Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-10

Andrew Edward Bell Pollock was
born at Mt. Union, Pennsylvania, on
January 18th, 1885, and died at Ger
mantown, Pennsylvania, on Deem
Der 1, 1919. He was the son of Col.
William Pollock, the founder of Mt
Union, its manner, and its first post
master. His grandfather, Thomas
Pollock, was a Scotch Protestant
dissenter," driven from Scotland on
account Of his religious beliefs. The
time at Ballybay, County Monaghan,
Ireland, before coming to America.
When Edward Pollock was about
nine years old the family consisting
of the father and son and daughter,
made the journey from Pennsylvania.
There was a river and canal trip from
Pittsburg to Cleveland, Ohio, a great
lake trip from Cleveland to Chicago
on the steamer Owisconsin, by team
across Illinois to Galena, and by river
steamer up to Cassville.
The son Edward lived the life Of
the ordinary boy of that day, attend
ing school, fishing, and ferrying trav-
ellers across the Mississippi river
When he was 16 he was travelling
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horseback carrying mail The faith
err did surveying, and the son also as
sisted in this work
AT the age of IL the son and daugh-
ter were sent away to higher schools
of learning They made the trip down
the Mississippi and up the Ohio, Ed
ward attending Franklin College, a
Scotch United Presbyterian theologi-
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his sister attending a seminary at
Xenia, nearby The days spent here
must have been happy ones. It was
life long cherished ambition SO Of
ten expressed to his friends and the
members of his family to 60 back and
visit again the scenes of those school
days. 1t is sad to think that when
his lifelong desire was gratifed he
was not i'll a condition to appreciate
the fact.
A little later the son Edward was
sent to the Albany Law School at AL
bany, N. Y, He finished his course in
this famous legal school in the same
class with men who in later life be-
came famed attorneys. One was JUS
tice Brewer of the United States Su-
preme court Having been admitted
TO the bar in New York he returned
to Cassville, and in the fall of 1859
came to Lancaster and taught the pub
lie school. At term of the circuit
court of Grant county sitting that
fall, Judge Cothren presiding. he was
upon motion of Allen r. Barber" adj
mitted to the practice of law. At the
time OF his death he was the oldest
member of the bar of this county.
Educated in theology and law, he fol-
lowed neither as calling.
He contributed some articles to the
Grant County Herald which attracted
attention, and he became an assist
ant editor of the Herald He lived
at the home of the publisher, j. C.
Cover.
He was married to Mary E. Raines
on January 10, 1861, at Prairie du
CHEN. They lived here and at Gut
tenberg, Iowa. for several years. in
both of which places the husband
taught school. The family went from
Gutenberg to Bellevue. Iowa. where
Col. William Pollock and his son Ed
ward became joint publishers of the
Bellevue Journal. Edward Pollock
gave up his newspaper work to accent
an appointment as postmaster of
Bellevue.
"A brother-in-law. John Raines, who
mad lived in Huntsville. Alabama. for
some time, wrote asking him to come
10 huntsville to become the head Of
the Rust Normal Institute, a school
rounded to instruct negro teachers.
RMS offer was accepted and the fam
lily spent two years in the sunny south
soon after the close of the war. Those
were troublous times, the DAYS of the
hu-kluX Khan. In addition to his
school work he for time edited a
campaign newspaper published in the
interest of General Grant for the pres
idency in the campaign of 1872. A let
ter recently discovered among his eff
fects shows that about this time he
was negotiating with the publishers
OF Harper's Weekly at New York. then
the leading periodical Of the nation.
Tor a position on its staff. Such a po-
sltlon did not materialize, however.
There was an epidemic of cholera in
the south, and the next move was TO
Danville, Indiana, where two wears
were spent. The family then return
ed TO Iowa, and were at the home of
Col. William Pollock at Andrew. Iowa.
when word was received from friends
In Lancaster telling of the death Of
J. G. Cover, publisher OF the Herald
and urging return to Lancaster. The