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W ILL IAM HENRY HARR ISON .

DED ICA T I O N

TO

Be njaminH arriS on

CHRIST IAN GENTLEMAN ; PATRIOT ICCIT IZEN;

BRAVE SOLDIER ; WISE STATESMAN

AND

23d Pres ident of the United States .

TH I S VOLUMEIS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

THE OLD T IPPECANOE CLUBOF CH ICAGO .

P RES S OF

PEERLESS P R INTING CO .,

107 FI FTH AVE. , CH ICAGO ,

P REF A CE .

NQUESTIONABLY the un ique Presid ential campaign inath i s country was that of 1840. A stupendous , peacefu l revolution! When forty-e ight years l ater the surviving fol l owers o fthat gl oriously successfu l Chieftain , numbering no l ess than fi ftythousand sou ls , rece ived the glad ti d ings that the N at ional Republ ican Convention had nominated hi s d ist ingui shed grandson

,

Benj amin Harri son,for Pres i dent of the U n ited States , they ral

l i ed as if by bugl e cal l , formed themselves i nto scores of Tippecanoe Clubs , held sp i rited , soul-st irring meetings , as i n days ofyore , buck l ed on the armor , and unfurl ing the i r t ime-worn bannerto the breeze , again marched forth to battl e and to vi ctory . Mostof the veterans , consc ious of having part ic ipated in thei r l astPres ident ial confl i ct , were then ready to exc laim with S imeon ofold : “ Lord

,now lettest thou Thy servant depart in peace

,for

mine eyes have seen Thy salvati on .

I t i s improbabl e that s imi lar co inc idences wi l l ever reappearin hi story

,i n that the i denti cal princ ip l es sacredly maintained by

so large a body of voters during almost hal f a century , notwith

stand ing the vic i ss itudes , oft t imes tumu ltuous , to which the re

pub l ic had meanwhi l e been exposed , i nc lud ing the unfortunatecanvass of 1884 , shou l d again be the battl e-cry and win popularfavor and endorsement— and that under consangui neous marshalsh ip . Let i t be recorded in h istory , and never forgotten , thatevery man who voted for the two Harri sons for Pres ident wasloyal to the Un ion during the War of the Rebel l i on . I f constantdevot ion to principle throughout a l ong and act ive l ife Shal l behel d worthy of remembrance , esteem and emulat i on by the descendants of those who i nte l l igent ly and patri ot i cal ly practi cedit— and i f the perusal of these pages sha l l st imulate the reader o fwhatsoever party to an exalted sense of pol it i cal duty , and consequent l ove of country , the obj ect of thi s book wi l l have beenaccompl i shed .

DECLARATlON oi: P R INCIP LES

—OF

The Old Tippe canoe Club of Chicago.

At a regular meeting of the Club hel d at the Grand Pac ificH ote l on the 29th day of December, 1888 , the fol l owing amongother proceed ings were had :R ESOLVED : That a Committee of five be appo inted whose

d uties shal l be to draft a Preface or H istorical account of thet imes and B iographi cal H istory of Chicago ’ s O l d Tippecanoe ’ sfrom 1836, 1840 and inc luding 1888 , the same to be p laced i n theRegister o f the Club , and to be publ i shed under the supervis ionof said Committee .

A fterwards , to-wit , on the day and year aforesai d , the Pres id ent appo inted the fo l l owing persons to const itute said Committee , to-W it : Hon . Cyrus M . Hawley ,

Henry Sayrs , A lbertS oper, Wm . H . Bradley , Wm . S . E l l i ott .

A ttest : H . M . GARL ICK , S ecretary .

To theTippecanoe Club, of Chicago, 111:MR . PRES I DENT, LAD I ES AND GENTLEMEN .

— Your Committeeto whom was referred the duty to supervi se the publ i cat i on i nb ook form of b iograph i es of the members , and to prepare a su itabl eintroduct i on explanatory of the purposes of th i s organ izat i on ,h ave the p l easure to report , that they have rece ived and examined about seventy-five b iograph ical statements , and have d irected them to be cop ied i n proper form for pri nt ing , and expectt hat many others wi l l be rece ived by your Committee .

Your Committee further report that they have prepared the

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said introductory explanat i on , or statement of tme pri nc ip les andpurposes of th i s organizat i on , to be printed with said b iographi es .

C . M . HAWLEY ,

Chicago,I l l i no is

,January 26 , A .D. , 1889 . Chairman .

This organ izati on was formed on the fi fth day of July , A . D. ,

1888 , to aid in the el ect ion of Gen . Benj amin H arrison and LeviP . Morton to the pres idency and vice-pres i dency of the Un itedStates of Ameri ca . I t cons ists of those who voted for Gen . Wm .

Henry Harri son for pres ident in 1836 , and those who voted forand aided h i s e l ect i on to that high office i n 1840, i nc l ud ing the ir '

sons , daughters , sons-in—law , and daughters-in-law .

Ex-Pres ident Gen . Wm . Henry Harrisonwas born in B erkel ey ,Virgin ia

,near Richmond , on the 9th day of February , A .D. , 1773.

InJ une , 1793, with the rank of l i eutenant , he was appo inted ai decamp to General Wayne , though not a graduate from a mi l i taryacademy . He part i c ipated i n the battl e and victory against theI nd ians on the 20th of August of that year . He then was p lacedin command of Fort Wash ington , and continued i n the samecommand unti l 1798 , when he res igned , and ret i red to private l i feon his farm at North Bend in Ohio . But he was not permittedto remain l ong in ret irement ; for he was soon after appoi nted byPres ident J ohn Adams , secretary of the Northwestern territory ,embrac ing what i s now I ndiana, I l l ino is , Michigan , I owa , Wisconsin ; and soon thereafter Lou i s iana was added thereto . O nthe 3d of O ctober , 1799, the fi rst l egisl at ive ass emb ly of theterri tory el ected him as its del egate to Congress , which offi ce hefi l l ed to the sat i s fact i on of h i s c onst ituents and with cred it to !

himsel f. In 1801 , he was appo inted Governor and I ndian Agentof the Territory . I n 1809, he negot iated the Fort Wayne I nd iantreaty

.But the wi ly Tecumseh and hi s ‘brother The Prophet

,

were not d isposed to comp ly with the terms of the treaty, forthey were intent on

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war. They made the attempt to combine al lthe I nd ian tribes and forces to overpower, ki l l , or drive out thesettl ers from the terri tory , notwithstand ing the i r treaty obl igat ions to l ive in peace . The ir efforts to en l i st al l the tribes fai led ,but they succeeded in gathering a formidab le army of braves of '

nearly who stea lth i ly , I nd ian l ik e , rushed with a yel l upon

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General H arri son ’ s camp before the break of day ; but they wererepulsed . The battl e of Tipp ecanoe fol lowed , resu l t ing in thedeath of Tecumseh , and the triumph of General Harri son andhi s army . This v i ctory exc i ted the envy , or fears of the Bri t i shagents , and they renewed the ir secret e fforts to Incense theI nd ians against the Un ited S tates more open ly , and to boldlyi nvade the terri tory. I n addit i on to these host i l e e fforts , on the16th of May , 18 1 1 , the Bri t i sh ship of war, L i tt l e B el t , fi red uponthe Un ited S tates Frigate , Pres i dent ,

” i n command of Commodore Rogers . Thi s was one of the causes of the war of 18 12 withGreat Britain , i n whi ch Gen . Wm . H . Harri son was d i st ingu ishedas one of the abl est of our commanders .

A s commander of the Northwestern A rmy , he hel d the rankof Brigad i er General . In March , 18 13, he was promoted to therank of Maj or General . I n 182 4 , he was el ected Un ited S tatesS enator from Ohio

,and was appomted chai rman of the m i l i tary

committee . I n 182 8 he was appo inted by Pres ident John QAdams , Min ister Pl en ip otent iary to the Republ i c of Columbia ,and was rece ived with marked attent i ons by reason of hi s d ist in

gu ished character and abi l i ty . I n 1836 ,he was nominated by the

Whigs i n several of the S tates for pres ident , but was defeated bythe el ect i on of Martin Van Buren . I n 1840,

he was nominatedat Harrisburg , Pa. , for pres ident by the National Convent ion ofthe Whig party on a Protect ive Tari ff and Nat ional CurrencyP latform , and el ected by an overwhelm ing maj ority , and wasinaugurated on the 4th of March , 184 1We voted for, and aided i n h i s el ect i on , because he repre

sented our pol it i cal p rinc ip l es , and was eminently qual ified tod ischarge the dut ies of the great offi ce .

His sent iments of protect i on to home industri es , a homemarket for our product ions , the devel opment of our natural resources , in order to furn ish remunerat ive employment for ourc i t izens , to the end that they become prosperous and educated ,not only i n the common school s and col l eges

,but i n school s of

al l k inds of i ndustry ; and h i s doctrin e o f a nati onal currency forexchange and c ircu lat i on command ing a par value in a l l parts ofour country , drew to h is support the most inte l l igent of our

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c it i zens . At the t ime , al l our i ndustri es were su ffering from theCalhoun free-trade s lavery extens ion pol i cy , which sought tobenefi t the s l ave-holdi ng states at the expense of the free statesand thei r manufacturing i ndustri es .

General Harri son ’ s popu larity was so great , that , when he l eftN orth Bend for Wash ington

,h i s passage was l i ned by hundreds

of thousands o f admiring c i t i zens,whose p laud i ts rang out as

t hough the nati on was ce l ebrat ing i ts j ub i l e e . His inaugural was

patri oti c and impress ive i n vind icat ing the princ ip l es i nvolved i nh i s el ect ion

,and which he proposed to carry out during his ad

mi n i strat i on . But whi l e the p eop l e were rest i ng i n h i s purposeand fidel i ty , on the 4th of Apri l , 184 1 , at thirty m inutes past mi dn ight

,he was struck down by death , l ik e the great oak that i s

scathed and l evel ed by the l ightn ing . A s he sank into the s i l entdepths

,he uttered th i s patri ot i c i nj unct i on

,i ntend ing i t for th e

vice-pres ident ;“ I wish you to understand the true princ ip l e s of

the government . I wi sh them carri ed out . I ask no more .

”

H is every offi c ial act i n war and i n peace shed gl ory upon ournat i on .

H is human ity on the fie ld of batt le i s i l l ustrated in h is orderd i rect i ng h is troops to take a town that was oppos ing our force .

Go ! he said,and take the town . But l et an account of mur

d ered innocence be opened in the records of heaven against oure nem ies a lone . The American sold i er wi l l fo l l ow the exampl e-of his government , and the sword of the one wi l l not be rai sedagainst the fal l en and help l ess

,nor the gold of the other be paid

for the scalps of a massacred enemy .

”

At the date of the inaugurati on of Genera l Harrison in 184 1 ,

the popu lation of the United States was about and thecensus now soon to be taken wi l l show that under the wise andb enefic ient i nfluence of our i nst ituti ons we wi l l have reacheds ixty mi l l i ons . I n her material prosperity

,i nte l l igence

,institu

t i ons of l earn ing,and i ndustri al and moral development our

peop l e have kept pace with i ncrease of populat ion and territori ald omain ; and now , we present to the world a monument of c ivi lization and culture of l i fe , energy ,

fratern ity,power

,and magnif

icence which no other nati on has attain ed .

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Anc ient Egypt , Greece , and Rome were once the glory of theworl d ; but to-day they are the monuments of death , Our government being of, by , and for the peop l e , i t i s cons i derate , wise ,j ust , l iberal , and strong with the peop l e . The cohes ive e l ementof equal ity and un ity , qual ifies them to wie l d the i r power wisely ,

and to fi l l al l stat ions , offi ci al and others , with abi l i ty and effi

ciency . This is the natural sequence to the enfranchi sement ofthe peop l e wi th free consc i ence , free speech , free so i l , free l abor,free men , free votes , and an honest count . No other peopl e orgovernment ever presented such a un i ty i n equal i ty . A l l thegates and avenues to success are w ide open to al l p ersons andcl asses ; and every entry-port i s fort ified , i f not by i ron-c lad forts .

and naval batteri es , by the un ited wi l l and combined energy andacti on of a free and determ ined peop l e .

The only enthroned despot we ever had , was American chatte ls l avery , which , by its i nordinate

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greed for domin ion,and its .

treasonabl e acts , was dethroned and put to death by the sacrific esand val or of the l oyal p eop l e supp l emented by the vo ic e andbal lots of const itut i onal reform , and its oppress ive and degrad ingremains committed to the i r grave beyond the power of resurrect ion .

And now,whi le we are not an ocean—bound Republ i c , though

our shore is washed by the A t l ant i c , Pac ific , Gul f of Mexico , andour northern s i sterhood of waters , yet , i t i s w ith i n the providenceof events

,by the vo ice of the peop l e interest ed , and i n accord

with man i fest dest iny,that

,at some t ime i n th e near future , our

country may become ocean—bound , un it ing peop l e and domain i none grand Republ ican emp ire , under one flag , and moving forward as one body

,l ik e the b i l l ows of the sea. Such agovern

mental power,un ited

,i ndependent , educated and harmon ious ,

with a home market for i ts product ions i n a l l the l ines of art ,sc i ence

,agricu l ture

,manufacture , and raw materi al , would assure

prosperity and peace at home , i f not to the world at l arge .

I t i s the duty of our state and nat ional l egi sl at ive assembl iesto aim at state and nati onal i ndependence in al l branches ofdevelopment and industry

,to the end that the peopl e have

equal opportun it i es , and are educated i n al l i ndustri es , and are

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abl e to provide a pl easant home for themselves and fami l i es . I nthi s day of progress ive enterprise , and the ambit i on of nat i ons ,educat ion and sk i l l ed l abor i n al l poss ibl e branches of industry

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are demanded for the safety of the state , and the protect i on ofthe rights of the peopl e , or else , we wi l l become weak and dependentWe had a painful i l l ustrat ion of thi s cond it i on when the great

rebe l l i on i n 186 1 broke i n upon our fanc i ed securi ty , and foundus strong only in patri oti c numbers , fired with zeal and courage ;but whol ly dest i tute of arms , munit i on s and other equipments .

Our forts were , also , e ither fi l l ed with trai tors , or d i smantl ed anddest itute of provi s i ons , our sh ips of war unseaworthy , or i n fard i stant waters , our arsenal s denuded , and our manufacturingindustri es in want of sk i l l ed l abor, and were therefore inadequateto supp ly the needs of the Government i n that emergency .

Hence,i t was imposs ibl e to move against the rebel l i on at onc e

aggress ively without involving our army in a sea of blood to nopurpose . I t was fortunate for the integri ty of the un ion thatthe rebel s were i n no better condit ion to destroy the un ion thanwe were to maintain i t . But , if we had then al so been confronted by Engl and or France in support of the rebel forces

,the

un i on might have been overthrown,s l avery extended and per~

petuated ,fore ign goods found a free market

,and Mexico and

(Cuba,at an early date would probably have const ituted integral

p arts of the s lave-holder’ s “ Confederate States o f America .

”

The cause of these d ifficult i es i n equ iping our forc es , and ofthis great exposure , i s d irectly chargeab l e to the Calhoun pol i cyof s l avery in un ion with free trade . The Protect ive tari ff pol i cyof Gen . Wm . H . Harri son , which was re-ordained i n h i s el ect i onby the peop l e i n 1840, and became the l aw in 1842 , producedchanges under wh ich the country became once again prosperous .Unfortunate ly the sudden demise of the Pres i dent l eft h i s partycompatri ots entangl ed by the s ingu lar estrangement o f JohnTyl er

, who succeeded to the offi ce of Ch ief Magistrate . I n themeantime , the ol d scheme of John C . Calhoun

,l ik e the “Mystery

of I n iqu ity , was i ndustri ously at work to c i rcumvent what thevotes of the peop l e accompl ished i n 1840, and finding in Polk and

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Dal las fit agents for the purpose , they were e lected i n 1844 , andwel l d i d they perform the part ass igned them to do , and the eventswh ich fol lowed showed what they were to do by what fol l owed

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to wit : The repeal of the Protect ive tarriff of 1842 , by theannexat ion of Texas , by decl aring war against Mexico , by theextens i on of the domain of s lavery ; and as a consequence by theenactment of the so—cal l ed compromise in the interest of s l avery

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i n 18 50, the rep eal of the M issouri compromise , which was i n thei nterest of freedom

,i n 18 54 , and the s lave—holders rebe l l ion in 186 1 .

This l ast bl ow at freedom , i nstead of break ing the l oyal back ,

roused to act i on l oyal m il l i ons ; but not unt i l Fort Sumpter was fi redupon by rebel batteri es were our forces cal l ed forth into l ines ofb attl e

,and Congress summoned i n sp ec i al s ess i on to meet the

e mergency,which immedi ate ly enacted a Protect ive tarriff, pro

vid ed for a Nat ional currency and adopted other measures to putdown the rebe l l i on . But i t took about two years before ourforces were p repared to move e ffect ive ly by sea

,rivers and l and

against the enemy,but when they were ready and did move

,they

were victori ous . But by the prol ongat i on of the war and thepressure of c ircumstances , and the demands of the peopl e , thepres i dent

,as commander in chi ef, as a war measure , i ssued the

Proc l amat ion of Emanc ipat i on of al l s l aves with i n the l im its ofthose states and parts of states whi ch were in rebel l i on . This wasthe severest of al l bl ows to the rebel l i on : for i t not only took“from it needed support

,but en l i sted in the service of the Union

army two hundred thousand col ored sol d iers who had been S laves,

and they proved themselves as brave as they were true . And

bes i de , the e ffect o f the protect ive tari ff was immed iate . Manufacturing i ndustri es were revived ,

and new and more extens iveenterpri ses entered upon . Ships of war, forts , and arsenal s wereconstructed

,Sk i l l ed l aborers i ncreased in numbers

,and a l though

the war expend itures were counted i n b i l l i ons,our l oyal p eopl e

were prosperous ; and when the warwas ended , our sol d i ers , whenthey returned to c ivi l l i fe , found these increased fac i l i t i es , andtherefore p l enty of remunerative employment , and our nati onald ebt i n process of rap i d exti nct i on .

But not content wi th such ach ievements and financ ial success,

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the Democrat i c party,st i l l hungering after the l eaks and on ions

of free—trade,caused Mr. Cleveland , i n h i s annual message i n

1887 , to recommend Congress to repeal the protective tariff, andreturn to the Calhoun free-trade pol i cy , which was su ited to theSouth only whi l e s l avery exi sted . I n pursuance of th is recommendationthe M i l l s free-trade b i l l was final ly passed through theLower House , made the card inal doctri ne of the Democrat i cp latform

,Mr . Clevel and was again nominated for pres i dent , and

he,i n no equivocal terms , accepted the honor, re-affirming the

sentiments of h i s former free-trade message , as we l l as the p latform adopted i n conformity with it .Thi s ol d i ssu e roused the Republ ican party , which in nati onal

convent ion i n Chicago in 1888 , nominated General B enj aminHarrison and Levi P . Morton as i ts candi dates for pres ident andvi ce—pres ident . Thi s cal l ed out the Tippecanoe guard of 1836

and 1840, as before stated , which labored and voted to e lec tthem , because they represented the pol it i cal princ ip l es o f theguard , which were antagon ized by the Bri t i sh free-trade doctrinesof the Democrati c p arty p latform . And we unhes i tat i ngly affi rmthat no more capabl e and worthy men , and representat ives oftrue Republ i can i sm , of home industri es , of free votes , and tru ecounts , are to be found in the nat i on .

General Benj amin Harrison entered the mi l itary servi c e ofthe Un ited States as a volunteer, and rai sed Company

“A” of th e

Sevent i eth I nd iana Regiment , and was commiss i oned captain byGov . O l iver P . Morton , July 2 ,

1862 , and at once proceeded tothe front with h i .) regiment

,and from that t ime to the c l ose of

the war, he was foremost i n every battl e i n which he was emgaged . I ndeed , h i s bravery was so consp icuous that h e d i d notseem to fear personal danger

,however greatly exposed . His

on ly care was to secure V i ctory in the interests of a peace foundedin un ion , l iberty , j ust i ce . S uch patri ot i sm , ab i l ity and val or wassoon recogn ized , and he , as a consequence , was promoted fromrank to rank , to that o f Maj or-General of Volunteers . Whil e hewas a stri ct d i sc ip l inarian , he was cons iderate and k ind to hiscommand — frequently , when he found a sol d ier weary and exhausted by long marches , mounted him on his own horse , whi l ehe h imsel f marched on foot .

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When the Un ion army was tri umphant,and the Reb e l army

d i sbanded by surrender, and J e fferson Davi s a pri soner in Fortress Monroe , Gen . Harri son , comprehend ing ful ly the necess it i esof the s i tuat i on , advocated un iversal emanc ipati on o f the remaining s l aves , and of un iversal enfranchi sement of al l c it i zens byconst itut i onal law . Reconstruct i on of the Un ion on princ ip less hort of these woul d

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not comport with a tru ly Republ icangovernment of, and by the peop l e of the Uni ted S tates . Such an enfranchi sement alone const itutes a tru e Republ i can government .Anyth ing short of i t i s an ol igarchy of e ither smal l or enl argedrepresentat i on in government of its c i t i zens ; but neverthe l ess , i tis l im ited i n rights and priv i l eges to the excl us i on of some of itsc i t izens .I f anything i s now l ack ing i t i s the want o f a nat i onal

f ree school system , obl igatory i n character, to make educati onu n iversal , i nc l uding i n i ts curri culum the educat ion of head ,hands and consc i ence i n every industrial pursu i t and moral excel lence . Equal opportun it i es cannot be extended to al l c lassesof c i t i zens short of th i s ; nor can the nat i on and government besai d to be i ndependent unl ess our agricultural , hort i cu l tural , mechanical and sc i ent ific schools are un iversal ly d i stributed , andbecome inexhaust ibl e fountains o f sc i ence , art , and of sk i l l edmaster mechan ics . When such a summit o f independence i s attained ,

with equal i ty before the l aw ,and when the enfranchized

can free ly cast the i r votes according to the i r wi l l , and when thei rf ree votes are tru ly counted

,our peop l e and government can

t hen be sai d to be independent in fact as in name .

General H arri son , when he recently addressed“ The Grand

Army of Veterans ,” gave utterance to h i s sentiments in e l oquent

words , as fol l ows I would l ike to hear a bugl e cal l through.out the l and demanding a pure ba l lot . Thi s i s a matter aboveand beyond any questi on of part izanship , and I fee l that I express the sent iment of every comrade “ present when I dec l arethat a free bal l ot

,honestly expressed

,and fai rly counted , is the

main safeguard of our i nst itutions , and its suppress i on , under anypretext whatever, cannot be tol erated .

”And he i s as emphatie

inhi s advocacy of methods to promote general progress— the de

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ve lopment of our natural resources , the protect i on 01 our home

i ndustri es,the educati on of al l c lass es in the schools — i nc lud ing

sc i ence , art , mechani cal and hand i ndustri es ; and that o f furn i shi ng to al l equal opportun it i es , and remunerative employment sofar as poss ibl e . This bugl e cal l o f General Harri son i s nowsound ing and echoes “ throughout the land , and re-echoes fromevery hamlet and heart l oyal to the princ ip l es o f states andnat i onal const i tut ions , and unless heeded i t wi l l reverberate inthunder tones , and wake the sacrific ial hosts of veterans

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who nowsl eep i n rest , that they may again respond to thi s bugl e cal lto demand a pure bal l ot and an honest count .

Our Tippecanoe Club has responded to th i s “ bugl e cal l , andto the sentiments o f the Republ i can p latform of 1888 . This , ands imi l ar organ izat i ons , are to be congratu lated that to some extentthey have been important factors i n the e l ect i on of General B enj amin Harri son and Levi P . Morton to the pres idency and vi cepres i dency of the Un ited States .

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W . B . Ayers , aged 69, nat ive of Utica , N YP . W . Bl odgett , aged 79 , nat ive o f Groton , N . Y .

Dr . Davi d S . Smith , aged 72 ,nat ive of Camden

,Gloucester

C03 , N . J .

R . P . Pate , aged 7 1 , nat ive of B el fast , Main e .

Calvi n G i fford , aged 7 1 , nat ive of Syracuse , N . Y .

L . W . Garl i ck , aged 73, native o f Kent Co. ,Conn .

Walter S . H inck l e , aged 73, nat ive o f Buck land ,Mass .

Adj ourned to July 16 .

J'leadquarters of the Old T ippecanoe Club .

GRAND PACIF IC HOTEL.

“Extrac t From the Chicago Tribune ,O F J ULY 10 , 1 8 8 8 .

THE T IPPECANOE CLUB .

O rgan ized by men who voted for Harri son i n 1840— I t starts

with s ixteen members and its motto i s “Tippecanoe and MortonToo”— Dr . Davi d S . Smith is pres i dent— an i dea that originatedwith Enos S losson, Esq . , and which wi l l cut some figure in theNovember campaign .

The refrain of the happ i est campaign song ever written hasbeen amended Offic ia l ly . The men , who i n 1840

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swept on tovictory s inging :

TI PPECANOE AND TYLER TOOwil l enter the l i st i n 1888 shout ing , with voi ces a l i tt l e tremulousit i s true , but none the l ess inst i nct with convi ct ion

TIPPECANOE AND MORTON Too.

I t was al l arranged last n ight at the Grand Pac ific , and a largeshare of the cred i t for the scheme b e longs to Enos S losson

,who

is a staunch Harri son man . The other day he fel l to wonderingwhat he coul d do in a modest way , becoming an old gentl emanof moderate means and qu i et d i spos it i on

,to p l ac e a hi stori cal

name again i n fitt ing company in the rol l o f pres idents . Thi sthought reminded him that hi s first vote help ed to e l ect Wi ll i amHenry Harrison in 1840. Then he remembered that two or threeol d gent l emen i n Chicago of his acquaintance had always votedthe republ ican ticket , and straightway i t occurred to him that i fal l the ol d chaps in the United S tates who had voted for Harrisonin 1840 woul d organ ize and go on record for Harrison i n 1888 theexamp le would at l east be edi fying . He consul ted the other

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two or three,and the resu lt was the noti c e cal l i ng l ast n ight’s

meeting .

The noti ce was short , but response was prompt . Fifteenj o l ly , retrospect ive old boys came early , organ ized , appo intedproper committees , and adj ourned unti l next Monday atP . M .

Dr . David S . Smith was e lected temporary Chairman , and theold boys would make h im no concess ions on any account .

A speech ! a speech ! they cri ed .

Dr . Smith was abundantly equal to the occas i on , but severalof the o l d boys had pronounced that the i r daughters or n i ecesdrew the l i ne at latch keys , so he cut i t short .

“ I apprec iate the honor you have conferred upon me,he

sai d .

“ Not many men have been equal ly d i st i ngui shed . To havel ived forty-e ight years to vote for a second Harri son after l ivingtwenty-one before vot ing for the first pres ident o f that name

,i s

an honor and a di st int i on also . I n 1840 we el ected our H arri son ;l et u s do what we can to further the same worthy cause i n

(App lause and cheers . )Enos Slosson, A l anson N . Raymond and Dan ie l True were

appointed a committee on nominat ions . They reported in favorof Dr. Smith for pres ident , Enos Slosson for vic e-pres ident andBenj amin Ackley for secretary and treasurer, and these gentl emen were e lected by accl imati on . When Messrs Raymond ,S lossonand O sborne had been elected a committe e on reso lut i onswith instruct i ons to report next Monday afternoon , the meetingwas adj ourned .

S everal of the old fel l ows had the ir sons with them . One wasaccompani ed by his-grandaughter and one by hi s n i ece . Themal e members of the second generat i on mani fested a strong des ire to be admitted to themembership .

“ This organizat i on wi l l be e ffective because i t is uni que , sai dthe ol d boys . “ I f we l et you young Chaps in we shal l degenerateand sacrifice our effect iveness . I t must be a c lub of veterans .

Well , that settl es i t ,” sai d a member o f the second genera

t i on .

“We shal l have to organize as sons of veterans .”

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The oldest member of the organ izat i on so far i s P . M . Blod

gett . He i s seventy—n ine and l ooks seventy .

I voted for two pres idents be fore Harri son , he sai d ,“ but I

have forgotten the i r names . They had to be Whigs , though ,“the ol d fel l ow added , with a chuck le .

I t is expected that Wi l l iam Skinner, aged e ighty-four, wi l l b e!Come a member, as wel l as a great many others who were unabl eto att end last n ight .

What shal l we name our Club ? asked one .

Tippecanoe ! ” answered a chorus of re ady voices .And what wi l l i t s motto be ?Tippecanoe and Morton , too .

Cont inuat ion ofMinu tes .

The Club met pursuant to adj ournment at the G rand Pac ificHotel , on July 16 , 1888 . Enos Slosson, Chairman of committeeappointed to draft const itut i on and by-l aws , reported vizFirst , th i s organ izat ion shal l be known as the O l d Tippecanoe

Club , of Chicago .

Second , the membership shal l be l im ited to those who ass i stedor voted i n 1840 for Gen . Wm . Henry Harri son , i nc luding al sothe i r w ives , the i r sons , sons-in-law , the ir daughters and the i rdaughters-in-l aw .

Third , the obj ect of th i s organ izat i on shal l be the furtheranc eof the e lect i on of the nominees of the Republ ican Nat ional Convention of 1888 , viz : Benj . Harri son , grandson of the

“ Tippecanoe ” Harri son of 1840,

and Levi P . Morton , of New York .

Fourth , the officers of the C lub shal l cons ist of a Pres i dent ,First and Second Vice-Pres idents

, Secretary and Treasurer, andS ergeant—at—Arms . I t shal l be the duty of the Pres ident to pres ide at the meet ings .Fifth , the regular meetings shal l be held on the first and thi rd

Saturday , at 3 P . M . , of each month unt i l e l ect i on ; but a spec ial“

meet i ng may be cal l ed by any three members when any important bus iness of the Club demands i t . Twenty members assembled shal l const itute a norum to do bus i ness . One or moremembers shal l have power to adj ourn from time to time .

S ixth , the rules of order shal l be the same as those govern ingthe Senate of the Un ited States . Officers here e l ected wi l l continue i n offi ce during the campaign of 1888 , or unti l the ir successors are el ected or appo inted . I n absence of the Pres ident theFirst Vice-Pres ident sha l l p res ide . I f both the Pres ident and First

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Vice Pres ident are absent the second V ice Pres i dent shal l performthe dut i es of the Pres ident. The Secretary and Treasurershal l keep

‘

a record of al l meet ings, serve noti ces on members an dperform other duties pertain ing to the office . He shal l a l so re

ceive and d isburse al l moneys col l ected and“ expended for the

authorized use of the Club . The Sergeant at A rms shal l ass ist thePres ident i n maintain ing order and performing such other dutiesas may be cons istent with h i s office under the d irect ion of thepres id ing officer.Bel i eving as your Committee does that the fru its of the work

to be done by thi s organ izat ion wi l l be fel t by the young andvigorous e lements in thi s campaign , we p ledge ourse lves to ass istand st imulate al l p ersons who are known to have voted and ass i sted in the el ecti on of O l d Tippecanoe i n 1840 to j o in our ranksand go hand i n hand to a triumphant victory with Young Tippecanoe and Morton too .

On July 2 1 , the C lub convened at its headquarters . ThePres i dent i n the Chair. The fi rst meeting was th e unfin ishedbus iness of the last meeting , viz : Elect i on of second Vice-Pres ident and S ergeant at Arms.Whereupon R . T. Bennett was e lected second Vice-Pres ident

and C . R . Vandercook S ergeant at Arms . Dr. D . S . Smith , Enos

S losson and A N . Raymond were appointed a Committee to provide an appropriate badge for the veterans . R . T . Bennett andM . L . Prince were appo inted to secure a Glee Club to attend themeetings and furn ish C lub with Campaign Songs . Dr . D . S . Smithhere o ffered the fol lowing resolut ions which were unanimous lyadopted . Resolved : That we tender to Col . John B . Drake , pro

prietor of the Grand Pac ific H otel , our most cord ial thanks forhi s generous hosp ital i ty to us as a body , and p lac ing us understi l l add it ional obl igati on s by furn ish ing us larger quarters ,sufficiant to accomodating the quadrup l e veterans of 1840. Re

solved : That we tender to the general Chicago Press our thanksfor the not i ces of our assemblages heretofore through thei r ableand effi c ient reporters , and i nvite thei r future attendance and favorabl e cons iderat ion. The Treasurer reported onhand . Manynames were here added to the C lub . Adj ourned .

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The Club met at its headquarters on August 4, the first VicePres ident i n the chai r. Minutes read and approved . Committeeon badges asked for and rece ived further t ime to report . Committee on mus ic reported that a Glee Club would be present atthe next meet ing and furn i sh mus ic . On mot ion of J . H . Gi l l , otMount Pl easant , Ohio , i t was voted that the offi cers of th i s C lubbe authorized to enrol l al l app l i cants

,i f by letter or i n person ,

who voted for Harri son i n 1840, or ass i sted in that campaign.

On motion of the Pres ident i t was voted that the Secretary beinvited to procure a su itab le book for the purpose of giving eachmember the opportun ity of recording h is authograph ,

h i s b irthplace

,hi s res i dence , where he voted or ass i sted in 1836 or 1840,

at the el ect i on of Gen . Harrison , with the request'

that at theclos ing of the present campaign it be p laced i n the vaul ts of theH istori cal Soc iety of th is C ity . Enos Slosson, Benj . Ack l ey andDr . Smith were appo inted a Committee to confer with Mr . Drakewith reference to present headquarters . S everal sp irited spee cheswere made by veterans . On moti on of Mr . Bennett the S ecretarywas authori zed to have printed the Const itut i on and By-Laws sothat each member m ight have a copy. Treasurer reported 5on hand . A large number j o ined the c lub . Adj ourned .

The regular sem i-monthly meeting occurred August 18 . Thefi rst Vice—Pres ident i n the Chair, minutes o f l ast meeting read ,corrected and approved. Mr. Ack l ey reported that the book ofrecord was ordered and would be submitted to the next meeting .

Mr . R . J . Bennett address ing the chair appropriated ly urged theimportance of swel l ing the ranks of the Club and then offeredthe fol l owing : Resolved , that the members o f the TippecanoeC lub who voted for Wm . H . Harrison i n 1836 and 1840 for Pres ident , and intend voting for Gen . Ben . Harri son the grandson ofO l d Tip” i n 1888 for the same office , do most cordial ly invi te al lothers , who voted for any other cand idate in 1836 and 1840 andvote at the coming e l ect ion to j o in th i s C lub . A sp irited d iscuss i on fol lowed by Jas . H . Gi l l , Phi l ip Burroughs , L . W . Garl i ck ,J udge Hawley

,M . L . Prince and others , whereupon Judge Hawley

moved amendments to the resolut i ons as fo l l ows : Be invited tomeet with and co-operate with us during the present campaign .


meeting read and approved . Dr. Smith cal l ed the attent i on ofthe Club to an old s i lken banner which stood against the wal l .“ I t i s the property , sai d he ,

“of Rev . L . P . Mercer, whose fathercarri ed i t i n Pennsylvan ia i n the campaign of 1840, and had k indlyo ffered to loan i t to the Club . The Doctor suggested that as theowne r values the Banner highly i t be l eft i n owners ’ care . Mr. C .

R.VanDercook moved t hat L . P . Mercer be made an honorarymember of the

“Club and carry the banner in the parade . Carri edunanimously .

The committee on badges reported “ the badges ready , as

they were exceed ingly appropriate they were duly accepted andthe committee d ischarged . The committee on invitat i ons wasalso d i scharged . The treasurer submitted h is report wh ich wasaccepted .

On motion of Mr .Van Dercook it was reso lved that the Chairappoint a committee o f three whose dut ie s shal l be to act as thefinanc ial committee , to so l i c i t subscript ions to meet the expenses o f the Cl ub and to audit al l b i l l s and pass on same beforepayment , carri ed . The pres i dent announced that he would namethe committee at the next meet i ng or through the press .Mrs . A rch ibal d Harri son a s i ster-in-l aw of General H arri son

was i ntroduced to the c lub , made a few remarks , was presentedwith a badge and enrol l ed an honorary member. The fol l owingnamed gentlemen then addressed the c lub : Wm . Hyde

,George

Paine Harris , Mr . Burroughs and Mr . Clement . Act i on upon amotion by Judge H awley rel at ive to vi s it ing General H arr ison atI nd ianapol i s onO ctober 6 , was deferred unti l the next meet ing .

Adj ourned for one week .

At the meeting of September 2 2 , Rev . Henry L . Hammondat the request of the pres ident o ffered prayer . The pres identthen named the fol l owing as the finance committee : A lbertSoper, Wm. Rip l ey and C.R .VanDercoOk ,and announced as thecommittee on invitat ions , Enos S losson, J udge Van H iggins andThomas B . Bryan

,whereupon the committee on finance made its

report through Mr. Rip ley , which was accepted . The matter ofthe quartette cl ub was referred to the finance committee withpower to act . Mr . Ack ley moved that the finance committee

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be i nstructed to procure the necessary mus ic for the Cl ub . Afterc onsiderabl e d iscuss i on i t was moved that the c lub vi s i t I nd ianapol i s S eptember 29. Carri ed forty voting to go . Mr . Vandercook offered to furn ish a band of mus ic for the occas i on . Col .Mitchel l moved that a vote of thanks be given by th i s c lub to theHyde Park League for the ir i nvi tat i ons and our apprec i ati on oftheir c ourtes i es and that they be most cordial ly invited to gowith us on September 29, carri ed .

The regular meeting of the club was cal l ed to order October 6 .

The pres ident reported that some fi fty or s ixty members o f theclub made the excurs i on to I ndianapol i s and paid thei r resp ectsto Gen . Harri son and had a most enj oyabl e t ime and al l had re

turned safely to their homes . Enos S lossonoffered the fol l owingresolut ions : Resolved

,that we tender our heart i est thanks to

our fel l ow townsman George M . Pul lman for the use o f h i s beaut i fu l and conven i ent palace car so op

'portunely furn i shed and ful lye qu ipped for our comfort without change whi l e the O l d Tippecanoe c lub was mak ing i t s first p l easant and sat i s factory cal lupon the next pres ident of the Un ited States— Benj amin Harri son .

Resolved , that thanks be also extended to the Second RegimentB and for the mus ic furn i shed on the occas i on of our l ate trip toand from Indianapol is , also for the evening concert given byt hem from the bal cony of the New Denn i son House in I ndianapol i s

,adopted .

The pres i dent int imated that contr ibut i ons would be in order .The fol l owing gentlemenaddressed the meeting : General A . M .

Stout,Colonel Wi l ey S . Scribner . and Henry Sayrs . Colonel

Babcock here donated to the c lub for whi ch he rece ived avote of thanks . Great numbers of new members enrol l ed . Ad

j ourned .

The Cl ub met on October 13, in regular s ess ion the pres identi n the Chair . On moti on of A lbert Soper i t was voted that thec l ub hold its regu lar meetings every Saturday afternoon at twoo

’ cl ock unt i l after the s ixth of November next .The fol lowing resolut ionwas Offered by Henry Sayrs : Re

S ,olved that a committee of thirteenbe appointed ( of which the

p resident shal l b e chairman — to draft for publ i cat i on an address

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to the y oung voters , said committee to report at the next meeting of the c lub ; adopted . The secretary sent . each member awritten noti c e request ing h is presenc e at the headquarters at thenext meeting . A vote o f thanks was here tendered GeneralLeake for h is very abl e address . Twenty-n ine new members today .

The regular meeting of the c l ub was hel d O ctober 20, thepres ident i n the chair . Dr. Smith chairman of the committee ofth irteen appo inted at the previ ous meet ing to draft an address tothe young voters , reported that said committee met pursuant tonot i c e and do most respectfu l ly submit to th is c lub for adopt ionan address prepared by Mr . Henry Sayrs , the same having beenapproved by the committee .

Mr. Sayrs proceeded with the read i ng of the address , whi chwas rece ived with cheers , and unan imous ly adopted and cop i esof the same were furn i shed the associ ated press and c ity dai l i es .I t was moved that a vote of thank s be tendered Mr. Henry

Sayrs for the abl e address j ust read . Carri ed .

ADDRESS To YOUNG VOTERS .

I n the present cri s i s of our country the O l d Tippecanoe Clubof Chi cago fee l s i t i ncumbent upon it to present the fol l owing cons iderat i ons to young voters : Modern Democracy bearseven date with the Pres idency of Andrew J ackson , under whoseadmin istrat i on the annual ord inary expenses o f the governmentaveraged against those o f h i s immediate Republ i canpredecessor, John Quincy Adams , of Removal sfrom office for pol it i cal op ini ons under Wash ington were 8 ;J ohn Adams , 9 ; Je fferson , 39 ; Madison , 2 ; Monroe , 3 ; J . Q .

