The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-01

George NJ. Noble, Prominent Topeka
Business Man, Who Died This
Morning.
Mr., Noble is survived by his wife,
one son, George Noble, Jr., and his
sister, Mrs. J. NJ. French, all of whom
We're present at the time of his death.
George Milton Noble was born on a
farm in Clermont county, Ohio,
March 7, 1912. He was the oldest
of eleven children of the Rev. Henry
Noble of Clermont county. His boy
he entered Asbury university at
Greencastle, Ind, but did not finish
his course on account of the civil war.
Served Through War.
He enlisted in the union army and
was sent to the Thirty-first Indiana
regiment in which he served during
the war as private, sergeant-major,
first lieutenant, adjutant and captain.
He was appointed a brevet major OF
volunteers by the president in 1855.
After the war he lived in Havana,
Ill, later going to Champaign, ILL.,,
where he studied law. Immediately
after his admission to the bar he came
to Topeka and has lived here ever
since He was engaged in law practice
for many years. In recent years,
though still member of the bar, he
devoted most of his time to the real
estate business. He had been resi-
Mr.. Noble was married to Miss Eva
Reed of Champaign, ILL.,, in 1872. They
had two sons, the elder of whom,
Walter Thomas Noble, died in 1904.
is connected with the firm of George
M. Noble & Co ~
Organized First Trust Firm.
Mr.. Noble. in connection with T.
B. Sweet, organized the first loan and
trust company in Kansas, the Kansas
T Il
served as vice-president and one of
the managers of the company until
1892, when the company was sold to
the Trust Company of America. Mr..
Noble then became vice president, act
ing in that capacity until 1898, when
the company quit business.
Mr.. Noble has been a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church of
Topeka for forty years. He was
member of Lincoln Post, G.. A. r., the
Topeka Commercial club. and the
Kansas Commandery of the Loyal Le-
gion. He was a thirtieth degree Scot
fish Rite Mason and also Royal Arch
Mason.
George NJ. Noble. Jr.. and Mrs.
Noble were in Kansas City, but were
called home by the illness of Mr.. No
BILE, Sr. Arrangements for the funeral
will be made later.
Tribute by Waters.
Captain Joseph G. Waters, a COM
rade of George NJ. Noble throughout
the war and a close friend in the
many years since that time, has the
following to say in regard to Mr.. No
ble's death:
Captain Noble was born in Cler-
mont county, Ohio, and was over ~
years of age at the time of his death.
His father was a preacher, who for
many years was a power in the Meth
odist church of Indiana. Captain No
BILE was graduated from DePauw uni
versity about the time the war broke
out, and by every endeavor, sought to
follow the first flies. His father tried
to prevent him, but after the first bat
tie of Bulls Run, gave him permission
to go. After persistent efforts to en-
list, he finally persuaded Col. Charles
Cruft of the Thirty-first Indiana vol
unteer infantry to take him along as
clerk. He went to Camp Vigo with
that regiment Until he was mustered
in, he was a general utility man for
everything and everybody; he had
charge of supply trains, loaded steam
boats, and by the time the regiment
reached Fort DonelsOn, he was mus
tered in as a private in that glorious
body of troopers. He was promoted
to sergeant major, the highest nom
commissioned Office in a regiment, and
served in that capacity until he be-
came adjutant of that regiment The
story of his service during the war
comes freshly to the mind of the writ
err for they were in the same brigade
to the end of the war. He was in the
fights at Fort Donelson, Fort Henry,
Corinth, Iuka, Tuscumbia, Florence,
Athens, after Bragg on his journey
northward, Shiloh, Gallatin, Perry
vile, Bowling Green, Stone River, Mis-
sionary Ridge, Lovejoys, Jonesboro
and all the other of the hundred bat
ties from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Franklin, Duck River and Nashville.
He was on the battle line every time
his command sent bullet to the
enemy He was in all the weary cam
paigns of the four years war. He was
wounded at Stone River. His COM
mission as adjutant was given to him
in February, 1868.
The writer remembers two charac-
tiers in the same regiment, who stand
out boldly as jaunty and debonnair
soldiers, either of whom was such a
one as Dumas would have wished, had
he desired a fourth Guardsman. Cap
tain Noble was one and the other was
Colonel Jim Hallowell. They could
stir the blood in the drums and give
voice to the very soul of the bugles
/ Soon after the war, Noble came tic
Topeka to practice law and formed q
ne arSIira with Tnfn Gr1v This