
and seized him by the hand. The wom-
an threw her arms around his neck.
"Father!" they exclaimed.
my son and my daughter" quavered
the old man, as he took them in his
arms.
The elderly man was Capt. R. NJ.
Kirkland, Of Sioux City, and the other
was his son, J. T. Kirkland, a wholesale
jeweler Of New Orleans, who, with his
wife, had come to meet the father he
could not remember.
Captain Kirkland enlisted in the Sec
ond Iowa cavalry in Angus 1861.
From the ranks he rose to a first lieu
tenancy and place on Gen. Ed
Hatch's staff While at Lagrange
Tenn, he was married. After the war
ne settled in that town. Here his son
was born. His wife dying year later.
Captain Kirkland left his son with his
10 q
in Arkansas for many years. becoming
United States marshal at Little Rock.
In the meantime the relatives with
whom he had left his son left La
Grange.
Bitter Towards Northerner.
Bitter enemies of the north at heart
they had never forgiven the mother for
marrying a federal officer. and when
they had left their home they did not
communicate with Captain Kirkland.
For years he searhed for his son
without finding him. and finally gave
him up as lost. When the son grew to
manhood he. too, began search for
his father, but it was only few weeks
ago that thru the war department in
Washington he finally located his
father in Sioux City.
AS soon as he found his parent he
communicated with him and arrived
in Sioux City to pay him short visit
yesterday From the Martin hotel he
communicated with Captain Kirkland
,at the Arcade hetel.
Selling his hat and cane the father
hurried to meet the son he had not
seen for nearly half century.
mo; did not know you at first.
son." he told him. You see, you were
only tiny baby when 1 left you down
in Tennessee. Now you are past middle
age. and have wife and business.
why" he continued reminiscently.
lit seems only yesterday that saw
you in your mothers arms. How proud
I was that day. But she died soon af-
ter that and since then have been all
over these United States looking for
you. And to think that after all it
wasn't 1 who found my boy, but he
who found his old daddy.
and when he did find me he brought
me a new daughter" and with tears
coursing down his cheeks the old man
stroked the dark hair Of his new found
daughter-in-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kirkland departed last
night for New Orleans.
u Captain Kirkland has lived in Sioux
City for about ten years. His niece is
the widow Of the late Congressman E
H. Hubbard.