Adams , 2 . Total removal s by the the fi rst s ix Pres idents , 74 .

Duri ng the first recess of Congress , J ackson removed 176 highoffic i al s

,and accord ing to historian Parton , h i s removal s num

bered not l ess than which shows the p erfect cons istency ofthe Democrat i c party then and now on the quest i on of c ivi l servic e reform . This admin istrat i on announced and enforced the

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pernic ious un-American doctri ne that “To the victors belong thespo i l s

,

" and one of the fi rst offi c i al s removed was “O l d Tippecanoe

,General Wil l i am Henry Harri son , Minister to Columbia

When Jackson became Pres ident , the country , under the benign i nfluence of a tari ff of adequate protect i on , was i n a cond i t i on of unexampled prosperi ty , and seemed to so continue toalmost the close of h is career. The arb itrary and revolutionaryassumptions , approved and encouraged by part i san adherents ,touching great monetary and financ ial matters , and Congress i onaltampering with the tari ff, ignoring by degrees the protectivesp irit , d id not ful ly develop thei r d isastrous tendenc i es until afterthe i nstal l at i on of h i s successor .I n h i s i naugural address , Martin Van Buren boasted that he

would fol low in the footsteps of h i s “ i l l u stri ous predecessor . ’

Very soon thereafter the country found itse l f i n a deplorab lecondit i on . Consequent upona l ow tari ff, importations had beenexcess ive

,and the balance of trade was l argely against us .

Bus iness became paralyzed , labor was idle , factori es were cl os ed ,bread riots occurred , cred i t was ru ined, al l banks susp ended ,many of them fai led , among them those with whom the government funds had been i l l egal ly placed . Gold was at a premium of

twelve per cent . Under i ssuance of a “ spec ie c ircu lar ” the government rece ived gol d and s i lver only , l eaving for the uses of thethe peop le , banks , and ind ividuals , sh inpl asters of every conce ivab le k ind and denominati on . Defalcat ions by government.offic ial s were of stupendous amounts and in great number.To steal was to “ Swartwout .” At th i s t ime several of the

Democrati c States d id not pay interest on the ir debts . Miss issipp i repudiated her debt altogether, and bonds of the S tate ofI l l ino i s sol d at fi fteencents on the dol lar . Thi s pro-s lavery administration, having annual ly cost for ord inary expenses ,was overthrown by the glori ous e lect ion of gal lant Wm . HenryHarrison in 1840. H is assuring inaugural address and s ingularlyable Cabinet i nsp i red publ i c confidence ; an early sess ion of Congress was cal l ed to provide ways and means to carry on thegovernment . The pres ident ’ s unt imely death caused un iversalmourn ing . His dying words to his successor were : S ir, I want you.

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to understand the true princ ipal s of the government. I wi sh themcarri ed out

,I ask nothing more .

”A general bankrupt l aw was

passed to enabl e the peopl e to commence anew , and prosperityshone upon bus i ness , revived under the protect ive tari ff of 1842 .

The pecul iar e l ect ion of Polk , a man unknown to fame ,Cl aimed as for free trade at the South , and as good a protect ionist as C lay at the North , took the country by surpri se , and wheni t was d iscovered that he and hi s S ecretary of the Treasury,Robert J . Walker, were consumate free traders of the Cobdenschool

,manufacturing interests became dazed , and when the

parti san Vi ce—Pres ident,Dal las

,of Pennsylvani a, by h i s cast ing

vote , i nsured the passage of the free trade or revenue tari ff b i l lof 1846, con fus i on and i nd ignat i on prevai l ed . Whil e thi s administrationcowered i n the face of war wi th England , i t d id , with aneye S i ngl e to the extens i on o f s lavery , go to war with Mexicounder a reso lut i on of the H ouse of Representat ives that “ war

exi sted by the act of M exico .

” Henry Clay sai d h i s tonguewoul d have cl eaved to the roof of h i s mouth before he wouldhave voted that l i e . Such an admin i strat ion natural ly col l ap sedamid the p laudits of the p eop l e

,and brave General Tayl or b e

came Pres ident . H is re ign was brief, however, for d eath for thesecond t ime i n the h istory of the Republ i c

,i nvaded the Pres i

denti al chair. H is pers i stent determinat i on secured the entranceof Cal i forn i a into the Union as a free State . The admin istrat i onsof Pi erc e and Buchanan were eminently Democrat i c , underabsolute control of the slave power

,l ead ing di rectly and unmis

takab ly to the greatest Civi l war known in the h i story of man

k ind .

The rati o of l osses per to the government on rece iptsand disbursements under Jackson were Van Buren

,

Under Republ i can Pres i dents : L i ncoln , 76 cents ; J ohnson , 5 7

c ents ; Grant , 24 cents ; Hayes , 8-10 of a mill . Those under

C l eveland wi l l not be man i fest unti l after March 4 , 1 889.

The Democrat i c party i s opposed to internal improvements

by thegeneral government ; i s i n favor of free trade and opposed

to the principl es o f protect ion . Vain ly pretend ing not to know

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the d i fference between taxes and dut i es , i t d iscriminates i n favorof the former .I t Opposes regi stry l aws for the purificat i on of the bal l ot. I t

wou ld exal t the S tate above the nat i on . I t causes our countryto be represented at fore ign courts by ex-rebel s and worsec opperheads . I t menaces the cont inuous l oyal ty of the Supreme

Court . I t embraces the worst el ements of soc i ety , and i s anomnipresent affin ity of the l iquor traffi c . I ts l iving princ ip l e i sspoi l s , and it i s

“ hel d together by the cohes ive power o f publ i c

p l under.” Sympath izi ng with the rebel l i on , i t is respons ibl e for

the creat i on o f the publ i c debt , and not anxi ous for i ts payment .U ponS ixty mi l l i ons o f dol lars l oaned without interest to fri endsand c oadj utors o f the Democrati c party , and many more mi l l i onsflying i dle i n the treasury , the government i s i n e ffect paying“

interest in not us ing sai d money in payment of i ts i nterest—beari ng bonds . Fri ends o f a merchant who managed hi s finances thuswould be j ust ifi ed i n applying to the court for the appointment

of a conse rvator of h i s estate . This money shoul d c ircu late i nal l bus iness channel s o f the Nat i on . Natural ly the Democrat i c

party i s Carel ess and ind i fferent as to the wel fare of the d isabl ed

[Un ion sol d i ers and sai l ors and the i r fami l i es . I t i s master of al lt he recent s l ave states , and the abj ect s l ave of every state thatrebel l ed against the Union . Pres i dent C level and , who has vetoed

more b i l l s than al l h is predecessors , holds hi s h igh offic e and theDemocrats the ir maj ori ty i n the House of Representat ives chi eflyby reason of frauds in the e l ect i on i n those states , and by

“

the

overwhelming vote o f the slums i n the c ity of New York !“Consp icuous among pleasant memori es o f duty performed

d uring almost hal f a century , i s having i n our early l i fe voted forGeneral Wil l i am Henry Harri son for Pres ident , and for thereasons here in set forth , and many others unnecessary to enumerate , we are fu l ly convinced that cont inuous oppos i t i on to theDemocrati c party and its pol i cy has proventrue service to thecountry

,so that when the l i fe o f the princ ip l e of protect i on of

American l abor i s at stake we feel that we may with perfect pro

pri ety, appeal to the reason and patri ot i sm of every young voterand invite them to un ite with us i n the endeavor to e leCt

'

General

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Benj amin Harrison,i n whose valor, wisdom , honesty and patri ot

ismwe entertai n the same confidence that we had in h is i l l u stri ousgrands i re , Pres ident of the United States .

HENRY SAYRS ,D . B . F ISK ,

DR . DAVID S . SM ITH ,

President of t/ze Club.

J UDGE VAN H . H I GG I NS ,WI LL IAM R I PLEY ,J UDGE C . M . HAWLEY,ALBERT SOPER ,

T . B . CARTER ,

SAMUEL C . GR I GGS ,NATHAN MEAR S ,COLONEL R . M . HOUGH ,

C . R . VANDERCOOK ,

ENOS SLOSSON,

Here the pres ident created a surpri se in i ntroduc ing to theClub the Hon . James G . B laine . The way in which the l atter wasrece ived would give a l esson in enthusiamto any meet ing . Mr .Blaine said he was not a voter i n 1840, but remembered seeingthe sen ior Harri son whi l e on hi s way to Washington i n 184 1 .

The scenes o f that day were st i l l v ivi d in h i s memory , and hehoped to see before l ong another General H arri son on h i s way tothe White House . He was very glad , i ndeed , to meet so many

veterans .Speeches were made by Dr . Brooks and Mr . Fontleroy .

I t having been announced that seats on the p latform i n Cav

alry A rmory had been provided for the O l d Tippecanoe Club , tol i sten to Mr. Blaine

’ s speech i n the even ing , the pres i dent requested al l the members to meet at the Burd ick House at 7

'

o ’c l ock . Twenty-nine members were added to the Cl ub .

O CTOBER 2 7 .

— The regular meet ing was cal l ed to order by thepres i dent . C . R . Vandercook o ffered the fol lowing :

Resolved ,That the Cl ub

,as a body , have a street parade on the

3 l st i nst . , and that for that purpose al l members be requested to

then meet at the headquarters .

Committee.


Resolved ,That the members of th i s c l ub do most heart i ly ex

t end the i r s incere thanks to John B . Drake and Samuel Parker, ofthe Grand Pac ific H otel , for the use o f th i s parl or during th isgreat pol i t i cal campaign . Long may they l ive , prosperous andhappy

,are the wishes of the veterans of 1840. Adopted .

The fol l owing resolut i on was unan imously adoptedResolved , That the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chi cago

,i n

meeting assembled , do hereby extend to Dr . Davi d S . Smith ,Pres ident ; Eno

‘s S losson, I st V i c e-Pres ident ; R . J . Bennett , 2 d

Vice-Pres i dent ; Henry M . Garl i ck , I st Ass i stant Secretary ;C . R . VanDercook , Sergeant—at-Arms ; Col . R . M . Hough ,Marshall ,and the Finance Committee our warmest thanks for the very

abl e manner i n which they have d ischarged the i r resp ect ive

d ut i es , and in the ir devot i on to the i nterests of th i s organ izat i on ,all tending to the great vi ctory on November 6 .

On moti on of Mr. Enos S losson, a committee of three , com

posed of Thos . B . Bryan , Enos S losson and Nathan Mears

( appo inted by the chair ) , was des ignated to draft su i tabl e reso ~

l ut ions to be forwarded to General H arri son , Levi P . Morton andthe Gov-el ect of I l l ino is . Said committee reti red , and prepared

and submitted the fo l lowing,which was adopted by a ri s i ng vote :Resolved , That we, members of the O l d Tippecanoe Club of

Chicago,some four hundred i n number, many having cast our

fi rst vote for Wm . Henry Harri son , and because of our extremeage p robably our l ast vote for his il l ustrious grandson , the pres id ent—e l ect , now un ite our vo ices i n heart i est congratu lat i on to thePres i dent

,Vice-Pres ident-e lect , and the Governor-e l ect o f I l l i

no i s,and commend them and our beloved country to the bl ess i ng

of A lmighty God .

Mr . Thomas B . Bryan moved that each member of the clubbe al l owed to put his own autograph on the roster.A l though a c ivi l i an , Mr

’. Bryan was unan imous ly el ected a

member of the Loyal Legi on , of which the l ate General Sheridanwas commander-in-ch i ef, i n recogn it i on of Mr. Bryan

’ s fai thfuls ervic es i n maintain ing the honor, i ntegrity and supremacy ofthe government of the Un ited States . H is identificati on with theHarri sons has been int imate , dating back to hi s res i dence i n C in


cinnati, when , as l egal advi ser of Mr . Scott H arrison , he ass i stedin the settl ement o f Pres ident Wm . Henry Harri son ’s estate .

The convention which nominated General H arri son i n 1840 Waspres ided over by Gov . James Barbour, of Virgin ia , an unc l e ofMr . Bryan .

Mr . Phi l l ip Burroughs presented the fo l l owing on permanentorgan izat i on

,which was adopted :

Resolved , That the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chicago Shal l continue i t s p resent organ izat i on so l ong as five members attend themeet i ngs , and for that purpose they adopt the fo l l owing ru l esART. I .

—The club shal l meet the first Saturday after the firstTuesday of November of each year, and as much oftener as maybe necessary for business .ART. I I . —The membership of thi s c lub shal l be l im ited to

those who ass i sted or voted in 1840 for the d ist i ngu i shed GeneralWm . Henry Harri son , and incl udes the i r wives , the i r sons , sonsin-l aw ,

the i r daughters and daughters-in-law .

ART. I I I .

— The present officers shal l hol d the ir terms for oneyear, or unt i l others are chosen in the ir p laces .ART. IV .

— The annual e l ect i on for officers Shal l be hel d thefirst Saturday after the first Tuesday in November , i n 1889,

andyearly thereafter .ART. V .

— Five members of the . c lub may cal l a meeting ,and

the highest offi cer present shal l presi de at al l meet ings . I f‘no

offi cers are present , then the ol dest member shal l pres ide .

Mr. I . A . Flem ing , represent ing the Chi cago Print ing Co. ,

stated that as i t had been suggested that the c lub have catalognes , to contai n names of members , the ir res idence , and a bri efb i ography of the c lub ,

he , on behalf of h i s company , would furni sh the c lub with printed cop i es free o f charge . The propositionwas accepted with thanks and cheers. The fol l owing gentlemen addressed the club , e l i c i t ing round after round of applause ,viz : Hon . Thomas B . Bryan , Gen . J . B . Leake and J . B . Patterson. Gen . Leake dwelt mainly on the quest i on of fraudul entel ect i ons in Southern States

,handl i ng the same in a masterly man

ner .'

I n answer to a d i spatch by Mr . P . M . Blodgett , the fo l lowing te l egram was received .


I ND IANAPOL I S , Nov . 10, 1888 .

P . M . Blodgett, Tippecanoe Club , Grand Pacifi c Hotel , C/zicczgo.

Please convey to the members o f the c lub my high appreciat ion of the i r e fforts and cord ial support d uring th e campaign .

The evidence given me of thei r resp ect and confidence has beenvery grat i fying to me . BENJ AM I N HARR I SON .

On November 2 4 , the meet ing was cal l ed to order by the FirstVice -Pres ident . Minutes o f last meet ing read and approved .

The fol l owing preambl e and resolut i on was presented by H enry

Sayrs :

WHEREAS , I t i s des irabl e and important that the volume nowbe ing prepared for the purpose of being p laced with the H istori cal Soc i ety

,to contain an account o f al l the proceed ings i n 1888

of the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chicago , Shal l embrace the autograph of every member of the c lub .

Resolved ,That Secretary Garl i ck be , and hereby i s , authori zed

to procure printed postal cards and thereby not i fy and requestal l members who Shal l on December 1 5 th next not have S igned ,t o cal l at h is office , No . 39,

1 16 Dearborn Street , and affix the i rs ignature to the record , the expense of said postal s to be paid for

by the treasurer. Adopted .

Mr.P . Burroughs o ffered the fo l l owing

Resolved ,That a tender to H . M . Garl i ck be rendered i n tes

timony of h i s valuabl e servi ces in the interest of the Cl ub , andthat a committee of three be appointed to col lect funds for saidpurpose and present same . Referred to Finance Committee with

power to act .On motion of W . B . Mil l s i t wasResolved ,

That the regu lar meet ings be hel d on the last Saturday of each month , at 2 oj clock , p . m. , on and after November

At the meet ing December 29th , the Finance Committee re

ported financ ial ly , also that Secretary-Treasurer A ck l ey hadres igned

,whereupon Mr . A . H . Morri son offered the fol l owing :

WHEREAS , Our Secretary and Treasurer has res igned , therefore be it


Resolved , That th i s c lub now proceed to an el ect i on of the irsuccessors .Whereupon H . M . Garl i ck was unan imous ly e lected Secretary

and A lbert Soper unan imous ly el ected Treasurer . Mr . S operoffered the fol l owing resolut i on :Resolved ,

That acommittee of five be appointed whose dut iesshal l be to draft a preface or hi stori cal account of the t imes , andb iographic h istory of Chicago ’ s O l d Tippecanoes from 1836, 1840,

to 1888 , the same to be p laced in fore part o f the regi ster be l onging to the c lub , Carri ed . Judge C . M . Hawley , Henry Sayrs ,A lbert Soper, W . H . Bradl ey , and Wm . S . Ell i ott were appointedsai d committee .

The fo l l owing l etter from Gov .

-e lect Fi fer was rece ived andordered spread upon the minutes :

BLOOM I NGTON , ILL . , Dec . 1 , 1888 .

H . M Garlick, SecretoryMY DEAR FR I END . Your recent l etter conveying to me the

act ionof the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chicago i s before me . I ti s indeed touch ing to be so k i ndly remembered by gentl emenwho bear the years and honor that the members o f your c lubcarry . I apprec iate h ighly the compl iment you extended andask you to carry to the members of your Cl ub , for me , my thanksfor the i r k ind remembrance and my S i ncere wishes for the i rp ersonal prosperi ty . Yours most tru ly ,

J . W . F I FER .

Mr . Bennett offered the fo l l owing resolut i onResolved ,

That the chai r appoint a committee of five to bek nown as a committee of pol it ical act ion and that al l measures ,moti ons , reso luti ons , etc . ,

contemplat ing the pol it i cal cours e orendorsement of thi s c lub

,shal l be reported to said committee .

Carri ed .

The chair appointed R . J . Benne tt , A lbert Soper , Thomas F .

M i tchel l and Wi l l i am H . Bradley , said committee ; when on

motion Enos S lossonwas added thereto .

On motion of Thomas F . Mitchel l , the by-l aws were so amen

d ed as to read : The regular meet ings of thi s c lub shal l be on thesecond and fourth Saturdays of each month unt i l further orders

MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THE

Mrs . Minerva K . Ell i ott favored the c lub with an abl e addressfor which she rece ived a vote of thanks . She was then voted anhonorary member of the c lub

,presented with a badge of the c lub

and $10.

Mrs . Mary M . Hopkins , pres ident of the Sycamore Tippecanoe Club del ivered a bri ef address , was made an honorarymember and presented with a badge .

At the meet ing January 12 , 1889 , the First Vi ce-Pres i dentpres ided . Henry Sayrs o ffered the fol l owing :Resolved ,

That i t i s not the provi nce or pol i cy of thi s c l ub toadvocate or promote the nom inat i on or appointment of anyoneto offi ce .

Mr . Prince moved that the reso lut i on be referred to committeeon pol it i cal act i on . After cons iderabl e d i scuss i on Mr . Sayrswithdrew the reso lut i on rather than have i t referred to sai d c ommittee and then moved that the reso lut i on passed at the lastmeeting

,appo int ing a committee on pol i t i cal act i on be re-con

s id ered ,which mot ion was lai d over unti l the next meet i ng .

Mr . Holmes moved that speeches on resolut ions be confinedto five minutes . Carried .

L . W . Garl i ck reported the death of one of the members .Mr . J . H . Bel lfield and Mr . Mil l s announced the seri ous i l l n es s

of Luther Laffl inMi l l s .O n motion of Mr . Garl i ck a vis it ing committee of e ight mem

bers was appo inted to look after S i ck and d isabl ed members, viz :

For Hyde Park , L . W . Garl i ck and Judge C . M . Hawley. Forthe north d ivis i on , Colone l R . J . Bennett , and for the west divis i on ,Messrs B lodgett and Burrows ; for the south d ivis i on , HenrySayrs and Col onel R . M . Hough .

On moti on of A . H . Morri son i t wasResolved , That the secrgtary be , and hereby is , requested to

cause to be printed the names of every member of the c lub, w i th

h is res idence , the same to be d istributed to the members at ournext meet ing . Carried .

Colonel C l ement o ffered the fol l owingResolved , That the c lub take immediate act ion to enlarge its

membersh ip by adding al l names el ig ibl e to become members, SO

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB , CH ICAGO . 4 1

that we can take strong act ion In the coming spring el ect i on .

Carri ed .

On January 26 , pres i dent Smith cal l ed the meet ing to orderand stated h i s p l easure at being once again perm itted to be athis post .Mr . Burroughs , chairman committee on necrology , reported the

death ofOLuther L . Mil l s . I t was therefore :Resolved ,

That a committee o f three be appo inted to’

draftsu itable l etter of condol ence to the fami ly of d iseased and thata Copy of sai d l etter be spread upon the minutes , and that s imi laract i on be taken with reference to other members of the c lub whohave di ed . Reported to committee on necrol ogy .

Judge Hawl ey then submitted the fo l l owing :WHEREAS , The s ecretary of the Tippecanoe Veterans of 1840,

has rece ived fromMr . Cal el A . Wal l , pres ident of the TippecanoeClub of Worcester , Massachusetts , a large photograph of themembers in group— of 66— and other h istori cal rem in i scences ,therefore be i t :Resolved

,That thi s c l ub extend to Mr . Wal l the i r hearty

thanks and the secretary b e requested to forward a copy of thi sreso lut ion to h im . Carri ed .

On motion of Mr . Bennett , Mr .Wal l ’ s l etter was placed on fi l e .

Mr . W . B . Mil l s moved that a vote of thanks be extended tothe Commerc i al and Travel i ng MenS

’ Clubs in behal f of the oldveterans

, who wished to avai l themselves of the l ow rate of fareetc . ,

to V i s i t Wash ington on the occas i on of General Harrison’ sinaugurat ion . Adopted .

Judge C . M . Hawley , chairman committee on preparing preface to the book about to be publ i shed , submitted the preface tothe consi derat ion of the c lub . I t was approved . Given to thepres s and the author thanked .

A motion by Mr . A lbert Soper, to take the sense of the c lubregard ing the publ i cat i on of the proposed book , i ts S i ze , cost , etc . ,

caused some di scuss ion and was referred to the revi s ing com‘

mittee with power to act . So ordered .

On motion of Mr . H . M . Garl i ck a vote of thanks was tenderedI . A . Fleming for500 printed catal ogues of membership .


Judge Bradley addressed the meeting , when after a so ng byMr . Mil l s i t adj ourned .

The meet i ng of February 9 , was opened with prayer by Rev .

W . Holmes . Committee on necrol ogy announced the death ofC . W . Munger and W . F . Myrick ; members o f the c lub attend ingfuneral of brother members were requested to wear the c lubbadgesHenry Sayrs cal l ed up a resol ut i on which was l aid on the tabl e

four weeks ago,to recons ider the fol l owing resolut i on , adopted

December 29 , viz :

Resolved , That the chair appoint a committee o f five to beknown as a Committee of pol it i cal act i on and that ALL measures ,motions

,resolut i ons , etc . , contemplat i ng the pol it i cal c ourse Or

endorsement o f th i s c lub , SHALL be referred to sai d committee .

A fter cons iderabl e d i scuss i on the moti on was i ndefin itely postponed

,whereupon Colonel Morri son moved

,that sai d resol ut ion

of December 29 be so al tered by strik ing out the word SHALL andinsert ing the word MAY i n l i eu thereof, as to make it read : Thatal l measures , motions , resolut ions , etc . , MAY be referred to sai dcommittee . Carri ed .

Resolved , That a stand ing committee of three be appo inted , ofwhich the pres i dent shal l be chairman , whose duty Shal l be tosecure speakers to address the c lub and report same to th e se cretary ,

giving names , subj ect and date , that same may be publ i shedwith not ice of meet ing , sai d not i ces only authori zed when s ignedby the pres i dent , or i f pres ident is absent , the vice-pres ident orsecretary . Carri ed .

Mr . G . S . Knapp came forward and sai d he had made for thepres i dent , Dr . David S . Smith , and now took p l easure i n presenting it— agavel . The mal let head was of hi ckory from Miss i onaryR i dge . I n the head waS

J

ap iece o f bl ack,

walnut from the tabl eused i n the convent ion at which pres i dent—el ect Benj amin Harrisonwas nom inated , a hickory Shoot from Shi l oh for the handl e ;pl ugged in the end of the handl e was a p iece of the cel ebratedblack walnut rai l which Abraham L i nco ln Spl i t . Affidavits fromCharles A . S tone attested the genu ineness of the h ickory . Thespl inter from L i ncoln ’ s rai l came d irect from the Chi cago H is


On motion of W . B . Mil l s the secretary was instructed to in

vi te Hon . David G . Lyon and G . J . Patterson to address the c lub

at i ts next meet ing .

The secretary stated that he would be p l eased to give one ofhi s p ictures from a pen-sketch made by himsel f from an old o i l

paintinginthe possesssionof Gen . Benj . Harrison ofhis bi rthplace ,be ing the o ld homestead of O l d Tippecanoe i n North Bend ,Ohi o

,provid ing the c lub wou l d have the same framed and pre

sented to John B . Drake , Esq . , whereupon R . J . Bennett movedthat the secretary be and i s hereby instructed to have sai d p i ctureproperly framed and ready at our next meet ing , and that anorder be drawn on the treasury to pay for same . Carri ed unan imously . Addresses were made by J . K . Magee and JudgesHawl ey and B radl ey .

At the regul ar meet ing on March 2 3, the committee on necrology

,through Mr. Burroughs , reported the death of Bro . Grant

Goodri ch . Addresses were made by Mayor J ohn A . Roche , S .

A . Douglas and Mrs . M . K . El l i ott . On mot i on of the secretary ,John A . Roche was made an honorary member of the c lub , andthe Vice-Pres ident presented h i s honor with a badge of the c l ub .

Represent ing the c lub , Henry Sayrs presented to J ohn B .

Drake , the propri etor of the Grand Pac ifi c H ote l , a l ithograph ofGen . Benj amin Harri son ’ s birthp lace at N orth B end , Ohio , a pensketch by the secretary , H . M . Garl i ck , from an o i l pai nt ing madein 1840. Mr . Drake expressed h is grat i tude and surpri se i n hisever-gen ial manner, dec laring h imsel f a Republ i can al l over andin ful l sympathy with the cause

,whereupon three welcome

cheers were given h im . A fter an address by Judge Hawl ey,he

moved , that when the meeting adj ourned i t shoul d be for oneweek . Carri ed .

Here i t was suggested that an enterta inment be given underthe ausp ic es of the c lub at Central Mus ic H al l at an earlydate , the proceeds of which , after al l expenses were paid ,to be turned into the treasury of the c lub to be used in the interest o f preparing for publ i cat i on and the publ i sh ing of the bookof b i ograph ical sketches o f the members

,and other matter of

i nterest p ertain ing to the club ’ s h i story ; therefore be i t


Resolved , that sai d entertainment be had and that a committeeof fi fteen or more be appointed to perfect the necessary arrangement . Carri ed.

The fol lowing committee was appointed : R . J . Bennett ,P . Burroughs , A . H . Wil l i ams , A . H . Morri son , C . M . Hawley,H . M . Garl i ck , G . S . Knapp , C . R . Vandercook , W . S . Ell i ott , I .A . Fleming , L . W . Garl i ck , Mrs . M . K . Ell iott , Mrs . S . C . Hai r,Mrs . L . W . Garl ick , Mrs . G . S . Knapp , Miss Kate Burroughs andMiss Dewey .

The adj ourned meeting of the c lub was he ld March 30. Committee on necrol ogy reported the death of J . H . Gi l l at Topeka ,Kan . on March 13, whereupon R . J . Bennett moved , that thecommittee on necrology draft and report su itabl e resolut i onscommemorat ive to the departed brother . Carri ed .

Henry Sayrs o ffered the fol lowing :

Resolved ,that the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chicago , heart i ly

congratul ates the Pres i dent of the Un ited S tates on the appointment o f Robert T . L i ncol n , Envoy Extraord inary and Min isterPlen ipotent i ary of the Un ited States to Great Britain .

Resolved , that the secretary be , and hereby i s , requested totransmit a copy of the foregoi ng reso lut i on to Benj amin Harrison, _

PreS ident of the United States . Carried .

After some d iscuss i on on way and manner of the Club , properacti on on app l i cat i on of i ts members for endorsement for pol i t ical pos it ions

,the fol l owing resoluti on was offered by Henry

Sayrs

Resolved ,that for the benefit of persons , Now MEMBER S of th i s

Cl ub, who may be appl i cants for offi c i al pos it i ons o f the Federal

government or the C ity of Chicago , the pres ident , fi rst and

second vi ce—pres idents , treasurer and s ecretary , or a maj ori ty of

them concurring each i n h i s offic ial capac ity , may upon request ,in the i r di scret i on and i n behal f of th i s c lub , duly cert i fy as to

the honesty , abi l ity and patri ot i sm of such app l icants . Carri ed .

Mr. A . H . Wil l iams moved , that a vote of thanks be tendered

the Marquette Club for favors shown thi s c l ub during the trip to

to Washington and also to G . S . Knapp , who represented the

46 MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THE

c lub on the excurs i on to the inaugurati on of Ben j amin Harri son .

Adopted .

R . J . Bennett , chairman , reported that the committee hadabout completed arrangements for the entertainment and hadselected the ir Sub-committee— the committee on program be ingI . A . Fl eming , H . M . Garl i ck and G . S . Knapp . H M . Garl i ckbe ing made treasurer o f committee . Accepted .

On motionof M r. Bennett , Phi l l i p Burroughs was appointedto act as Marshal l and John K i ng , J r. , as ai d for the veterans onthe march to the h al l o f entertainment .Mr. L . W . Garl i ck moved , that the members of the c l ub meet

at the Grand Pac ific Hote l on the even ing of Apri l 4 , and proceed i n a body to Central Mus ic H al l to the mus i c o f fi fe anddrum , each member wearing the c lub badge . Carri ed .

On motion of M r. Pierce adj ourned for one week .

The meeting of Apri l 6 was cal l ed to order by the First VicePres ident . Prayer was offered by the Rev . Mr . Severance .

Mr . R . J . Bennett , chairman o f committee on arrangement forthe entertainment had at Central Mus i c H al l , reported that thecommittee had not fin i shed so as to enabl e them to make ad efinate report ; they had done good and success fu l work , however

,and asked for more t im e to report . Further t ime was

granted and the committee thanked by the Cl ub for the abl emanner they had thus far d i scharged the ir duti es .I t was then determ ined that al l unsettl ed bus iness connected

with the l ate entertainment be l eft for sett l ement i n the hands ofthe original committee .

Mr . Bennett stated that in consequence of conti nued absenceof the pres ident and treasurer, two other members shou l d beappo inted i n the i r stead i n s ign ing peti t ions for app l i cants o f thec lub for offic ial pos it ions , whereupon Judge C . M . Hawleyand Ph i l l ip Burrough s were Chosen to temporari ly fi l l thosevacanc i es .Mr . I .

-A Fleming moved a vote of thanks be tendered theHon . Thos . B . Bryan , Rev. Dr . Withrow and Eugene J . Hal l , forthe ir valued Services at the entertainment given by veterans of1836 , 1840

-1888 on Apri l 4 i n Central Mus i c Hal l , and that the


secretary be requested to transmit same to each . Carried unan imous ly .

Mr . L . W . Garl ick moved a vote of thanks to al l others whoass i sted the committee or rendered service towards the advancement o f the entertainment . C arri ed .

Col . Thos . Mitchel l moved , that a committee of five beappo inted to make necessarry arrangements , i n the i nterest ofthe c l ub , for the ce lebrati on of the centennial o f Washington ’ sinaugural , Apri l 30 . The chai r named as such committee : Thos .Mitchel l , J ohn K i ng , J r. , G . S . Knapp , P . Burroughs and M ichaelMcAu ley .

Adj ourned for one week .

.The regul ar meet i ng of the c lub was cal l ed to order by Pres i

dent David Smith , M . D. , Apri l 13. The pres ident acknowledgedhi s thankful ness and pl easure i n being spared to again be at hi spost after an absence of several weeks i n Washington , and wasdel ighted to see so many of the “Boys ready for duty .

Col . Bennett , chairman of committee on arrangements forentertainment

,reported that the committee had not yet been

abl e toget affai rs i n Shape for a complete report and asked thatthe t ime to report be extended to the next meet ing of the c lub ,

which was granted .

The pres ident stated he had rece ived two letters which herequested the secretary to read :

SPR I NGFI ELD,MARCH 2 7 , 1889 .

David S . Smith , Esa,Pres . Old Tippecanoe Club, Chicago, I ll . .

My Dear S ir:I am in rece ipt of your l etter of March 2 7 and noti ce your

kind i nvi tat ion to be with your c lub on the 4th of Apri l atCentral Mus ic H al l . I apprec iate your k indness in rememberingme

,and regret that the pressure of publ ic dut ies here wi l l prevent

my accept ing the same . Please convey to the meni bers of yourcl ub my k indest regards .

Yours very tru ly ,

J OSEPH W . F I FER .


EX ECUTIVE MANS ION , WASH INGTON , APR IL 4 , 1889.David S . Smith ,

M . D. , Chicago, I llThe pres i dent d irectes me to acknowledge the rece ipt of

your l etter o f the 3oth o f March conveying the congratu lat i ons ofthe O l d Tippecanoe Club , and to express to you and to themembers of the c lub his s i ncere thanks for thi s evi dence of fri endlyregard . Very truly yours ,

E . W . HALFORD , Private Secretary .

On motion of the second vi ce-pres ident said l etters were orde redto be Spread upon the records .Mr . Henry Sayrs, i n behal f of the c lub , warmly welcomed

pres i dent Smith home and to duty , and after humorous ly reporti ng to h i s honor as requested and as i n duty bound , how gay the“ boys ” had been i n h i s absence , espec i al ly on the even ing on thefourth instant

,submitted the fol l owing

CONGRATULATORY . I n vi ew of the general and complete gratificat ion expressed by ind ivi dual members of our c lub and otherswho were so fortunate as to be present and partake of the grandl iterary and mus i cal entertainment given under the ausp i ces ofthe O l d Tippecanoe Club , at Central Musi c H al l , on the even ingof the fourth instant , Our hearty congratu l at i ons are extende dto the committee which had the a ffair i n charge , the i r “ program committee ,

” Messrs I . A . Fleming , H . M . Garl i ck and G . S .

Knapp,for the i r abl e i ndefat igabl e and success ful co-operati on

are ent itl ed to the h ighest prai se . To Mr . I . A . Fl eming i s to beaccorded the cred it of suggest ing a publ i c entertainment for thebenefi t O f the c lub , and to al so give our fel low c it i zens an opportunity to become better acquainted wi th the veterans , and at thesame t ime , at a merely nominal c ost , devote an even ing tounal loyed p l easure . Adopted by the unan imous voice o f the c lub .

Colonel M itchel l,>chai rman of committee on centenn i al

arrangements , reported that no general program had been mapped out, but that arrangements had been made for c lubs to marcht o Central Mus i c Hal l , and he asked i f i t was the wish of thi s Cl ubto do so. Mr. Wil l iams , Mr . McAuley and Mr . Prince thought i tthe proper thing to do— and be i tResolved , That we meet at these headquarters on Apri l 30, at


two o ’c lock P . M . , and proceed i n a body to Central Mus i c Hal l ,and that the secretary not i fy the chai rman of the centenni a l committee of th i s p roposed act ion and ask that 100 to 1 50 seats bereserved for us . Carried .

Mr . Henry Sayrs presented and read the fol lowingTo the O l d Tippecanoe C lub , the committee on publ icat ion

beg leave to report as fol l ows : The forthcoming club h istorywil l , i n our op in i on , be valuabl e as a record of the princ ip les anddoctri nes o f the Whig and republ i can part i es

,as i l lustrated i n the

biograph ical and autograph album of the “ O l d Tippecanoes .”You can bel i eve that the general publ i c understand that the “O l dTippecanoe C lub” i s composed of veterans o f the pol it i cal cam

paigns of 1836— 40— when General Wi l l i am Henry Harrison (O l d'

Tippecanoe ) was the standard bearer o f the Whig party and that inorder to be an “ O l d Tippecanoe i t was necessary for one to be notl ess than 69 years of age at the t ime of our l ast pres ident ial e l ect i on .

Whil e your committee have the h ighest regard for our younger '

members,we neverthe less be l i eve that the personal i ty of the

“O l d Tippecanoes ” Sh oul d be rigidly maintained i n both the b iographical and autographic col l ect i on , as by so doing the value o fthe work as a souven ir of the pol it i cal campaigns of 1836— 40 and1888 and of the “ O l d Tippecanoe Club ” woul d be greatlyenhanced . Your committee would therefore respectful ly ask theadopt ion of the fo l lowing resolut i on :Resolved ,

That the committee on publ i cat i on be , and hereby i s

,authorized to insert i n the c lub h istory the b iograph i cal

sketches and authograph S ignatures o f such members only whovoted for or ass i sted i n the el ect ion of Wi l l iam Henry Harrisonfor pres ident and such other matter as in the i r j udgment they consider proper . Carri ed .

H . M . GARL ICK , SECRETARY .


He comes of freedom-l oving stock ,

One s igned th e Decl arat i on ;His grands i re fought i n eighteen twelveAnd he fought to save our nat i on .

Then give three cheers and a t iger , too ,J o in i n

,al l the brave ol d men ,

AS we voted once for TippecanoeWe ’ l l shout for h i s grandson , Ben .

For Harrison then , and Morton , too ,Le t us give three cheers again ;

We ’ l l vote once more for Harri sonJust as we voted then .

Tippe canoe Trip to lnd ianapolis .

The O l d Tippecanoe C lub of Chi cago,accompan i ed by the

La Sal l e C lub and the John A . Logan Club , i n al l aboutvi s ited General H arri son at I nd ianapol i s

,on September 29,

George M . Pul lman Esq . , generously furn i sh ing the O l d Tippecanoes with hi s best and most e legant palace car. Every largetown reached, thousands had gathered to see and greet us .Short Speeches were made by our pres ident

,cheers upon cheers

were returned , the bands p lay ing patriot i c airs ; the cars movingo ff amid the most wi l d and enthus iast i c cheers . A Sp lend id t imeal l al ong the entire route of two-hundred mi les . Start ing at Chicago at e ight A. M . , and reaching I nd ianapol i s at four P . M . ,

wherewe were met by a large gathering

,which swel l ed to one of the

greatest. The First Regiment Band preceeded us from the depotal ong the streets of the c i ty , amid the cont inued cheers of thecrowds and the boom of an el evated cannon between the ranks ofthe patri ot ic veterans , every one of whom wore an elegantlyWrought appropri ate s i lk badge , the c ivil and mil itary under presented arms , on e i ther s ide al ong the ent ire d istance to the ampl egrounds of the un ivers i ty , provided with a large stand for ourrecept ion

,to which General Harri son was escorted amid ringing

cheers. Judge Green , who accompani ed us , del ivered a shortsp eech and was fol l owed by our Tippecanoe pres i dent , whodel ivered the fol lowing address :

“ GENERAL HARR ISON : The O l d Tippecanoe C lub , which hai l sfrom Chicago

,and wh ich compris es near ly three hundred mem

bers , has commiss i oned those of us who represent them here today , to convey to you the warmest express ions of thei r confi

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I n the d ischarge of that p l easant duty , i t i s i ncumbent uponus to take into cons iderati on the almost i ncessant drafts uponyour t ime and attenti on

,confident that you wi l l not undervalue

our assurances of regard because of the brevity of the i r utterance .

Suffi ce i t to say that many of our members Shared with you thetri al s and dangers o f the battl efie ld , i n the ever-memorabl e confl ict for the preservati on of the Un ion , and al l o f us are un ited i nthe ardent des ire for your triumphant el ect i on to the pres idencyof the Un ited S tates .

That des i re is founded upon our convi ct i ons , that the continued ascendancy of true patri ot i c l oyalty to the Un ion , i sOpposed by the i deas and pract ices o f the so-cal l ed “ Sol id South ,

”

that the supreme court of the Un ited S tates has already ful lenough of Democrat ic flavor.That there i s al so an excess of the l ate d i s l oyal ' el ement in

our d ip l omat ic servi ce ; that the paramount issue o f the campaignchal l enges the champ ionsh ip of u S al l in cont inu ing that protect i on of American industry which has so s ignal ly advanced thegrowth and greatness of our Nat i on ; and final ly , that al l these ,

“

and other attendant interests of our common country,can best

be fostered and secured by'

your e l evat i on as the successfu l s tandard-bearer of Republ i can princ ip l es . You have our best wishesnow

,as you shal l have our bal l ots i n N ovember , and as we once

cast them for your i l l ustri ous grandsi re .

