The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-30
REV. U. POLLOCK'S USEFUL LIFE ENDS
 IN HIS 83 YEAR.
Retired Clergyman Won Distinction in Stirring
 Days of '61.

Following an illness of several months. during the last three of which he had been bed-ridden, the Rev. James Thomson Pollock, died yester- day morning at his home, $40 Laurel avenue. aged 82 years. Due to Mr. Pollock's advanced age, little hope for his recovery had been held for mum. Der of weeks by the venerable clergy mans relatives and friends. Death was due primarily to heart trouble.
 Notwithstanding his greatly advanced years, MT. Pollock retained his facu1- ties and a spirit of youthful optimism until his last illness. He possessed a happy faculty of making of casual acquaintances warm friends. His death is more than a passing grief td these persons. It comes as a distinct personal loss.
 Mr.. Pollock was born in Leesburgh. Ohio, August IA. 1884. He came of a sturdy Scotch Irish line and was rais-, ed in the Scotch Convenanter faith. in which he himself was ordained as a minister, in 1861, in Bolivia New York. He was graduated from Ge- neva college, Beaver Falls, Pa, in 1856, which institution his family had been Instrumental in founding.
 Early in the Civil War MT. Pollock offered his services to the Christian commission, corresponding at that time to the Red Cross society of to- day. Although the Convenanter church did not countenance war, or the participation in war. Mr. Pollock strongly felt his country's call, and after two months service with the Christian commission he was elected by the officers and men of the 91st Indiana infantry to becomes their chaplain, which commission he accept ed, serving with his regiment until il was mustered out at the close of the war.
 He was present at the siege and oc-- cupation of Atlanta, after the fall of which city. his regiment was attached to the 23rd army corps, which was or dered by General Sherman to the de. fense of Nashville and Chattanooga, these cities being threatened by Gen. eral Hood, who was leading his army north. He was engaged in the san- guinary battles of Franklin and Nash vile during this campaign.
 After Nashville MT. Pollock, with his regiment, was ordered to the Att lantic seaboard at Goldsboro, North Carolina, where they received news of Lees surrender, and were united with General Sherman's main army which was returning from it's march to the sea. During the occupation of Salisbury, N. C.. MT. Pollock was deeply interested and grieved in the ruins of the notorious prison pen where thousands of Northern soldiers mad been imprisoned, and in the graves of more than 4,000 of them who had died and been. buried i'll a sandy, barren plot without shelter or protection from the dissertation of vandals. On his presentation of the case to the commanding general he was authorized to take such men as. necessary to erect strong enclosure about this graveyard. On June 26, 1865, he with his regiment was mus tered out of the Federal service.
 On his return to civil life he Joined the Presbyterian church and resumed his ministry at Osborne, Ohio. On June 12, 1867. he was welded to Miss Elizabeth A. Andrews of Dayton, Ohio. His pastorates were all in Ohio, with the exception of his first (Bovina, N. Y.)
 After nearly half century in the ministry, he retired to Rochester N. Y, later removing to Bridgeport, in 1914. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Elizabeth A. Pollock, daugh- ter, Miss Margaret R. Pollock. and son, Melville A. Pollock. all of this city: a granddaughter, Mrs J. Lee Eichelberger, and great granddaugh- ter, Miss Nancy Lee Eichelberger, Of Dayton, Ohio. Surviving are brother, Calvin Pollock, M. D., and sister. Mrs. Mary Howard, both of Van Vert, Ohio.
 There will be a simple service at the home, for the family. on Tuesday at o'clock, at which the Rev R. J.