The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-15
DELANEY Will Be BURIED
Beside General kERWIN


country with his parents when but s
years old, and two years later was pick.
ing slate at coal breaker near Seran.
ton. Later he drove mule team on
the tow path of the Delaware & Hud.
than IL years old when the Civil war
broke out. At the time he was work.
ing in tannery owned by Jay Gould,
noted financier.
Young Delaney was fighter and the
call to arms appealed to him. When
13 years old he was a robust boy, and
he determined to enlist. He ran away
from home in Scranton and came to
Harrisburg, where he enlisted as a pri-
vate in Company I, 107th regiment,
Pennsylvania volunteers, commanded
by the late Major Harry c. Shaffer, of
Harrisburg, and in order to pass the
mastering officers inspection he stood
on block of wood that give him an
added height of several inches and en-.
abled him to pass.
He Earned Medal Of Honor
He did not serve as a drummer, but
was strong enough to carry musket.
He was one Of the youngest soldiers in
the army to go into actual fighting with
muskot, something he was very
proud of. He served from Bull Run
to Appomattox, was several times
wounded, thrice captured and escaped.
From time to time promotion came to
him until he had command of com
pany at the close of the war.
At the battle of Dabney's S Station q
conspicuous act of gallantry in recap.
turing the regimental colors earned
him, in after years, the Medal of Hon
or, given for particular acts of bravery.
On being mustered out he went home
to Scranton and attended Kingston
Academy for term and then went
with the engineer corps of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company.
In 1857 President johnson appoint
cd young Delaney lieutenant in the
Thirty-seeond regiment, United States
infantry, but he declined the honor,
preferring to remain with his family.
In 1873 he was made messenger im-the
Executive Department by Governor
Hartranft, who was his firm friend, and
in 1879, vacancy occurring in the
Office of Senate Librarian, he was elect
ed to that position, serving until 1890,
when President Harrison appointed him
Receiver of Public Moneys in Okla,
homa. He resigned that post in the
fall of 1898 to return to Pennsylva-
MIA and at once entered actively into
the politics of the State.
Captain Delaney was known as one
of the political lieutenants of the late
Senator NJ. s. Quay when the latter
was the Republican leader of the State.
In 1895 he was appointed Superintcnd-
ent of Public Grounds and Buildings
by Governor Hastings, serving until
1899.
Appointed Factory Inspector
In 1903 Governor, Pennypacker ap-
pointed Captain Delaney Chief Factory
Inspector, in which position he served
until January, 1913, when he resigned,
his resignation being due, 1T was al
legged, to his assertion that he had in
his possession confession made by the
late John H. Sanderson, implicated in
the Capitol grating, in which certain
men "higher up were mentioned, and
which he declined to make public.
Since his retirement from office Cap
tain Delaney had been at the head of
chemical firm in Washington, D. c.,
having removed his family to that city
about year ago.
From the time he resigned his place
as Chief Factory Inspector Captain
Delaney began to fail in health, and
when he came to Harrisburg last Janu-
ary to attend the Inauguration of Gov
ernor Brumbaugh his friends were i'm
pressed by the astonishing change in
his physical appearance. He returned
to Washington and few weeks ago
his condition became such that his
friends knew his last hour was fast
approaching.
In the past few weeks many friends
from Pennsylvania called upon him,
and they found him suffering very much
from his illness, but the same bright
and CHEEKY man as Of old.
Captain Delaney was member of
the Loyal Legion of Pennsylvania and
Post 5S, G. A. R., of Harrisburg. He
is survived by his widow, formerly
Miss Kline; two sons, Charles II. and
Roy, and a daughter, Helen, who were
with him at his death.