”

Then General H arri son stepped forward , hat i n hand ,and

del ivered a most el egant , happy welcoming Speech to the c i ty ofI nd ianapol i s ; then turn ing partly around and fac ing the vastcrowd

,extemporized another Short , impress ive speech to them ,

amid deafen ing cheers , after which the personal i ntroduct i onstook place — the pres ident of our c lub first i ntroduc ing thefirst vi ce-presi dent , fol>l owing which each member had the

pl easure of tak ing the General by the hand and wishing h imGod speed . The General was much p l eased with the flagborne by us , i n the hands o f Wi l l i am S losson, son of the vicepresident . I t was an old s i lk en flag , beauti ful ly wrought byladies forty-e ight years ago i n the most exqui s ite styl e through

out, with many col ored s i lks , and was i n the"Convention


which nominated the grandfather of the General i n 1840 . Waivi ng the General ad i eu , we were escorted with the mus i c to theNew Denn ison Hotel . Sat i s fying the inner manwe were Sooncharm ingly serenaded for our amusement by the same Regimental Band from the porch above , whi l e the streets were

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bril

l iantly i l l um inated with the marvel ous natural gas . Aft er ad i eusonce again the band marched us back to our await ing Pul lman palace train for our c ity , reach ing home in t ime for church servi c es .

Grand Popu lar Demons trat ion

R E P U BL ICANS IN CH ICAGO , NOV EMBE R 3 , 1 8 8 8 .

The most magn ificent of al l Chi cago parades in the l ast presid ential campaign was that of November 3, of wh ich SO manygraphi c and detai l ed accounts appeared i n the press of th i s andother c i t i es as to render i t whol ly unnecessary to reproduce themhere .

There seemed to be a representat i on of every trade or humanindustry of any consequence and a S IgnIficant fact was noti cedthat scarce ly one of the fi fteen thousand men in l ine was not avoter— al l good men and true , with General H arri son

’ s nameinscribed i n the ir hearts and on the i r banners .

I t was conceded by the press , as wel l as by observers , not , farfrom a m i l l i on of peopl e that had congregated to witness thes uperb pageant , that the most impress ive feature of the mightydemonstrat i on was the array in the front rank of the process i onof the members of the Old Tippecanoe C lub .

The pres ident , vice-pres i dent and treasurer , with one or twoinvi t ed guests , occup i ed the fi rst carri age , fol lowed by a longtrai n o f other open carriages . One of the bri e fest not i ces of themany that appeared in the press read thus , as . extracted :

“Thecarri ages are fi l l ed with white-headed veterans and there i s a tremendOus cheer up and down the street , that i s taken up andrepeated by peop le i n the windows . The white-beards are theTippecanoe veterans of 1840. The ir withered cheeks l ook almost


young again . They forget the l apse of fi fty years . They areback w i th Tippecanoe and are happy .

”

A most enthus i ast ic recepti on was accorded the veterans during the ent ire march of the process i onand they were greeted wi thinsp iring shouts , many of spec ial S ign ifi cance such as : “We shal lfol l ow your glori ous exampl e ” etc .

The OldTippe canoe Guard .

EX TRACT FROM THE ED ITOR IAL COLUMN O F THE CH ICAGO TR I BUNEO F NOVEM BER 12 , 1888 .

Whil e the “ first voters performed the ir work gal lantly l astTuesday

,fu l l p rais e and recogn it i on must be made for the Sp len

d i d services of the O l d Tippecanoe voters . The old men overs ixty-n ine who i n fused i nto th e recent campaign something o f thesp irit o f 1840,

contributed i n a great degree to the e lect i on o fGeneral H arri son . At a moderate est imate at l east menwho voted i n 1840 survived to cast the i r bal l ots l ast Tuesday .

The old H arrison men were sol i d for young Tippecanoe , and theybrought into l ine thousands of the i r ol d assoc i ates who voted forVan Buren i n 1840, but made amends i n 1888 by throw ing the irbal l ots for the second Harrison . AS the Tribune pred icted at thebeginn ing o f the campaign, there was a magic i n the name o f Harr ison for the ol d voters whopassed through the famous campaignof 1840,

and i n i nnumerabl e homes the inc i dents o f that campaignwere recal l ed in the l ast five months , and it is p lain that suchremin i scent i nfluences d i d not tend to prej ud ic e the republ i canparty or the republ i can c and idate .

The Old Tippecanoe voters gave to the recent campaign manyof the most i nterest i ng features— they i ntroduced again into thepol it ical fi el d the l og cab in , the h i stori c coon , the c ider barre l , andsome of the o ld songs of 1840. Most o f the Tippecanoe veteranshave passed the age for active e lect i oneering , but they had greatinfluence

,and they used i t we l l .

Biographical SketchesOF THE

Memb ers of the O ld Tip p ecanoe Clu b ,

WHO VOTED FOR , OR ASS ISTED I N THE ELECTI ON OF ,“ OLD TI P I N 1836

-40.

J AMES ACK E RMAN .

BorninPoughkeeps i e , Dutches county , N . Y . , on the 2 1 5 t ofAugust 18 1 5 . H is parents were nat ives of the State of New York .

He fol lowed the business o f merchandis i ng in the c ity of Yonkersand the c ity of New York . I n 1877 he came west and first sett l edi n M i lwaukee . I n 188 1 he came to I l l ino i s and settl ed in HydePark

,where he now res ides . He voted for General Wil l iam

Harri son in 1836 and 1840 , and for General B enj amin Harri sonin 1888 .

CH EN EY AM ES

Was born i n Mexico , O swego county , N . Y . , June l gth , 1808 .

H is father, Leonard Ames , was one of the sturdy p ioneers o f that

county . At an early age he was apprenti ced to the “ batting”

trade,i n Cortland , N . Y . H is asp irat i ons l ed to newer fie lds and

a des ire for increased>

knowledge of the worl d . I n 1837 heremoved to O swego , N . Y . , and ident ified h imsel f c l osely withthe commerc i al i nterests unti l 1886 , when he removed to Chicago .

He was frequently a member of the New York Legi slature,and in

18 5 7 was e l ected to the S enate of that state , s erving as Chairmanof Commerce and Navigat i on Committees ; and again i n 18 5 7

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was returned to the Senate . On the break ing out of the war hewas appointed member of the War Committee by Gov . Morgan ,and from that t ime unt i l peac e was dec lared he gave h i s enti reattenti on to h is dut i es i n that capac ity . H is oldest son was k i l ledin the war . Mr. Ames entered very zealously into the campaignof 1840, and from that t ime to the present has been identifiedwith the Whig and Republ i can part ies , cast ing his l ast vote forGen . Benj amin Harri son in 1888 .

RO BE RT Y . A S K lN.

Cast h i s first vote for “Wil l iam Henry Harrison in 1840.

He has al so voted for every Whig and Repub l ican cand idate forpres ident up to the present , having voted for Benj amin Harri sonin November to succeed “ Clevel and . He has a good warrecord , having fought through seven hard-fought battl es andseveral sk i rm ishes . Being too O ld to be subj ect to draft

,i t was

o f course voluntary , as he was not i n favor of the d issolutionof our glori ous un ion and bitterly opposed to s lavery .

CA PT. H EN RY A SH BU RYWas born in Hansen county

,Kentucky , August 10, 18 10 ; moved

to Qu incy , I l l i noi s In 1834 and has res ided i n that c i ty for fiftyone years . Was admitted to the Bar, March 1837 and to the C ircu i t court o f the Un ited S tates , August 4 , 18 59, and has al so helda number of offi ces by the su ffrages o f the peop l e , and appo intment by pres idents of the United States . Voted for H enry Clayi n 1832 and has voted with the Whig and Republ ican candidatesever s ince . Captai n A shbury was Provert Marshal l o f the FourthCongress ional D istri ct during the war with the rank and pay ofCaptain of Cavalry

,and is now known as “O l d Captain ” Ashbury.

W . B. AYE RSWas born March 2 , 182 2 at Utica , New York and secured not onlythe benefits of a common school education but attended some ofthe best academies o f the day and commenced the study of

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medic in e i n 1840 at Fairfie ld Medical School , the only ohe westof New York . He took an act ive part i n the campaign of 1840

and l i stened to such el oquent speakers as C lay , Spencer andSeward

,march ing i n log cab in process i ons to the detriment of

h i s stud ies and the final abandonment of thoroughly l earn ing themedi cal profess ion . He landed i n Chi cago in 1849 , doing variouswork t i l l the Open ing of the M ichigan S outhern Rai lway , whenhe became purser o f the steamer Golden Gate , the property ofthat company . Later he deserted Chi cago for Buffal o , where hesunk his savings of years , and after various changes again returnedto Chicago i n 1868 , and has s in ce been success fu l and happy . A

strong Republ i can , he voted“ straight in

LEO N ! DA S V . BA DGE R ,

Another sonOf New England , born at the town of Portsmouth ,N . H . ,

J une 2 5 th ,1806 , and now in h i s e ighty-th ird year . He

sagely,and with respect of truth , says :

“ I have not yet been ableto see any advantage i n voting with the Democrat i c party ,

” fromwhich it may read i ly be inferred that Mr . Badger i s , and has everbeen

,a Whig or Repub l i can . His first vote for pres ident was i n

1832 ,h i s first Harrisonian vote in 1836 , his second , with better

success,i n 1840,

and hi s l ast for the grandson i n 1888 . Mr . Badger was one of the original members of the assoc iat ion— amodest ,earnest gentl eman .

H EN RY BA LDW IN

Was born September l gth , 18 17 , on Greenfie l d H i l l , town of Fair

fie ld ,Fairfield county , Connecticut . He attended the common

school s of Connect i cu t ; and he says :“They were pretty common

too . He used to get thrashed two and thre e t imes a day,and

was pol i t i cal ly a Whig unti l the origin of the Repub l ican party .

H e voted for General W i l l i am H . Harrison in 1840 i n the town of

Fairfiel d ,and voted for General B enj amin Harri son at R ivers ide

,

Cook county, I l l i no i s , 1888 .


W I LL IAM G . BA LDW IN

Was born the 2 7th of Apri l , 1807 , at Bedford ,H il lsboro county

,

N . H . , moving to Hopkinston, S t . Lawrence county,N . Y . ,

wherehe remained unt i l 1837 . I n 1840, at Bri stol , Vt . ,

he cast hi s fi rstvote for Gen . Wil l i am Henry Harrison . I n 18 5 2 Mr . Baldwinremoved to I l l ino i s , l iving i n Woodstock for three years , afterwhich t ime he l ived in Chicago , cast ing h is l ast vote for GeneralBenj amin Harri son .

L I L IBR I DGE BA R BER ,

Sonof Co l . Edward Barber , a so ld ier of the warof 18 12 ,was born

in H opk inton , Washington county , R . I . , August 3 1 , 18 1 5 ; working at home on a large farm and at carpentering unti l 1837 . Hecast h is first vote for Marti n Van Buren i n 1836 , but changed forthe better i n 1840,

when he voted for Harrison . I n 18 58 Mr.Barber removed to Edgerton , VVis .

,where he remained unti l 1867 ,

when he moved to Janesvi l le,and i n 1868 to Chicago , where he

has s ince res ided , i n tend ing to prosecute the carpenter bus i ness ;but find ing t imes du l l

,he entered the e l evator of Munn 81 S cott

as carpenter foreman,going into real estate after the b ig fire ,

which is st i l l h i s ca l l ing . Mr . and Mrs . Barber celebrated thei rgolden wedding December 2 5 th , 1886 , and i s st i l l b lessed withthe company of hi s compan ion .

J O SEP H P U LS IFE R BA RTLETT ,

Born in Campton,Grafton county ,

New Hampsh ire , J anuary 16 ,

18 10 ; voted in 1832 ,at Mered ith , N . H . , for Henry C lay ; i n 1836 ,

at Hanover,N . H . ,

for Wi l l i am Wirt ; i n 1840 for W i l l iam HenryHarri son

,at Rockford , Winnebago county , I l l . ; i n 1888 voted for

Genera l Benj am in Harrison , at Campton , Kane county , I l l .

J A R ED BASSETT ,

One of Chicago’ s o ldest res idents , having removed here in

18 16 ,from Montpel i er, Wash ington county , Vermont , where he

was born January 26th . , 18 14 . I n 1836 , and again in 1840, he

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voted for General Harri son at Montpel i er , Vt . , voting for GeneralHarrison— the grandson i n 1888 . Mr . Bassett i s a wel l knownc i t i zen and has ever hel d fast to the Whig princ ip les of h i sancestor .

A . T. BATES .

Born in Westfie ld , Mass , 18 13 ; removed with parents toTrumbul l county , Oh io , i n the year 1829 ; voted for GeneralWi l l iam Henry Harrison i n 1836 ; removed from Trumbul l countyto Portage county , Ohio , i n 1838 ; voted for General Wi l l i amHenry Harrison in 1840 ; came to Chicago i n 1866 , and has res i dedhere most of the t ime s ince . He now res ides at 1 54 Oakl ey Ave .

W I LL IAM H EN RY BE ECH E R ,

E ldest son of Lyman Beecher , D . D. , and Roxana Foote , his wi fe ,was born at East Hampton , L . I . , January 1 5 , 1802 .

Del icate i n early youth he was not sent to col l ege , but stud iedat home ; he rece ived the degree of M . A . , from Yale Col l ege ,though never connected i n any other way with that inst itut i on .

He stud i ed Theol ogy at Andover, and with hi s father, then inBoston . I n 1835 he went to Ohi o and was for twenty years an activehome miss i onary in the new state . By his cl ear common sense ,energy and enthus i asm for the work

,he was abl e to securely

found a number of churches and schoo l s , st i l l flourish ing .

He possessed i n a l arge degre e that Cl ear i ns ight and goodjudgment which resu lts i n what is ca l l ed “ common sense ; h is

crit ical ab i l ity was o f the h ighest order ; h i s uprightness unquestioned . Ant i-S l avery , Free-so i l , Repub l i can , the sequence was anatura l one .

He is l iving at the fam ily res idence , 108 Honore Street , Chicago

,cripp led and enfeebl ed i n body ; but await ing the summons

to go forth , i n perfect se l f—possess i on . Aged e ighty-seven .

Being an ant i-sl avery man hi s interest i n pol i t i cs was alwaysdeep — the e lect ion of the right man a th ing of vast importance .

He remembers the enthus iasm of the campaign of Wi l l i am Henry


Harrison— i ts songs and the pol it i cal i ssue ; took part in it to someextent— voting for h im .

H is enfeebled cond it i on prevented h im from voti ng for General B enj amin Harri son ; but h is i nterest was unabated and profound , hi s confidence i n u lt imate success unshaken and hi ssat is fact ion in the resul t i s i n proport i on .

R EZ IN J . BENN ETT .

My grandfather Bennett was a nat ive of Maryland— hi sfami ly being one of the fi rst to l and where the c i ty of Balt imorenow is . He served through the Revoluti onary War

, as a sold i erunder General Wash ington .

My father, Samue l Bennett , was born and raised on a farm inBalt imore county . I n 1794 he marri ed Rebecca Borham ,

whowas born and rai sed near Mt . Vernon , Va. ,

and was wel l acquaintedwith General George Washington and hi s wi fe , Martha .

My parents settl ed on a farm in Frederick county , Mary land ,where I was born August 7 , 18 1 5 . I was the youngest of tenchi l dren

,being the seventh son. I n 18 17 my father, with hi s fam

i ly,emigrated west i n a common road wagon . Hotels and farm

houses were few and far between . This fact made it necessary forthem to cook the i r own meal s by the roads i de and S l eep i n andunder the wagon much of the t ime . A fter the ir l ong and weariSome j ourney , we crossed the Ohio river and located in Je ffersoncounty

,Ohio ; took up quarters i n a log cabin , where a c learing

had been made . We immediately proceeded to bu i l d a hewedlog house . After comp let ing th i s we proceeded to make preparati on to put i n a spring crop .

I n 18 18 my father d i ed , l eaving my mother with her ten

Chi ldren in a new country , with few ne ighbors and very fewschool s

,the l atter ranging in d i stance from five to ten mi les , and

being pres ided over by such teachers as could be had in such acountry .

The extent of the years school ing was three months ,making it very diffi cu lt to obtain even a common school educati on .

A l l of the members of a farmer’ s fami ly had hard labor to

perform . At the age of twelve I coul d perform the work of a fu l l


grown man on the farm . At that t ime we had no such farmingimp lements as are now used . We had to use wooden p l ows ,and harrows with wooden teeth .

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Our smal l grain was cut with areap hoOk and then thrashed out with a‘ frail ,

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out doors on theground— the grain

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b eing separated from the chaff by shak ing itthrough a wooden S i eve and us ing a common bed Sheet for awind—mil l .I remained on the farm unti l about 1837 . I then went to Cad iz ,

the county seat Of Harri son county , Ohio , and entered a generalstore as c l erk ” for an elder brother , and remained with h im unt i l1844 . He at that t ime removed t o St . Loui s , Mo . , I remain ing i nCadiz

,carrying on the same bus i ness . I n 1847 I was e l ected

Mayor of that town,serving two terms , refus ing to serve l onger .

I afterward served as Sheri ff and Treasurer of my county . I wasfor “ twenty years a member of the Whig County C entralCommittee

,being al so a member of the State Central Committee

during a port i on of that t ime , and wel l remember the campaignof -182 4 , although

‘only a boy of n ine years . John Qu incy Adams,

General J acksonand W .

“

H . Crawford , were the l ead ing candidates

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for the pres i dency— no one rece iving a maj ority o f th ee lectoral votes

,John ‘ Quincy Adams was e l ecte d Pres i dent by

the House of Representat ives .‘

I fel t qu ite an i nterest i n the e l ecti on of Adams and Jackson were the cand idates . JacksonWas el ected — to my great SorrovV— and re-el ’ected i n 1832 .

1836’ I cast my fi rst vote for General Wi l l i am Henry Harri son ,

Mt . Pleasant , J e fferson county , Ohio . -I took a deep i nterestth is campaign . A l though he was defeated by Marti nI had great hop e that at the next e l ect i on the Whigelect

’

General Harri son . The Whigs cal l ed a nati onal conveand nominated h im the candidate for the party .

‘ When the

paignOpened I organ ized a S i nging c l ub of twelve boys .rigged '

a Canoe On whee ls— with a buckeye bush i n front ,l ive coon chained to the top of it . We travel ed over the cous inging

"

for “Tippecanoe and Tyler , too ,” and for TomCor

the wagoner boy , who was a cand idate for Governor. Weformed a l og cabin club i n Cadiz . I was el ected S ecretaryTreasurer . We bui l t a l arge l og cabi n

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meet ings— it was al so used as a read ing room— the c it i zens l eaving theif papers etc . , there for the use of the publ i c . During thecampaign General H arri son , i n pass i ng through the state , cal led .

A meet ing was hel d to hear h im speak at Cadiz . On Monday acommittee was appointed to invi te and convey h im to Cadiz .These gentl emen chartered a new four horse coach and metthe General at Wooster . They arrived on Saturday . A l arge company of peop l e on horseback met them about S ix miles outand escorted them to the town . The General stopped at mybrother’ s house , staying there unti l Tuesday ,

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attend ing. the Presbyterianchurch on Sund ay . We al l esteemed it a great p l easureto entertai n so great and good a man . I w i l l n ever forget theprid e I took i n s i tt ing and break ing bread at the Same tabl e andwalking to and from church with the man I so much admired .

Horace Greel ey , of New Y ork , started a paper cal l ed TheLog Cabin. I was instructed to subscribe for one hundred cop i e sfor d i stribut i on . The paper was continued through the campaignunt i l after the inaugurat i on . The last number gave a ful l accounto f the inaugurat ion and address , with a return o f the votes ofeach state by count i es . The last page contained a prospectus ofthe N ew York Tribune, to be publ i shed by Horace Greel ey . Isucceeded ingett ing a number of subscribers for the first number.Three years ago , on a V i s i t to my O ld home in Oh io, I foundfami l i es St i l l tak ing the New York Tribune.

A fter the defeat o f General Scott , the Whig candidate in 18 5 2 ,

there was no p ermanent organ ized party to oppose the Democrat i c party , l eaving a large number at sea, not knowing how toconcentrate the i r power in Oppos iti on to the S l ave party . I n 185 5“the fri ends of freedom and an honest government cal l ed a conventionat Columbus , Ohio , i nv it ing al l p ersons opposed to theextens ion of s laveryand the doctri ne of the so-cal l ed Democrat i cparty . I was a delegate to that conventi on that formed the

Republ i can party . The convent ion was organ ized by elect ingHon . J ohn Sherman , Pres ident , forming the first p latform of theRepubl i can party i n the state , and nominat ing Salmon P . Chas efor Governor . He was e lected , serving two terms . I was de l egate to the Nati onal Conventi on hel d in Chi cago i n 1860,

nomi

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nat ing L i ncoln for Pres ident ; was also del egate to convent ionhel d i n Balt imore in 1864 , when L inco ln was renominated ; wasalso a del egate when General Grant was nominated i n 1868 .

Iattended the convention when Garfiel d was nominated i n 1880,

and in the convention when B laine was nominated i n 1884 ,and

General Harri son in 1888 . Have personal ly known al l the Pres id ents , commenc ing with John Quincy Adams , up to the present

,

except ing Martin Van Buren and General Pi erce . As I have alreadystated , my first vote for Pres ident was for General H arri son in1836 ; for Harri son In

’

40 ; Clay i n’

44 ; Zach . Taylor i n ’

48 ;General Scott i n

’

5 2 ; General Fremont in’

56 ; L i ncoln i n’

60 and’

64 ; Grant in’

68 and ’

72 ; Hayes i n’

76 ; Garfiel d in’

80 ; Blaine in84 ,and General B en . Harrison in ’

88 . Have cast my vote ate very el ect i on , City , County , State and Nat ional , s ince

’

36 . I n’

60 I was holding a posi t ion i n the House of Representatives,

u nder Col . John W . Forney , then Clerk of the House .I belonged

to a company of Home Guards i n Wash ington,Col

.Forney being

the commanding officer o f the company . Being home on a vacat i on when Sumpter was fi red on by the rebels

, was tel egraphedb y Forney to report i n Washington , to shoulder my musket todefend the government . I immediate ly l eft Ohi o and rece ivedmy musket , and retained the same unt i l the c lose of the war , beingin the fi eld much of the time . I n ’

64 I was appointed paymasterin the Regu lar Army , by Pres ident L i ncoln , grade of Maj or ;rece ived my commiss ion ; was breveted Colonel ; res igned i n

’

66

on account of s ickness i n my fami ly , much against the wi l l ofS ecretary S tanton . Soon after I was appointed I nternal RevenueI nspector

,stat i oned at Cadiz ; hel d my posit i on unti l the office

was abol i shed by act of Congress . I was then appointed I nspectorof Customs at the Port of ' New York ; remained there two years ,res igned and ret ired to Ohio . I was then appointed and commi ss i oned Treasury Agent , l ocated at Chicago , sp ent somet ime at Topeka

,Kansas , on duty . I then returned to Chicago

and was transferred to the pos it ion of I nspector of Customs,

Port o f Ch icago,remaining

‘

in that pos it i on unti l after theelect ion of Grover C level and , who appointed Mr . S eebergerCo l l ector o f the Port o f Chicago . Soon after I was requested

7O M EM OR IAL BOOK O F ‘THE

by Mr . Seeberger to hand in my res ignat i on on account o fmy known Republ ican ism

,and the further fact that my place

was wanted for a Democrat . I promptly d id as requested andmade way for a hungry Democrat . I was too good a Republ i canto serve under a Democrat i c admin istrat i on , and here I am amember of the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chicago , cons ist ing offive hundred members , and being honored by the c lub as one ofits V i ce-pres idents .I herewith give you a fac-s imi l e of the badge I wore in ’

40. Ial so have a fine s i lk badge worn in ’

44 that takes me back to thedays when my interest and enthus iasm was younger, but notgreater than i n ’

88 .

P H IN EAS M . BLO DGETTWas born November 18th ,

1809 , at Groton , N . Y . H is father wasa so ld i er o f the Revolut i on , and was at one t ime a prisoner o f H .

R . M . George I I I ; confined i n the ol d sugar house i n New YorkC ity , but was smart enough to escape , and again j oined the patr i otarmy . Mr . P . M . B lodgett cast his fi rst vote i n 1832 for H enryClay ; i n 1836 for Wm . H . Harr i son and for every Whig andRepubl i can candidate s ince that -date

,i nc l ud ing h i s l atest vote for

General B . Harri son . I n 1840 he j o ined an enthus i ast i c party ofyoung voters who went from I thica to Syracuse , N . Y . ,

to attenda glorious mass meeting for Tippecanoe and Tyler

,too

,

” andforty-e ight years later , o lder , w i ser, more sedate , but not l essenthus iast ic , he j o ined the grey beards of 1888 , i n the i r cal l onGeneral B enj amin Harri son and the i r subsequent I‘CJ O IClng at hissuccess . Was commiss ioned Captain , Ind . Rifle Co. ,

i n 1840.

J AMES WO O DBU RY BO YDENWas born May 18 , 182 2 , at Beverly Farms , near the north Shoreof Massachusetts Bay— anhour ’ s ride from Boston .

His mother was an only daughter of James Woodbury , whosegrandfather Robert Woodbury was Beverly ’ s second town cl erk .

As early as 1630, John and Wil l i am Woodbury— from whom theWoodburys o f New England descended— emigrated from Somersetshire , England , and settl ed permanently i n Beverly , Mass .

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB, CH ICAGO . 7 1

James Woodbury di ed in hi s e ighty-n inth year 1842 ) and devisedone of the p icturesque and beauti fu l B everly farms to h is grandchi l dren— of whom James Woodbury Boyden

,of Chi cago

,and

A lbert Woodbury Boyden , of Sheffi eld , I l l i no is , survive .

Dr . Wyatt C lark Boyden , the ir father , was son of Dr . J osephBoyden , of Sturbri dge , Mass — who marri ed Mary Heywood

, of

Gardner, Mass , and pract iced medic ine i n Tamworth , New

Hampshire . Dr . Wyatt C . Boyden was a Dartmouth Col l egegraduate and c l assmate of bri l l i ant and genIal Rufu sChoate— the superior in tal ent and acqu irement over a l l h iscol lege mates . Not far from Mr . Choate ’ s native place ( Essex ) ,hi s c lassmate , Boyden , taught school at Beverly Farms . He

marri ed El izabeth Woodbury ,was a successfu l phys ic i an , and d iedi n h is e ighty—fifth year H e outl ived the wi fe O f his youth

,

and second wi fe— Lydi a Leavitt L i ncoln , of Boston , mot her ofMary Boyden— O f Martha , wi fe of Rev . S tephen W . \Vebb , and

Wil l iam Cowper Boyden , of Bever ly .

Mrs . James Woodbury was n i ece of Nathan Dane , of Bever ly ,

the eminent member of the Conti nental Congress from Massachusetts

, who drafted the O rdinance of 1787 for the government ofthe terri tory north west of the river Ohio . Rev . Manassah

Cutler,a l ead ing member of the New England Colony at Mari etta

,

Ohio,was one of Dane ’ s const ituents , and active i n securing for

th i s ord inance the unan imous approval of Congress . By i t thefundamental princ ip les of c ivi l and rel igious l iberty

,moral ity and

knowledge were forever establ i shed as the bas i s of al l l aws,con

stitutions and governments of the five states o f Ohio , I nd iana ,I l l i no is

,Michigan and Wiscons in . The S ixth A

'

rt ic l e Thatthere sha l l be ne i ther sl avery nor involuntary servitude i n thesaid territory” — was proposed by Nathan Dane , as an amendment

,on the second reading of the ordinance— and th i s amend

ment was unan imously adopted by Congress . Mr . Dane sub sequently publ i shed an Abridgment of American Law— donatedthe profits to Harvard Univers ity , as the foundati on of a LawProfessorship ,

and secured the services of Mr . Justi ce Story of theU

. S .Supreme Court

,as Dane Professor o f Law from 18 29 t i l l

184 5 .When Mr . Dane d ied , his last words were to hi s executor,


Henry Larcom— “ I wish you to See my last l etter to Judge S toryexecuted ”— and so the Copyright of Dane ’ s Abridgment wasdonated to Harvard Univers i ty .

James Woodbury Boyden , and the other ch i l dren of Dr. W . C .

Boyden,were fai thfu l ly educated by the i r father at home —and

at school s . James began to attend school , when four years o ld ;rec ited Latin to his fath er at e ight ; and at fi fteen l e ft B everlyAcademy to ass i st h i s uncl e , J oseph Boyden , princ ipal of Charl estown -A cademy , near Harper

’ s Ferry,i n J efferson county , Vir

gin i a . He was empl oyed as private tutor i n Smithfie ld ,i n the

same county , by Dr . Samuel Scol l ay,a Harvard graduate

who del ighted to rec ite th i s l ast verse o f a H arvard commencement val ed i ctory :

“Va lete , Senes— coelum visuri !Valete , J uveneS— virib us ornati !Va l ete , V irgines— l uce b land iores !Valete atque Pl ebs .”

I n May , 1838 , he V i s i ted the c ity of Washington . YoungBoyden walked to Harper ’ s Ferry and took passage on a canalboat o f the Chesapeake and Ohi o canal to Georgetown . Hegladly improved hi s opportuni ty to see and hear H enry C lay

,

Daniel Webster,J ohn Qu incy Adams , J ohn C . Calhoun , S i l as

Wright,and other eminent statesmen , i n Congress assembl ed .

Boyden i n A ugust , 1838 entered Harvard Col l ege . He wasawarded A iken ’ s B ri t i sh Poets , under H opk ins

’ l egacy “

pro in

szgni in stud iis d il igentia.

” The second year, he was an act ivemember of “The I nst i tute of 1770

”—one of the l i terary and

debat ing c lubs— and prepared a h i story of the I nst itute .

During the Tippecanoe pres i denti al campaign of 1840, heass i sted fri ends of the successfu l cand i date— General Wi l l i amHenry Harri son . He add ressed pol it i cal meetings , marched inprocess i ons , wrote art i c l e s fo r the Sal em Register and d id al lthat he coul d l awful ly i n behal f of the hero of Tippecanoe .

I n December, 1840, he went to Acc omac county , Virgin iathen represented i n Congress by Hon . Henry A . Wise— and wasPri nc ipal of the Academy near Bel l e H aven , unti l his return north


to comp lete col l ege stud ies . He j o ined the j un ior c lass , at Dartmouth

,during the winte r o f 184 1-2 .

Love for fai r Harvard brought h im again to A lma Mater i nthe spring of 1842 . She i nsp i red h im to make the best use o fj un ior and sen ior c lass privi l eges. He was graduated i n August ,1843, with the honor o f d ist inct ion in Pol it i cal Economy — thedepartment of Professor J ared Sparks . The theme of h i s Commencement Disqu i s it i on was “The Attract i on of L i terary Eccentric i ty . He was awarded one of the Boylston pri zes for a Lat indec larat ion . I n add it ion to the usual d ip l oma , he had d ip l omasfor spec ial courses in Latin and Greek , for those who intended toteach . The o ldest Harvard alumni , i n point o f c lass graduation ,now l iving i n Chicago — are J ames Woodbury Boyden of the c l assof 1843 and Samue l Sewal l Gree l ey of the c lass of 1844 .

Mr. Boyden next res ided with h i s father at home , teac h ingschool about seventeen months . Duri ng thi s t ime he read Blackstone ’ s Commentari es , under the d irect ion of Hon . Robert Rantoul , J r .I n February

,184 5 , he returned to Cambridge , and attended

Just i ce Story ’ s and Prof . Greenleaf’

s l ectures at the Law Schoo leighteen months . Among h is fe l l ow students were Thomas B .

Bryan, Lewis H . Boutel l e , J ohn Borden , Cyrus Bent ley , Sanford

B . Perry and I ra Scott , we l l known members of the Chicago bar:also

,R . B . Hayes , ex-pres ident o f the United S tates ; Wil l iam

A .Richardson , Chief J ust i c e of the U . S . Court o f Cl aims ; Walter

S . Cox , the Washington Judge who tri ed and sentenced Gu iteaufor murder of Garfie ld ; J ohn Lowel l , U .

'

S . Judge i n Boston— and

the e loquent Anson Burl i ngame , Representative in Congress andU . S . Min ister to China and Russ ia . A fter Judge S tory ’ s death

( September the Law students chose a committee ( of whichBoyden was a member ) to sel ect an art i st to paint the portrai t ofthe honored Just i ce , Prgfessor and Author, which was p laced inthe l ecture room , near that of Nathan Dane , i n perpetuam mem

oriam.

I n July,1846 , on app l i cat ion to Professor Greenleaf by Hon .

Edward Dick inson of Amherst , Mass , for a law student andfuture partner , Mr. Boyden was recommended . After s ix months ’


study in Mr . Dicki nson’

s ofl‘ice , he was admitted to the bar . l -IC

pract i ced law in Hampshire and Frankl i n counties— (Westcrn

Massachusetts ) — thirteen years ; and was e lected to many o fficesof trust and responsib i l i ty . I n this fert i l e and fru i tfu l val ley

,

watered by Connect i cut river , he ass i sted i n organ iz ing and making a success of Hampshire Agricul tural S oc iety

,and was i ts scc

retary and treasurer ten years . He was five years treasurer andcl erk of the town of Amherst , and was one of the schoo l committee . At the organ izat i on of an art i l l ery company

,he was first

sergeant and subsequently th ird,second and first-l i eutenant .

He was promoted maj or and colonel , and res igned command o fthe regiment ( 3rd Mass . arti l lery ) , when reorgan ized as i n fantry .

He was one of the secretari es of the state convent ion of J une 4th ,

18 56 , at Worcester , which nominated del egates to the fi rst National Convent ion of the Republ i cans i n Phi lade lphia . I n November , 18 5 7 , he was e lected to the l egi s lature by the people o fHampshire and Frank l i n Senatorial D istrict . He served on thej o int committees on Probate , Chancery and Mi l i tary A ffairs .The Hampshire and Frank l i n Express (NOV . 4 , refer

ing to Mr . Boyden ’ s removal to Chicago , said : “The we l l knownsecretary of the Hampshire Agricu ltural Soc iety has l e ft th istown to locate i n Chic ago . To hi s exert ions i s the AgriculturalSoc iety indebted for its flouri sh ing conditi on . He representedthi s county at the S enate Board with great cred it . He has al sobeen honored by the peopl e with many other tokens o f thei r apprec i at ion , and l eaves beh ind h im many warm fri ends , who regrethis removal

,but wish hi s cont inued success i n h is new fie ld .

Col . Boyden came to Chicago in November, 18 59 . For twoyears ( 1862 he was United States Agent for paying armyand navy pens ions to Northern I l l i no is p ens ioners . S everal yearsafter the war

,he was emp loyed to obtain pensions for inval ids and

for widows and chi ldren of men who d ied i n defense of the Union .

I n domest i c relat i ons,he has been highly favored . He was fi rst

marri ed May 18 , 1847 ( 2 5 th birth day ) , to M iss E l iza O ti s TaylorDick inson

,youngest daughter of Hon . John Dick inson— Probate

Judge ( 1820 to 1837 ) forWashington County , Maine . Mrs . El izaO . T . Boyden died March 2 4 , 18 5 7 , the mother o f Mary

— now


widow of Rev. Edgar Foster of Calai s , Maine z— of L i l l i e , wife o fGeorge H . Eaton , of Calais z— and of J ohnDick inson Boyden , whorepresented Tamworth , i n the New H ampsh ire Legi s lature of1887

— 1888 .

He was marri ed June 19 , 186 1 to M iss Frances S . K i ngsbury ,daughter of Maj or Lawson K i ngsbury , O f Fram ingham , Mass — an

officer in the war of 18 12 . Mrs . Frances S . Boyden , after the Ch icago fire of 187 1 ,was i n charge of a department of the Chicago Rel i e f and A id Soc i ety , and has been prominent in church and charitabl e work . The ir ch i ldren were Charl es K i ngsbury , who d iedyoung ; —Ann i e K i ngsbury Boyd enm and Frederi ck K i ngsburyBoyden

,paying-tel l er o f Reid , -Murdoch Co.

— who d ied Apri l2 , 1889 ,

from the e ffects of a bycic le col l i s i on on A shl and Ave

nue,corner o f J ackson street .

Five years ( 1878 Col . Boyden pract i ced l aw in theState of Nevada . He was emp loyed by Chicago parti es , i nterested i n the construct i on of the Nevada Central Rai lway— Whi chconnects the Central Pac ific , at B attl e Mountain , with Aust i n andthe Reese River M in ing D istrict . A fter a p l easant res i dence Westof the Rocky Mountain s , he returned to Chicago in May , 1883,for the improvement of Mrs . Boyden ’ s health and the ir chi ldren ’ seducation i n Chicago school s .He has s ince been identified with real estate , and was four years

( 1883 with S . H . Kerfoot Co.

— the o ldest and one of themost prom inent offices ' in the real estate bus iness .Mr . Boyden has been a member of the Chi cago H istorical So

ciety ,of the I ndepe ndent O rder o f Odd Fel l ows

,Kn ights of

Pythias,Good Templars and the Chicago Young Men ’ s Chri st ian

Assoc iation .

J O SE P H W . BRACK ETTWas born January 19th , 18 1 5 , at Cherry Val l ey , O tsego county,New York , and was appointed midshipman in U . S . Navy In 1831 ,s erving three years on the U . S . Sloop of War

,Falmouth .

” Hestud i ed for and was admitted to the bar in New York C ity

,andwas subsequently a partner of Hon . T . C . Chettenden. I n ’

48 he


rounded Cape Horn , enroute to Cal i forn ia, where he aided i n theorgan iz at i on of the free State of Cal i forn ia . S ince 18 50 he hasresided at Rock I s land , I l l i no is . I n pol it i cs he has ever been aWhig and Repuplican, voting for Gen . Wm . H . Harr i son i nCherry Val l ey , New York , i n 1836 ; again at same place i n 1840 ;

for L i n col n i n 1860, and for Harrison in 1888 . He served throughthe war o f the Rebel l ion , and i s now a Past Post Commander o fBedford Post , 2 43, G . A . R . Mr . Brackett was secretary of theCherry Val l ey Tippecanoe Club i n 1840, and has i n h is possess i onthe records thereof. We are indebted to Mr . Brackett for thecopy of congratu latory address s ent to Gen . Wm . H . Harrisonby the Cherry Val l ey Club , November 12 th , 1840,

which appearse l sewhere .

W I LL IAM H EN RY BRAD LEY .

Wi l l i am Henry Bradley was born in Ridgefie ld , Fairfie ld

county , Connecti cut , November 29 ,18 16 . His grandfather , Phi l ip

Burr Bradl ey , was also a nat ive of Ridgefield ,a lawy er by pro

fession, and a graduat e of Yal e . Dur ing the war of the Revoluti on he was a colonel i n active service , and his commiss ion i s st i l lpreserved . He was a warm and trusted fri end of Wash ington

,

and was appointed by him ,when pres i dent , Marsha l for the

Distri ct of Connect i cut , an appo intment renewed in Washing ~

ton ’ s second term , and also under Pres ident Adams . H is son ,

and the father o f the subj ect of th is Sketch , J esse Smith Bradley ,

was al so a graduate of Yale,and high ly esteemed as a cl ass ica l

scholar . He was e lected by the l egis lature one of the Judges ofFairfiel d county , an office which he retained unti l h i s death , i nMay

, 1833. H is wi fe , El izabeth Baker , was a l so a nat ive of

Ridgefiel d ,the daughter of a phys ic i an of note— Dr . Amos

Baker . The fi fth son of these parents , Wil l iam Henry Brad ley ,

pursued h is stud i es at home in Ridgefield Academy , and at thetime of h is father ’ s death was prepared to enter Yal e Col l ege .

Soon after that event he went to New Haven , and was empl oyedas tel l er i n the C ity Bank . At the end of four years , i n the fal lof 1837 , he removed , at the suggesti on of an elder brother, to

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Galena,I l l . , then the most cons iderabl e town of the northwest .

There he was o ffered the pos it i on of C l erk of the County Court .He accepted the appointment , and thus dec ided h i s future— fors ince that t ime he has been almost constantly connected withcourts i n a Cl erical capac ity . I n 1840, whi l e d ischarging the d ut i es of h is pos it i on , and studying law in the offi ce of Hon .

Thomas Drummond,then a prominent l awyer i n Gal ena , he was

appointed C lerk of the C ircu it Court of J o Daviess county . Onthe adoption of the new const itut i on of I l l i no is , i n 1848 , he wase l ected to the same o ffi ce

,and again re-e lected i n 18 5 2 . The

large maj orit i es by which he was success ive ly el e’

cted , notwithstand ing the intens ity of part i san feel ing occas i oned by a pres ident ial campaign

,and the nearly equal pol i t ical d ivi s ion o f the

county between the two part i es,and his act ive identificat ion with

one of them,suffic i ent ly attest the publ i c apprec iat i on o f h im as

a man and a faithful and efl icient officer .I n pol i t ics Mr . Bradl ey was early i dentified with the Whig

party . He entered active ly in the pres idential campaign of 1840,

preparing occas ional papers which were read before the JoDaviess County Tippecanoe C lub

,some of which were printed

in the Gal ena Gazette of that year. On the formation of the Re

publ i can party i n 1860 he hearti ly endorsed i ts princ ip l es , andwas at the Decatur conventi on of that year, which witnessed theexc it ing triangular contest for the gubernatorial nomination b etween the fri ends of Messrs . Swett , Judd and Yates , fina l lyresu lt i ng in the nominati on of Richard Yates . Mr . L i n coln wasfirst prominently named for the pres idency with great enthus iasmin that conventi on .

