Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-03-31
WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS In
ONE LITTLE BOOK OWNED BY MRS. D. E. WEIGH
OF BARABOO; COLLECTED SINCE THE CIVIL WAR

| The following article is abridged
from one written by o. D. Branden-
/ burg of Madison and concerns a vala-
able autograph album owned by
Mrs. D. e. WEIGH liz this city:
I A remarkable collection of autos
graphs relating to the period of 1865
just at the close of the Civil war, is
contained in a little album that belong
ed to Colonel D. E. WEIGH, who died
at Baraboo a few months ago, and
now in the possession Of his widow,
There are, all told, 158 names, many
highly distinguished. The collection
was made for Colonel WEIGH while he
was in Washington in 1865 after four
Years in service at the front.
The first name in the little book
is that of w. T. Sherman, maj. Genl, .
as the famous soldier penciled it.
The second signature is that OF
Schuler Colfax, speaker of the house
and vice president with Grant.
r. B. Hayes, then congressman
from Cincinnati and afterwards pre-
silent, is third name of large conse,
quence, and James A. Garfield made
| his superscription in fine, clear flow
! ing hand He at that time was a con.
gresham, but while president, was
assassinated in 1881.
Thaddeus Stevens, perhaps the
most powerful man in either branch
of congress during the reconstruction
period following the civil war, and in
deed for years before, wrote indis-
tinctly. Stevens had a sensational
career. He was called the commoneI
and was born in Vermont in 1893, was
a Dartmouth college man, moved to
Pennsylvania, began to practice law
in Gettysburg, was an assemblyman
for several years, member Of the
Pennsylvania constitutional conven-
ton of 1888, was sent to congress in
1849 as whig and remained there
until his death in 1868. He was club
footed, irascible, masterful old bache-
lor, violent abolitionist and early
pressed upon Lincoln the desirability
of emancipating the slaves by procla-
nation. He was chairman of the
managers on the part of the house
in the attempted impeachment OF
President Johnson. There was no man
in congress more bitter toward John
son. Stevens sleeps among negroes
and others, by his own expressed
choice, in one of the lesser cemeter-
les at Lancaster, Pa, while a few
blocks away in beautiful metropolis
lies James Buchanan
! A. ]. Glossbrenner, whose penman-
ship is altogether the most beautiful
in the volume was a Maryland demo
crat, an editor at Hamilton, Ohio, then
of York, Pa, Gazette ten years ser
geant at arms of the house Of repre-.
sentatives, and, most interesting of
Eall President Buchanan's private Sc
cretary.
/ Francis Thomas, born in Frederick
county, Maryland in 1899, about the
time of Barbar" Fritchie, was speaker
of the Maryland house, served in con
1 gress, 1831-1841 as a democrat, elect
ed alter as a union republican then
became minister to Peru He was kill
led in railroad wreck near his home
George S. Shanklin was Kentucky
democrat and presidential elector for
Mcclellan and Pendleton and a con
gresham
A name of dramatic suggestion is
of Lowell Hillary Rousseau of Louis.
vile, KY, lawyer, born in 1918; served
in the union army: a republican; in
congress in 1865 but resigned during
his first term after making an assault
on Congressman Grinnell of Iowa in
the capitol; vindicated by reelection
he came back and served to 1867; be-
came brigadier general in the regular