Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-11
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 from the capitol to the EllSs' home fo, the services. according to plans to- night and other troops are expected te march in the funeral cortege. Tele. grams of coincidence have been pour. ing into the home of the sister her, where Colonel Cody had been staying for the last few days. They include messages from friends throughout tho country. One from President Wilson and others from General Nelson A Miles and General Hugh L. Scott, chisl of staff. were among the number.
 Biographical Sketch.
 Col. William F. Cody. Buffalo Bill" hunter, soldier, scout and snowman, was for many years known to nearly every man, woman, boy and girl in America through his wild west show with which he toured this country and Europe He was a picturesque type of the pioneer frontiersrnan and lived to see large cities built where he once hunted the buffalo and fought Indians.
 Col. William F. Cody was born fin Scott county, Iowa, Feb. 26 1846. Hia ancestral stock was Spanish, Engiish and Irish. His parents moved west and took up a claim near Leavens- worth, Kansas, then a frontier Indian post, when Cody was five years old. At ten years of age he found him self the head of the family owing to the death of his father who was kill ed in an encounter growing out of a dispute over the negro slave question. Young COdy's first employment was as a courier between the freight wagon trains operated between the Missouri river and the Rocky Mountains. In turn he became wagon master, trap per, hunter, pony express rider and stage coach driver, all giving a var jed experience in school. the grad uation from which left the scholar an adept in every possible line of from tier activity.
 An exciting experience in the Union army as a soldier and subsequently as a confidant and scout of his com manders in the desultory and guerilla warfare of the southwest left him at it's finish well known as an all around frontiersman, competent to advise, to soon brought him to the attention of such distinguished commanders as Gen. w. T. sherman, Lieut.. Gen. Phil Sheridan and Generals Crook, Custer, Merritt, Carr Royal, Miles. Dodge and others and secured his appointment ad chief of scouts in the United Stated army during it's numerous Indian cana paignS in the west
 His career in this line identified him with the great fighting epoch between the red man and the white man waged by Gen. Sheridan after thd Civil war that temporarily ended in
  the Ghost Dance war in the decisive battle of Wounded Knee in 189O-91 campaign with the Northern Sioux.
 During the construction of the UnioH Pacific railroad young Cody attached himself to a camp of United Stated troops protecting the laborers and won his sobriquet of Buffalo BilP by taking a contract to supply the entire force with fresh Buffalo meat for a certain period, killing under one cOn- tract 428O buffaloes. On one occasion he killed the noted Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hand in the presence of Iu- dians and troops.
 He became known to juvenile Amer ica in the stories of western adven= ture written by E. z. c. Judson who wrote under the nom de plume of Ned Buntiline.
 With the advance of civilization. finding his occupation on the western plains gone. he went on the stage where he remained several years playing leading parts in dramas ~ picting life on the frontier. Late N association with Nate Salisbury. ha nrt ganized his wild west show with which he toured this country for many years and on one occasion visited the principal cities of Europe, where he was warmly received and entertained by royalty.
 He was elected to the Nebraska Ieg4 islature in 1872.
 Colonel Cody, in 1866 was married to Miss Louisa F'rederici.