Mr . Bradl ey has been a cons istent , uni form and earnest supporter of the Whig and Republ ican part i es , and O f thei r cand idates from 1838 to , and inc lud ing the recent tri umphant pres ident ial canvass of 1888 . When congress created a SecondJud ic i al D istric t i n I l l i no is

,the Hon . Thomas Drummond , then

Judge of the Un ited S tates D istrict Court for I l l i no is,having

been ass igned to the Northern Distri ct , with the concurrence ofJust ic e McLean, cal l ed Mr. Bradl ey to be cl erk of the new! courts . He accepted , and res ign ing hi s c l erkship at Gal ena, t e

W ILL IAM HENRY BRADLEY.


moved to Chicago,and entered upon h is dutie s March 2 2 , 18 5 5 .

He was,upon the usual examination , admitted to the bar, but

has never been active ly engaged i n the pract i ce of hi s profess i on .

For about th irty-four years he has performed the dut i es of h ispos i t ion as c lerk with qu i et and unfai l ing i ndustry and exemplary fidel ity

,winn ing i n thi s , as i n other previ ous connecti ons

with the courts , a rare and honorabl e measure o f respect andtrust for read iness and accuracy , as wel l as effic iency and sk i l l i nd ischarging the large and i ncreas ing bus iness that has employedhi s energi es and occup ied h i s t ime . Sti l l he has never been ihdi fferent to other publ i c i nterests , having taken an act ive part i nthe Young Men ’ s Assoc iat ion of Chicago , and being el ected itspres ident i n 1860. O f the West S i de Rai lway Company he wasa d irector for twenty-five years ; was vi ce-pres ident several years ,and pres i dent for s ix years , which last pos it i on he res igned in187 5 , owing to the l aborious and exact ing duti es i nc ident to thepos i ti on .

I n June , A . D. , 187 1 , he was appointed , under the wi l l o f thelate Walter L . Newberry ( deceased ) , one of the trustees of sai destate

,to fi l l the vacancy occas ioned by the res ignat ion o f the

Hon . Mark Sk inner , and with h i s assoc iate , E .W Blatchford,Esq . ,

cont inues to d ischarge the dut ies o f that trust .

W I LL IAM BRACE.

This gentl eman i s . a l iving exponent O f the princ ip les involved i n the ol d-t ime axiom “ a rol l ing stone gathers no moss

.

”

He was born January 17th , 18 14 , i n the town of Victor, Ontari ocounty , New York State . He res ided there

,pursu ing the even

tenor of his way for n igh on to s ixty years ,” when Chicago b e

came his home . He voted for the Harrison ’ s in 1836

JO NATHAN W . BRO O KS , M . D

Was born of parents of Wald ense Welch and Hugenot descentin that part of Norwich , New London county , Connect icut , now


U . S . Marshal i n Western M ichigan ; was commiss i oned by Gov .

B lair,February

, 1862 ,as Fi rst-L i eutenant and Regimental Quar

termaster of the Twel fth M ichigan I nfantry ; part i c ipated i n thebattl e of Pittsburg Landi ng on the 6th and 7th of Apri l , 1862 ,

l ost my heal th and was obl iged to return home the last of J une ,and then served as Marshal unt i l the c l ose of the war ; has res ided i n Chicago the l ast seventeen years .

PH I LL I P BURRO UGH S

Was born i n the town of Warrick , O range county , N . Y . , 24th ofJanuary

,18 1 1 . Mr . Burroughs and h is father were both born in

the same house , which was bu i l t by the grandfather prior to theRevolut i onary War , when his parents l ocated in O range county ,

and the nearest store was twenty-five mil es d i stant,nor was

there “ highway ,” “ by

-way or “ turnp ike ,” other than a brid l e

path .

Washington ’s headquarters were located but twenty-two mi l esd istant . The father of Mr . Burroughs frequently saw GeneralWash ington pass to and fro . Mr . Burroughs voted for GeneralWil l i am Henry Harri son i n 1836 i n New York C ity

,but l ost h is

vote in 1840, which year he came west , l ocat ing in Chi cago , wherehe has ever s ince res i ded , cast ing h i s vote , with the rest O f theTippecanoe Club , for Gen . Benj . Harrison , and from that t ime upto the present work ing hard and earnestly for the best i nterestsof our c lub .

THO MA S B. CA RTER

Was born in Norri stown , Norri s county , N . J . , March 26th , 18 19 .

H is first recol l ect ion of a pol it ical campaign or e lect i on was connected with John Quincy Adams ’ unsuccessfu l canvass i n 1828 ,when hi s father cast hi s fii st vote for that cand idate . Mr . Cartercommenced his bus iness career i n a general store i n Morri stown

,

N . J . , i n the fal l of 1832 , from whence he came to Chi cago in 1838with a stock of dry goods and groceri es , reaching here the fifteenth of September, the j ourney requ iri ng twelve days . Before

PH IL I P BURROUGHS .


l eaving El izabethtown , N . J . , the fi rm of F . B . Carter CO . , was

organ ized,and cont inued i n b us ines on the i r arrival unti l 186 1 .

I n the fal l o f 186 1 he was e l ected C lerk of the Superior Court o fChicago

,which office he hel d for s ix years , afterwards serving as

one of the general agents o f the Equ itabl e L i fe I nsurance Association. I n 1840 he cast h i s first vote for Gen . Wil l iam HenryHarrison

,tak ing an act ive part i n the campaign and attend ing

the b ig Whig convention at Springfiel d , on behal f of the el ect ion ,fu lfi l l i ng h i s duty i n every respect except the “ drink ing o f hardc ider.” Mr. Carter Cl oses hi s sketch by saying : I shal l probablynever cast another vote , but shoul d my l i fe be spared anotherfour years

,I shal l vote for the cand idate of the honest ol d Repub

l i can party .

CO L . EDWA RD H . CA STLE.

I,Edward H . Castl e , was born i n Amenia , Dutchess county ,

N . Y . ,August sth , 18 1 1 . My grandfather, Gideon Cast l e , served

under General Washington in the Revolut i onary War ; my father,Wm. Castl e , was a Dutchess county farmer . I n the winter o f1838 I purchased a stock of merchand ise in Ph i l ade lphia, transport ing i t over the A l l egheny mountains with the ol d styl e six

and e ight horse teams . Reaching Pittsburg , on the Ohi o River ,I chartered a smal l steamer, and complet ing my stock with the

great stap l e produce of that then thriving town— nai l s and hardware— proceeded down the Ohio River to i ts mouth

,over

mi l es , thence up the M iss i ss ipp i to the I l l ino i s River, and up theI l l inoi s to Peru , I l l ino i s . Stopp ing at St . Lou i s

,Mo . ,

I againmade addit i ons to my stock . A fter open ing my store at Peru

,I

went to Jol iet , I l l . , where I establ i shed another store i n what wasthen the O l d S tone Store ,” belonging to D ick Wilson , ed itor ofthe Chicago Yonmal . I also engaged with Gov . Matteson andH iram B lanchard i n the construct i on of the I l l i noi s and M ichigan canal . A fter remain ing i n bus i ne ss a year , I sold my interesti n the Peru and Jo l i et stores , and left for Chicago , arriving thereon the first day of May, 1839 , where I immediately opened astock of general merchandi se , and al so engaged in commerc ial


p urchas ing , sh ipp ing by boat and canal to New York The O ldS ettl ers ’ H istory ” gives me the cred i t o f shipp ing the first onehundred thousand bushel s of wheat from Chicago to New York ) ,at the same t ime buying and se l l ing real estate for s ix or eight

y ears . I n 1840 or’

4 1 , I entered s ix thousand acres of swampland , i n the I l l i no i s val l ey , at ten c ents per acre , a port i on ofwhich I sol d for fi fty dol l ars p er acre . Entering a sect i on at thetown of Wheel ing, Cook county, I engaged i n farm ing, ande stab l i shed a fine dairy of fifty cows , find ing a ready sal e for al lthe milk at thehote ls and private res i dences of Chi cago . Duringthi s t ime , st i l l deal ing i n real estate up to ’

47 , I ass i sted in theconstruct i on

(of the first rai l roads to the c ity . I voted for Wi ll i am Henry Harrison for pres ident i n 1840, as in 1888 I voted forBenj amin Harri on for that h igh offi ce .

Start ing for the Cal i forn i a gold fiel ds i n November,

“

1849 ,I

t ook passage on the canal packet , Capt . Connett , by I l l i no i scanal to Peru ; steamer Atl ant ic ,

by I l l ino i s river,to St . Lou is ;

s teamer James Hewitt , by M iss i ss ipp i river, to New O rl eans ;there tak ing the mate ’ s pos it i on on the bark Flori da to Chagres ;then cross ing the I sthmus by walk ing over the mountain

,after

b e ing transported up the Chagres r iver forty m i les i n a pearug,

pol ed by the natives , c l othed in the garb that nature gave them ,

the c l imate requ iri ng no more expens ive apparel . A pearug i s amahogany tree dug-out , about four feet w i de and twelve feetl ong

,and wi l l carry twelve persons and baggage . After l eavi ng

the river, we reached Panama in two days , with bl i stered feetand tired out . Here I was offered one of the A sp inwal l steamersto take to SanFranci sco . Taking command of the ship Unicorn

,

a four—decker, three hundred feet l ong , drawing twenty-e ightfeet of water

,we sai l ed for Toboga i s land . After Cl eaning , paint

ing,watering and coa l i ng

,we returned to Panama , and , provis i on

ingher for the voyage to SanFranc i sco , took on board sevenh undred passengers and the ir baggage , which , with the crew andothers

,made nearly one thousand persons on board . Going

ashore formy passport , I met Commodore Porter, who had justarrived

,being in command of the Pac ific Department , and in

v ited him to make the trip with us and rel i eve me of a part of


the respons ib i l i ty,which he consented to do . Sai l ing on the 2 8th

day of November, on a voyage of over m i l es , we stoppedat the fine harbor of Acapul co , one of the state cap i tal s , on thewest coast of Mexico , where we took a ship load of coal and twohundred head of fat catt l e , for the purpose o f supplying freshmeat

,and

,purchas ing al l the vegetabl es we cou l d obtain i n that

market,and a fresh supp ly of provi s i ons and water, again put to

sea— nothing occurring to d isturb the usual monotony of a sea

voyage . The weather be ing fine and the evenings warmand

pl easant , they were passed i n dancing and other soc i al amusements , and we arrived at the mud and cloth town of San Franc i sco on the sth day of January , 18 50.

The Unicorn be ing lai d up and used as a store ship , I tookcommand of the new steamer, Eldorado , which had been broughtin sect i ons as fre ight from Phi ladelphi a , and des igned for theriver trade between SanFranc i sco and Sacramento , mak ing thre etrip s weekly between these two po ints ( i t be i ng about th e samedi stance as from N ew York to A lbany

,and the scen ery very fine

and qu ite as interesti ng ) . By purchasing'

good s at auct ion at

SanFranc i sco and transporti ng them to Sacramento,where they

were d i sposed of at auct i on , I was enab led to add cons iderableto my store o f wea lth . After be ing several weeks thus engagedI l eft the water and rented a hote l at C lark ’ s Point

, San Franc i sco , christen ing i t the I l l i no i s H ouse . Help being scarce andhigh , I purchased a hal f dozen girl s , that were sol d for the i rpassage on a Brit i sh sh ip from S idney ; as d in ing-room waiters .I n those days there was no scarc ity of patronage . J ohn H . Coll i ns

,having j ust comp leted the bui l d ing of the fi rst and only

warehouse in that port , furn ished a spac ious apartment with e l egance

,comfort and attract iveness , as a rendezvous or headquar

ters for the l arge numberof officers always found at thi s port ,engaged me to take Charge of the same . By keep ing a manstat i oned on Tel egraph H i l l , with a good glass , to not i fy me ofany sh ip in s ight , and furn ish ing me a man and boat , I was emabled to be the fi rst man aboard , and never fai l ed to purchase orget cons ignment o f the cargo , tak ing the passengers to the I l l ino i s H ouse , of course . During the year ’ s engagement I boarded

EDWARD H . CASTL E .


over four hundred vessel s , and had the reputat i on of be i ng themost successfu l manager of both hote l and warehouse to befound .

On account of fai l ing heal th , I c losed up my bus iness , and i nthe fal l o f 18 5 1 l e ft on the steamer Columbus for Panama. Myhealth havi ng somewhat improved , I cont inued my j ourney ,cross ing the mountain s from the latter p l ace on that ever fai thfu lanimal

,the mule . Shipped on the steamer Falcon to the mouth

of the Chagres R i ver,for Cuba , there be ing transferred to the

steamer Ohi o , for New York ; we lost th i rty-seven passengers onthe voyage from chol era .

A rriving at New York , I met my wife and l i tt l e daughter, al lrej o i c ing that the home Ci rc l e was comp lete . Whil e here I rece ived the appointment , from Chas . Minot , Superintendent o fthe Eri e Rai l road , as General Fre ight and Passenger Agent ofthat road for the enti re northwest , with headquarters at Ch icago .

Emigrati on pouring into the new country very fast,I establ i shed

a l in e of steamers between Chicago and Dunk irk , s ecuring al arge amount o f new traffi c for the road , and soon rece ived theappointment as General Agent for the entire M iss i ss ipp i val l ey ,with a salary accordi ngly .

I n the fal l o f 18 5 8—9 I secured the passage of a charter

through the M issouri l egi sl ature for a l in e of rai l road throughthe northern t i er of counti es of that state— from Canton to themouth of the Platte , on the M issouri river, two hundred mi l es .The charter provided for a stock subscript ion by these count i es

,

i n a corporat ive capac i ty , to the amount of Tak ingthe contract to bu i l d and equip sai d road for and re

ceiving the stock i n part payment, I was to contro l the fi rstmortgage bonds , and retain possess i on of the road unt i l the balance was paid . Lecturing through these counti es , I very soonsucceeded in s ecuring a s ubscript i on of doubl e the amount o fstock requ ired , from count ies and ind ividual subscript i ons o ffarmers .When the Rebel l i on broke out , i n 186 1 , having the road

about half bu i l t , my Operati ons were very speed i ly interferedwith , the rebel Gen . Green tak ing possess i on of my stores

,stock

,


had l e ft in a so ld ier ’ s grave , much better than mysel f. Arrivingat New York , I stopped at the Astor House , and on Sundaywent to hear H enry Ward Beecher preach . Be ing convinced o fmy s ins , and fee l i ng the need of a Savi our, I commenced to askthe Lord J esus to forgive my s ins and grant me H is pardo n i ng‘l ove in my heart . I l eft immed iately for home , praying everybreath for peace to my sou l . A fter arriving at home , and praying many days , and , with my good wi fe , read ing God

’ s prom isesto poor s inners , the Lord was p leased to show me a bright l ight ,and great peace came to my soul , and j oy came to my heart .Prai se God ! I went from house to house for thre e years

,t e l l i ng

my ne ighbors o f Chri st ’ s prec i ous l ove to my heart , and I fee lChrist prec i ous , and hi s great l ove has attended me . Praise theLOrd ! the fear of death has been taken away , and he i s st i l l wi l li ng to hear my poor prayers . Oh ! that I could tel l al l myacquaintances what great th ings the Lord has done for me

,and

i s wi l l ing to do for al l those that ask , bel i eving on H imWhen General Grant captured Vicksburg

,he tel egraphed

Captain David White ,’

0f Cinc i nnati , and Col onel E . H . Castl e , ofChi cago

,to report forthwith to him at Vicksburg

,and we hap

pened to meet on the same train before arriving at Vicksburg,

where we reported with in forty-eight hours . Upon meet ing Gen .

Grant he informed us that the wounded and s i ck were su fferingand dying

,and commiss ioned us and ordered us to p roceed

forthwith to furn ish the army with i c e for the use of the hosp ital s ; and with in

’

six hours we had Chartered four steamboats andtwenty-n ine barges and shipped one hundred men , and commenced rece iving fue l and stores for a trip o f fi fteen hundredmi l es to Lake Pep in , and by sun—up the next morning we had thebarges sh ipped to the steamers and bi d General Grant good-bye ;Colonel Castl e tak ing charge of the l ead ing steamer —CaptainWhite fol l owing— stoppfng only on account of darkness and toobtain p i lots

,arriving at Lake Pep in i n seven days

,and with in

four hours purchased twenty -e ight thousand tons of i c e— starting immediately thirty or forty wagons i nto the adj acent countryfor straw to pack the ic e . Withi n three days we had seven bar

ges and one steamer l oaded , and C01. Castl e l eft for Vicksburg,


tel egraphing General Grant he was “ Making Vicksburg as fastas the weather and Ci rcumstances would admit

,arriving i n

Vicksburg i ns i de o f ten days— General Grant meet ing h im intears

,and the boys i n bl ue i l l um inat ing the town

,and there was

a general rej o i c i ng . General Grant and Captai n Davi d Whitesoon after fol l owed our fathers and hosts of so ld iers and Offi cersi n the sl eep that has no end , where the battl es are over and peacere igns triumphant . I am left beh ind ; n in ety-n ine per cent of mycomrades are at rest .And now,

after reach ing nearly four score years , enj oying thebl ess i ng of a comfortabl e and p leasant home , as my l ife

’ s j ourneynears the end

,and memory turns back the l eaves i n the book of

t ime , i t s eems l ike a dream or panorama , and after wondering , Ican only give prais e to that Supreme Ruler who watches andgu ides our

'

every footstep . Thankfu l from my inmost sou l forH is many merc i es vouchsafed to me

'

,and the l oving care of our

bel oved Saviour,I pray dai ly that I may be abl e i n some manner

to become worthy of that l ove , and in my humbl e way ai d othersto know that l ove and enj oy its bl ess ing . Having , been a member of Park Avenue M . E . church for many years , I on ly wishthat I cou ld te l l to one and al l o f my youthful assoc i ates thec omfort and enj oyment i t has been to me— the peace and qu ietafter the turbu l ent and exc it ing l ife o f my younger days , tak ingthe fear of death from me .

STEP HEN HEN RY CLEMENT

Was born at Newburyport,Mass , September 1 5 , 182 3, the seventh

chi ld of Joseph Warren Clement and Mary Fitz C l ement . Hisancestors came early from England . Moses Cl ement l anded atPlymouth Rock

,Mass ,

i n 162 8 , and sett l ed i n Boston , Massachusetts , then a col ony of Great Bri tain , and in 165 2 he wasappointed Privy Counce l lor to Governor Winthrop . A fewyears l ater

,other members of h is fami ly came ( also ) to America .

Among these were Robert Fawne Clement (who arrived inand Job Clement (who came in the l atter of whom becamea res ident of H averh i l l

,Mass . I t was here that Job rece ived


from the provinc ial government , a grant of land as a prem iumfor bu i l d ing and operating the first tannery in the province ofMassachusetts .At that early peri od the ancestors of Stephen H . appear tohave been prominent in the h istory of the commonwealth . Several of them hel d important pos i t ions , both i n the col on ies andafter they had bec ome independent States . J oseph Warren C lement ( father of the subj ect o f th i s sketch ) was , by profess i on , anarch itect and bu i l der, and carri ed on h i s bus in ess at N ewbury

port , Mass . On the 8 th of November, 1807 , he was married toM iss Mary Fitz

,to them were born s ix boys and five girl s . Mary

Fitz C lement was a l ineal descendant o f Robert Fitz , Esq . , who

immigrated from Fitzford ,

” England , to Vi rgin i a in 1614 , wherehe owned and cul t ivated a tobacco p lantat i on . I n trac i ng the

geneal ogy of the Fitz fami ly , i t i s not i ceabl e that Dan i e l Webster

,of New Hampsh ire , the cel ebrated orator and statesman ,

and Stephen H . Clement , were cous ins .About the year 1835 , J oseph Warren Clement , accompan ied

by hi s son Charl es,came to A l ton , I l l . , and engaged as contrac

tor ih the construct i on of many houses and stores , and wh i l ethere became an unwi l l i ng witness to the murder of E l ij ah Love

j oy ,i n 1837 , and the destruct i on of h i s p ri nt i ng offi ce by riotous

s lave-holders and border ruffians from M issouri . These inc i dents ,so disgracefu l and barbarous , soon caused the sen ior C l ement toreturn to his home in Massachusetts , where he often rel ated thestory of the A l ton outrages to h i s eagerly l i sten ing boys . Henceforth he became imbued with the sp i ri t Of Abol i t i on ; and theperusal of the BostonEmancipator, and other k indred j ournal s , d idmuch to insp ire h i s Chi l dren with an intense ardor for politicall iberty and the personal freedom of the slave .

I n 1838 Stephen H . entered upon his apprenti cesh ip in thewatch-mak ing and repai ri ng bus iness at 82 Washington street

,

Boston ; and in 1842 he began h is j ourney to the West , to“ grow

up with the country .

” By stage , rai lway , canal and steamboathe reached Bu ffalo , N. Y . There he secured a passage up thegreat lakes on the steamer Great Western

,commanded by

Captain Walker— both the boat and her commander be ing then

STEPHEN HENRY CLEMENT.


the best and most popu lar afloat— and after a few day s he l andedat the vi l l age of Southport ( now the Ci ty of Kenosha ) , i n theTerri tory of Wiscons in . Here he Opened a watch and j ewelrystore

,and prospered in h i s bus iness .

I t was whi l e thus engaged , owing to the aggress i ons of theSouthern s lave—holders and the sup ineness o f the Northerndough-faces ,

” that he was l ed to man i fest much interest inAbo l i t i on and Free So i l d iscuss i ons , and when the Republ i canparty was formed he became a stalwart among them

,and was

ever afterwards with in the p i cket-l in es of that pol it i cal organizat i on

,to which , i n the meant ime , al l h i s re lat ives by blood and

marriage,i nc l ud ing h i s five sons , have bel onged .

Whil e he l ived at Southport i t i s worthy of note that Mr .Clement erected the first publ i c hal l i n that p l ace ; and at theded i cat i on of i t to l iberty and equal i ty under the l aw

,the event

was made memorabl e by the l iberty-lovmg c i t i zens i n a glori ouscel ebrat i on . Among the speakers on that occas i on was ColonelCharl es C l ement , who soon rose to d ist inct i on . He was sooncal l ed to pos i t i ons of respons ib i l i ty and honor . I n 1848 he wasa member of the first State Const i tut i onal Convent ion of Wiscons in,and afterwards a State S enator from Rac ine county

,besi des

hol ding other important offi ces i n the gi ft of the peop l e and thegovernment . Under such grati fying ausp i ces C lement ’ s Hal lbecame the ral ly ing W igwam of the l iberty-l oving advocates o four Republ i can inst i tuti ons .

A fter s everal years Stephen H . found that h is Cl ose attenti onto busi ness was inj uri ng h i s heal th , and an opportun i ty soon occurring

,he sOld h i s establ i shment , and for a season ret ired from

act ive pursu its . Restand recreat i on having eventual ly restoredh is phys ical energi es , he removed to Bel o it , Rock county , Wis . ,and there again engaged i n the j ewelry bus iness .An i nterest ing i nc ident added its zest to h is qui et l i fe i n 18 5 5 ,

when he was happ i ly marri ed to M iss Rachel Ful lager,of Cats

k i l l,N . Y . A few months after thi s event , h is brother George ,

then l iving in Texas , made him a vis i t , and so highly recommended the c l imate of that State that S tephen H . was induced tod ispose of h i s bus iness and emigrate to that southern paradise .


There he invested h i s means in l ive-stock,and at once engaged

in the business with such energy and prudence that h i s l aborswere soon crowned with compl ete success

,as h i s l arge droves o f

horses and cattl e , and flocks of sheep on the h i l l s and i n the vall eys of the Lone Star State suffi ci ently attested .

Every p icture has its l ights and shades,and every l i fe i ts vi

cissitud es . The t i de o f prosperity which had hitherto borne h imupon its top wave , soon began to turn and recede . And th i s waswhen the fi rst d i stant mutterings of th e Southern Rebel l i on andthe threatened intest inal d isrupt ion of the American Union fel lupon h i s ear . The weak admin istrat ions of Pi erce and Buchananhad paved the way for southern inso l ence to dec l are i tsel f i nfavor of secess i on . Buchanan ’ s easy good nature had furn i shedthe opportun i ty for Floyd , the S ecretary o f the Navy ,

and J effersonDavis , the whi l om Secretary of War , to attempt the d isrupti on of the country by bringing the consp iracy of t he slaveholders to the. arb itrament o f arms .

The “ Kn ights of the Golden C ircl e , al l over this fair l and ,North and South , under the command of General B i ckl ey ,

ofKentucky

,organ ized bands of assass ins , and robbery and murder

became rampart throughout the South . On every hand Southern consp i r ators and the ir mi n i ons continual ly sought out Northern men who had settl ed in the South . I f these were possessedof l ands

,money or l ive-stock

,they were despo i l ed O f al l they

had,and in many instances murder was added to the crimes com

mitted upon those Northern res idents who had no sympathywith the rebel l i ous sp i ri t that brought on the war of the Rebell ion . Every sort of annoyance and outrage characterized theconduct of the s lavocracy toward t he Northern men in theSouth who dared to c l ing to the ir l oyal princ ip les . The mai l swere kept under constant espoignage , and l etters and packagesby mai l addressed to Northerners were broken open and read , i norder to obtai n the sentiments of the writers regarding slaveryand the Southern pol i cy

,with a V i ew of persecuting and expe l l

ing ( those who opposed ) them from the South at any sacrifice .

At that t ime Stephen H . Clement’ s brother Charles was pub

l ishing the Advocate, and subsequently the 7 0217 71621, at Rac ine ,


Wis . , and very free ly express ing h i s sentiments in favor of suppress ing s lavery and Southern methods— for Charl es was thor !

oughly imbued with the Republ i can,Free So i l , Abol i t i on sp iri t ,

and aggress ive i n everyth ing that re l ated to the Southern pol i cy.

Every week his paper was mai l ed to h is brother i n Texas,and

the Southerners were not l ong i n finding out that S tephen H .

was no fri end of their pol i t i cal pri nc ip l es .Before the fi rst gun had been fi red at Fort Sumpter

,the

Kn ights of the Golden C irc l e sent not ices to al l Northern sym

pathizers to l eave the South . One O f these miss ives reachedStephen H . on the 6th of January ,

186 1 , giving him twelve hoursi n which to l eave the S tate . Not heed ing the i r threats

,he made

no preparat ion for such a sudden l eave-tak ing of h i s home andfam i ly ; but , soon afterward , another s imi lar demand came fromsixty armed men , prepared for immed iate act i on . Death or

fl ight was the only alternative . By the advice of fri ends he wasi nduced to accept the s i tuat i on , mount h i s horse , turn hi s fac enorthward , and leave behind h im wi fe and Chi ldren

,and al l that

he had accumulated during years of i ndustry . Fortunately heescaped al l threatened peri l s on h i s way , and as soon as poss ibl egained the free so i l O f I l l i no i s

,where the stars and stripes insured

free thought and speech to every c it i zen .

Not long after h i s arrival he entered the service of the Un ited

S tates government as enrol l ing Officer, under the D istrict ProvostMarshal . Capt . James , who , with the Hon . I saac L . Mil l iken andDr . L . C . Paine Freer , const ituted the Un ited S tates Board of Enrollment , and attended faithful ly to the dut i es of hi s pos it i onunt i l the Cl ose O f the war.

S ince the war ended , Stephen H . has travel ed extens ivelythroughout the northern and extreme southern S tates

,i nc lud ing

O l d and N ew Mexico ; and at the present wri ting i s engaged i nthe whol esal e j ewelry bus iness i n Chicago . With hi s early training and predi l ect i ons , he has always been an act ive part i c ipant inRepubl i can campaigns , and i n that O f 1888 was an earnest andvigorous speaker in behal f O f Harri son and Morton .

Wel l acquainted with the i ns ide working of the S outhern poli cy before the war, Mr . Clement wi l l soon embody his v iews in a


came to Chicago i n 1860, and has res ided here ever s ince . Hevoted for Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri son in 1836 and 1840, bothvotes be ing cast at the p lace of h i s nat ivity , and in 1888 he votedin Chicago for the younger Harri son .

HENRY CO NVERSE

Was born August 2 2d , 18 1 5 , i n New Brainton, Worcester county ,Massachusetts , and was one Of s ix boys . Henry was the th ird son,

and at the age of fourteen he was anxious to l earn some trade , soh is father put him to l earn the tann ing trade , where he remainedone year, when his health fai l ed him so he had to leave it , andwas then sent to school for two years ; then he went into theoffice of Dr . I . N . Bates , of Bari se . I n 1836 he conc luded togo west , where he arrived at Sandusky , Ohio . I n 1840 he took al ively interest in the e l ect i on of General Wi l l i am Henry Harrison— was one of the committee to rece ive and escort the General toFort Meigs ce l ebrat i on . The General remained one n ight at Sandusky , and the fo l l owing morn ing they al l went aboard theSteamer Sandusky , and before they started a fleet o f s ix steamerssai l ed into the Sandusky Bay . When they reached Toledo , they gotCaptain Wilk inson (who sai l ed the Steamer Commodore Perry )to p i lot the fleet up the Merrimac river . But before he wouldstart he sai d he must have the General i n his boat . Wel l , as l ongas he had a log cabin on the deck of h i s boat

,i t was dec i ded to

put the General aboard of h i s boat . They r’eached Perrysburg safe ,

and had a two days ’ cel ebrat i on at Fort Me igs j ust above Perrysburg . Was appo inted Port Master by General Taylor ; held i tthrough that admin i strat i on . I n 1877 moved with hi s wi fe toChicago

,where they are both l iving . They are now on the i r fifty

th ird year that they have l ived together, having s ix grandch i l dren and two great-grand-ch i ldren .

A S A HEL T. CRO S S

Was born in Freetown , Cortland county , N . Y . , May l t, 18 1 5 .

Res ided in N . Y . , unti l 1883, at which date he removed to Ch icago

IOO MEMOR IAL BOOK OF THE

He i nherited a hatred for s lavery from both h i s parents , andrecol l ects that i n the year 182 5 two s lave boys came to hisfather’ s house

,and were by him fed and helped to Canada. I n

1836 he cast h i s fi rst vote for Wi l l i am H enry Harri son , and againi n 1840 for the same party , be ing so thorough ly- d i sgusted withJohn Tyler that he vowed never again to vote for a sl ave-holder .I n 1844 he voted for James G . B inney ; i n

’

48 for Marti n VanBuren ; i n

’

5 2 for John P . Hal l ; i n’

56 for John C . Fremont . Wasact ive i n the L i ncoln campaign , and has always voted for theRepubl i can cand idate

,cast i ng h i s vote for Gen . Benj amin Harri

son,i n whose honesty and abi l i ty he has enti re confidence .

CA PT. JO HN DAMEWas born i n the town of Barnstead , county of Strafford , State ofNew Hampshire , March loth ,

1799 . His father was of Welchdescent . His educat ion was Obtained around the fami ly altar

,i n

a country schoo l house , and the church . The school house afforded him about twelve weeks of winter school ing in a year —his

home train ing const ituted a rigi d d isc ip l ine in the habits of honesty and frugal ity . Early i n l i fe l essons were given in the rud iments of usefu l and product ive industry , and the princ ip l eswhich were bel i eved to be essenti al for a sel f-relying , ind ependent and success fu l manhood . What he l acked in Opportun it i eshe sought to make up by di l igence , economy and perseverance .

I n h i s boyhood there was a premium on honest and effi c i ent labor

,and a penalty against id l eness and prod igal ity, He moved

from Barnstead,N . H . , i n 1843 to Wiscons in , and settl ed on a

farm in the town of Spring Prairi e , where he has res ided fortysix years . He cast h i s fi rst vote in 1820 for John Q . Adams forpres ident . He voted in 1836 for Wil l i am Henry Harrison forpres i dent

,and i n 1888 for shi s grandson , Benj amin Harri son , for

pres ident . At al l other e lecti ons h e voted the Whig ti cket unti l18 56 , when he voted the ..t i-cket , and has ~ done so evers i nce . He has part i c ipated in e i een pres identi al e l ecti ons

, and

voted in them al l except two . He is now in very good heal th,

and but for the l oss of h i s s ight cou ld walk several m i les a daywith l i ttl e troub le .

I02 MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THE

applause from thousands of throats . We had a big demonstrat i on— about fi fty thousand . Mr . Durl ey voted for Old Tippecanoe at Hennep in , on the I l l ino i s River, and for h i s grandsoni n 1888 .

S HERMAN W . EDW ARDS ,

Born on September 14th , 18 19 , i n the town of Conneaut , Ashtabu la county

,Ohio ; from whence he removed at the age O f seven

years to Plymouth, Ashtabula county , and engaged in business

there unt i l h i s twenty-fi fth year, when he removed to Fairfie ld ,

Huron county , Ohio , where he remained , engaged in vari ous business capac i t i es t i l l 1869, tak i ng no act ive part i n the late war onaccount o f phys ical d isqual ifications . I n 1860— 6 1 served as sergeant-at-arms i n the House o f Representat ives O f the State o fOhio

,and prior to that t ime was for three years commiss ioner o f

Huron county , Ohio . I n 1869 Mr. Edwards came to Chicago ,where he has s ince res ided ; entered the grai n bus iness , and b ecame a member O f the Board of Trade i n 187 5 , with whi ch bodyhe has s ince been identified . Mr . Edwards was a strong “Whigin the days O f that party , and at Plymouth , Ohi o , i n 1840, hecast hi s fi rst vote for the “Whig ” pres identi al cand idate— Will i am Henry Harri son . From the date o f it s organ izat ion , Mr .Edwards has been a member of the Republ i can party

,and has

supported with enthus iasm al l its pres identi al cand idates , and es

pecially the last one— Benj amin Harrison .

W I LL IAM S I DNEY ELL IOTT,

A nat ive O f the “ Empire S tate , having been born i n NorthHampton , Montgomery county , January 18th , 18 13. I n 18 19 his

parents removed to Balston Spa , Saratoga county , New York ,and remained there unti l 1836 . During these years the elderEll i ott fol lowed agricu l tural pursu its . W . S. Ell i ott attendedschool i n winter and worked on farm in the summer unt i l 1833,when he engaged i n teach ing in Rochester

, in a free school , supported by Gen Ri ley . At th i s t ime the slavery agi tat ion becamethe quest ion of the day . The fi rst anti-s l avery convent ion everhel d i n New York State met i n 1835 at Utica , and the subj ect of

W . S . EL L IOTT.

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th is sketch was a del egate to that h i stori cal meeting . Inspeaki ng of th i s c onvent ion Mr. El l i ott says : “ On assembl ing greatoppos it i on was man i fested to the movement— and the pres identwas barely el ected before we were driven from the hal l , and laterfrom the c i ty . But by the good hand O f God upon us

,the great

col on izat i on i st and Christi an , Garrett Sm ith , of Peterborough ,arose i n the confus ion and said : Gentl emen , the cause that sub

jects you to th i s treatment , subj ect s me to the same , and thesame cause I here and today espouse , and invite you to my houseand c i ty to fin i sh your del iberat i ons .

’ We left Uti ca at once,any

way we could , and as the sunarose the n ext morn ing we qui etlyrested our weary l imbs under the protect i on of one of America’ sgreatest ph i l anthrop ists . I f I had wanted anyth ing i n enthu

s iasmi n th i s cause o f the abol it ion of s l avery , I and we al l werenow equ ipped , as the meet ing showed . We were gi rded withthe subj ect , and we parted to our homes and fie lds of laborvowing vengeance upon the giant s i n , the giant incons istency ofa sel f-styl ed home of the free .

”

A fter th is Mr . Ell iott returned to his home , fu l ly imbued withthe i dea that the great West was the p lace for the fu l l fru it i on offree thoughts and act ions , and where the death of s lavery wouldbe worked out . He soon after removed to M ichigan , l ocat i ngone hundred mi les east of Ch icago . Here he became fami l i arwi th the fact that the negroes were help ing themselves to freedom

,and he l ent a help ing hand on every opportun ity

, so thattwo hundred escaped bondsmen , via. the I ndiana, Ohi o andM ich igan Underground Rai lway , had to thank Mr. xEll iott , whosesect ion o f the road covered a d istance of twenty mi l es . Aboutthe t ime the war brok e out he removed to Ch icago

,and later to

Quincy, I l l . , where he aided i n equ ipp ing men of younger yearsfor the great struggl e . A few years after the c l ose o f the war heagain returned to Chicago, where he st i l l res ides , an honored andrespected c i ti zen . An underground conductor had no pol i t i c sbut Whig and Republ i can— hi s first vote be ing for Wi l l i am HenryHarri son i n 1840 ; l ater for J . G . B irney , and his vote i n 1888 waswith the rest of our brand , a sol id un it for General B enj aminHarrison and Levi P . Morton .


a hal f years of age . They settl ed on a farm in the town Of

O swegatch ie,county of St . Lawrence , and State of New York ,

near Ogd ensburgh . There he spent h i s boyhood unt i l twentyyears old ; attended the d istrict school s o f the ne ighborhood ; attended the Ogdensburgh A cademy , and al so the Att i c a A cademy

,Wyoming county , N . Y . Taught school and stud i ed l aw

with Hon . Senator Harvey Putnam and Judge Hoyt . Voted forWi l l iam Henry Harri son i n 1840 ; has voted the republ i can ti cketat every pres i dential e l ect i on s ince . He has four sons and twosons-in- l aw ,

al l staunch Republ icans , who cast thei r bal l ot for theman whose personal Character and pol i t i cal pri nc ip l es they admire and respect— General B enj am in Harri son— c it i zen , patri ot ,j uri st , hero .

J . C. FERGUS O N

Was born i n Bourbon county , Kentucky , October 5 , 18 10. In

182 7 he was s ent by hi s father , Dr . C . Ferguson , to C inci nnati ,Ohio

,to l earn the watch-making and j ewelry bus in ess . He re

mained there four years , and then removed to Richmond , I nd . ,

remai n i ng. there twelve years . Whil e there he voted i n 1836

for Wil l i am Henry Harri son for pres ident o f th e United States .He then moved to I nd ianapol i s , I nd . , and l ived there aboutthirty-e ight years , voti ng the Whig and Republ i can t i cket . Onl eaving I nd ianapol i s he came to Chi cago , where he now res ides ,having voted here for Garfi eld and Harrison— the l atter O f whomhe has known personal ly for twenty-five years , both be ing Ci t izens o f I nd ianapol i s . O f h im Mr . Ferguson says : “ I always fel tsafe when he advi sed me in l aw matters ; and I bel i eve our country wi l l b e safe and prosperous as l ong as he i s pres i dent of theUnited States .

J HD. FO LLETT

Was born i n the State of Vermont . His fathe r l eft Vermont forOt In 1832 with h i s fami ly , but had barely reached there whenhis father d i ed , l eaving the chi l dren orphans , the mother havingdied some years previously , and Mr . Fol l ett cared for h is broth


ers and sisters on his own ind ividual e fforts for some eight yearsthereafter . I n 1840 he voted for Wi l l iam Henry Harri son , atBel l evue , Ohio . I n 18 50 he crossed the plains to Cal i forn i a ,where he remained unti l 18 54 , when he returned home with a fai ramount Of gold dust , and engage d in the hardware bus inesss atAlleghan, Michigan . I n 1888 he voted for the grandson of W . H .

Harri son .

CHARLES G I LES FO STER

Was_born in Hammond , St . Lawrence county , N . Y. ,

December14, 182 1 . H is father, Ozi as Foster, was a Connect icut Yankee ,from Sharon , Litchfie ld county . H is mother, Margaret BankerFoster, was a native of the Mohawk Val l ey , N . Y , The parentsof C . G . removed from St . Lawrence county to Rochester , N . Y . ,

when he was but an infant , and was made an hal f-orphan thatsame year by the sudden demise of hi s father , from apopl exy .

His widowed mother afterward marri ed aVermonter by the nameO f A lvi n Hulbert

,and the boy Charl es remained at home unt i l

the age Offifteenyears , when , i n the fal l of 1836 , he commencedthe print ing bus iness , as an apprent ice , on a week ly Un iversa l i stpaper

,publ i shed in Rochester

,cal l ed The Herald of Trudi . The

publ i sher fai l ed during the fi rst year of his venture , and the sub

j ect of th i s sketch was soon after emp loyed on the New York

Watchman, al so publ i shed in Rochester, by DelazonSmith,after

wards known as Delus ion Smith , be ing thus n ick -named byGeorge Dawson , ed itor o f the Atoany Evening yoarnal . Sai dSmith ( pardon the d igress ion ) had been appointed by Pres identTyler ( of

“ Tippecanoe and Tyler, too , fame ) a consul to someobscure poi nt i n South Ameri ca , and al though he drew his salarywith great regularity

,he somehow managed to elude the grasp of

the government a year or two after i t des i red to recal l h im .

