The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1914-08-08
FAMILIAR FACES
Historical Characters Of Whose
! Looks We Know Nothing.
THEY LEFT NO PORTRAITS.

Many Of the Famous Figures and He
roes Of Colonial and Revolutionary
Times Are ~ Blanks 10 Us SO Far
as Their Personal Appearance ls
Concerned.
In the search for n portrait OF Thom-
as willett. the first mayor OF New
York, the committee from the city
club visited nearly every print dealer
in the city In addition TO scores of pri'
yate collectors OF Americana. But
there was no portrait to be found
Any one who has ever attempted to
make collection of the pictures of
the big men of early New York soon
realizes that there are many blanks.
For instance. of the four Dutch gov
ernors Peter Stuyvesant Is the only
one of whom we have II correct por-
trait. OF Peter Mlnuet, William Kieft
and wouter van Twiller there is abso-
lutely nothing accurate, although vnri'
Gus caricatures have appeared from
time TO time.
The same is true of still more emi-
nent New Yorker, William Bradford.
the first printer who founded In l125
the New York Gazette. which was the
FIRST newspaper printed In the prov
ince. Bradford was so prominent
man and SO active for years, both In
Philadelphia as well ms In New York,
that Il is rather surprising not TO have
something worthy of being called n
true portrait. II there was, perhaps
his features might be ON the tablet
erected on the site OF his printing Of
fee, now OF the Cotton Exchange, at
Hanover square.
The lack Of an authentic portrait or
Nathan Hale. the martyr spy OF the
Revolution. is somewhat better known.
although the sculptors MacMonnies.
Partridge and others have not al
lowed this to restrain them from de-
picting the features of the young sol
dier In stone or bronze. or Colonel
Ethan Allen there is no known por-
trait, and the same is true OF the
doughty warrior, General Nicholas
Herkimer.
One Of the heroes OF Bunker hill.
Colonel Richard Gridley, has left no
portrait. Ee was the artillerist and
engineer who built the forti1cations
the night before the battle. Other
prominent Revolutionary fighters of
whom no pictures exist are Colonel
William Ledyard, the defender OF New
London, who was killed by British
officer when Ledyard surrendered the
fort: General Thomas Conway. leader
of the notorious cabal to depose Wash
ington from the command OF the army
In 1777; Colonel Seth Warner, who was
prominent in the attacks on Ticonde
roga and Crown point and In the bat |
tie Of Bennington; General Seth Pom |
eroy of Massachusetts,. and General |
Samuel Holden Parsons. one OF the |
board which tried Major Andre and |
was appointed by Washington as the
first Judge OF the northwest territory.
No accurate portraits exist OF two OF
the flfty-six signers OF the Declaration
Of Independence, John Morton OF Penn
sylvania and John Hart OF New Jer-
sey. although n portrait which is said
to be that OF Hart hangs in Independ.
ence hall in Philadelphia and Is said to
have been painted from n miniature
There Is nothing extant OF the IA
her OF George Washington, Augustine
nor have any portraits
been discovered OF Colonel Ball. IA.
her OF Mary Washington, mother OF
he general, or OF John cambridge. IA
her Of Washlngton's wife. Martha
A portrait which great many col
ectors OF old New York material
would give good deal to obtain IL
hat OF Samuel Fraunces. the West In
Han tavern keeper, whose best known
louse was the old Fraunces' tavern,
low owned by the Sons of the Reyolu.
ion. restored since they purchased II
few years ago to its original condl.
Ion. 1t is on lower Broad street. on
be corner Of Pearl street, and the
amous long room In which Washing
on took farewell of his officers has
cen restored as closely as possible to
Is original form.
There is no portrait OF William Gun
ingham, the heartless keeper OF the
rovost jail in corner of City Hall
ark during the Revolution. Betsy
loss, the celebrated maker OF the first
fars and stripes, has no portrait. Cap
lin Miles Standish Is among those
Tho have left nothing OF their per-
'nal appearance, nor is anything
nown OF the intrepid French explor- O
Joliet, who traced the sources OF the Q
Mississippi e
Others OF more or less note OF whom {
lere are no portraits are the old Eng 2
sh dramatist Christopher Marlowe; I
ichard Savage, another well known Il
nglish dramatist, who died In J743; +
arquis Duquesne, from whom Fort v
uquesne, now Pittsburgh, got its first
ime from the French; George Clln-
N. royal governor OF New York from
'43 to 1853 and father OF the British o
neral In the Revolution, Henry Clin.
n; Colonel John Henry Cruger, Cen
al Oliver de Lancey, Governor VIII 81
I'm Tryon, General John Forbes,
lron Dieskau, General Robert Howe s
ID Bourrienne, Napoleon's famous
cretary. who wrote an excellent life
the great French emperor,-New
)rk Times .,
W.r In Ara Air III