Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-04
Pete" Hepburn
Is so Years Old

Many old Marshalltown people, ana
especially veterans of the Second Iowa
cavalry, of. whom there are severa! III
this city, will be interested IN knowlhs
that this is pete" Hepburn's SOtn
birthday anniversary.
Colonel Hepburn, now in private lie
after many years in consress, ceie
brated his anniversary today at his
home in Washington. Dispatches from
Washington declare him to be in re-
markab!e health and vigor for one OF
! his age.
Fifty-two years ago on Aug. II last
Pete" Hepburn, as captain of Conf
pany B, Second Iowa cavalry, left MAJ
shalltown at the head of ninety four
young men who had been mustered III
that day for service in the civil war.
Hepburn had raised the company. hoid-
+. ing meetings for that purpose thruout
the county He was elected captain at
the meeting of the new company, held
in room over what is now the ADbott
& Son store Most of the members OF
the company were from this county.
About thirty men. however, We're from
! Stiry county, being brought here by
Paul A. Queal, young attorney, VINO,
when Hepburn was chosen captain,
was elected first lieutenant. Thomas
Wilson. was chosen second lieutenant.
When marching orders were received
about one-third of Captain Hepburns
company rode their own mounts. The
rest of the company occupied wagons.
The first days march took the COM
pany as far as LeGrand, where the
soldiers We're quartered among the
good people of the community. The
second Gays march brought the re-
cruitS to KcSZta, in Iowa county, and
by noon the next day the soldiers Were
at Marengo. where they entrained for
Davenport. There the members Wao
We're unmounted were furnished with
horses.
On Aug. 10. while Captain Hepburn
had his men out for drill, he received
telegram telling of the battle of Will
sons Creek. This lent enthusiasm to
the young soldiers. who were anxious
to get to the front.
The first man Hepburn enlisted in
his company after leaving Marshall
town was Billy" Paxton, of Indian
first man of the company to be killed in
an engagement. He fell mortally
wounded during the advance from
Hamburg to Corinth.
There are now living here and in
this vicinity seven men who went out
with Hepburn. They are Gen. G. A.
Beeson, adjutant of the soldiers home;
Cloud H. Brock. of the headquarters
office, soldiers home; John B. Brush,
L. McKinnon, "Jud" Garfield, w. F.
Eshbaugh a member Of the soldiers
home, and Carr Brock. of Conrad.
Captain Hepburn saw three years
service with the Second Iowa, was pro-
NOTED to be major, and again as lieu
tenant colonel. For some time he
served as q member Of the staff Of Cen
eral Rosencranx.
A native Of Columbiana county,
Ohio. William Peters Hepburn was
born Nov. 1, 1888, at Wellsville. In
April, 1871, his parents moved to the
territory OF Iowa, where their son re-
ceived his education In the country
schools. Later young Hepburn was
apprenticed as a printer, and learned
his trade. He studied law as a young
man, and was admitted to the bar In
1854. It was as young lawyer that
he came to Marshalltown. He was
district attorney at the time the civil
war broke out
After the war M. Hepburn lived in
Memphis, Tenn, for a few years. and
then went to Clarinda, Page county.
Here he became influential in politics,
and was made solicitor Of the United
States treasury by President Benjamin
Harrison. Mr.. Hepburn was elected to
the Forty-seventh congress, and was
reelected during the succeeding years
up to and including the Sixtteth con-
gress. Since his retirement from con-
gress Mr.. Hepburn has been living In
WASHINGTON