H is second employer having als o fai l ed during the first yearOf hi s enterprise , young Foster worked for a t ime on the O ld

Genesee Farmer, and on the RoenesterDaily Advertiser, both publ ished by Luther Tucker . Having sol d the Daily Advertiser, i nthe spring of 1839 ,

to Thomas H . Hyatt , of Lockport , N . Y . , Mr.


Tucker soon after removed to A lbany and started the Cultivator,

which was subsequently consol idated with the Country Gentleman.

By th i s change O f base on the part o f h i s employer, young Fosterwas again thrown out o f employment , and determined to go easti n search of work . He secured a l etter o f introducti on to Rev.

A . B . Grosh , ed itor o f the Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate, of Uti ca , N . Y . Here he found employment for two months ,and whi l e there became acquainted wi th several of the lead ingc l ergymen of the Un iversal i st denominati on , who were regularcontributors to the l ast named publ i cat i on . From Uti ca hepushed eastwardly , and found steady emp loyment on the O ld

Troy Daily Wi ng, on which j ournal he worked for ten consecut iveyears

,from the fal l of 1839 to

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49. Here he imbibed h i s pol it i cali deas ; and during the ent ire campaign O f 1840, be ing

'therr not

qu i te n ineteen years of age , he was act ive ly engaged i n a gl eeCl ub , which n ightly made the welk in ring with the praises of

Tippecanoe and Tyl er, too ,And with them we

’ l l beat L i tt l e Van , Van , Van ,Van is a used up man ;And with them we ’ l l beat L i ttl e Van .

We sang one song during the campaign which I shoul d verymuch l ike to recal l , but the t it l e to wh ich has enti rely escapedmy memory . I t represented al l the States rigged up as sai l ingvessel s for a grand naval engagement , and I can recal l on ly th isverse

“ Missouri , new rigged , wi ll next hoist her sai l ,Harrisonians wi l l give her a glori ous gal e :At the port which she starts for she proudly wi l l cal l

,

Leaving tumble-bug Benton rol l i ng h i s bal l .On the shore of Sal t R iver

,

On the shore o f Sal t River,On the shore of Sal t River ,

Sal t River— I — O I

I n September, 1849, Mr . Foster removed to Beloi t , Wis . ,

where he at once entered into a co-partnersh ip with John R .

Briggs i n the publ i cat i on of the Beloit yonrnal , a staunch Whig

I IO MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THEW . P . FRA I LEY

I was born in Balt imore , Md . , on the 12 th of J uly , 18 19 , andmy few fi rst years were uneventfu l , as i s the case general ly withmost ch i ldren . At the age o f five years the pres ident i al contestvi rtual ly between John Q . Adams and Andrew Jackson— althoughthere were several other candi dates i n the fie ld —took place

,and

i t was of unusual rancorous feel i ng— mani fest ing at that day thefee l ing which characteri zes the prominent part i es of the present

,

sound argument and intel l igence guid ing the Whigs i n the i r conduct of the contest— whil st corrupt ion , whi sky and profan itywere the potent weapons o f the Jackson democracy— and theyhave so continued down to the present t ime . A l though but fiveyears o l d at that t ime

,I can remember d ist inctly the scenes en

acted at the po l l s near my home— and my pol i t i cs for the t imeand s ince may b e sa id to have been formed from that date— as Ihave continued to be a determined Opponent to Jackson Democracy— which i s but another name for that of the present dayJackson being the god—father of it , i nstead O f Jefferson .

I have seldom,i f ever, cast a vote for a Democrat , but have

at t imes omitted to cast my vote for candidates put forward bymy party when I cons idered them unworthy . Henry Clay wasmy idea O f a statesman , and my standard and guide in pol it icswhil st the Whig party continued i n exi stence . When i t d isbanded I attached my fortunes with the opponents to the corrup tLocoFoco Democracy , and enro l led my name on the l i st o f theRepubl ican party , and cast my vote for J ohn C . Fremont in 18 56,

and have had no occas ion s ince to regret my connect ion with theparty O f re formm und er whose guidance the country has been ledto be the foremost nati on on earth .

My early l i fe was spent i n acqu iri ng the rudiments O f an or

d inary Engl i sh education , which ended about my s ixteenth year,from which t ime my l ife was checkered . I n 1839 and part of1840,

up to July of the l atter year , I was engaged with the government forces of the Navy Department i n connect i on with thearmy in driving the S eminol e and other I nd ians out o f Florida ,and have paddl ed in a canoe over most o f what i s known as theEverglades i n search O f the red-sk i ns . I n the spring of 1840 the

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naval part o f the expediti on , cons ist ing of one brig and fiveschooners , were ordered home —and reached Norfolk , Va. ,

early i nJ uly— where I res igned my pos it i on and returned to my home inBalt imore , where I remained , and in the fa l l o f that year cast myfi rst vote for Wm . H . Harrison for pres ident O f the United S tates .

Remain ing i n Balt imore unt i l 1843, i n the fa l l o f which year Ivi s i ted Ohio , and became so wel l p l eased with western l i fe thatmy home was made at various t imes in the several States ofOhio

,I nd iana

,Nebraska , and fina l ly , i n 18 59, i n I l l ino i s , i n which

latter State I have s ince res ided— n ine years at Gal esburg andover twenty years l ast past i n Chicago . Thirteen years o f thetwenty spent in Chicago— from 1869 to 1882 — were spent in theemploy of the Pennsylvan ia CO . ( R . R . ) i n its general passengerdepartment— when changes in the head O f which resu l ted in myre l ease .

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I t gave me unspeakab le p leasure to be ab le to cast my votein 1888 for Benj amin Harri son for pres i dent , that I might be ab leto say that I had cast my suffrages for two generati ons O f thesame fami ly for the most exalted pos i t i on on earth— both ofwhom were wel l fitted by nature and educati on to fi l l the p lacewith-honor to themselves and benefit to the nat ion . I regret thatmy financ i al cond iti on wou ld not admit of my witness ing the inaugurat ion of th e grandson as I di d of the grandfather .

S . D . FROST

Born May 16th , A . D 18 16 , at Pompey , Onondago county , NewYork . His early l i fe was more fu l l o f vi c i ss itudes than fal l tothe l ot of most boys

,by reason of the death of hi s father ; but

when n ineteen years of age he had mastered the trade of harnessmak ing and the carriage trimmer’ s art , and later became a professional occulist. He cast h is first vote for General Wil l i amHenry Harrison in 1840,

at Pompey , and voted for Clay in 1844 ,

and came west i n 18 54 to X en ia , Ohio , removing to Chicago in187 1 . I n the d isastrous fire of that year he lost h i s al l , and l ikemany others , was compel l ed to go back to first princ ipl es , againe ntering the ranks as aj ourneyman carriage-maker. I n his sev

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enty-th i rd year he st i l l fo l l ows h i s trade , when work i s to b

found , but bel i eves that carriage—makers are Opposed to a graybearded admin istrat i on .

” His vote i n 1888 was cast for “ YoungTippecanoe

,

” and he i s right proud of the grandson— whi l e dulyrespect ing the memory of h is glori ous grands ire , whose suddenand untimely death he attributed to part i san treachery .

JO HN GAGE

Was born in Litchfield , Herk imer county , N . Y . , 12 th day of

August,1802 . He remained on hi s father ’ s farm for e ighteen

years,where he l earned the trade of a mou l der in brass . He re

moved to Watertown , N . Y . , i n 182 3. I n 1835 , with a large covered spring wagon , he started for Chicago , arriv ing here August

4th , 1836 , with a vowed purpose of bu i l d ing a fl ouring mil l . He

was , however, unabl e to find lumber or material s,but i n five

months he had overcome these d ifficult i es , and was operat ingthree run O f stones , and made flour enough to reduce the pri cefrom $ 17 to $ 12 per barre l I n 1836 he voted for Gen . Will iam H . Harrison in th is c i ty , the pol l ing p lace be ing at Scott

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p lan ing mi l l , between Canal street and the river. He was chairman of the Tippecanoe C lub O f Chicago in 1840, which was cont inned some t ime after the e l ect i on , the meetings be ing held i nthe second story of a frame bu i l d ing on the northeast corner ofNorth Water street and State street . We can better imagine thandescribe the p leasure to Mr . Gage for be ing al l owed to l ive tosee the grandson of the i l l ustriousWhig in the pres identi al chai r ;to join

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the O ld Tippecanoe C lub of 1888 , toparade the streetswith it

,and to agai n attend the meetings , th is t ime not in a sec

ond story of a frame bu i ld ing, but in the commodious cl ub roomsi n the Grand Pac ific H otel .

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LEMAN WO O D GARL ICK

Was born January I st, 18 1 5 , i n the town of Kent , Litchfieldcounty , Connect icut . H is parents , Leman and Mary Garl ick ,that year moved with seven of thei r chi l dren to New L i sbon

,

O tsego county , N . Y . Leman W . l ived with his parents unti l

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twelve years of age , and was brought up i n stri ct accordancewith the teach ings o f the B ibl e . He then went to l ive with hi sOldest brother, Horat io Garl ick , who had settl ed i n Mt . Upton ,Chenango county, N . Y . , and remained three years , going toschool and work i ng i n the shop with h i s brother at the tai l oringbusiness . At the age of s ixteen , having a strong des i re to be awood-worker, he , by mutual consent, l e ft h i s brother and went tol earn the trade of cab inet-mak ing with James B . Fras i er, of Har

persvil le , Broome county,N.Y . , where he remained for five years .At that t ime al l workmen were requ ired to work from six i n themorning unt i l n ine at n ight . Duri ng the t ime of hi s apprent i c eship he formed the acquaintance of the young peop l e o f thep lace , and was i nvited i n soc i ety , and for the first t ime i n h i sl i fe was i nvited to a sl e igh-ride . H e

' being almost a stranger,and

but parti al ly acquainted with the young lad i es,d id not get

around to make hi s choice soon enough , as the other young menhad engaged them . He di d not know what to do . As he wasthen attending school he sel ected a l i ttl e girl two years h i s j un iorwho

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had never been in company . She accepted,and they went

O ff i n flying col ors for the fi rst t ime— but i t was not the lastt ime— for on December 2 5th , 1835 , i n the town O f Harpersvi l l e ,Broome they were made man and wife

,and have

l ived as such over fiftyéthree years in the true love and affect i onthat bel ongs to man and wife . They have been bl essed withf our sons , al l now l iving , and one lovely daughter , who d iedwhen she was twenty-two years o l d .

A t the t ime L . W . G . was marri ed he took hi s young wife to‘O xford , Chenango county , N . Y . , where he was engaged at hi st rade. I n 1836 he cast h i s fi rst vote for Wi l l i am Henry Harrisonfor . pres ident of the United S tates , and i n the same town in 1840

h e agai n voted for Wil l i am H . Harri son , and he was e l ected , butto un iversal regret , d iedJ four weeks after tak ing the chai r. Mr .Garl i ck has voted at every subsequent pres ident ial elect i on , andis t hankful today that i t has been a Whig and Republ ican vote ,including that for General Benj ami n H arri son .

I n 1843 Mr. Garl i ck le ft Oxford with h is fam i ly Of wife andthree ch i l dren , and settl ed in the vi l l age OfTecumche , Mich igan ,

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and .1ived .there n ine months , then moved to Adrian , Mich . ,where

h e remained for over twelve years ; then he moved to Hudson ,~Mich . , remain ing two years . H is heal th fai l i ng h im ,

he sol d out

and .went to Coldwater, Mich . , and remained there three or fouryears ; then to South B end , I nd . Not be ing content there hemoved to La Porte , I nd . , where he went into the furniture Bus iness . I n 186 1 hi s health enti re ly gave out , so by the advice o ffri ends h e went to travel ing in the interest of a l ife insurancec ompany: I n 187 1 ,

he came to Chicago and engaged in thes ame bI

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I siness unt i l fal l , when the great fi re destroyed al l i ts business p rospects for the n ear future: He then went to Tiffin,O hi o , for two years , and then returned to Chicago , where he hasever Si nce l ived with h i s sons . He is a member of the O l d Tippecanoe Club , and hopes to l ive to vote for a second term ofPresid ent General ' BenjaminHarrison , the true representat ive O fh is

.

l ife-l ong pol it i cal princ ip l es . Mr . Garl i ck always l ived aqu i et

,peacefu l l i fe . I n consequence of age and i l l-health he was

d isqual ified,and could

,therefore

,not be accepted to perform

mil i tary servi c e in the war of the Rebel l ion , but he d id what heCould for h i s country , and with that motive uppermost alwaysWorked hard to el ect , first Whigs , then Republ icans to Offi ce .

W I LL IAM GA RNETT.

I was born at Glasgow , Barron county, Kentucky , on the 2 7thday of March , 18 16, O f Virgin i a parentage . My father was Clerkof Barron C ircu i t Court from its establ i shment , some forty years .My educat ional advantages were qu ite l imited . On the l t ofJanuary, 1840, I

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was marri ed to Angonia Tompkins , daughter o fthe H on . Chri stopher Tompkins

,of Glasgow . He was many

years C i rcu i t Court Judge , and for two terms a member o f Congress . We raised n ine chi ldren— six sons and three daughtersal l l iving , except our Oldest son Chri stopher, who,

i n August ,1862 , went into the Union army as a private i n the S eventy-Second I l l i no i s Regiment , and on the 2 3d of M ay , 1863, was ki l l edina sk irm ish around Vicksburg . During al l these years o f ourmarri ed l i fe my wife has been a real “ home m issi onary — having


given her l i fe fu l ly to her husband , ch i l dren and home . I n thefal l of 1840 I gave my first pres identia l vote to Gen . Wil l iamHenry Harrison

,

“ Tip . and Ty .

” The “ Ty proved to be veryunsat i s factory . I have never regretted the Harrison vote ,and was ready in November

,1888 , with five sons , one son

in-l aw ,and one grandson , to vote for General B enj amin Harr i son ,

with equal success .I n June

, 1839, I was appointed Clerk of theBarron C ircu i tCourt

,i n which capac i ty I s erved unt i l the summer O f 18 50

( e l even years ) , after which I res igned and went i nto the mer

cantile and manufacturing bus iness i n Loui svi l l e , Kentucky ,from whence I came to Ch icago , and have been a res ident ofth i s Ci ty ever s ince that date . I n 18 59

—60 I was cash i er ofSouthern Bank of Kentucky , at Lou i sv i l l e .

I n my early l i fe I had scrup l es about s l avery , but also possessed an ambit i on to acqu ire wealth , and took s laves by gi ftand purchase . However, after much reflect i on and anxiety onthe subj ect

,I became convinced of the fact , and accepted in my

mind that the Often forgotten words Of the immortal J e fferson ,i n the Declarat ion of I ndependence ,

“ That al l men are erectedfree and equal

,and ent itl ed to l i fe , l iberty , and the pursu i t of

happ iness,

” meant exactly what they said , and that s lavery wasa sin against God , and in the s ight of a large p ercentage Of thebest men and women of the age . So , bel i eving that s l averywas wrong in princ ip l e and pract ice , and product ive o f great

:

evi l to both master and slave ( as expressed in deed of emanci

pation) , on the 20th day of October, 184 5 , I went into the BarronCounty Court and duly emanc ipated e ight s laves ( al l I at thatt ime possessed ) , and gave bond for the ir maintenance , as was requ ired by law , retain ing guard iansh ip of them unt i l they wereof age . Among them were three names of nat i onal and worl dwide fame , viz :

Dan ie l Webster, seven years of age ,Henry Clay , five years of age ,John Quincy Adams , three years of age .

For th is act there was heaped upon me the wrath of many '

old fri ends , of both pol it i cal part i es ; but they ne ither k i l l ed me.

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and the port of St. Lou is , and remained on the M iss i ss ipp i rivercommand ingand superintend ing various steamboats unt i l he re

ceived the appointment of U . S . I nspector o f Steam Vesse ls ofGal ena d istrict . He held that pos i t ion unt i l removed by

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theClevel and admin istrat ion , July , 188 5 ,

“ without cause,

”but the

real cause was he escorted the late l amented Gen . J ohn A . Loganfrom Gal ena, I l l . , to Dubuque , Ia. , in the campaignof

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84. He

voted in Gal ena in 1836 for Gen . W. H . Harri son , and in 1888

for“ Young Gen. B . Harrison .

J . H . G I LL

Was born in Jefferson county , Mt . P l easant townsh ip , Mt . P l easant town

,Virgin ia

,January 31 , 18 13. H is parents were Quakers .

They fol lowed bank ing , mil l i ng, stock-rais ing and farming. H is

father,two brothers and himsel f al l voted for General Harri son

in 1836—40

— not one of the i r fami ly be ing Democrats . TheirWhigism commenced with the Revolut ion in 1776

— his grandfather

,Wil l iam Hana, of Berk county , Va. , carrying a musket

seven years during that war. Mr . Gil l d ied March 13, 1889 .

THO MAS GO O DMAN ,

Born at Market Harborough , i n Le ic estersh ire , England , on

February 2 ,18 16 . When I was about five years O ld the fam ily

moved to London , where I was brought up as far as to the ageof s ixteen . On July 26, 1832 , I bade farewel l to my father andmother and nat ive home , and sai l ed on the good sh ip Columbia ,Captain Delano

,Mate Morri s , 2 d-Mate Delacro ix , for the United

States . Perhaps you sm i l e at my part i cu larity , but l et me tel lyou a sea voyage i n 1832 was no ins ign ificant enterprise . Ireached New York in good order on September 1832 ; went up toA lbany on a steamer, and then on a canal—boat to Bu ffal o , thenceon a schooner to Ohio . My first stopp ing pl ace was Cleveland

,

but it was a l i ttl e b it of a vi l lage —only twelve hundred peop le .

Stayed there about e ight months , then went to Canton , Whichwas about doubl e the s ize . Reached there i n May

,1833. The


Clerk of the Court of Common P leas appointed me his c l erk,t o

make up records , etc . Remained in that offi ce five years .‘Was

natural ized at Ravenna , Portage county , Ohio , on the 26th O f

September, 1837— l ess than one month after my five years res idence c losed . Voted the Whig and Republ ican t i ckets . I marri ed June 26 ,

1838 . I t was in that same town of Canton I votedfor General Harri son . He had been i n Mass i l l on a few monthsbefore i n company with Tom Ewing , Tom Corwin , and SalmonP . I mCt him there , shook hands with h im ,

and wishedhim good luck in the name of the Lord . I helped s ing h im intothe pres idency . I have five daughters and three sons

,al l wel l

no break in that Chaim— four girl s marri ed,al l the boys marri ed .

Seven good Republ ican votes now , and al l those seven for Benj amin Harri son ; and of the fi fteen grandchi l dren

,al l i n de éene

esse, there i s a prospect of more Republ i can votes in future .

Last summer I was in I nd ianapol i s , and my friend Carr, theAuditor o f State , took me to h i s house and introduced me toGeneral H arri son . Upon my word he don ’ t look unl ik e the ol dGeneral i n 1840. I tol d him I voted for hi s grands ire , andshould vote for h im

,and I did , here in the Eleventh Ward of

Chicago . I th ink we have been mighty fortunate i n gett ing j ustthat man and no other .

S AMUEL B. HAGGA RD

Was born in Winchester, Clark county , Kentucky , November 8 ,18 14 , to which p lace h is father, Dawson , moved with hi s parents ,i n 1793, from Virgin i a . H is grandfather , David Haggard , wasborn in Virgin ia

,and was a near neighbor of Thomas Jefferson .

He served i n the army during the war of the Revolut i on , beingpresent at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwal l i s . I n 18 18

S ; Bimoved to Christ ian county with h is father , and afterward toTrigg county

,where he was raised and l ived unt i l the age o f

twenty—one years . From there he went to Bl oomington , I l l . ,making the j ourney on horseback . Here he l earned the carpenter trade . I n 1837 he was marri ed to M iss Mary Mason , who

was also a nat ive of Kentucky . I n the fa l l of 1843 he removedto Chicago , making the j ourney in a wagon— occupying about a


week ’ s t ime . Here he entered the employ of Scovi l l e Gates ,w i th whom he remained unt i l 1847 , at wh ich t ime he connectedh imse l f with McCormick 81 Gray , sett ing up the mach inery forthe ir reaper works . I n 18 50 he l e ft the i r employ to engage inthe pump business , and later in hardware . I n 1887 Mr . and Mrs .

Haggard cel ebrated the i r gol den wedding . . In 1836 he voted forWil l i am Henry Harrison and again i n 1840. S i nce thi s t ime hehas voted for every Whig and Republ i can pres ident ial cand idate ,includ ing Gen . Benjamin Harrison i n 1888 .

UR IA H HA I R

Was born in Wash ington county , Pa. , Apri l 7th , 18 12 . Hisfather was a Whig , and in the campaign O f 1840 hi s s ix sons whohad survived h im , and the husbands of five O f his daughters tooka l ively i nterest i n the campaign , and cast ten sol i d votes forTippecanoe and Tyler

,too .

” But two O f the Hair fami ly arenow l iv ing , these two being members Of the Tippecanoe C lub ,and with their descendants— numbering in al l th irty-seven— casta sol i d vote of th irty-seven ba l l ots for Gen . Benj amin Harri soni n 1888 . I t wi l l thus be seen that the affect i ons of the Hair fami ly have ever been “ sol id for the Harri sons

,and the best wishes

O f the survivors are for the successfu l admin istrat i on O f the present occupant of the pres idential chai r for our country ’ s sake .

T. W . HA LL

Was born near Richmond , Je fferson county , Ohi o , July 12, 18 18 ,

res id ing in the same State t i l l 1839 ,when , with h i s fami ly ,

he removed to Savannah , now in Ashl and county , Ohio , where , i n1840,

he cast h i s fi rst vote for the successfu l cand idate . On thebreak i ng out O f the go ld fever in ’

49, Mr . Hal l crossed the p lainsvia. the usual route of the day —ox team— and was moderatelysuccessful , return ing i n 18 53, when he i nvested h is surp lus inWiscons in farms , but in 186 1 Chicago ’ s commerc ial outl ook ind uced hi s removal here , where he afterward did a very large business as a wool merchant . He voted with the “ Tippecanoes ”

in 1888 .


M . W . HAMMO ND

Was born in 1809 . Cast h i s fi rst vote in O t i sco , i n 1830 ; i n 1832

hi s first pres idential vote for Andrew Jackson , giving h is reasontherefor “ he was not a Tory Democrat

,

” and Mr . Hammond adds :“ I may say ,

right here , that I do not th ink there i s a Jackson ianDemocrat now l iving who i s not a Republ i can .

” I n 1836 hevoted for Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri son , and be ing a music ianput h i s “ best wind ” i nto the campaign

,and agai n i n 1840, with

a l itt l e more success , he used the same O ld i nstrument for O ld

Ippgcanoe.

” I n 1888 he cast h i s vote for the ch ip of the oldblOck ,

being greatly pl eased at having “ l ived to see the day .

JOS EP H WA RREN HA RMO N , M . D. ,

A phys ic i an and surgeon , was born in J efferson county , NewYork , June 20th , 18 1 5 . He graduated at the B lack River I nst itute , at Watertown , N . Y . , i n 1840, and voted for Gen . Wil l iamHenry Harrison the same year, at Watertown . He graduated

from the A lbany Med i cal Co l l ege i n 184 5 . For twelve years b efore the war he res ided near C l eveland , Ohio , and was a nearneighbor and fami ly phys i c ian Of Pres ident Garfi el d . I n 186 1 ,

when Garfie l d was appointed Col onel of the Forty-Second Regiment Ohi o Volunteer I nfantry , he requested h i s appointment assurgeon of hi s regiment S ince the war he has res ided i n andaround Ch icago , and voted for Gen . Benj am in Harri son at B lueI s land , I l l . , i n 1888 .

GEO RGE P A I NE HARR I S

Was born In Carlow , Carl ow county , I rel and , March 5 , 18 18 . H isfather was an Ep iscopal i an ; his mother a Quaker, descendedfrom one of the O ldest Quaker fami l i es of ’

Ire land , named Moffit .

H is father,George Paine , was one of the old Paine stock of

Revolut i onary t imes , whose name was Thomas , and who wrote“ The Age of Reason ,

” “ Common Sense ,” etc . ; a fast fri end

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O f

Thomas J e fferson , the thi rd pres ident of the Un ited S tates . Thefather o f the subj ect o f thi s sketch generously furn ished h i sthirteen ch i ldren

.

with the best fac i l i t i es the country afforded forthei r educati on .


I n 1834 he l eft h is parental roof and became an apprentice toa soap and tal low chandl er. The country was in turmoi l . Twoyears latter he became seriously impressed concern ing h i s futurel i fe , and on May 2 8 , 1837 , when the l ightn ing was flash ing , thethunder raving and the rain fal l ing , he made a vow as high asheaven , as deep as hel l , as wide as the world i s round and as l ongas h i s l i fe should last , that he would never use tobacco or l iquor ,which vow , by the grace o f God , he has sacredly kept . I n 1838

hi s m in ister, Rev. George Vance was absent,attend inga confer

ence , and as he at the same t ime had an appointment at Castl edermes , a Mr . Kerr accompan ied Mr. Harri s to fi l l the lattei' .

The Protestants of the vi l l age having been notified accord ingly,

the meeting was l argely attended , and was first addressed by Mr .Kerr . Mr:Harri s then spoke , when under the influence Of theSp irit every person in the house fel l , except one man — a pol i ceman — and the cri es for mercy were '

l ike those on the day o fPentecost . ‘ I n September, 1838 , Mr. Harri s started for New

York , bringing l etters O f recommendat ion and cert ificate O f

church membership , ahd united with the M . E . Church — Rev . S .

D . Ferguson , i n that c ity — wherein he soonfound many’

congen ial Christi an , ant i-s l avery sp irits , who with h imsel f becameact ive and enthus iast i c workers for

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the e lecti onof Wil l i amHenry Harrison i n 1840. The death of t he

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pres id ent i n 184 1

was deep ly lamented . That summer, Mr . Harri s and e ight confederates

,hel d regular Sunday rel igious meetings on the wharfs

on the North river with good results . Upon urgent sol ic i tat ion ,he was then i nduced to move to West Flamboro, a country townin Canada

,to teach school and preach the gospel . Enroute he

addressed a large concourse O f peop l e at Utica , N . Y . A M'

ormonpreacher answered him ,

whereupon Mr . Harris , i f the demonstrat i on of the crowd was evidence , handl ed Mormon ism and itsad cate to the i r utter d iscomforture . Arriving at hi s dest inat i on ,Mr

.Harri s was hosp itably wel comed , and on the fo l lowing Sun

day preached to large audi ences -most o f the congregation hadnever heard or seen a Method ist b efore . The next day schoolOpened i n the new school house and al l went wel l . He waschosen a cl ass teacher

,and he ld that posit i on until he became


an it i nerant m in ister, preach ing acceptably throughout the c ircu i t-many soul s bei ng converted . He continued h i s i t i nerant labor,e ither as curcuit min ister or pres id ing elder, unt i l 18 57 , when ,d i fferi ng from his brethernon art i c l es o f Method ist fai th separat i on ensued

,and he cont inued preach ing as a man instead as a

Method ist . Soon thereafter, he purchased a farm . Crops provi ng poor

,he traded the farm for other p roperty

,and in 1860 eh

gaged i n new bus iness . He was an ardent admirer of AbrahamL i ncoln , and on hearing the d i sastrous resu lts O f the Bul l Runbattl e

,rais ing hi s hands heavenward he excl aimed ,

“Thank God !Now the North wi l l awake , and not on ly wi l l th e rebel l ion bec rushed

,but s lavery must d i e with i t . Moving to M innesota , he

enl isted i n Company F , Minnesota Mounted Rangers , which wass ent by the War Department to the front ier against the I nd ians .During th is servi c e he avai l ed h imsel f O f the Opportun ity topreach at every vi s ited fort . On the exp i rat i on of his term ofenl istment , he entered as a veteran i n Company D ,

SecondCaval ry

,by re—enl i stment— was commissary of company— and so

cont inued unt i l promoted to Company E ight , First I nfantry ;never wore shou lder strap s nor went to the company ; wasstat i oned at Fort Snel l i ng by appo intment -from ‘GOV . StephenM il l er

, and took charge of the Conval escent Department unt i l thec l ose of the war, after which he went to Vermi l l i on mines ,St . Lou i s county , Minnesota , but was never re-imbursed for thet ime and money invested there . At that t ime Duluth ’ s populat ion consi sted of seven fami l i es . I n 1873 he spent from Apri l toS eptember i n the South— preaching at Balt imore andWash ington .

Was a del egate to the Young Men ’ s Christ i an Assoc iat i on O f

which John Wannemaker was chai rman . Returned to St . Paulremain ing there during the winter— was employed to go toNobl es county , western M innesota. Whil e there he profoundlyreal ized new impress ions ,J concern ing another l i fe . There hemetdeparted fri ends face to face , and had pos i tive evidence thatunder the eternal , i nexorabl e and unchangab le l aw of the InfinateFather

,he coul d converse with those whose sp iri ts had departed

,

i n h i s nat ive l and . I n 1876 he came to Chicago , where he hascont inued to res ide , with the exception of three years in Wheel er,


tutionof the Un ited States as then exist i ng , i n 1846 he was nominated as a cand idate for Congress against Judge Duer and Gen .

H uff ; but came out second i n the race— Duer be ing el ected byabout three hundred maj ority over h im . I n 1847 Mr. Hawleyc ame to Chicago , and was admitted i n 1849 to the bar of theState ; and in 1862 to the bar o f the supreme court of the Un itedStates .Not unti l 1860 d id he take an act ive part i n pol it i cs , except to

cast his vote for the candi dates of the Free Soi l and Republ icanpart i es from and after the ir respect ive organ izat i ons . He did so

because he l oved freedom and hated s l avery . Early i n 186 1 hee te art i c l es for the press , under the now deplnni e of Madison , i n wh ich he advocated the right and

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duty O f the government to i ssue Un i ted States Treasury Notes as a c ircu lat i ngmedium

,and for the use O f the government to meet i ts immed i

ate demands ; and i n which he antagonized the assumption thenput forth by the Copperheads at the North , and the rebel s Of

the South , that th e S tates had the right to withdraw from theUn ion at wi l l . J ohn C . Calhoun was the or iginator of th i s treasonab le doctrine , and J e ff Davis and Toombs were the l eaders inthe attempt to put i t i n pract ice .

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He was also an earnest advocate Of the proclamat ion of the Pres ident as commander-in-chi e fof the army and navy , as a war measure , t o preserve the Union atthe expense o f s l avery , and the employment O f the newly-madefreemen as so ld iers , and i n other help ful ways , and as c it i zensequal before the law, the ir endowment wi th the e l ect ive franch i se . These princ ip l es of freedom being sett l ed , he favoredc l i nch ing them with the th irteenth , fourteenth and fi fteenthamendments of the const itut ion , and so remove al l poss ibl edoubts in favor of l iberty and j ust i ce .

Succeeding hi s assoc iat i on with Hon . L . and G . Trumbul l inthe pract i ce of l aw , i n 1 869, with the consent of the S enate , hewas appoi nted by Pres ident U . S . Grant a Just ic e of the SupremeCourt o f Utah Terri tory , and hel d the Offi ce one j ud i c i al term .

Soon after h is arrival i n Sal t Lake C ity he attended the recepti ongiven by Mr . and Mrs . F . H . Head to H on . Wm H . S eward and

p arty , where he met , for the fi rs t t ime , Brigham Young , who , on

. C. M . HAWLEY.


being i ntroduced to Mr. Hawley , assumed an ai r o f importanceas he extended h is hand , and remarked i n measured tones : S i r

,

I hope you have not come here , as other J udges have done , topersecute my peop l e .

” With l ike del iberat i on Mr . Hawley repl i ed : “ Sir, I have not come to persecute the peop l e o f Utah ,but to admin i ster the law as I find i t .” This ended the i r rel at i ons , except i n the court o f adj udi cat i on , where Young was.

obl iged to appear as a party defendant .Among the earl i est j ud ic i al op in ions orJudge Hawl ey was the

reversal of al l former dec i s i ons o f the D istri ct and SupremeCourts , whereby they had conceded the right of the l egi s latureOf the Territory to extend the j uri sd i ct i onO f the Probate Courtsto that o f common law and Chancery . O n appeal to the SupremeCourt o f the Un ited States , h i s Op in ions o f reversal were sustained . But th i s in nowise rel i eved h im from the “host i l i ty o f theMormon hierarchy , nor from the anathemas of the i r churchpaper. Thei r exc ited wrath was perhaps greater, when , on informat ion

,after arguments

,and upon cons i derat i on and j udg

ment,he i ssued the “Writ of Proh ib it i on ” against Probate J udge

Murdock,restrain ing h im from other j urisd i ct i on than that of

Probate and i ts i nc idents , which he had resumed i n defiance O f

the Supreme Court . And the i r wrath was re—enk indl ed , when , onthe app l i cat ion of the Governor, he i ssued a writ to the UnitedStates Marshal for the arrest of the Officers of a Mormon regiment

,charged with rebel l i on against the government . The ir ar

rest was the s ignal for the assembl ing i n and around the courtroom and in the streets of thousands , whose whisp ered threatswere intended to int imidate , or to postpone j udic i al act i on . Buti n face of the demonstrat ion , those arrested were hel d to thegrand j ury , and on the i r refusal to give bai l , were remanded tocustody . Another com laint of the hi erarchy was by reason ofh i s l etter written at the request of Maj -Gen . O rd , showing theneed of a M i l i tary Post at Beaver C ity , near the MountainMeadow massacre o f over one hundred and thirty c i t i zens onthe i r way to settl e i n southern Cal i forn i a, by the Mormons , di sgu ised as I ndians , to possess themselves of the property of theemigrants , valued at one mi l l i on o f dol lars . The letter was trans


K i l l , where he was abl e to hold the Bri t i sh forces in check , andto prevent the i r re-en forcements and suppl i es from reachingthem . Thi s p laced Burgoyne and hi s command in our hands,and compel l ed h i s surrender to Gen . Yates on the 7th of October,1 777 . These part i cu lars are rec i ted more ful ly by Gen . Bul lardinhi s centenn ial address i n S aratoga county i n 1876 .

Mrs . Hawley inheri ted from. her grandfather— Gen . J ohn Fcll ows— and has now in her possess ion , a prec i ous souven ir— the

gpersonal general order memorandum book of Gen . George Washington i n h i s own handwrit ing , from the 5 th day of August tothe 2 8th day of September, 1776, i nc lus ive . As to how her

grandfather came to possess i t i s not known .

By reason of impaired heal th,Judge Hawley ret i red from

profess ional l abor, and i n 1879 returned to Chicago , and in 1880

took res i dence in Hyde Park , I l l i no is , where he now res ides . In” the Republ i can compaign of 1888 he was an act ive part ic ipant,and voted to e l ect Gen . Benj . Harri son and Levi P . Morton presi dent and vice-pres i dent of the Un ited States of America.

W I LL IAM P . HEW ITT'

Was b orn March 2 5 th ,18 16, inSyracuse county, N.Y. , moving to

O ntari o county shortly after, and at s ixteen years o f age l earned‘

the carpenter’s trade

,which he has fo l lowed unti l w ith in the l ast

lfew years . Cast h i s first vote in 1840 forGen . W . H . Harrison .

JI n1 846 he removed to Chi cago , but not“ l i k ing the mudhol e as

i t was then ,” went to Wel l ington , where he carri ed on his busi

ness for twenty years , return ing to Chi cago i n 1866 , and has l ived

here ever s ince . Voted for Gen . Harri son in 1888 , and has ever

voted the straight Republ i can t i cket .

J

W ALTER S . H I NKLEY

Fi rst saw th e l ight o f day in January , 18 1 5 , i n the town of Buckland ,

Frankl i n county,Mass . H is father was a descendant of

Thomas H inkl ey , the l ast Governor of Plymouth Colony . His

mother was of the same stock as J ames O t i s , of Revolut i onary


fame . H is early l i fe was spent on h is father’ s farm at Hol l and

Purchase , N . Y . , whither the fami ly had removed i n 18 16. I n1834 he stud ied l aw and taught school . I n 1872 he removedwith his fami ly to Rivers i de , Cook county, I l l ino is . He has neversought Offi ce , but was appointed by Wil l i am H . Seward , Examiner i n Chancery and Master in Chancery i n 1840,

and for several years hel d the office of Just ic e o f the Peace i n the townswhere he res ided , Mr. H inkl ey has travel ed cons iderably, having made the tour of the cont inent of England and Scotland

,

and , unl ike many Americans , has “ done” his own country . He

voted for Wi l l i am Henry Harrison in the years 1836 and 1840,at

Rochester, New York . Took an act ive part i n both campaigns,

being marshal O f the process ions,

“ somet imes mi les in l ength ,”

and attended the Baltimore convention . I n 1888 he was forGen . Benj amin Harrison first , l ast , and al l the t ime , and he addsI th ink he has made no mistake , but shown remarkabl e ab i l ityand fitnes for the high Office .

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REV . DAN IEL GA RLAND HO LMES

The subj ec t of th i s sketch was born in the town of Barnstead ,

Stafford county,New Hampshire , Apri l 5 th ,

18 12 , and is , therefore

,i n h is 77th year of age . Mr . Holmes comes of good old

Puritan stock— hi s ancestors be i ng among the earl i est emigrantsfrom O ld England . H is father, I saac Holmes , was born and al

ways l ived in the town of Farmington , New Hampshire , wherehe d ied at the age of of 78 . Mr . D . G . Holmes had the usualN ew England school ing advantages , or d i sadvantages , as threemonths at school i n a year might certainly be cal l ed , but he wasmore fortunate i n fitt i nghimsel f for the ministry , as he had theadvantages o f school s and col l eges at Lowel l , Boston and

Andover, Mass ,and Whitestown

,N . Y . , at which latter p lace he

graduated . Mr . Holmes cel ebrated hi s first pres ident ial vote onthe wrong s i de o f the fence

,voting in 1836 for Van Buren , but he

soon saw the error of hi s way , and when Van Buren attempted asecond term

,Holmes ’ vote was added to the rous ing maj ority of

Wil l i am Henry Harri son,and from that t ime to the present he


has ever been a steadfast , hard-work ing Republ ican , and heglori es in it . As a reason for his change of heart Mr. Holmessays

“ The great change wrought i n my mind in 1840 had a cause,and that cause was so p lain ly presented to the peop l e that partyl i n es coul d not prevent

,nor party l eaders hol d the peop le from a

change . The Democrati c party , under the l eadersh ip of Pres idents Jackson , Van Buren , and others , had mani fested a greatdeal of abi l i ty i n overthrowing the nati onal bank , and in break ingup the O ld system of finance ; but the peop l e had d iscovered alsothat they had not the ab i l i ty to provide a better system to put ini ts p l ace , nor d i d they have wisdom or the power to put l im its tothe work of destructi on they had already caused ; for the workO f ru in and waste went on unti l i n 1837 every bank in the nat i onsuspended spec i e payment and fai l ed , and our whole countrywas i n financ ial ru in . Thi s party di d not even suggest a systemof bank ing or finance in which the peop l e had any confidence ;nor have they ever been abl e to gain the peop l e ’ s confidence inth is resp ect . Whenever that party has been i n power ru in hasfol lowed , as the h istory of 1837 , 18 5 7 , and 1860 proves .

”

I n 1888 i n our own fair Ci ty , Mr . Holmes voted with greatp l easure for General B enj am in Harrison

,and attended hi s ln

auguration . Mr . D . G . Holmes is an ardent worker for the causeof educati on and reform , and is one O f the foremost act ive workers i n every good cause .

GEO RGE HO LT,

Born Apri l 16th , 18 18 , i n M i l ford , Hi l l sboro county , New Hampshire . H is first vote for pres ident was i n Lowel l , Mass ,

for Wm .

Henry Harrison . The campaign i n Lowel l was a l ive ly one , andgreat interest and entlfusiasmwas man i fested by the Whig partyfor an honest government and tari ff protect i on . A l arge cam

paigngathering of Whigs at Concord , Mass , was held July 4th,1840, and it was est imated that one hundred thousand peopl ewere on the O ld battl e-ground . There was a grand parade Of

mil itary , with bands of mus ic ,and Whig c l ubs from al l over the

134 MEMOR IAL BOO K OF THE

State part ic ipated . Eminent Whigs gave sp lend id speeches ,showing the great benefi t of a protect ive tari ff for our manufacturers , and the part i cu lar fi tness of Wm . Henry Harri son as thestandard bearer of the Whig party .

At Lowel l the Whig party had a log cabin thirty feet l ongand twelve feet wide

,furn i shed with steel traps , l ive coons , and

two barrel s o f hard c ider. The cab in was put on trucks anddrawn by forty horses to Concord , Mass , seventeen m il es fromLowel l . I t was a c l ear, p l easant day , and al l had a grand goodtime . He has always voted for the Whig party unti l i t d i sbanded

,or merged into the Republ i can party , as he l oved free

dom for al l the peop l e— black or white— and l iberty of l i fe andthe pursu i t of happ iness in its broadest sense . He j o ined the Republ i can party , bel i eving i t wou ld carry out al l i ts promises foran honest bal l ot , and a right to have i t counted without fear orint imidati on , and has voted for al l cand idates for pres ident ofthe Republ i can party , i nc l ud ing Benj amin Harri son .

JO HN D . HOWE,

Born February 11, 1798 ; removed to York State i n 1835 , andfrom there to I owa, stopp ing i n I l l inoi s on the way one year, butl ived i n I owa twenty-four years . He then came to Chi cago , andi s now l iving at 53 Univers ity Place . H is occupati on has been acountry blacksmith . H is age i s now n inety-One years , and he isabl e to take hi s rat ions .

THO S . H UBBA RD,

One of the oldest members of the Club , born at Brimfie ld ,Hamp

den county , Mass , June 12 th , 1802 , cast ing h i s fi rst vote i n 1824

for John Q . Adams , at Brimfield , and i n 1836 for Wm . HenryHarrison at the same p lace , and for every Whig and Republ i cancandidate to and incl ud ing Abraham L i ncoln in 1860,

at the samepretty New England town . I n 1864 we found Mr. Hubbardvoting for L i ncoln in Chicago , and at every pres ident iale l ect i on s ince that date he has voted a straight Grand O l dParty ” t i cket , vot ing for Gen . Harrison i n 1888 , i n the FourthWard of our own c ity— anhonorabl e man and a good c i ti zen .


JO HN H UNTI NGTO N ,

A New Eng l ander, who l ived i n Mobi l e , A l abama, when he casthis vote in 1836 for Gen . Harrison . Born i n the town of Benningtown, H il l sborough county , N . H . ,

July 24th ,18 13. Natural ly

the place o f a New Englander from 18 56 to 1865 was north of

the Mason and Dixon l in e , and Mr . Huntington came as farnorth as Chicago , where he voted for Gen . Benjamin Harrison in1888 .

H . H . H USTED .

I was born June 7th ,18 13, at Danbury , Fairfie ld county , Conn

Having been born during the war, when Gen . Wm . H . Harri sonwas wel l thought O f, by my grandfather I was given the name O f

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Harri son . I n Apri l , 1835 , I l eft Connect i cut for New York C ity ,b eing then about twenty-two years Ot _age . I remained there uht i l June

, 1843, when I came to Chicago . I n 1836 I voted theWhig t icket

,consequently voted for Gen . Harri son for pres ident .

I n 1838 I voted for and helped a l i tt l e to make W . H . SewardGovernor of the S tate o f New York . I n 1840 I voted for GenW . H . Harri son “ Tippecanoe and Tyler, too , and with h im we

beat L i ttl e Van , . and now , forty-e ight years later, I have votedfor the grandson

,Gen . Benj amin Harri son , with whose el ect i on

I am wel l p l eased . I have always voted the Whig or Republ ican t icket ih al l nat i onal e l ect i ons . I n local el ect i ons I may havescratched sometimes

,though I am not qu ite sure of that .

BR ICEV IERS H USTO N

Was born in Lond enderry,Guernsey county , Ohio , June 26th,,

182 1 ; moved to I l l i no i s i n 1831, via . the Kee l Boat to Cai ro , hencetowed to St . Lou is , hence to Hennep i n on the steamer Winnebago

.H is uncl e was United S tates S enator, and had sent for

young Brice in order that he might attain schoo l advantages , but

b e ing a pol i t i c ian , and presumably des iring to view pol it i calop in ions with the youngster, he took him through the campaignof 1840 i n Ohio , Pennsylvan ia , West Virgin i a, and O l d ” Vir


g in ia . He was at the i naugurat ion of Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri son , and was the youngest and best known Whig i n thatc ampaign . He d id not vote for Gen . Harri son by reason of h isage ,

but has a very di st i nct remembrance of the “ coon sk ins,

hard c ider, and log cab ins .” He voted for Henry Clay

,and took

act ive part i n the campaign as against A l l en G . Thurman andother “ free trade ” speakers . On the occas i on of Gen . LaFay~e tte

’

s vi s i t to the Un ited States he was the guest o f the parentsof Mr . Huston , as was also Gen . Jackson during a port i on ofe ach year of his term as pres ident . He is personal ly acquaintedw ith Gen . Benj amin Harrison , and worked hard for his el ect i on ,and was “ as happy as a coon over the resu lt .”

W I LL IAM HYDE.

This gent leman.

probably ranks as the s econd oldest man of

the Tippecanoe Club , having been born at Portsmouth , N . H . , 7th

O f February , 1799, and was perfectly fami l i ar with the inc i dentsre lat i ng to the War of 18 12 , having worked— in connect ion withother school boys— on the forts then in construct ion , and thel ad i es i n the town furn ish ing the ir l uncheons . As Mr . Hyde re

marks “We were al l Revolut i onary boys , and were i n for thewar, subsequently proving his war-l ike nature by j o in ing thevarious m i l i tary compani es . I n 1824 he voted for J ohn Q .

A dams , tak ing an active part i n the campaign . I n 1826 he removed to New York , where he voted for Gen . Wil l iam HenryH arri son in 1836 and 1840, tak ing part i n al l the ce lebrat i ons ,

p arades , and l end ing hi s voice i n swel l ing the Tippecanoe songsof the day . Some years after Mr . Hyde removed to Chicago

,

where he has s ince res i ded . He i s at present engaged in preparing a h istory of Boston as i t was i n 18 1 5 , and his former fami liarity with the subj ect wi>l l undoubtedly make the work an intere st ing one . Mr . Hyde cast h i s l ast vote in Lake View

, NOV . 6th ,

1 888 , for Gen . Benj amin H arrison , i nform ing the Board thatthough ninety years of age he had always voted the Whig and

R epubl i can t i cket ; knew the Democracy l ike a book , and had nou se for i t .”


Soon after arriving at the age O f s ixty,he moved to the town

O f Phelps , where he set out and cu ltivated a vineyard of overthree hundred p lants with eminent s uccess

,and h i s exampl e was

soon fol l owed by hundreds Of farmers l iving near and aroundthose charming lakes i n western New York .

His wi fe , Susan S . I ngersol l ( now deceased ) , was a h ighly cultivated l ady , and in a moment o f surpri se , i n 1844, was requestedto improvi se an agricul tural s ong , on the del ivery of an agricultural address i n the nat ive town of her husband

,to be sang by

him on the occas i on . She at once compl i ed,and in a few mo

ments present-ed the fol l owing :

Ye farmers, one and al l , raise your standard highWith one united force ;

Let onward , onward b e your cry,Though toil some b e your course.

>l< >k >l< >l<

Bright science onyour path shal l shine,Truth shed her glorious ray,

And joy, and hope , and love d iv ineLead on to end less day.

CHA S . P . JACKS O N

Was b orn June 4tu , 1820, at"

Sheldon , Genesee county ( now WyOming ) , New York . Was not old enough to vote for Wil l i am H .

Harri son in 1840, and was sent as a del egate to the Fort Meigsce l ebrat i on of the V i ctory of 1840. I n 1844 he l ived in Wabashcounty

,I nd iana , be ing engaged in the rai l road bus iness , the com

pany be ing known as the Underground Rai l road ,” i n which

cal l ing he was most expert , and d id sp l end id servic e . As a boyhi s tendenc ies were toward the Democrat i c party . I n 1838 he

was shown a part of the pi‘

ess destroyed by the s l avery fact i on atA l ton , I l l . , and had previously read of the k i l l ing O f Mr . Lovej oy . These c ircumstances i nfluenced and changed h is sent iments ,and ever after he used every l egit imate measure against s lavery ,

Voted for Gen . Benj amin Harrison at Chicago , and feel s qu iteproud of the fact .


JO HN JAMES .

Born in Truxton , on the 13th of July , 1806 ; removed to Bel lvi l l e , N . J . , i n 182 8 , and engaged i n mercant i l e bus iness ; movedto Utica, Macomb county , Mich . , 183 1 , and engaged i n the samebus iness . I n 1848 he moved to Detro it , Mich . ,

and engaged i nwhol esal e grocery trade , and then changed hi s trade to hardware .

I n 1877 he moved to Hyde Park , having ret i red from business ,where he st i l l res i des . A lways a Whig and Republ i can .

CYRUS JO NES

Was born December 1 5 th , 1805 , i n Genesee county , New York .

I n pol iti c s he has ever been a staunch Whig and Republ i can ,cast i ng h i s first bal lot for Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri son i n 1836,

i n Tippecanoe county,I nd iana , where he then l ived ; and again

(with more success ) i n 1840. I n 1888 he voted for Gen . Benj amin Harrison

,making two out of three successfu l votes for the

Harri sons .

W I LL IAM KEEL I NG

Was born May 12 , 18 14 , i n Derbay L i ne , Vermont . Moved fromH ighgate Vermont to N ew York C ity ; stayed there severalyears ; moved from New York City to Riverhead , Long I sland ,and married El izaAnnBrooks ,of Middletown ,Connecticut , in 1839 .

Voted for Wil l i am H enry Harrison in 1840. Moved from Riverhead i n 184 1 to M iddl etown , Connect i cut . His wife d ied in 186 1 .

They had five ch i l dren,three boys and two girl s— two boys d i ed .

Moved to Amboy in 1862 ; to Chicago i n 1866 ; i s a carpenter bytrade .

He has one sonand two daughters— Mary J . Kn ight , l ivingi n Chicago ; A l i ce Ward , l iving in New York City , and George F .

Keel ing,l iv ing In Counc i l H i l l , I l l . His son served four years

and a hal f i n the army— Twenty-fourth Massachusetts , CompanyF

.Voted for Benj amin Harrison in 1888— not gu i l ty of having

voted the Democrat i c t i cket at any t ime , and now l ives at 2 1 5Hermitage Avenue .

140 MEMOR IAL BOOK OF THEJO HN M . KENNEDY .

I n 1836 I became a voter, and one of my neighbors— aschoolmate of Marti n Van Buren— and I , made a trade . He and oneson,

then a voter,with another sonthat would be a voter i n 1840,

would al l vote for the next Whig candidate , no matter who hem ight be

, so i n 1840 the three voted with me for Wi l l i am HenryHarrison i n L i ttl e Rock , now Kendal e county , then a part ofKane county ; my last vote was cast for Benj amin Harri son . WasaWhig from boyhood t i l l the free so i l party, and from that aRepubl i can

,dyed in the Wool .

JO HN K I LE,

The sonof the Green Mountain State , having been born in Bennington county , O ctober 2 8 , 18 18 , removing with his parents i n18 19 to Monroe county , N . Y . I n 1835

' l ocated i n Wi l l county,I l l . , where , i n 1840,

he cast h i s fi rst vote for Gen . Wil l iam HenryHarrison , subsequently removing to Ch icago and

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performing thesame servi ce for the grandson i n 1888 .

I SAAC C. K ILGO RE

Was born in Fayette county , Ohio , on the 4th of September, 18 17 .

H is parents emigrated from Kentucky to Ohi o , when I saac wassix years O ld . He , with h is parents , a few years l ater, removedto I l l i no i s and settl ed down to farm i ng i n McHenry county .

H is first vote was cast for Gen . Wi l l i am Henry Harrison i n 1840.

He was a Whig unt i l that party was merged i nto the Republ ican

party in 18 5 5-6 . Has always been proud to vote and cast with

th e Republ i can party , and cast h is l ast vote for Gen . BenjaminHarrison on the 6th of November , 1888 .

‘JO HN K I NG , J r.

Was born in Palmer , Massachusetts , Apri l 5 , 1805 , and res idedthere t i l l twenty-one years of age ; then in Monson , Mass . oneyear ; i n North Adams , Berksh ire county, seven years ; i n N ew


mil ch cows . We encountered many diffi cul ti es , bad roads and noroads

,mud ice and snow ; many times our rat ions were short , and

we began to turn our eyes towards the l and of our b irth , and , like

the chi l dren of I srae l , l onged for the flesh pots O f Egypt,after

one diffi culty after the other was overcome . We struck sandsnear M ich igan C ity— a day and n ight here to recru it , and repleni sh our stock of provis i ons . Here R . K . Swift passed us on hi sway to Ch icago— in after years he became banker i n Chi cagowas prominent i n quel l ing the wh isky—ri ot . Our train l eft M ichigan C ity at an early hour, mak ing our way al ong beach andsand hi l l s

,and gulches on the l ake shore . About three or four

O ’c l ock in the afternoon , the k ing-bol t of one wagon broke and Iwas sent on horseback to M i chigan C ity for repai rs . The smith

was out , but came soon and repaired the break , and at twelveO ’ c l ock was on my way up al ong the beach i n search of thewagons . I t was about sun-ri se whenI made

-

camp . A l i ttl e refreshment

,and the repai rs comp leted , we commenced anew our fear

fu l j ourney . This day was dry sand , and s low and hard work forteams . At n ight we took to the p ines for shel ter . During then ight the wind changed and b l ew O ff the lake

,and we were

obl iged to get h igher up the sand h i l l s , but l e ft the wagons . I nthe morn ing the sand was six i nches deep over fe l l oes of thewheels

,and water to the box of the wagons . By shovel ing and

doubl ing teams , we got l iberated , and about noon started againto try the unknown ; th is day the sand was wet and made fairprogress . Thus far, four days and five n ights we were tossed toand fro , wet and hungry , and far from fri ends or home . Fi fthday b r’v '

ght us to the Calumet river, where we got the first hayfor ten days for our teams . Apparently a l arge I nd ian settl ement was once here , remnants o f huts , etc . , a l arge buryingground , al so. Each grave was fenced around with pol es

, two feetwide and six feet long . R ested one day ; crossed the Calumet Ona sand bar, —water three feet deep . A fter cross ing the river

,the

bank was higher, so kept away from the l ake . Here was thefirst vi ew we got of the I l l inoi s prai ri es . This day was spent i nan effort to get some game , as our provi s i ons had given out , andn ight found us along the shore , some bushes for shelter, and


hunger i ncreas ing— no house i n s ight Next day we capturedsome prairi e chickens , and along in the afternoon we passedthrough what seemed to have been a wheat fiel d ; i t was the sold i er

’ sfarm , and be longed to Uncl e Sam, at Ft . Dearborn . We cal ledat the fort , but got no rel i ef. We then made our way to thesouth branch of the river, crossed to the west bank , where therewas a log cab in . Near the door stood the l ady of the house . I twas Mrs . I nd ian Robinson . She was wrapped in a heavy blueblanket , and wore a large p lug-hat with three wide s i lver bandsaround i t. I coul d speak a l ittl e of her l anguage

,and asked her

i f she coul d g ive us a l i tt l e o f anything to eat . She gave usl iberal ly of vension; we camped for the n ight ; i t was windy andcold . Next morn ing , father made the acquaintance of Mr.Robinson , who was a white man ; father was wel l acquainted withhis brother at Maumee C ity. One day in Chicago— avery smal ltown at that t ime . On the north s ide of the river lay canoes asth ick as they coul d be ; up the north branch , on the west s i de ,was a l arge tract O f l and that had been cul t ivated in corn , by theI nd ians . A fter a day

’ s rest , we made another start . A fter traveling al l day in grass to our hips , water ten inches deep , and a l ittl ei ce

,we made Whisky Po int . Here we got a l i tt l e meal and had

a feast of corn bread . The next day , at four o’c lock i n the after

noon, we got to the Desplaines river ; here were p lenty of Ind ians ,

but qui et ; we camped for the n ight . I n early morn we started

forMeacham’

s Grove , twe lve mi les away , which we made late inthe even ing . Coming to the east end of the grove , we foundsome hay stacks

,and camped along side , remain ing two days . I n

the meantime father vi s ited the two Meacham fami l i es , NoahStevens

,Harry Woodworth , and El ias Maynard . Father took a

Cl aim al ong Sal t Creek , with a grove of about one hundred acres .Mr

.Maynard offered us home with him unti l we could bui l d ,

which we gladly accepted . Father and myself went to workchopp ing logs the second day . A man and three nearly grownboys came and ordered us o ff, saying, we could not j ump hisc laim

,and i f we did not want to get hurt , to l eave at once .

Father knowing it to be a dangerous business , l eft , going to the

s ettl ers and report ing . They advised h im to go ahead , that the


man was cl aim ing al l the county and scaring sett l ers out.Father commenced cutt ing l ogs again , and again appeared theman and hi s boys , each armed with a gun , and warned father o ffh i s al l eged cla im , or he woul d shoot h im . Father had h is ax i n

his hand , and tol d me to get my gun . I d i d so . Father walkedup to h im and tol d h im the settl ers were with h im and he would

not l eave , and he must go away or he woul d get hurt , and afterl i tt l e parlying for a l i ttl e money , they l eft , and we were troubl edno more . Many hardship s had to be encountered i n sett l i ng theprai r ies of I l l i no is .Pol i t i cs had l itt l e p lace at first i n peopl e ’ s m ind . But when

the campaign of 1840 Opened , peop l e began to d ivi de and getwarmed up . Long J ohn Wentworth was the Democrati c sh in ingl ight

.He travel ed long and

I

l ate . Democrati c whisky was

p l enty and cheap . The Democrats at the east end of Meachan’

s

grove,at A lans ingWatson

’s H ote l , got a l arge hickory tree andset i t up

’ naming i t “ O l d H ickory ,” p i ckl ed i t i n whisky an dnamed “ O l d H ickory Forever . To be a Democrat then waspopular

.My peop le were al l Democrats . To be a Whig was to

be desp i sed , i nsu lted , abused and humi l iated . The hi ckory pol e

was surrounded , sung to , prai sed , etc . They marched around it,

yel l ing w i th‘ fury for the hero O f Democracy . A fewWhigs had

the l og cab in and hard c ider songs . Some ofmy choi ce acquaintances were Whigs . Wil l i am Henry Harrison was anI ndi anfighter

. H is . many victories over the I ndians was then a great

honor to the man .

.My sympath i es rather increased than dim in i shed in favor ofthe Whigs . The Kansas move to extend s lavery I was stronglyOpposed to —

. al l th i s be l i ttl ed Democracy i n my V i ew . Thencame t he Lovej oy calami ty , which so imbi ttered me against

s lavery and Democracy—L—i ts twin brother4 — I have l eft them"

tO

the i r i dol s— whiskey and J office ! Then the John Brownzaffa'i'

r. had

i ts i nfluence . I was act ive in'

the campaignzfor Fremont " _then

L i ncoln .Was at the W igwam when he was nominate d , and jre

'

jO iced'

; and also mourned when he was k i l l ed : I have part i cipa

ted ih al l the campaigns s ince 18 56'

—have seen al l o f t hep residents except Arthurand Our Ben . Harrison . S ince the formation


vote , but inheri t ing from his father a strong feel i ng of antagoni smto so-cal l ed Democracy , and thoroughly trained i n the schoolof Clay and Webster, he threw his whol e sou l i nto the pol it i calc au ldron , and help ed with youthfu l ardor to bu i l d l og cab ins ,s i ng campaign songs , and rol l the bal l for O l d Tippecanoe , andafterward had the extreme p leasure of stand ing near GeneralWi l l iam Henry Harri son and l i sten ing to and app laud ing h i s add ress del ivered from the steps i n front of the Pittsburgh Hotel ,whenOnhisway from his home i n North B end to Wash ington ,to be inaugurated pres i dent of the United States . I t was duringthe campaign O f 1840 that the shot-gun pol i cy was fi rst i ntro

d uced i nto pol it i cs ( but for a very d i fferent purpose than that“which has characterized its use i n late years ) , the subj ect of th i ss ketch be ing i n an humbl e way a party concerned , a bri ef descriptionOf which may prove interest ing . A member of Congress-from - the Cumberland d istri ct of Maryland , whose name ' was

Shri ver,i n a Whig speech gave an al l egorical representat i on

of the Whig party as a rol l i ng bal l , which was rol l i ng with irres istab le

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veloc ity over al l the States , crush ing out Democracy andLoco Focoism,

and arous ing the p eop l e to a sense of duty, and

l eading them to vote for O l d Tippecanoe . H is father be ing a

zeal ous Whig , as wel l as a dec i ded ant i-s lavery advocate , con

ceived the i dea of typ i fyi ng Mr. Shrivers’ al l egory , by bu i l d ing a

rol l ing bal l to be used i n the campaign . I t was about fourteen

feet i n d iameter, and had a l ong pol e or axl e pass ing through itsc entre

,and proj ect i ng several feet on e ither s i de , with wh ich to

rol l i t , and a rim l ike a tuyere around the other centre , on which

it was rol l ed . I t was frame-work covered with canvas , on which

was painted the names of the pres ident ial cand idates , extractsfrom Whig. princ ip l es as embodied In the p latform of the party

,

amongst Which were “

Q

Protectionto H ome I ndustry,

” “ A SoundNational Currency,

”NO More S lave Terri tory ,

” S lavery i sS ect ional ,

” Freedom i s Nati onal ,” and prominent among the

mottos was a tribute to Shriver,” of Cumberl and

, who first c onc e ived the not i on of putt ing thi s great bal l in moti on . This bal lwas a dec i ded success , and its appearance created the wi ldeste nthusi asm . I t was rol l ed al l

’ round in Fayette and Green coun !

JAMES LAN ING .


t i es , and ferri ed across the Monongahel a river to Washingtoncounty , and on one occas i on i t was p laced on a fl at-boat andpoled and towed up the river fi fty mi l es to Morgantown

,V i r

gi n i a,and rol l ed at a convent ion there . Amongst the prom inent

speakers i n that -campaign was the Hon . Andrew Stewart ( knownas Tari ff Andy ) , O f Uniontown , Pa. , and the Hon . Thomas M ; T .

McKennan, of Wash ington , Pa . ( afterward a member of Pres ident Fi l lmore ’ s cabinet ) , and the Hon . Walter Forward

,of P itts

burgh,Pa. The nat ional turnp ike road extending from Wheel

ing,Virgin ia, to Cumberl and , Md . , passed through Brownsvi l l e ,

Pa. ,and members -of Congress from the South took that route by

stage-coach to and from the cap itol atWashington , D . C . Uponthe adj ournment O f Congress that summer, the southern members

,amongst whom were C lay and Crittenden , of. Ky . ,

Grundyof Tenn and

,Benton, Of Mo . , were pass ing through Brownsvi l l e

on the ir way South one day when the “ bal l was i n moti on ”

through the vi l l age,and the “ boys ,

” i n a freak of fun,took after

the stage in which the august S enator Benton , from M issouri ,was rid ing . The Senator d id not re l i sh the j oke , and told thedriver to whip up hi s team and run away from the d d th ing

,

and a l ive ly race ensued for a t ime , but the horses proved toolong winded for the boys ,

” and so the chase had to be given up ;but seri ous resu lts were threatened , for the Democrats felt themselves insu lted by the act i on O f the Whigs in s ingl ing out Senator B enton for the ir fun , and swore they would destroy the bal l .I t was kept

,when not in u se , i n a c lose shed bu i l t for i ts protec

t ion by hi s father, who owned the l and on which it stood , and

the bal l was hi s own property , and he determ ined to de fend it , i fneeds be

,with h i s l i fe . SO he loaded up his double-barrel l ed

snot-gun, and some smal l arms he had , and with his sons keptwatch

,and waited the

Jattack of the Democracy . But they

,know

ing wel l the character of the man , they had to deal with , con

c luded that an attempt to destroy the bal l might l ead to some“ unpleasantn ess , and so abandoned the attempt , and the ol dbal l rol l ed on t i l l the campaign was over and Pres ident Harrisonduly insta l l ed in the White House .

Ephraim L . Blaine , Esq , ( father of our most d ist ingu ished

I SO MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THE

grocery and tobacco trades . Soon after resuming res idence i nBrownsvi l l e agai n he became an act ive member of Brownsvi l l eLodge and Encampment of I . O . of O . F. , pass ing through theChairs and representing both branches of the order i n the GrandLodge and Encampments of Pennsylvan ia i n the sess ions O f

1848—9 ,hel d i n the Ci ty Of Phi l adelph ia , Pa . He continued in

the grocery and tobacco trade unt i l the fal l O f 1848 , when he wasO ffered I st c l erkship of the steamer “ J ohn Qu incy Adams ,

” andagain took to river l i fe , but the chol era break i ng out that winter,and proving so destruct ive to l i fe as wel l as river bus iness , heagain sett l ed on shore and engaged i n steamboat cab in bu i l d ing

,

house carpentering , and saw and p lan ing mi l l bus iness,under the

firm of Lan ing , Johnston Co . He continued i n th is bus inessunt i l 18 54 , when he again changed to river l i fe , tak ing an i nterestand I st c l erksh ip on the steamer “W . A . Eaves ,

” which he superintended the bu i l d ing of for the Green River trade

,as a week ly

packet between Loui svil l e and Bowl ing Green , Kentucky , clos ingup his bus iness and removing to Bowl ing Green , Ky . Remainedin thi s trade one year only , when he sol d out h i s interest i n the“W . A . Eaves and removed to LaSal l e , I l l . , i n Apri l , 18 5 5 , andengaged i n the i ron and hardware trade unt i l 18 59 , when he dec i ded to remove to St . Lou i s , Mo . , for the purpose Of forming aCO-partnersh ip with h i s unc l e , Mr . Paul Lan ing, i n the i ron bus iness ; but unfortunately for h im , before he was fairly sett l ed , hiswife took s ick and d ied , l eaving h im three l i ttl e daughters , agedfive

,ten and fourteen , who are at th i s wri t ing al l l iving . With

these daughters and the i r husbands and fami l i es he nOw res i des ,alternately . The l oss of h i s wi fe again changed hi s pl ans

,and

he again took to river l i fe as I st cl erk of steamers Dr. Kaneand “ Harmonia ,

” p lying i n the upper M iss i ss ipp i trade,from

St . Lou is to St . Pau l , and was thus engaged when the war brokeout . I n the spring of 186 1 h i s boat , the

“ Dr . Kane , was sent toNashvi l l e

,Tenn, l oaded with bacon , corn , etc . , suppl i es for the

Southern Confederacy , then about to organize— the news of JeffDavis ’ e lect ion to the pres idency thereof reach ing the boat onthe way up the Cumberl and river, at Dover, and caus ing greatexc itement on board , as most o f the passengers were rebels , and

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB, CH ICAGO . 1 5 1

the boat b e ing then in the Confederacy,they let themselves

l oose and had a regu lar jol lification over it , whi lst the Un ion istshad to keep qu i et , esp ec ial ly the Offi cers , as they had a cargo onboard which must be del ivered and freights coll ected before theycoul d fee l safe to avow the i r princ i p les . As c l erk of the b oat i twas h i s spec i al duty to look out for that . He had secured thefri endship of M r . B a rebel passenger

,and owner of part of

the cargo , who k indly aided h im ,on arr ival at Nashvi l le

,to get

the steamboat agency to rece ive the cargo and pay the freights.

A fter a good deal of delay and financiering he succeeded i n gett ing ri d O f the cargo and securing the money for the fre ights

, and

was very glad to save the steamer,which was al lowed to return

In safety to St . Loui s . Whil st i n Nashvi l l e he was walk ing th estreets with h i s rebel fri end B ( afterward a prom inent rebe lOfficer ) , where b e

‘

saw the fi rst rebe l badge— a rosette Of w/titeand red , the blue l eft out— one of which B procured andp inned on h is own lappel , but was k ind enough not to O ffer oneto the c l erk . On h i s return to St . Loui s he found the exc i tement runn ing high

,and the rebel camp Jackson creat ing a good

deal of uneas in ess, which culminated a few days after in its cap

ture by Gen . Lyon ( then i n command of the‘U . S . arsenal near

St . Louis ) , with United States troops . The subj ect of th i s sketchwas not l ong in dec id ing to o ffer h i s services to he lp maintai nthe Un ion

,and natural ly chose the gunboat service , where he

cou ld be most useful , and according ly, as soon as the WesternFloti l l a was organized

,presented h imsel f to Commander Wm . D .

Porter,then i n temporary command ( a few days previous to the

arr ival O f Capt . A . H . Foote ) , and hi s services were accepted , andhe had the honor of being the second Officer appointed— h i sbrother-in- l aw

,Capt . Robert K . Ri l ey, of S t . Lou is , being

the first appointment made . These appointments were promptlyapproved

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by Flag Officer Foote on h i s arrival , and Ri ley andLan ing were sel ected by Commander Porter for First and Sec

ond Masters of hi s vesse l— the iron-cl ad Essex —wh ich afterward made a glori ous record in the M iss i ss ipp i squadron . The

naval career thus began by the subj ect O f th i s sketch was , by a

s ingular combinat ion of c ircumstances , perhaps the most varied .

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and pecul iar of any other officer in the volunteer service of theUnited S tates in land navy , a bri e f synops i s of which may be int eresting,

and i s herewith appendedVolunteered September 2 3d , A . D. , 186 1 , as S econd Master in

the Western Gunboat Flot i l l a ; was ass igned to duty on board the

U . S . i ron-c lad gunboat“ Essex ,

” Commander Wm . D . Porter ,U . S . N. ; had command of her battery i n the battl e o f FortH enry , February 6 , 1862 , and had the honor of firing the first

shot which entered the breastworks . Rece ived such inj uri es fromconcuss i on , caused by the rap id fi ring of the n ine inch gunsu nder cas ements , as to seriously impair h is hearing , and d isquali ty h im for the dut i es of a watch Offi cer . Was promoted FirstMaster for meri tori ous servi ces in the battl e , and ass igned toshore duty i n the Construct ion Department at St . Loui s , be ing a

pract i cal bu i l der and navigator . A ss i sted Commander Porter in

d es ign ing the iron-c lad ram gunboats Lafayette ” and Choc

taw,and was p laced in charge of the i r construct i on . The su

perintend ence of thi s work involved immense labor and extraord inary respons ib i l i t i es , the ex igences of the servi c e requ iri ng

p rosecut i on of the work (with re lays O f men ) day and n ight and

S undays for a peri od of seven months . He comp leted both these

v essel s , mounted the ir batteri es , took on board thei r supp l i es and

outfit , hoisted the i r flag when they went i nto commiss i on,and

d el ivered both at Cai ro , the “ Lafayette ” i n January,and the

Choctaw in Apri l , 1863. They were amongst the best and

most form idabl e vessel s i n the squadron , tak ing prominent partin al l the heavy engagements on the l ower M iss i ss ipp i , without

the l oss Of a man k i l l ed i n act i on . Their cost was about $500,

000 for both— amuch l ess sumthan was expended on other ironc l ads bu i l t by contract , which proved much inferi or i n service .

I n the prosecuti on of th i s work he had the ent i re confidence of

the army d epartment,J

through Quartermaster—General M . C .

M e igs , U . S . A . ,i n the prompt remiss i on of al l funds asked for

,

notwithstanding that owing to the exigies of the war the cost of

the vessel s was much beyond original est imates . He received ,al so , the commendations of Admiral D . D . Porter, command ing

the squadron , and the honorabl e Secretary of the Navy ,who again


th i s service he was highly commended by both Admirals Porterand S . P . Lee ,

who succeeded Porter i n command of the squadron whi l st the work was i n progress , and was highly recommended to the honorabl e S ecretary of the Navy for promot ionto the h ighest grade of rank i n the vo lunteer naval servi ce .

I t wi l l thus be seen that h i s servi c es were not on ly varied , but

most val uabl e to the government . H e served on five d i fferenti ron-c lads , bu i ld ing two o f them (viz . Lafayette and “ Choctaw ”

) and launching the I ndi anola .

” When the Western Flot i l l a was transferred , Oct . 1 st , A . D. ,

1862 , from the Army Department ( under which i t was organ ized ) to the Regular Navy , the“ Lafayette and “ Choctaw bei ng i n an unfin ished condit i on

,

were,by act of Congress ( i n order to avoi d confus i on i n ac

counts ) , exempted from trans fer unt i l ent i re ly finished -so thatwhi l st be ing Su perintendent of Construct i on under the Army , hewas L i eutenant i n command O f both vessel s under the Navy

,on

spec ial servi c e , unti l both vesse l s were fin i shed and del ivered tothe Admiral at CairoA t the c l ose of the war , i n the spring of 1865 , he was O ffered

a cl erksh ip in the Northern L i n e Packet CO . of steamers , p lyingbetween St . Lou i s and St Pau l , and ass igned to duty as I st c lerkof the steamer Canada , and continued i n that vocation unti lAugust , 1866 ,

when the dreadfu l scourge of cholera again droveh im from river l i fe

,the fi rst case on the upper M iss i ss ipp i that

year having occurred on board the Canada ” at Rock I s land,

and before reaching St . Pau l no l ess than twenty-two cases had?

occurred on board , every one of which proved fatal . On arrivalat S t. Pau l the in fected steamer d i scharged her Cargo and l eftimmed iately for St . Lou i s , without e ither fre ight or passengers .Her commander was so frightened that he l eft the boat atKeokuk on her way dgwn, l eavi ng h im to del iver her to theowners at St . Lou is , who at once sent her to A l ton S lough to bel ai d up for the balance of the season , whi l st he went to h is homein LaSal l e , and bid a final adi eu to river l i fe , after a chequeredexperi ence O ff and on for twenty-three years . He was not l ongidl e

,but immedi ate ly commenced the erect i on of a p lan ing mi l l ‘

and boxfactory , and secured a contract for supplying the wi n

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dow glass f actory with thei r pack ing boxes,and in 1870 became

the princ ipal stockholder i n the Phoen ix G lass Co. ,which he or

ganized , and was e l ected superintendent and treasurer,and took

Charge of that bus in ess al so , which he carri ed on extens ivelyunt i l 1877 , when hi s health became so much impaired by reasonOf h i s arduous l abors , and the phys ical d isabi l it i es contractedduring the war, resu lt ing i n total deafness and nervous debi l ity ,

and general prostrat ion , he was compel l ed to ret i re , and removedto Hot Springs , A rkansas , for the benefit of h i s health , where heerected a large board ing house , known as the Lan ing Mansion

,

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a very handsome locati on i n the north end of the val ley,where

he spent most O f h i s t ime unti l 188 5 , and part ial ly regained h i sheal th ( but not hi s hearing , as he i s now ,

and has been for years ,total ly deaf i n both ears ) . H is property in Hot Springs wasdestroyed by fire in 188 5 , when he sold h i s l ots and again re

moved to I l l ino i s . He spent the summer of .1880 i n Chi cago , andas a member O f the Un ion Veteran Club took an act ive part inthe Garfiel d campaign .

I n 1884 he al so attempted to speak at a rat ification meetingfor B lain e and Logan , hel d in front of t he Sumpter H ouse , HotSprings , Ark . , but was compe l l ed , by the howls of the Democrats ,who surrounded the l i ttl e b and O f Republ i cans , to des i st , and wasfol l owed by Hon . Powel l C layton , who succeeded in restoringorder". F i nd ing it enti re ly use less to made any further e fforts i nthat bourbon-ridden State , he went to Chicago and gave hi shumble e fforts for Blaine and Logan— return ing to Hot Springsin t ime tovote , for the mere sake of voting .

I n the gl ori ous campaign of 1888 he was unabl e , by reason ofadvanc i ng years

,dec l i n ing heal th , and total deafness , to take a

very active part— mak ing only one l ittl e speech The Rol l ingBal l — at Hyde Park Centre , ear ly in the campaign , and attending one or two meetings O f the O l d Tippecanoe Club , of whichhe i s very proud to be a member, and having the extreme p leasure of cast ing h i s vote at Woodlawn Park prec i nct for the entireRepubl i can ti cket

,contain ing fifty-one names , without a scratch ,

and th is has been h is course for forty-s ix years past— having

never , i n the whol e course of h is l ife , voted ( as such ) the Demo


c rat i c t i cket . H is first vote for pres i dent was for Henry Claythough h is first work was for O l d Tippecanoe . He i s aMasterMason s ince 18 59 ; an Odd Fel l ow s ince 1844 ; a member of Chicago Union Veteran Club s ince 1880 ; a charter memb er ofWarren Stewart Post , NO . 5 33, G . A . R . , of Cairo , I l l . ; a memberof the Farragut Naval Assoc iat i on of Chi cago .

M . A . LAW RENCE

Was born in O tsego county , New York , June 12 th , 1820, removi ng i n 1837 to Gi rard , Erie county , Pa. , where he took part i n thecampaign of 1840. The exc itement of th i s campaign i n Pennsylvan i a was so i ntense that i t has never been equal ed . Mr.Lawrence had an el ect i on wagon fitted out to attend convent ionswith . One of h i s wagons had five b ig K ’ s

,

” which , being i nter

preted ,meant : K i nderhook ’ s Kand idate Kant Kome i t Kwite .

”

These features were the cause Of many contests , i n whi ch theRepubl i cans general ly came out best . For some years past Mr

Lawrence has res i ded in Chicago , where he cast hi s vote l astNovember for “ Young Tippecanoe .

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M . LOVEJO Y ,

Born S eptember I st, 18 1 5 , at Weston , Windsor county , Vermont ,where he remained unt i l 1832 , when he removed to Boston , subsequently return ing to h i s nat ive town , where , i n 1840,

he cam

paigned and voted for Gen . Wil l i am H . Harri son,naming hi s

on ly son after the i l l ustri ous Wh ig. H is grandfather was a soldi er i n the Cont inental Army in the RevolutionaryWar, of wh ichfact M r. Lovej oy is qu ite proud . He never l ost a val i d Opportu

mi ty to cast h i s vote for our ” candidate . I n 18 54 the gentl emancame west , s ettl ing i n -I l l i

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n0 13 In 18 5 5 . He served two years inthe A rmy O f the Potomac , and has l ived in Chicago twenty-fouryears . Mr . Lovej oy has been engaged in various mercanti l e pursu its ; h is patri ot i sm has never waned , and h i s i nterest i n theel ect i on of Gen . B . Harrison was i ntense , al though in hi s e ightyfourth year. Mr. Lovej oy j o i ned th e rest of the boys i n the


Stares . The first t ime he came to Ch icago was i n the year 1836

( i n July ) , as “Royal Boy ” on board the sh ip “ Ju l ia Palmer.He sai l ed on the lakes forty-three years .

JAMES A . MARS HA LL

Was born i n London , England ,'J une 12 , 1809 . Son of Maj or

John Marshal l, O f the Bri t i sh A rmy , who came to America in

18 16 ; was Commandant O f the barrack s at Perth , Canada, butfinding the p lace so unfitted for educat i on of. hi s ch i l dren , he re

s igned his commiss i on and removed to the Un ited States , locati ng i n Ogd ensburgh , St . Lawrence county , New York . H is sonJames rece ived h i s academi c educati on at the B el l vi l l e Academy ,New York , afterward attended the

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Univers ity Of Maryland,a

med ical inst itute at Balt imore , and graduated i n the c lass o f1831 . Came west , and

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arrived i n Chi cago Apri l 20, 1832 . Vis i tedNavarino ( Green Bay ) , returned to Chicago and engaged i n thereal estate

,auct i on and commiss i on bus i ness ; Has res i ded in

Chicago s ince that t ime , vot i ng for Wil l i am Henry Harri sonin 1840, and has voted the Whig and Republ i can t i cket fifty—n ineyears , hi s l ast vote be ing for B enj amin Harri son. He i s theO ldest settl er i n Chi cago at the present day — and carri es thegold medal for be ing the same . He has a wife , one son ( James F.

Marshal l ) , and one daughter (Mrs . P . C . Hanford ) , now l ivingal l res idents of Chi cago at the present t ime .

I S AAC MA RS H

Was born i n Vi ctor , Ontari o county , N . Y In the year 1809.

Voted for Wi l l i am Henry Harrison in the year 1836 , and al sovoted for the same gentl eman in Lockport

,N . Y . ,

i n 1840 ; votedfor Benj amin Harri son for pres ident in the fal l of 1888 , tak ing anact ive part with the great Republ ican party i n the defeat Of awicked and i ncompetent admin istrat i on— an admin istrati on thathad sought t hrough the Democrati c party the destruct i on O f thebest government in the world— through a rebel l i ous war of fouryears

,i n the destruct i on and murder of of our peop l e

,

and at a cost of

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J . C. MEA RS .

Thi s gent leman,now in h i s n inety-thi rd year , i s the Old est

member of the O l d Tippecanoe Cl ub -having been born March2 2 d , 1797 , i n M i lton , Chittenden county ,

V t .

—thus lack ing butseven years O f being a centenari an . Mr . Mears cast h i s fi rst votefor James Monroe at h i s second el ect i on . He was al so one o fthe only two voters i n Switzerland , I nd . , for the fi rst ant i-sl averycandidate— the other voter be ing Mr . Morri s , a Presbyterian Divi ne

, O f Ris ing Sun,I nd iana . I n conc lud i ng a short b iographi cal

sketch of h imsel f,Mr. Mears says : I voted for Wil l i am Henry

Harrison in 1840,and for my crowning and probably l ast vote

,

for his grandson i n Let us hope that Mr . Mears may bespared to cast one more vote for Gen. Harri son .

NATHAN MEA RS

Was born at B i l l erica , Massachusetts , December 3oth , 18 1 5 . Hisparents were Nathan and Lucy LevistOne Mears

, who both d iedbefore he was twelve years O ld . He was educated at the B i l l eri ca and Westford Academies . At s eventeen years he secured apos i tion with N ichol s Leeder, whol esal e and retai l dry goods ,i n Boston

,and continued ~with them unt i l 1836 , when he formed

a CO—partnersh ip wi th h i s two older brothers , Edwin and Charles ,and with a stock o f general merchandise removed to Paw Paw

,

Michigan,and Opened a store , the firm be ing E . C . Mears 81

CO . I n 1839 he bought out hi s brothers , continu ing unt i l 18 50,

when he removed to Chicago and commenced the lumber bus iiness with his brother Charl es , the fi rm be ing C . Mears CO . I n186 1 h i s brother ret ired , El i Bates succeed ing him ,

under thefirm name of Mears , Bates CO . This firm for a number o f yearshandled more lumber than any fi rm in the world

,and owned a

large fleet of vessel s on the lakes , unt i l Mr . Bates’ death

,i n 188 1 .

He was succeeded by Mr . Mears ’ son Charl es H . ,the fi rm being

Nathan Charl es H . Mears , unti l the spring of 1889, whenNathan reti red from the fi rm . I n 1867 the Oconto CO . was in

corporated , Geo . Farnsworth and the fi rm CO . ,

( then incl ud ing Nathan Mears , El i Bates , James C . Brooks,and


Geo . H . Ambrose ) , being the owners . Mr . Farnsworth wasel ected pres ident

,and Nathan Mears vice-pres ident , which Offi c e

he has hel d cont inuously to th is t ime . This company has l umbered extens ively s ince i ts organ izat i on , and owns a largeamount of stand ing t imber , and upwards o f on e hundred thousand acres of l and on the Oconto river i n Wisconsin . I n 188 1 theBay De Noquet CO . ,

of Nahina , Delta county , Michigan , was

organ ized , the O conto Co. , being owners — Geo . Farnsworth , president

,and Nathan Mears , vice-pres ident . This company has a

large amount of stand i ng t imber, and upwards O f seventy-fivethousand acres of l an d on the Sturgeon river that flows into B igBay De Noquet , at the north end of Green Bay , i n the northernpen insu lar of M ich igan . The m i l l s of these two compani es aremanufacturing at th i s t ime over four hundred thousand feet O f

l umber a day . Mr . Mears was marri ed to AnnEl izabeth Gi lbert,

of Battl e Creek , Mich . ,February 6th , 1840 . They had four ch i l

dren— two sons and two daughters . Their youngest son, Nathan ,d ied i n in fancy

,i n 18 58 . The ir o ldest daughter, Lucy A . ,

marri ed Mr . Johnathan S l ade ; Sarah El izabeth married Mr . James R .

McKay ; and Chas . H . marri ed M iss Harri ett Wright , al l o f Chicago , where they now reside . Mr. Mears voted for Wil l i amHenry Harrison at Paw Paw , Mich . , i n 1840,

and for B enj am inHarrison in Ch icago In 1888 , and was j o i ned by h is son,

two sonsin-l aw , and h is Ol dest grandson , Mr . Gi lbert L . S l ade , who al lvoted the straight Republ ican ti cket .Mr. Mears was brought up a Un itari an— one of the organ izers

O f Unity Church in thi s c ity— has contributed toward its supportover and i s st i l l ha l e , hearty and generous .

N. E. MERR I LL

Was born August 2 7 , 18 16 i n the town of New Boston,New

Hampshire removed to Boston , Mass , i n 1833 where he remainedt i l l 1839 , when he made a s ix-year-stay i n Macon

, Ga. ,later

returni ng to h is native state , as the South contained almost toomany Democrats for heal thy cl imati c surroundings —to Republ icans . Mr. Merri l l came to Chicago in 18 5 2 ,

and has res id ed here

N . F . MERR I LL .


ever s ince,being act ively engaged in mercant i l e , rai l road and real

estate bus iness . He voted for H arrison i n 1840 at Macon , Ga.,

and i n Chi cago for al l the pres idents o f the Republ i can p latform ,

i nc l ud ing the l ate campaign O f the “ O l d Tippecanoes , and h i sh ighest ambiti on is to be ab l e to “ do i t again ; hi s heal th b i dsfai r to perm it . Res idence , 140 1 Wash ington boul evard .

W I LL IAM MENDS EN,

Born near Cherryvi l l e,Northampton county , Pa. , S eptembe r

1 1th , 18 17 . H e was a descendant o f German parentage — hi s

father bei ng a c l ergyman O f the Lutheran church , and vot ing for

Gen. Wi l l iam Henry Harrison at both el ect ions— 1836 and 1840 .

Mr . M end senCast h i s fi rst vote for Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri soni n 1840,

at Tried svil le ,Pa . Has been engaged i n bus iness i n

‘Chicago ever s ince 18 5 1 , the year of h is arrival , enj oying good

h ealth , and among the more important events of h i s l ater l i fe“

was hi s vote cast for Gen . Benjamin Harrison , and the cel ebrat i on O f the fi ft i eth ann iversary of hi s marriage , which occurredin 1888 .

JO HN M I LLER ,

Born J anuary 16 , 18 16 ,i n Turin

,Lew i s county , New York . H is

parents were o f Massachusetts Puritan descent . I n 1824 hisp arents removed to Lou isvi l l e , St . Lawrence county , N . Y . ,

onthe S t . Lawrence river, where he was reared . H is father, Rev .

Levi M i l l er , was a Method ist c lergyman , and a l eader o f thework O f that p i oneer church in th i s then new ly settl ed region .

He was al so the representat ive O f James McV icker, one of theoriginal proprietors O f a large port ion of that county .

The subj ect o f th i s sketch was admitted to the bar at Ogdensb urg

,and pract iced h is profess ion at Canton , N . Y . He voted

for Wil l iam Henry Harri son for pres ident i n 1840, and for theWhig and Republ ican cand i dates for pres ident at every pres id ential e l ect i on s ince he arrived at maj ority . He has always

tak en an act ive interest i n po l i t i cal matters . He was i n charge

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we st, where he res ided up to the t ime of hi s decease , which OC

curred at the Gault House , i n th is c ity ,January 14 ,

1889 . I npol it i cs Mr . Mil l s was original ly a Whig , be i ng a del egate to theyoung Whig ratificat ion at Balt imore in 1840. From 18 56 to thet ime of his death he was a constant , earnest Republ i can— amanO f strong resolute character , scholarly in h i s tastes , k ind to everybody

, amodel of perfect O ld school gentl eman . Mr . Mi l l s ’ rel a~

tives number many O f our most worthy and prominent c i t i zens .

THO MA S C. MO O RE

Was born near She lbyvi l le , i n the State O f Tennessee , November26th , 18 17 ; removed to C lark county i n 182 1 , and se tt l ed near theWabash rIver; then removed to Col es county in 1826 ,

settl ingnear the present l ocat i on of Mattoon ( at that t ime Col es countyhad not been organ ized , nor had Charl estown , the county-s eat ,been l ocated ) , and labored as a farm hand unt i l 1837 . A ttendedthe Academy in Marshal l , Clark county , and stud i ed l aw i n theOffice of Judge H arland . Was admitted to the bar in Marshal l

,

May,1843. Removed toChicago i n J une , 184 5 , and from thence

to Batavia,I l l . , i n August , 1848 , where he has s ince res ided , en

gaged in the pract i ce o f l aw . He had been a Whig i n pol it icsunti l the format ion O f the Republ i can party i n 18 5 4 ,

which hehelp ed to organ ize , and was a del egate to the first Congress i onalConvent ion ever he ld under the name of “ Republ i can .

” Thatconvention was held i n Aurora , Kane county , I l l . , on the 19th dayof September , 18 54 . He was a member O f the Committee onPlatform at that convent ion , and ass i sted the late Judge Mah i erre , O f Chicago , i n drafti ng the platform . The commi tteerecommended to the conventi on the name O f Republ i can forthe new party , which was adopted . He voted for Gen . Wil l iamHenry Harrison in 1840, and j o ined the Tippecanoe Club , of Chicago

,during the pres i dent ial i n 1888 , voting for Gen . Benj am in

H arrison .

CO L . A LEX . H . MO RR I S O N ,

O f S t . J oseph , Michigan , was born in Quebec , Canada, February2 1 , 182 2 , of Scotch and American parentage . Came to Chicago

L . L . M ILLS .


i n October, 1839 ; was employed i n a canal o ffi ce at what i s now

ca l l ed Lemont , Cook county , I l l . , and labored with ass idu i ty before and on e l ect i on day i n 1840 for Gen . Wm . Henry Harrisonfor pres ident . I n the fi fty years of res idence in the northwest ,th irty-e ight years have been spent i n St . Joseph , Mich igan ; was

Chairman of the Board of Supervi sors i n 18 5 1 ; cand idate for Presid ential el ector on the Whig ticket i n 18 5 2 ; el ected State Senatorin 18 56 ,

and supported Zack Chandle r for Senator I n 1860 was

e lected to the Assembly , and was chai rman of the Committee onState A ffairs i n the Legi slature for three sess ions , and was onthe staff of Gov . B ingham , and al so on that of Gov . Wisner , withrank of Colonel , was a member O f Repub l i can State CentralCommittee from 1862 to 1866 ; was Col l ec t or of I nternal Revenue ,appo inted by Abraham L i ncoln , for Second COngressional District of M ich igan .

O The last pos i t i on hel d was member O f Republ i can Nati onal Convention i n 1880, and voted upon every bal l ot ,as d id Benj am in Harrison,

our present pres ident . His Chicagoaddress i s 4 32 2 Berkl ey Avenue .

CHA RLES H . MO RTO N ,

Born on the 1 1th day of June,A . D. , 18 16 , near Lexington , Fay

ette county , Ky . ( i n the ne ighborhood of“ Ashl and

,the res i

dence of the immortal H enry Clay ) . I n the year 183 1 , at theage O f fi fteen years , emigrated to Clark ( now Coles ) county ,

I l l . ,s ett l ed in Charlestown , the county—seat ; i n the year 1868 re

moved to Chicago ; fol l owed the occupat i on of a retai l dry goodsmerchant , then a private banker , then pre s ident Of a nati onalbank , and final ly a manufacturer and wholesal e deal er i n readymade cl oth ing , i n the c i ty o f Chicago . Gave first pres ident ialvote i n 1840 for Wm . Henry Harrison ; i n 1844 for Henry C lay ;1848 for Gen . Tayler ; 18 5 2 for Gen . Scott ; 18 56 for Gen . Fremont ;1860 and ’

64 for Abraham L i ncol n ; 1868 and ’

72 for Gen . Grant ;1876 for Gen . Hayes ; 1880 for Gen . Garfie ld ; 1884 for James G .

Blaine ; 1888 for Gen . Benj amin Harrison— never cast a Democrat ic vote for even the sma l l est offi ce when there was a Whig orRepubl ican candidate .


as such had to make up a cert ificate whenever there was an e lect i on , and forward i t to the cap itol , showing who the town votedfor . Being c l erk i n 1840,

when Harrison was e l ected , of course Ihad to make up the cert ificate o f e lect ion and forward i t . Fortyeight years afterward

,on Nov. 6 , 1888 , as one of the Judges O f

e lect i on in Chicago , I ass i sted i n maki ng up the returns for thee l ect i on of Gen . Benj amin Harri son . 1 am now seventy-sevenyears o ld , i n the enj oyment O f perfect heal th , and retain al l myfacult i es— mental and phys ical— and am happy i n the thoughtthat I have been a Christ i an man for about s ixty years

,and ex

pect i n due t ime to change thi s for a better world .

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FRANCI S NO U RS E

Was born i n Merrimack ,N . H . , Apr i l 17 th , 18 17 , and traces hi s

geneology back six generat i ons , to Franc i s Nourse , born i n 16 18 ,

and the original emigrant of the Nourse fami ly from Yarmouth ,Eng land

, A . D. , 1634 . Mr . Nourse has been a res i dent of Chi cagofor many years

,and had two sons i n the Board Of Trade Bat

tery” during the war O f the Rebel l i on . Mr . Nourse voted for

Gen . Harrison in the year 1840, at Cambridge , Massachusetts ,and for Benj amin Harri son in 1888 , and al l Whig and Republ icancandidates in the i nterim .

THO MA S PA RKER

Was born in the town O f I ndiana , Pa. , on the 1 2 th day of Dec . ,

18 14 . I n 1836 he removed to the town O f Butl er , Pa. , where hevoted the Democrat ic t icket t i l l the spring O f 1840,

when theyhad a town DemOcratic meet ing i n the court house , at wh ich heo ffered it tariff re so lut i on , but i t was voted down as a di sturb inge l ement in the party , and he then and there decl ared he was nol onger a Democrat— voting theWhig and Republ ican t i cket evers ince . At the el ect i on of 1840 he voted for Gen . Wil l iam HenryHarrison , and at the e l ect ion l ast fal l voted for Gen . Benj aminH arri son for pres ident , on the same i ssues of the campaign of

1840


O RV I LLE O LCOTT.

I n the year of 18 14 , O rvi l l e Ol cott , the subj ect of th i s sketch ,

was born at the town O f Lenox , Madison county , N . Y . “then butsix weeks O ld h i s father d i ed , l eaving himsel f, mother and an Olders i ster

,to batt l e with the worl d on a p i oneer York S tate farm .

Subsequent ly ,however

,hi s mother marri ed again , and although

other ch i l dren were born,i t devolved upon young O rvi l l e as the

o ldest,t o give the most aid to h i s step—father i n rec laim ing an

uncult ivated and rugged farm into a prosperous and valuabl eproperty . Thi s was not done without years o f to i l , unaided bythe l abor-saving farm machinery of today ,

wh ich makes farmingcomparat ively an easy task . I n the meantime , and unt i l h e attained the age O f fourteen , hi s schoo l ing was confined to themeagre advantages of a common school educati on , Obtainedd uring the winter ses s i ons . Just such an experi ence as many ofthe O ld t ime N ew Eng land and York State settl ers , now prosperous c i t i zens o f th e western states , can l ook back to— ah ex

perience which lai d the foundat i on O f thei r characters , and madeposs ib ly the ir l atter day success es . When at th i s age

,hemoved

to Ut ica,N . Y .

,at the i nstance of h i s unc l e , to l earn the bus in ess of

canal boat bu i lding on the Eri e Cana l— about th i s t ime j ust completed

— and to secure the advantages of a better educati on . Hecont inued in th i s bus iness unt i l 1835 , when , at the age O f twentyOne , h i s unc le re l i nqu i shed the busin ess to him i n order to gowest . I n those days the Eri e Canal was the great thoroughfarefor passenger and freight traffi c , and for th irteen years he carri edon a prosperous bus iness i n bu i ld ing and repairi ng canal boats .

He constru cted many of the passenger and mai l s ervicepackets which p l i ed between A lbany and Buffa lo , and i n thosedays were regarded as elegant and rap id means o f trans i t .Duri ng th is p eriod of his l ife in Utica , he took an act ive interest i npol it i cs and a l l matters of l ocal c oncern , and served i n everycapac i ty— from a volunteer fireman to a seat i n the commoncounc i l of the c ity . He was thrice e lected as a lderman , and tooka prominent part i n the campaign of 1836 , O f Harri son againstVan Buren— hi s first vote being recorded i n that year for theformer i n h i s unsuccessful cand idacy for the pres ident ial chair .


Again , i n the campaign of 1840,he worked and voted for

Harri son,and th i s t ime

,whi l e more success fu l , i t Was rendered

more the l ess fut i l e by the unt imely and much lamented deathof Gen . Harri son , soon after be ing insta l l ed i n Offi ce .

I n 1848 , the advent o f the rai lroad having cut an inroad into ,and depressed the bus iness of the canal , he made a trip to thethen far western town of Chicago , at the inst igati on of a canalboat company , to report upon the prospects O f the I l l i no i s andM ich igan canal , then be ing bu i l t . The resul t was the Obtain ing Ofa contract to bu i l d a l in e o f packet boats there . From thatt im e to the present , Mr . O l cott has l ived i n Chi cago , and witnessed i t s marvelous growth . For a lmost th irty years he wasengaged active ly i n bus in ess . O f the five dry dock s bu i l t here

,

he , with h i s partners ,were i nstrumental i n bu i l d ing three o f them ,

and some of the Oldest boats now sai l i ng the great l akes , werebu i l t under h i s supervi s i on .

He was one of the original members of the Board O f Trade ,but has confined himsel f during a l l these latter years , stict ly tobus iness

,ignoring any act ive part i c ipat i on i n pol it i cs

,except to

be a constant and cons i s tent voter of the Repub l i can t icket,both

at l ocal and nat i onal e l ect ions . Throughout he has endeavoredto be an honest and l aw-abid ing c it izen . He has recorded threevotes for the Harri son fami ly— in 1836 ,

1840 and 1888 — andhopes to l ive to vote many more Repub l i can t ickets .He has been twice marri ed , and has had six sons , who l ived to

vote the same t i cket,four of whom are st i l l l iving— two having

served through the war for the Union and al l honor thei rfath er’ s po l i t ical pred ilictions , by be ing staunch Repub l icans .

JAMES M . PERRY

Was born in Chelsea , O range county , N . Y . , March 20th , 18 1 1 .

When some ten years of age h is father moved to the town ofI ra

,Rutl and county , Vit , where , i n 1836 , he cast h i s first vote for

Wm . Henry Harrison . I n 1839 he emigrated to I l l i no i s , andvoted again for Wil l i amHenry Harri son for pres ident , at Bourbonnais Grove , bei ng then i n Wi l l county . I n 1888 he voted forGen . Benj amin Harri son , and i s proud of i t .


RO BERT P . P OTE

Was born in Be l fast,Maine , i n 18 17 . He attained h is maj ority in

the same town,and cast h i s first vote for Wi l l i am H enry Harrison

i n 1840, and moved to Chicago i n 18 5 5 , and has ever been astaunch and true supporter o f the Whig and Republ i can nominees during his l i fe , casti ng hi s vote i n 1888 for Gen . Benj aminHarri son , and s incere ly trust i ng that he may be a l l owed to pol lone more vote for the Harri son fami ly .

AMOS H . POWERS

Was born September I st , 18 19, In Phi l l ipston , Worcester county ,Mass . He passed h i s early boyhood days on h i s father

’ s farm,

with the usual New England d istrict-school priv i l eges,and later

moved to Worcester and l earned the trade of a tai l or. I n September

,1840,

hemov ed from Worcester to Boston , thereby l os ingthe Opportun i ty O f cast i ng h i s fi rst ba l l ot-for Gen .Wil l i am HenryHarri son , although work ing for h i s e l ect i on by march ing intorch—l ight process i ons and shouting Tippecanoe songs , etc .

I n 184 5 he formed a co—partnership as merchant tai l or withGeorge Lyon , which cont inued unti l the year 18 56 , when hisheal th became impaired by too c l ose app l i cat i on to bus i ness

,and

he,removing to Chicago

,engaged in more act ive out-door pur

su its . H is wi fe is O f the seventh generat i on from Deacon S imonStone , of Watertown , Mass , 1635 . I n the year 1883 he comp i l edand pub l i shed a h i story of Walter Powers , who sett l ed in Concord “ vi l lage

,Mass . , i n 1660, and some O f h i s descendants to

the n inth generat ion . Mr . Powers'

vote In 1888 was cast for the“ Young Tippecanoe .

5

LUCIA N P R I NCE

Was born March 3 1 , 18 19 , i n Dud ley ,Mass . I cast my first vote

in Hol l i ston , Mass , i n 1840 for“ Tippecanoe and Tyl er , too .

”

An exigency arose with in two years that caused me to l oosefaith i n the then act ing Pres ident o f these Un ited S tates , JohnTyler , because O f hi s i nterference i n the l egit imate manner the


i nhabitants o f Rhode I sl and were endeavoring to become aState i n accordance with the const itut i on of these Un ited Un itedStates , by adopt ing a Republ i can form of government , i t havingexisted up to thi s t ime under a charter granted by the K i ng ofGreat Britain early i n the s ixteenth centurv . I n 1842 ,

Pres identTy ler ordered the garri son at Fort Adams

,at Newport

,to be

strengthened . He dispatched h i s S ecretary of Warto that State,

with instruct i ons and authority , to cal l upon the Governors ofMassachusetts and Connect i cut i n concert with the U . S . troopsat Fort Adams , for the purpose , i f found necessary (as he says ) ,to uphold the rights of the charter State government . Hewas opposed to the peop l e ’ s movement to establ i sh a FreeConst i tut ion ,

”

as he i n h i s spec i al message to Congress, Apri l ,

1844 , when cal l ed upon to exp lain h i s Offic ial act ion toward theState o f Rhode I sl and , said virtual ly in that message that hewould use al l necessary means in hi s power to overthrow thePeop l e ’ s Const i tut ion . I n h is conduct toward the party whichelected h im to Offi ce he proved recreant , and forfe ited the ir confidence . Find i ng himsel f ostrac i sed and condemned , he sloughedo ff i nto the Calhoun Democracy of the South , and went into political obl ivion— drink ing the heal th of the Southern Confederacy .

H is act i on he ightened the i ndignati on of very many of the Whigparty in Massachusetts who opposed the e l ect i on o f Gov . Davis ,because of h i s personal sympathy with Tyler, and i t causedDavis ’ defeat by a maj ority O f one on a popular vote — and elected the Democrat i c cand idate , Marcus Morton . A s I was theonly voter who changed from Whig to Democrat i n Hol l i stonin 1842 ,

I c l aim his el ect i on , having acted from a sense of duty Iowed mysel f— the government which my grandfather shed h i sblood at the battl e of Bunker H i l l to establ i sh— and the nat ionalsp iri t under lying the government under which we l ive . Whenever I could

,by vo ice or vote , advance the cause o f human free

dom and l iberty,i n conj unct i on with other measures conduc ive

of the best i nterests of my country , I have done so —and from ah igh sense of duty I owed to my country , and my God— not forsel f aggrand isement

,nor the emo luments of Offi ce . I n 1848 the

Whig party O f the nat ion ignored its former dec lared princ ip les


upon the quest ion of s lavery , and nom inated a man’

i n un isonwith slave power . I ts act i on caused the Free Soi l party to comeinto ex istence . I t had its m i ss i on — and in due t ime accompl ishedits work . From it the Republ i can party emanated

,and was re

cruited by the l iberty l ovi ng voters o f al l parti es ; and appearedupon the pol it i cal arena i n 18 56 as a factor for the above part i es .I t b ecame apparent to the sl ave power that the sl umbering sp i rito f freedom was aroused . and by compromi se and otherwi s e i ts ought to al l ay its onward march . I n 1860 the Republ i can partyentered the pol it i cal fiel d i n al l earnestness . I t nominated i tst i cket

,and adopted its p l atform i n th i s c i ty O f Chicago , and went

forth to conquest . I n my nat ive State (Mass . ) the sp i ri t O f 1776had been revived l ong ere th i s . The peop l e of the State pool edthe ir pol it ical strength as to the encroachment of the slavepower, and i n 18 5 2 s ent that champ ion O f rel igi ous and pol it i call iberty to the Un ited States S enate— Charl es Sumner, a man whosacrificed his l i fe and strength to the cause so near and dear tohi s heart

, the people’

s rig/its . Your humbl e servant bel i eves heai ded in Sumner ’ s e l ect i on . The town had not s ent a representat ive in e ight years . A coal it i on Of Free Soi l ers with the l iberalDemocrats e l ected a member of the Legi s l ature by one maj ority .

I brought to the pol l s the l ast voter that voted the successfult i ck et , and at a Sumner supper, given at Hol l i ston after theel ect i on

,S tate S enator Wil son

,afterward U . S . Senator, and later

Vice-Pres i dent of the Un ited States , sai d : To Luc ian Prince b elongs the cred i t o f el ect ing your member o f the H ouse , and h isvote , after a hundred and fifty-one bal l ots

,e l ected Charl es Sum

ner .” Thirty—e ight years l ater I l ook back to the event as the

p roudest pol it i cal act O f my l i fe .

I n 18 56 the Republican party was organ ized in Worcester,Mass , where I then res ided , and i t was at that meeting that I renounced the Democrat i c party , and' gave the fol l ow i ng as myreasons for so do ing : Pres ident Pi erce , i n h i s i naugural address ,said : NO act of m ine shal l reopen the agi tat i on of the quest i onof s lavery .

” We soon found him runn ing neck and neck withsquatter s overe ign Douglas , see ing who could cringe the l owestto the sl ave power . I sai d i n the above named meet ing that


commun ity that the scenes of Apri l 19th , 1776 , cou ld be re-en

acted . Preparat i ons were made to do so. The c ity governmententered into the arrangements heart i ly . They caused Mai n street

( over which thi s war messenger rode ) to be c l eared of al l carriages for a m i le , so the man who rode the horse coul d do sowith safety whi l e announc ing h i s message . Your humbl e servantacted as that messenger. The c ity dai l i es , i n g iving an accountOf the same , said : The stentorian vo ice of Mr . Pri nce , who actedas the war messenger

,coul d be heard for a long distance . I t

was tru ly a thri l l i ng scene— one long to be remembered . Ishoul d have sai d ere th is, that those M inute Men l eft the O ldSouth Church in one hour ‘ and forty minutes after the news wascommunicated to them — after the Rev. Mr . McCarty un itedw i th them i n prayer . They starte d upon the double-quick forthe first m i l e out of the forty-five to Boston— so says the h istorian

,the H on . George Bancroft , a nat ive of Worcester .I des i re to al lude to the part I took on the 19th of Apri l , 186 1 .

A not i c e came to the Worcester L ight I nfantry , from GOV . An

drews , to appear on Boston common at twelve o’ clock , noon , next

day,armed and equipped as the l aw d irects , to j o in the Massa

chusetts S ixth , which would l eave the S tate forWashington , D .

C. ,as soon as may be . Thi s Worcester company l eft the i r

armory at ten o ’c l ock A. M . ,under escort O f the c it i zens of Wor

cester, to the Boston depot , by order o f Maj . Lamb . The rightof the l ine was accorded to your humble servant . I early soughtto become a volunteer to help to p it down the rebe ll i on andwas rej ected , as I had but two whol e fingers on my right hand . 1

expressed my ind ignat ion,and said : “ You wi l l be glad to get

three fingered fel l ows before th is rebel l i on i s squelched . I actedupon important commit tees to encourage enl istments during thewar . The Massachusetts Twenty-First , Twenty-Fifth , ThirtyS ixth , and Fi fty FourthRegiments l e ft the Agri cu l tural Groundsof Worcester for the war. I res ided In the hal l upon the grounds ,

As these regiments l eft the grounds 1 announced to them that Ishou l d keep openhouse during the war

,and any sold i er woul d

be welcomed ,day or n ight , to my hosp ital i t i es , and many were

the t imes I arose and we lcomed these defenders of my country


as they were homeward bound , by reason O f wounds or furl ough .

My whol e sou l was aroused at the audac ity O f the l eaders o f therebel l i on , and its among the p leasant events O f my l i fe that I d i dall I coul d , di rectly and i nd irectly , t o enforc e the laws Of theland— embodied as they were i n the p latform O f the Republ icanparty , as l ai d down in th i s c ity O f Chicago upon the nominat i onof our l amented Pres ident Abraham L i ncol n i n 1860. TheCl os i ng scenes of I 8SS, I rendered by voice and vote al l the powerI was in possess i on O f to oust the Democrati c pres ident and seatin hi s p lace our worthy pres ident , who , I hope , wi l l guard wel lthe government which has overcome , for the second time , thes lave power r— who never dared to have free suffrage extended tothe ent i re c it i zens O f th i s republ i c . Long may he l ive— much ofgood may he do— and when the scenes O f earth shal l recede fromhi s view

,may he go on to the grand home cel est i al .

Toa land of death less beau ty,“there no shadows d imthe view ;

XVhere aremany shiningmansions\Vaiting for the kind and true.

I s the prayer of hi s fri end and wel l—wisher, and that o f thenat i on ; governed , as I hope i t wi l l ever be , by the princ ip les O f

the Republ ican party as now understood , henceforth , now andforever

,and forevermore .

A LO NZ O RAW S O N

Was born in Richmond , Chesire county,New Hampshire , Febru

ary 2 8th ,1809. H is father , Jonathan , Rawson , was amerchant

in that town for more than thirty years , and was el ected to represent the town in the l egis lature of New Hampshi re for a numberof terms

,besi des holdi ng many other offices of trust i n the town .

A lonzo came west to C incinnat i , Ohio , i n 1829, where he res idedfor about three years

,and from that p lace went to Lou i svi l l e , Ky . ,

where he was i n bus iness as a merchant for nearly thi rty years ,and whi l e i n bus iness there served one term as pres ident of theBoard of Trade

,and as a d irector of one of the l ead ing banks for

nearly ten years . He removed to New York City i n 1863, and


was engaged i n business there for about three years , and fromthat c ity came to Chicago

,where he has s ince res i ded . He voted

for Gen . W . H . Harrison i n 1840,and has always s ince he became

a voter been an unwavering Whig and Republ ican . Duri ng theRebel l i on he was an outspoken Un ion man . Edward Rawson , anative O f England , and first s ecretary O f the Colony O f Massachusetts Bay , was the progen itor of h i s fami ly , and as far as canbe ascertained

,of al l beari ng the name of Rawson in the Un ited

S tates , with two excepti ons .

A LAN S O N REED .

I was born in Warren , V\lorcester county , Mass , November1 4th , 18 14 ,

my father be ing a farmer of New England ’ s ruggedhi l ls . At the age of s ixteen I was a mechan i c i n the p iano facv

tori es of Boston , and i n 1840 was appo inted one of the vigi l ante-committee for Ward 10. A fter hearing our Danie l Webster and. and H enry Clay speak of the princ ip l es O f the Whig party

,I

worked with a vim to help e l ect Gen . Wm . Henry Harrison in1840. My heart and vote went together into the bal lot-box .

S uccess crowned our e fforts . I n 1842 I moved to Ohi o , and set'

t led i n Columbus, the cap ito l Ci ty . I n 18 59 removed to St . Lou is ,Mo . ,

and i n 186 1 , owing to the c ivi l war, again removed to Chicago

,which s ince that t ime has been my home . My last pres i

dential vote I gave for Gen . Benjamin Harri son , and againsuccess was with our party . Were I to l ive seventy-four yearsmore I would vote on that l in e .

HENRY A . REW

Was born on Apri l 9th , i n B l oomfield , Ontari o county , New

York ; l ived in Rochester , N . Y . , unt i l 1842 , when he came to I l l ino is. He was an “ O l d L i ne Whig , and voted for Wil l iamHenry Harri son In 1840, and for every Whig candidate for thepres idency unti l the formation of the Republ i can party

,and has

voted for every nominee of that party unti l , and i nc luding NO

vemb er, 1888 , when B enj amin Harr i son was the man O f hischoice .


i s now l iving at LaCrosse , Wis . August 7 , 1848 , at E l l sworth ,Ohi o

,I marri ed my second wife , B . El iza A l l en , daughter of Asa

W . A l l en— two of the chi l dren by th is marriage , Gordon andBradford W. ,

are assoc iated with me i n the l umber business at

2 38 So . Water S treet , Chicago .

Pol i t i cal ly,I voted the fi rst t ime

,i n the fal l o f 1840 for Gen .

Wil l iam Henry Harrison for pres ident of the United S tates , and

the l ast t ime for the grandson , Gen . Benj amin Harri son i n thefal l o f 1888 . By th is record , I th i nk I am ent i tl ed to the honorof be ing

,by l i neage

,a cons i stent Republ i can . I coul d not , and

woul d not know how to be a Democrat .

THO MA S H . RO GERS

Was born i n the State of Vermont , town of Cavendi sh , county ofWindsor

,on the l oth day of October , 1809. I n 1840 he voted for

General Wi l l i am Henry Harri son , for p re s i dent , i n Wampsvi l l e ,town of Lenox , Mad ison county , New York . In 1862 he enl i stedi n the servi ce o f the Uni ted S tates army , and at the batt l e of

P erryvi l l e , Ky . , was captured a pri soner .

THO MA S RO BERTS O N

Was born i n A rgyl e , Washington county , on the 2 7th of August ,18 1 I , Of Scotch-I ri sh parentage , and l ived with h is father— work ingon the farm— unt i l h i s fi fteenth year . He then wen t to Cambridge ,and s erved a regular apprent i ceship at the tann ing and curryingbus in e ss with h i s uncl e , J ohn Robertson . He

,

remained i n Cambridge unt i l the spring of 1838 , when he went to Troy , N . Y . ,

andformed a partnersh ip with h i s brother, i n mercanti l e bus iness .There h e marri ed Mary Shaw , O f Greenwich , N . Y . , on the 14thday of May , 1840 ; remained there unti l the fal l o f 1848 , when he removed to Lakevi l l e ,Washington county , N . Y . ,

and went back intoh is Old business of tannery and currying , and gris t m i l l ing.

H ere he remained for th ifty years , and in the fal l of 187 1 hes old al l o f h i s property— having l ost h i s wi fe and hal f o f h isfami ly within about two years— and started for the far West

,

WM . R I PLEY.

184 MEMOR IAL BOOK OE THE

changing about from place to place , unti l final ly he came toChicago , i n the year 188 1 , where he has remained ever s ince .

He i s nowmak inghi s home with hi s son, A . S . Robertson andhi s fami ly . He was a Whig of the O ld school , voted for HenryClay for pres ident In 1832 , and Wi l l iam Henry Harrison i n 1836

and 1840. He became a member of the Assoc iate Church In earlyl i fe , and has endeavored to maintain a cons . stent Chri st iancharacter.

S ENECA A LO NZ O S AN FO RD

Was born in Shoram, Vermont , June 9 , 18 16. Came to Defiance,

Ohio,i n 1836 , where , i n the year of 1840,

he voted for Wi l l i amHenry Harri son , of which he i s very proud,and i n 1888 for Benj amin Harrison . He i s the proud posessor of a Cl arinet— onehundred and twenty-five years O ld— which was used i n the cam

paignof 1840,and was on exhibi ti on in the c lub room of the O l d

Tippecanoe Club .

HEN RY S AY RS

SonO f Jos i ah and Sarah Van Kleeck Sayrs , was born in Po’

keep

s ie,New York

,Ju ly I st , 18 19. Received hi s educat i on at the

Dutchess Academy , from whence , i n 1836, he went to the C ity

O f New York , and engaged as c l erk i n a wholesale grocery house .

On September 17 , 1839 , he marri ed M iss Sarah C . Lockwood , o fNewburgh on the Hudson

, who, as t ime rol led on , becamewidely and favorably known for her ph i l anthrop ical work . Herbiography

,to 1869,

i s c ontained in the hi story of “ The LoyalPeopl e o f the Northwest .” She died on the z l st of Apri l , 1888 .

I n 1840,Mr . Sayrs entered the whol esa le grocery business i n

hi s own name in the C ity of New York— soon thereafter tak inga partner

,when the firm became Sayrs Storm , and remained in

said bus iness unti l 1845 , when , with his family, hemoved to Milwaukee

,Wis . , where he was engaged i n mercanti l e b usmess ,

operating considerably in real estate . He was a member of the

common counc i l i n 1847- i ts pres id ing Officer and acting

mayor— and was a delegate to the Harbor and River Conventionheld In Chicago In 1848 . Before the convention that nominated


h imfor the l egi sl atu re of Wiscons in i n that year, he di st inctlyaffi rmed , that i f e l ected , he would vote for

.

no candidate for U . S .

senator ( two s enators were to be chosen ) who d id not fi rst assureh im

,over h i s s ignature

,that i f e lected ,

. he woul d introduce andadvocate i n the senate o f the Un ited S tates , an act to abol i shsl avery i n the D istri ct of Columbia .

I n consequence o f the i r c ont inual i l l heal th , Mr . Sayrs movedwith his fam i ly to Johnstown

, Wis ,i n 1849, where he e ngaged

i n general trade,and was postmaster under Pres ident Taylor . He

came to Chicago i n 18 5 3, and entered commerc i al bus i ness ; wasb urned out at 54 and 56 Michigan Avenue i n the general confl a

gr‘

ation of 187 1 , immed iately after whi ch calam ity he commencedimporting and whol esal ing teas

,which bus iness he cont inued

u nt i l 1884 , when , after forty-four years service on hi s ownaccount , he ret ired from active pursu i ts .Beside other posi t i ons of honor and trust , he was pres ident O f

the Chicago Whol esal e Grocers ’ Exchange,and the fl rst pres i

d ent of the Merchants ’ Exchange ; pres i dent of the Third WardRepubl i can Club i n the H ayes and Wheel er campaign

,un i form

ing, at h i s own expense , a company O f one hundred wide-awakes ,and present i ng them with a l arge and el egant flag , behi nd wh ichthey marched to vi ctory , under the name O f Sayrs

’ Guards . Mr .Sayrs was an ardent Whig unt i l the party north merged i nto theRepubl i can ; s i nce then he has been an unswervi ng , uncompromising Repub l i can . H is first vote was cast for O l d Tippecanoe”General Wi l l i am Henry Harri son— thereafter he vot ed for H enryClay , Taylor, S cott , Fremont , L i ncoln twi c e , Grant tw i ce , Hayes ,Garfield

,Blaine and General B enj am in HarrisOn,

grandson andi nheritor O f the princ ip l es of “ O l d Tippecanoe .

CH ICAGO , MAY 15 , 1889.

Inconnectionw ith the fore’going biograph ical notice, I ask the privilege

of record ing h eremy admirationof the character Of Mrs . Henry Sayrs . Mylong acquaintance with whom, inher efficient service rendered tome duringmy presid ency of the Sold iers ’ Home , through and after the war, conv incedme that she was the very embod iment of active , practical and jud iciouscharity .

THOMAS B. BRYAN .

Extract fromthe His tory of“The bogal People of the North

Wes t. — 1869.

Among the first ranks of ‘ new women ’

raIsed up to us bythe late c ivi l war

,stands prominent the name of Mrs . Henry

Sayrs . Her fine presence and ab le address might have wond isti nct i on as a lecturer ; her d ivers ified talents wou ld have beenlegions of strength in any d epartment O f these thri l l i ng timesbut works , not words , to ld the story O f her l i fe . Her deeds o fk indness are wri tten in gratefu l j oy upon the inmost heart of thesold i er and hi s fami ly . She has drawn tribute -tears from hardened hearts , and bl ess ings from dying l ips ; she has brought hopeto the hope less , strength to the weak , and l ight to the Obscureabode O f the desolate widow and orphan ; she has , i n the fu l l estsense ,

‘ fed the hungry , cl othed the naked , taken in the stranger ,vi s ited -the s i ck and i n pri son ,

’ and to i l ed night and day for yearsto bu i ld comfortabl e homes for the ‘

war-scarred he'

roes,

’ dai lypouring into them . C lara Barton worked on the field , Mrs . SarahC . Sayrs worked at home . El izabeth Cady Stanton thri l led thousands from the publ ic forum , but the subj ect of our sketch thri l l edthousands who rece ived the k i nd benefact i on from her hand

,and

moved to great patriot i c deeds scores O f Chicago cap ital i sts , andher name was among the l eaders of every patri ot i c enterpri se .

”

I n the same hi story , 1869, Rev. Robert L . Col l i er pai d thefol lowing tribute : “Mrs . Sayrs i s pre-eminently a woman of

moral force . Remarkabl e for dexteri ty , she se ldom wai ts forthe sl ow d ictate s of reason when the keen sens ib i l i t i es Of herheart are touched . The history O f her services for the poor andsu ffering armies , which on ly the good angels have witnessed ,

wil l,in etern ity

,and do

,i n her own consc i ence , outweigh in

worth al l pub l i c accomp l i shments . I doubt i f any one person didmore for the war than she d id . She has a true Chri st ian sp irit , i sa broad

,l iberal m inded woman , and her church i s one of the

homes Of her heart . She i s ever on the a lert to rel i eve thewretched and raise the fal l en . No beggar is ever turned unsatis

fied from her door , and no more hosp itab le mans ion does Chicagoafford than the one over which she pres i des with such grace andenthus iasm . She gave free ly to the cause of her to i ls , her heartand her means . She is a true wife and mother— a steadfastfri end

, and l ives in the esteem O f a l l who can appreciate realwoman ly worth .

ToFROM THE I NTER-OCEAN .

Fromoutmy heart these word s I sendTo thee— abirth-day greeting ;W ith sincere pleasure of a friendAs onthese years are fleeting.

Thy three-score years— already pastAre faught with honest labor,

Inmemory wil l forever lastTo family, friend and neighbor.

God gave yourheart an im ulse strong ,

And hand that’

s ever rea y,W ith rinciple to right the wrongAn help the poorand needy .

rs . Henry Sayrs .

BY EMMA E . MERR ICK .

You’ve beena true and loving wife ,

A blessed , faithfu l mother;No greater good cancome of lifeFor th is world or the other.

You’ve filled amissionbroad and granWherever yourwork was need ed ;

Have he lped the sold iers of our land ,

The orphans ’ cry you have heed ed .

And whenat last yourwork all done,

Amid the blest you ’

re sleeping,A “

crownof glory, justly won,

Waits inyourMaster’ s keeping .

Feb . 29 , 1888.

IN MEMO RIAM .

Recited by Rev. J enkinLloyd at the funeral of Mrs . Sarah 0.

wife of Henry Sayrs , April 24 , 78 88 .

Fold reverently the weary haThat toiled so long and we l

And , while your tears of sorrow fal l ,Let sweet thanksgiving swe l l .That life-work , stretching o'

er long years ,A varied web has been;W ith silver thread s by sorrow wrought,

sunny gleams between.

These silver hairs stole slowly on,

Like flakes of fal ling snowThat wrap the greenearth lov inglyWhenautumnbreezes blow .

Each silver hair, each wrink le there,

Record s some good deed done ;Some flower she cast along the way,

Some spark fromlove ’

s bright sun.

gently fold the weary hand sThat toiled so long and wel l ;he spirit rose toangel band sWhenoff earth ’

s mantle fel l .She

’

s safe withinher father’

s house,

Wheremanymansions b e ;Oh , pray that thus such restmay comeDearheart to thee and


Ohio , February 2 2 , 1840,that recommended Gen . Wil l i am Henry

Harri son for p res ident . Was an act ive Whig thereafter, be ingmade chairman of the Chippewa Club , and on vari ous committeesin the campaigns of General s Scott , Taylor and Fremont . Whil ein Nebraska was a del egate to the fi rst State Convent i on atP latsmouth ,

which authorized the peopl e to vote for or againstcoming i n as a State— al so to nominate Repub l i can candidatesfor State offi cers . Was then made chai rman of the S tate Execut ive Committee for Richardson county , and canvassed i t , whi chgave two hundred and fi fty maj ori ty for State .

I n 1872 was el ected a State Senator from the First D istri ct ,and i n 1873 was elected a Regent of the S tate Un ivers ity of Ne

braska . Duri ng my twenty years res idenc e there I was i n somem inor publ i c capac ity nearly the whol e t ime , such as member ofSchool B oard

,Mayor of Rul o , Grand or Traverse Juryman in the

Federal and State Courts . Was made'

S tate agent and superin

tended the bu i l d ing of the first ten mi les o f the Burl ingtonSouthern Rai lroad ( now the Atchi son 81 Nebraska ) , of which organization I was a charter member . During the war we saw

rough t imes,there be ing no sure mode of egress or ingress , and

no markets for the fi rst three years , and the country was overrunby bands of th i eves . We organ ized a Union party for mutualprotect i on

,and for pol it ical purposes , which we maintained dur

ing the war.

At the cl ose of the war a great change came . Our river wasopened to traffic

, we came in as a State , and the rai l road commenced to bu i l d

,emigrants came flock ing in and locating

,chang

ing the scene from one of dest itut i on , doubt and uncertainty toone of the greatest prosperi ty .

W IEL IAM S K I N NER

Was born June 9 ,1805 , i n Frankl in county , Penn . ; was raised on

a farm , and i n 18 18 went to l earn the tanners trade,and in 182 3

bought the tan yard and stock there . I n 1831 started a generalstore i n Hol idaysburg,

Pa. ; i n 1834 went west , deal i ng i n landand catt l e ; i n 1862 moved from Lake county, I nd . ,

to Chicago,

WM . SK INNER .


where he has been engaged i n grocery— general commiss i onbusin ess , unt i l burnt out i n the big fi re

,O ctober 9, 187 1 . I n 187 5

moved to Wiscons in , to oversee h i s gri st m i l l for four years ,sol d out , and returned to Chicago i n 1880,

where he has l ivedmost o f the t ime s ince then , and i s st i l l hal e and hearty at theage of e ighty-four . Has four sons and a daughter l iving .

W I LL IAM D. S EARLES .

I was born in Fai rfield county,Ohio

,December

l earned the t inner ’ s trade i n Lancaster ; marr1ed and l ocated inTiffin, Ohio , i n 1831 ; went into b us 1ness th

'

en,

"

and remained unt i l1865 , when I moved to Rul o Richardson County , Nebraska,where I engaged i n the house-furni shi ng bus iness . I wasappoi nted postmaster o f Rul o , the same year, and he ld i t unt i l1874 , when I resigned , and moved to the C ity of Bu ffal o , State ofNew York ; s ince

"

which t ime I have not been engaged in business,

l iv ing part of the"t ime i n Bu ffal o and part of the t ime i n Chi cago .

Whil e at Tiffin, I supported the Whig and Republ i can part i es .Voted forWil l iam Henry Harrison , for pres i dent , i n 1840,

andhave taken part at the vari ous Whig and R epubl i can campaignss ince that t ime , my last vote be ing for Benj ami n Harri son .

JAMES S HOU RDS

I s of Engl i sh ancestry , hi s father having been born in 1762 ,but

soon removed to'

America, where , in 1807 , on‘

January 2 2 , at LittIe Egg Harbor, New York , the subj ect o f th i s sketch was born .

Later the fami ly removed -to Cayuga county , and Mr . Shourd sremained there unti l he reached hi s maj ori ty , when he started Outto “ sh i ft for h imsel f, l iv ing at various p laces .1nOhio and NewYork

,and 1840 found him a res ident o f Rochester, N . Y . ,

wherehe voted for Gen . Wi l l iam H . Harri son . A fter twenty five years ’

residence in'

Rochester b e l ocated i n Chicago , where he st i l l res ides

, hale and" hearty , at the age o f e ighty-two , and where he,

i n common wi th one son and other fami ly connect ions , votedstraight forHarri son and Morton too .

”


DAN IEL BA X TER STEDMAN

I s a descendant of I saac Stedman, who came to America i n hi s

ship “El i zabeth ,” arriving i n the year 1635 , fi rst settl ing at

Sc i tuate , Massachusetts , removing i n 1650 t o Muddy River (nowlBrook l ine ) , Mass" where he d id bus i ness as a merchant . D . B .

Stedman , son of J os iah Stedman , was born in Bosto ,n Mass ,

onthe 18th day of Apri l , 18 17 . Commenced bus iness i n 1837 aslimporter of ch ina and earthenware , under the firm of Atk insS tedman , afterward D . B . Stedman 81 Co. , which bus iness he wasinuntil the d isastrous fi re in Boston i n 1872 .

He voted in‘ Boston i n the year 1840 for Gen . Wil l iam Henry

Harrisonforjpresid ent , and at Chi cago , i n 1888 , for Gen . Benj a~

min ‘ Harri son , and has always— without an exception— been anardent supporter of the Whig and Republ i can part i es . He was

,e l ec‘ted Representat ive to the Massachusetts Legi s l ature for the-s ess ionof 1866 and 1867 .

DAV I D S HEP P A RD S M ITH , M . D‘Was

,born i n Camden , New Jersey , on the 2 8th of Apri l , 18 16 .

H is father , I saac Smi th , was a native of Sal em county , i n thatS tate . , H 1s mother ’ s fami ly name was Wheaton , of Welchdesc

’

ent. His parents were noted for marked dec i s i on of Character . Theson i nheri ted a robust const itut i on and received excel lent youthful tra in ing , and . feel s espec i al ly i ndebted to thei nfluence of h is =mother for h is moral and intel l ectual i nc l i nat i ons .sHe very. early conce ived and strove for a h igh order of mentalcu lture

, and e vinced an ardent des i re to study the heal i ng art ,and at the age of seventeen y ears entered as a student o f med ic i ne in the Office of Dr . I saac S . Mul ford . He attended threeful l terms of l ectures at the J e fferson Medi cal Col l ege , i n Ph i l ad elph ia

,and graduated fnom that i nst i tut i on i n 1836 . That col

l ege was then , as it i s now, one of the foremost med ical school sin thecountry ; and its dip loma Cou ld only be earned by genu inemerit . Armed with th is d ip loma and a determinat i on to succeed ,the young phyS 1c1ari

‘

Came 'West; and“ sett l ed for pract ic e i n the

then smal l town of Chicago . I n 1837 he married M iss Rebecca

D . S . SM ITH , P RES IDE NT.

194 MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THEAnn Denn i s , former ly of Fredon ia, N . Y . The marriage hasbeen bl essed with four ch i ldren , two of whom survive , the e ldest— Mrs . Whitehead— widow of the l ate Maj or F . F . Whitehead ;the other— Carol ine — the wi fe of J . L . Ely , of the c ity of NewYork .

During a vi s i t i n Camden , Dr . Smith became deeply interestedin i nvestigating the then novel doctrines o f Hahnemann onhomeopathy , and procured al l the works he cou ld gather on thatsubj ect . These books he stud i ed ass iduously . I n 1842 he re

turned to Chicago , imbued wi th fu l l confidence , from what he hadlearned by practi cal experi ence and observation , i n the doctri nesof Hahnemann , and the fol l owing year he ful ly adopted thatsystem inhi s pract ic e , and was the fi rst phys ic Ian to introduce i twest of the lakes . ‘ ‘

I‘

t grew rap id ly i n publ i c favor,and Dr .

Smith had more cal l s for h i s profess i onal services than he cou ldrespond to . O ther pract it i oners were attracted to h i s s ide

,and

soon the advocates of the new schoo l of med i c ine formed a medica l body whose power has kept pace with other great factors i nthe producti on of wonderfu l Chi cago . Homeopathy

,no l onger

an experiment,has indeed taken deep hold on the convict ions of

the loft i est intel l ectual powers and the nobl est p ersonal worth,

and now chal l enges the cons iderate j udgment of the c ivi l izedworl d . Dr . D . S . Smith has j ust ly won for h imsel f the appe l l at i on of the Father of Homeopathy in the West . The rank ingphys ic ianof both the school s of pract i c e i n Chicago , he procuredfrom the I l l ino i s Legi s lature of 18 54— 5 , the charter of the Hahnemann Medical Col l ege i n Chicago , and wrote the original draftof th i s charter i n the law office of Abraham L i ncoln . He heldthe pos it i on of Pres i dent of the Board of Trustees of said col l egefrom its commencement unti l 187 1 . and after the death of Dr .Smal l , his successor , he was again el ected to the pres idency . Inrecognit ion of hi s em inent services , an honorary degree was conferred on him in 18 56 by the Homeopathi c Med ical Col l ege ofCleveland , Ohio . I n 18 5 7 he was el ected secretary of the American I nst i tute of Homeopathy ; i n 18 5 8 b e

’

was chosen pres ident,

and i n 1865 treasurer of th i s national assoc iat ion . I n 1866 hevi s i ted Europe , and whi l e there stud ied the hosp ital s and col l eges

196 MEMOR IAL BOOK or THE

and for God and his country fought manful ly and wel l ; was promoted i n the army to the Capta incy for meritori ous conduct

,t i l l

at Yorktown the crush ing defeat and surrender o f Cornwal l i sopened the gates o f peace and Ameri can i ndependence . Mr.S losson al so shared the honor to be under d irect command ofGen . Washington , and of sharing i n the privati ons o f Va l l eyForge . A fter the war he settl ed i n Berksh i re , a val l ey i n theState o f New York , where the subj ect of th i s sketch was born in18 17 .

Enos S losson, the father of the present Enos S losson, was

born' inMassachusetts i n 1782 , and although he d ied at the ageof th irty-e ight , had attained prominence as a sold ier, hold ing aColone l ’ s commiss i on i n th e War of 18 12 ,

s igned by Danie l D .

Tompk ins , the famous War Governor o f New York . He wasal so e l ected to Congress , but d ied before tak ing his s eat . Thegrandfather of Enos S lossonthe th ird , on hi s mother

’ s s ide , cameal so from O l d England to Connect icut

,where he , too , j o ined the

Revolut i onary army , being i n many battl es p romoted to the Captaincy ; sharing also in the privati ons of the memorabl e winter atVal l ey Forge with Wash ington , and part i c ipated i n the surrender of Cornwal l i s at Yorktown .

Enos S losson,the th ird of the same name , engaged i n com

mercial pursu i ts when but fourteen years of age , and has everbeen a commerc ial man

,being successful i n bus iness . For

e ighteen years he was of and with the fi rm of Parkhurst

S losson; and at its di ssol ut i on engaged i n the lumber trade , andon the S tock Board at Harri sburg , Pa . He voted for Gen . VVil

l i am Henry Harri son at E lkland,Tioga county

,Penn, i n 1840.

He soon after was appo inted postmaster by Gen . Tay lor, thenpres ident

,at O sceol a

,Tioga county , Penn— now a good s i zed

town— with whose interests he was greatly i dent ified i n bu i l d ingup ,and giving it the nameof O sceola .

A t th i s t ime in the Twel fth Pennsylvan ia Congress i onal D istriet he performed another very great d eed for future generat ions— l ead ing a long down the many ages

,resu lt ing in none

other thangenerous and humane by the nation , by bringi ng forward the Hon . GalusiaA . Grow as the successor of the d ist i n

ENOS SLOSSON, F IRST V ICE-P RES IDENT.

198 MEMOR IAL BOOK onTHE

guished author of the great ant i-s l avery proviso for Texas

( Hon . David VVilmot ) — for a seat i n Congress , the mot ion coming up be fore the convent ion . of which Enos S lossonwas pres ident in the Twel fth Distri ct . The bal l ots were many without amaj ori ty . A t l ast the unan imous vo ice of the convent ion cal l edfor a d e sc is ion of the Chair . The chai rman gave the cast ingvote for H on . Galus iaA . Grow ,

being equ iva lent to an e lect i on ,as was proven soon after . Upon the assemblage of CongressGrow was e l ected Speaker . When the committee reported theb i l l In the House

,he l eft the Chair and made a v igorous speech

thereon . The bi l l p assed ; went to the S enate ; i t was approved ,l i ngered but a short t ime there ; was sent to the execut ive— the

great A braham L i ncoln,Pres i dent of the Uni ted S tates . He

on ly requ ired a s ingl e glance,and sei z ing his pen wrote the w ord

“ Approved,with Abraham L i ncol n thereunder , after once

b e ing vetoed by James Buchanan . I t was a law of the nat i onthat one hundred and s ixty acres of the nat i onal domain was all otted to each landl ess man and woman , and up to thi s date al aw of the nati on —thanks to i ts early fri ends .

i s‘ A great and spontaneous

"

demonstrat i on was successfu l ly inaugurated at O sceola , Pa. ,

i n the campaign of the Free So i l

p arty , composed of Democrats and Whigs , i n southern NewYork and northern Pennsy lvania . I t was a gathering at once thel argest , the best , the most Opportune , and the fi rst he ld by theFree So i l party i n the repub l ic— cu lminat ing i n the estab l i shmentof the great Republ i can party. I ts importance was wide ly recognized and acknowl edged by t the press , consp icuously the New

York Tribune,the great l ead ing Republ ican j ournal of the worl d at

that t ime .Think what has been the dest iny of our country , in

fl uenced a thousand t imes to greatness by the Republ ican party ,

which sprung from the smal l , impu ls ive O sceo la move , secondedby Davi d W i lmot , and eu logized by Horace Greel ey , with them ighty and immense fo l low ing of them both . Think of themasterly achievements of th i s host of f1eedom; the manumitt ingof three mi l l i ons of s laves and the conque i ing of e ighteen m i ll i ons of enemies ; the re instatement of a un ited government o f

forty—two mil l i ons ( now sixty mi l l i ons ) of peopl e , and the ina g

ZOO MEMOR IAL BOOK ‘ O F THE

great West , he accepted an invitat i on from his for'

mer instructor,

Mr. Grosvenor, to accompany h im on a trip thereto . So, tak inga packet boat on the Eri e Canal

,that be ing the only rap id trans i t

avai l abl e at that day,and pass ing through Syracuse , Lyons , Pal

myra , Rochester , Lockport , and other thriving vi l l ages , they i ndue t ime arrived at Bu ffa lo , from whence they took steamer forthe Upper Lakes , stopp ing at al l p laces , rece iving and d ischargi ng passengers and fre ight between Bu ffal o and Macinac ; thenceto Green Bay , Sheboygan , Milwaukee , Rac ine , Southport (nowKenosha ) , L i ttl e Fort ( now Waukegan ) , being detained at eachof these p laces— deliéoraz‘oly , d ischarging cargo— final ly arrivingat the p i er at Chicago . No busses or cabs— passengers were com

pe l led to grab the ir carpet-bags , and wade a l ong d i stancethrough slush and mud before reach ing terra—firma, and then , toreach the Lake House , on Rush Street , near the river , had towalk a S Ingle pl ank . The Lake House was j ust be ing comp letedas the best hotel i n the p lace

,and the “ North S i de ” was the

favorite . Having stopped over a few days , our travel ers werenot favorably impressed wi th the s ituat i on . S treets were notgraded

,and

,at sect i ons , som e of the most important o f them

were impassabl e for teams,and boards were stuck up in the i r

m idst i nscribed : No Bottom Here ! The town was a swamp,

i nterming led with sl oughs,bul l—frogs

,malaria

,and— some adven

turers— an un interest ing , un inv it ing p lace— its den izens l ookedd isappointed

,t i red , woe—begone , as though they had got to the

end of the irpurse , or d id not know where e lse to go ; and thoseo f them who owned anyth ing wanted to se l l out . Except via.

lak e i t was a d iffi cu l t p lace to get away from , of which fact Mr .Soper and fri end had ample evidence , for , wishing to v iew someof. the adj acent farming country , they started i n a l umber wagonand soon after cross i ng a bri dge at Lake S treet came to th ick

,

muddy water , through w iiich , from One to two feet i n depth , theywere compe l l ed to travel most of the way to Widow Berry

’ sPoint , now the beaut i fu l suburb , Rivers i de . From there theywent on through mud unti l they arrived at Jo l i et

,where they

were agreeably surprised to find so promis ing and el igib ly l ocated a town , surrounded by fert i l e l ands .

ALBERT SOPER , TREASURER .


Democracy ru led in Chicago , i n I l l ino i s , and i n the nat i on , andthe ful l force o f J ackson ’ s unfortunate admin i strat i on was be ingfelt— the bubbl e had burst

,and as speculat i on in real estate had

thus far been the sp ec ific industry o f Ch icago , the laborers i n thatvineyard were now out o f employment , and no danger of strikesapprehended . However, as whisky cost only ten cents p er gall on

,the numerous saloons run a l ive ly competi t i on for M ichigan

“Wild Cat ” money,that const i tut ing most o f the c i rcu lat ing

medium of the northwest . Van Buren was Pres i dent , representing a party opposed to internal improvement among the S tates ,and as there was no money in the Nati onal Treasury , he orderedthe sale , by auct i on , of the dredging machines , and al l other machinery that had been purchased and used for , and was still

needed to dredge the harbor and river of Chi cago , and they wereso ld at a great sacrifice . The town , the State , and the nat i onwere a l ik e bankrupt

,and consequently without credit . The bonds

of the State were almost valuel ess . The general outl ook wasdi scouraging , and the wi ldest imagi nat i on coul d never havedreamed that the m ire cal l ed Chicago , from which the touri sts departed on the ir return home i n 1837 , would , by any freak of c i rcumstances , become fi fty-two years thereafter ( having meantimein one year, viz . : i n 187 1 , been nearly destroyed by fire at aloss o f of prop erty ) the second c i ty in popu lat i on ,magn ificence and bus iness i n the Un ited States .I n 1837 Mr . Soper was marri ed to Esther Farquharson , of

Rome , N . Y . They recently cel ebrated the ir golden wedding,

which was attended by the i r chi l dren,grandchi l dren and many

fri ends . Seven ch i ldren have been born to them,of whom five

are st i l l l iv ing— Arthur W . Soper , of New York C ity ; Mrs . Geo .

Merri l l , of Eau Claire , Wis . ; A l ex . G ,and James P . Soper , of

Chicago , and Mrs . Wm . Benn Smith of Eureka , Cal .I n pol i t ics Mr . A lbert Soper was an unswerving Whig unt i l

the format ion of the Republ i can party,S i n ce which t ime he has

been loyal and devoted to its princ ip l es . He voted for Wi l l i amHenry Harrison i n 1836 and 1840. Was one of a l arge del egati onwho went from Rome , via. the Eri e Canal

,to Syracuse

,N . Y . ,

toattend the grand State ral ly of the Harrisonians at that p lace.


Such an enthusiast i c assemblage had never been known i n theS tate . W i th l og-cabi ns

,flags

,banners

,and numerous bands of

mus ic,the del egati ons moved up the h i l l to hear Hon . W . H .

S eward , Gen . Baker , of New Hampsh ire , and others , who,with

the i r arguments and e loq ence,contributed to bring us a great

victory . He voted for H enry Clay i n 1844 , and for every Whigor Republ i can candidate for Pres ident o f the Uni ted States s i nce ,and November 6th ,

1888 ,for B enj amin Harr i son for the same

high office . Mr . Soper i s the treasurer of the Chi cago Tippecanoe C lub .

CA LV I N S HAW

Was born i n Plymouth county , Mass . ; on the day ofand moved to Ohio i n the year 1839 . H is fi rst vote

was cast at Chi l l i cothe , Ohi o , i n 1840,for Gen . Wil l i amHenry

Harri son , and attended a very large convention that was ad

dressed by General Wi l l i am Henry Harr’ i son,during that cam

paign, and was one of a company of young men who acted as anescort . Mr . Shaw voted for every Whig up to the birth of theRepubl ican party , and has S i nce then voted for the cand idates ofthe latter , i nc l ud ing Gen . Harrison i n 1888 . He l ived i n Oh i ount i l 1887 , when he moved to Chicago , and has res i ded here eversmee .

BENJAM IN S M ITH

Was born i n Ridgefie ld , Fairfie ld county , Conn . ,January 12 , 18 1 5 .

H is parents , Amos and S arah ( Kee ler ) Smith , were known farand near throughout the country as one of the o ldest hote lk eepers in the State , on ghe s i te that hi s father , John , before h im ,

kept unt i l the Cl ose of hi s l i fe . H is grandfather,Ebenezer

,was

one of the original th iI ty settl ers of the town , rece iving th i s witha t ract of l and as h i s pO I tion of the township , purchased from thesurvivors i n S eptember , 1708 . The company sel ected a ridge ofl and i n the central port i on , some eight hundred feet above LongI s land Sound , fi fteen mi les d istant

,which i t overlooked . This

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB , CH ICAGO . 2C5

property never l eft the Smith fami ly,being yet occup i ed by the

younger brother, Samue l , and s i ster , Emma , whomarri ed GeorgeSmi th .

Benj amin remained home— work ing on the farm— t i l l s eventeen years o ld , when he l eft to l earn the tai lor ’ s trade , which hefin i shed i n the c i ty of N ew Haven . I n the fal l o f 1837 he cameto Chicago , and w i th J . W . Hooker , engaged in the grocery trade ,on Lake street . I n August , 1838 , he was marri ed to RachaelVan Nortwick , the daughter of Wil l i am Van Nortw ick

,in

B atavia,Kane county , I II. The resul t of th i s union has been

four daughters— the e ldest , Sarah I . C larim,the wi fe of Doctor

Edgar D . Swain ; the s econd— Martha Mari e— i s the wi fe o fDanie l B . Andrews ; the others d ied young .

\Vhile with Mr . Hooker, he traded for a l ot , fifty by eightyfeet , on north-west corner o f Dearborn and Washington streets ,and bui l t a comfortab le home on it

,but after res i d ing a few

years on it , l ost i t by engaging i n bus iness with Joseph Johnston .

I n 1846 ,purchasing a patent reap ing machine

,commenced the

manufacture of the same , and after a trial i t was found worth l ess .but by mak ing changes and improvements

,succeeded i n mak ing

a success fu l reap ing mach ine . I n 1846 , he made the fi rst successfu l crooked sye l e , cutt ing it h imse l f after having it forged out ofsteel and i ron . I n the fal l of 1847 , he removed to Batavia , Kanecounty

,bui l t a shop

,and continued to manufacture t i l l 18 5 7 ~

successfu l ly with al l the reap ing mach ines that came into use .

Return ing to Chicago soon after,bui l t a home on Peoria street ,

between Lake and Rando lph streets , where he res ided unt i l 1870 ,

when,di spos ing of that home , removed to 63 Aberdeen street ,

corner of Ab erd eeen,where he sti l l res ides , practi cal ly ret i red

from bus iness .

W . 0 . S M ITH

Was born i n New Haven , Rutl and county , September 6th , 18 16 ,

and res ided in Sudbury , Vt . ,i n 1836 , where he took an act ive part

i n the unsuccessful canvass of Ger i . Harri son ; and in-1840 worked

and voted for the successful el ect ion of that gentleman . I n 1888

ZOO MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THE

Mr . Smith res ided at Wheaton,I l l . , and worked and voted for

Benj amin Harrison , and was i nexpress ibly pl eased at the resu lt .

ICHABO D STO DDARD

Was born Apri l 14th , 1808 , i n the county of Leeds , Province ofOntari o , Canada . I n 1837 he removed to I l l ino i s , l ater res id ingi n Port

'

er county , I nd iana, where , i n 1840, he cast h i s first vote asan American Ci t izen for Gen . Wi l l i am Henry Harrison

,and again

— forty-e ight years thereafter— cast another bal lot for the grandson— Gen . Benj amin Harri son— th i s t ime in I l l ino is . I s enthusi

ast ic over the Tippecanoe C lub .

GEN.

“

A LEX .

'

M' IL LER STO UT

Was born January 8 , 1820, near She lbyvi l l e , Shelby county , Ky .

H is father was a so ldier of the War of 18 12 , and three of h i sfamily were offi cers i n the Revol uti onary army . H is early l i fewas spent on the farm . Was educated i n Bardstown , Ky . , finish

ing_his course i n 1840. Worked hard for Gen . W . H . Harrison ’ s

e lect ion,and attended h i s i naugurat ion . He completed h is study

of l aw at Cambridge Un ivers ity , and was c i ty attorney at Loui svi l l e . From 18 5 7 to 186 1 , on the break ing out of the war, hevo lunteered his s ervices , and with the rank of Colonel engagedin the rec ru it ing service , going to the front shortly after as Col

one l of the 17th Kentucky I nfantry . He was at Donaldson,

Shi loh , Chicamauga, A t lanta , s i ege of Nashvi l l e , Frank l i n , andelsewhere

,coming out of service wi th a commiss ion as Brevet

Brigad i er-General of Vo lunteers . Had h is horse shot under himat Donaldson . H is sonwas k i l led at Shi loh , and he h imsel f wassevere ly wounded in the same fight . Subsequently he was e lected Representat ive in theJ Legis lature of Kentucky , and nominated by aRepub l i can caucus as Speaker o f the H ouse . He wasalso

,from

.

1866 to 1868 act ing Commiss ioner i n charge of thePatent O ffice , subsequently res ign ing that pos it i on to pract i c epatent l aw . He moved to Chicago i n 1879, and l ike al l therest of the Tippecanoes , voted for Gen . Benj . Harrison i n 1888 .


E. P . TEA LE

Was born i n the v i l l age O f Whitehal l, S tate O f New York

,i n

1808 . H is res idence i n 1832 was i n Waterford , N . Y . ,where he

voted for W . H . Harri son i n 1836 . I n 1840 he res ided i n Yps il ant i , Mich . , where he again voted for W . H . Harri son . Mr . Teal eis now a res ident O f Chicago , and voted for Gen . Ben . Harri soni n 1888 , and adds , as do the maj ority O f the Club members

,

“ Iam proud O f my pol i t i cal record .

T. TEN EYCK .

Born i n New J ersey , August 5 , 18 19 ; came west with h i sfather

,Gen . James Ten Eyck , i n 1835 , sett l ing i n M ich igan . I n

1840 he became a voter, and voted and worked enthusiast ical lyfor the e l ect i on O f General H arri son . Was a member O f a band ,and was present at nearly al l the l arge meetings held i n M ichigand uring that eventfu l campaign ; moved to Wisconsi n i n 1846 ;

l ived at Green Bay , Wis . , when the Rebel l i on commenced . Heenl i sted i n the Twel fth Wiscons in Volunteers i n August

, 186 1 , asa private

,and served with h i s company unti l February

,1862 ,

when he was commiss i oned a captain i n the regular army , byPres ident L inco ln , be ing ass igned to Eigthteenth United S tatesI nfantry— served about ten years i n above mentioned grade ;

and was honorably d i scharged i n January , 187 1 , having beenbrevetted maj or for fai th fu l service during the war .He has voted for every Whig and Republ i can presi dential can

d idate s in ce 1840 to , and inc lud i ng , our present Harri son , exceptAbraham L i ncoln ; cou ld not vote for him in ’

60— be ing then i nCo lorado Territory— and i n ’

64 , was paying a compulsory vi s i t toOur southern brethern i n South Caro l i na .

0

W I LL IAM THO MAS .

I n 1840 he res i ded in-Detro it , Mich igan , and al though tooyoung to cast h i s vote at the e lect i on , worked hard through theenti re campaign , attend ing l og cabin meet ings i n Detroi t , Cleveland , Canadaigin, and other p l aces , tak ing more interest act ive ly

JOHN HENRY TAYLOR .


than in any other campaign s ince . I n 1844 he voted for H enryClay , l ater for Martin Van Buren , Fremont , and s ince then for al lthe cand idates of the Republ i can party . Mr . Thomas , i n c l os ingh i s b iograph ical sketch , adds : “ I n l ook ing back over the th i rt een pres id ental e l ect ions , I fee l that I have made no po l it i calm istake— none that I woul d change— and I Only wish that I mayhave the Opportun ity to cast one more vote for Benj amin Harrison, Or the nominee O f the Grand O l d Party .

M . M . THO MPS O N

Was born on the day of and removed to theWest August 28th ,

1834 , being one O f the first to organ ize theBureau Commi tte e i n th is S tate . He voted for Tippecanoe i n1836 and i n 1840, and cast hi s vote for Gen . Benj . Harri son onNOV . 6th ,

at Wyanette ,I l l . , which he bel i eves to be h i s last vote ,

but l et us hope otherwise . Proud of the Tippecanoe Club badge .

A G . TH RO O P

Was born July 2 2 d , 18 1 1 , i n Deruyter, Madi son county , N . Y .

Was in Clyde, St . Clai r county , Mich . , i n the year 1840, and cast

h i s fi rst vote for Wm . Henry Harri son at that p lace . Later onMr . Throop located i n Chi cago , where he hel d pos it i ons O f trustand pol it i cal preferments . He is at p resent a res ident of Pasadena

,Cal . , where he voted for Gen . Benj . Harri son . He i s now

serving the c it i zens of Pasadena as a member O f the counc i l .

EDWA RD TI FFANY , M . D

Was born in Rochester, New York , May 1 1th , 18 17 . His earlyl i fe was uneventful , and i n 1839 he commenced the study of med

icine at A lden , Erie county , N . Y . , afterwards attend ing HarvardUnivers ity and the lectures i n the Massachusetts General H osp ital . I n 1844 he moved to Meigs county , Ohio , where he praet i ced med ic in e for th irtv-s ix years , w i th the excepti on O f some


months when he attended l ectures on h is chosen vocat i on at various standard col l eges Was marri ed Ju ly 8 , 1847 , i n A lden , N . Y . ,

toMiss Martha A . Kel l ogg .

’

During the four years of the war herepresented h is County i n the Lower H ouse of the Oh io Legis l ature , and was appointed by Gov . David Todd a member O f thecounty m i l itary committee for the same peri od . Pol it i cal ly

,the

Doctor has always been a strong adherent of the good Republ ic an party

,voting for W . H . Harri son i n 1840, and for Gen. Benj .

HarrI Son In Chicago , 1888 .

CA LV I N TOW N S END

Was born i n Dixfie ld , Maine , Apri l , 18 19 . H is pol i t i ca l preferemees have always been with the Whigs and Republ icans . Hisfirst vote was cast for General Wi l l i am Henry Harrison in Welton,

Maine,i n 1840, and his last vote , i n Chi cago , for Harri son

t he second .

DAN IEL TRUE,

Born February in the town O f Goshen,Chesh ire county

,

New Hampshi re . Moved to N ew York in 182 3. En l i sted in thearmy in 183 1 ; served five years during the B lack H awk andSeminoie wars . Voted for General Wil l i am H enry Harrison in1836 and 1840 at Al bany , New York , and for every Whig andRepub l ican nominated for the pres idency , from 1836 to 1888 in

e l us ive .

A . S . V A I L .

My father and mother moved from Daw ley ,Vermont

,to a

t own i n Canada , by theJ name O f Dunham Lane ; l eft there duringthe war of 18 12 , and moved to Dawley , Vermont , where I l ivedmost O f the t ime unt i l I came to I l l i no is , where I have l ivednear ly fifty-three years . I came to I roquois county in 1836 , tookpart i n el ect ion O fW l l liamHenry Harri son but could not vote

,

as I had not been here as l ong as the law requ ired ; voted for h im


i n 1840 and for Benj amin Harri son i n 1888 ,and i f h is record i s

good and I shou ld l ive , wil l vote . for him i n 1892 i f he i s nomimated . I l ike the Old Tippecanoe C lub of Chicago .

C. R . V AN DERCO O K ,

SonO f Michae l S . Van Dercook,was born i n Pi ttstown

, Rensalaer

county , New York , on the 20th day O f May , 18 19. H is grandfatherwas a commiss i oned Officer i n the Revolut ionary war . Thefami ly are legal he irs O f the famous Anke Jantz

,whose estate

,

many years i n l i t igat ion , embraces , as al leged , the Trin ity Churchproperty O f New York— worth many mi l l i ons O f do l l ars . Thesubj ect of th is sketch came to Chicago in 1838 ; his occupationbe ing that of a c lerk . His first vote was cast forW i l l iam HenryHarrison

,for pres i dent

,i n 1840. Be l i eving the Whig party to

represent the best i nterests O f the country , espec ial ly on thetari ff quest i on , he cons i stent ly acted w i th that party unti l i t was .

absorbed by the Repub l ican party ,s i nce then he has been

act ively i dentified with the latter— cast ing his last pres identi alvote for General Benj amin Harrison . I n 184 1 he was one

, O f

n ineteen, who organ ized and bu i lt Trin ity Episcopal Church .

Sad to re late , a l l O f hi s compeers i n that transact ion , exceptingWm . W . Bracket , have gone to that bourne from whence notrave l l er returns . S i nce the ear ly days O f Chicago , Mr. Van

Dercook has been prominent in very many O f i ts soc i al andchari tabl e soc i et i es . I n 1846 he became identified with themason ic bod ies

,and through hi s ind ividua l e ffort , the debts O f the

Apol l o Commandery were paid and its charter saved—th i s is sai d

to now be the largest commandery i n the wor ld . I n 1843 he wase lected

,and served as treasurer of the Young Men

’ s L ibrary A sso

ciation. I n 1846—

7 Van Dercook Co. ,cast and bu i lt the first

stove manufactured in Chicago , employing about two hundredmen

,and turning out fifty stoves dai ly . For more than twenty

years Mr.Van Dercook was employed in the Ci ty water depart

ment.I n I 8SO he organ ized the company which constructed

and Operated,with good success , a dummy rai lroad from Forti eth

street, Ch icagO ,

tO Harlem . With a record O f unremitting business


act ivi ty Mr . Van Dercook ’

s p resent phys ical and menta l cond it i on pays e loquent tribute to h i s mode O f l ivi ng , and givescheering promise of many more years O f use fu lness among hisfe l l ow c it i zens .

B. VAN VELZER

Was born August 12 ,18 18 , at Syracuse , New York , and removed

to Chicago in 1836. Was engaged on the canal i n Ohi o in 1840,

and cast h i s vote for Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri son i n a smal ltown near Akron . A fterward he returned to Chicago

,engaging

i n the hotel bus iness , and made h is permanent home here . Has

always been a consi stent Republ i can , and took spec ial pains tovote for Benj amin Harrison .

A RCHER R . V ANHO UTTEN

Was born on the sth O f O ctober, 18 12 , inTarrytown , New York ,

and when fi fteen years O f age was bound out — as was the customin those days— to a cabinet maker, and has fo l lowed that tradeand other branches thereo f, during the greater port i on O f h is l ife .

He voted for Gen . Wil l iam Henry Harri son in 1836 and 1840, andBenj amin H arri son i n 1888 .

A s a carpenter he was cal l ed upon to bu i ld the arches onBroadway , Pearl and other New York streets for the Whig process i ons O f 1836 and 1840, and also a l arge l og cab in exhibi ted atthe same t ime .

JAMES A . WAKEF IELD

Was born i n Cherryfie ld ,Maine

,Apri l 3oth ,

18 19. Rece ived hi seducati on i n common schools and the Academy of Cherryfie ld .

H is bus iness i n Maine prior to l eaving for the Western S tates ,was chiefly lumber and mercanti l e bus iness , Often superintendinglumber operat ions and the erect i on O f mil l s . I n 186 1 and 1862

was one O f the sel ect men O f Cherryfie ld ,and in 186 1 was or

dered by Adj t .

-General of Maine to enrol l the “ mil it i a ,” and

during the war recru ited many men for the service . I n 1866 l eft


nati onal th i rd party movements , fu l ly bel i eving that s lavery coul dnever be abol i shed unti l the true party of reform , the grand O ld

Whig party,shoul d identi fy i ts power i n the movement , which it

d id do i n ‘ adopting a new name — the Republ ican party ; and aswith S lavery , SO it wi l l be , i n h i s est imation , with the l iquortraffi c . Prohibit i on , he th inks , cannot be accompl i shed by thethi rd party movement . Pol it i cal Proh ib it i on ists must return tothe real party O f reform and progress— the gl orious and re l iabl eRepubl ican party— and whether under that name

,or a new name

that may be chosen hereafter , proh ib it i on , he th inks , wil l , i n thenear future

,be the watchword O f the party O f re form , and i n the

natural course O f events be victorious .

ABIA L H . W I LL IA MS

was born i n the town of Lyman , S tate O f Maine , October 13,18 18 . Cast h is fi rst pres ident ial vote for Gen . Wm . Henry Harrison

,at A tk inson , i n said S tate , i n 1840, and voted the Whig and

Republ i can t ickets down to and i nc lud ing the e lect i on O f Benj amin Harrison to the pres idency O f the United S tates . Mr . Will iams i s yet qu ite vigorous , and has enl ivened the meet ings O f theClub by s inging w i th great e ffec t some o f the old -time campaignsongs

,notably the one entit led The Sword O f Bunker H i l l .”

M . D . W I LL IAMS

Was born i n Saratoga , New York , July 1 5 . 18 16 . H is pol it i calcareer has been that O f a private c it i zen , consecutive ly and -persistently for the success Of the Wh ig and Republ i can part i es .

Voted for General Wil l i am Henry Harri son i n Fu l ton county,

New York,i n 1840, and

d

for the younger Harri son in 1888 .

W I LL IAM R . W I LS O N

Was born at A shland , Ky . ,August 9 , 18 17 . H is father was aWhig,

l ivi ng i n the same town with Henry C lay ,for whose pol it ical


Op in ions he had the h ighest regard,and was a warm

,persona l

and pol it ica l fri end up to the t ime O f his death,i n 1837 .

Mr . W i l son fol l owed i n the pol it i cal footsteps O f hi s father,

and lays c laim to being a Whig from ’way back . I n 1836 ,lack ing

j ust two years a legal voter, he was unabl e to vote , but i n 1840

cast his fi rst vote for “ Tip and Ti , at Greensborough ,I nd . ,

andfrom that t ime to 18 5 2 he voted for the Whig nominees . I n 1864

he voted forAbraham L i nco ln , and ever after he gave h i s support to the Repub l ican party . Mr . Wi lson c loses h i s short b iograph ica l sketch of h imse l f by saying My only po l i t i cal regretis , that I d id not have the courage O f my convict ions to vote forAbraham L incol n in 1860 .

A LBERTW I NGATE

Was born at Hal l owel l , Kennebec county , Maine , June 1 5 , 18 17 ;

removed to Penobscot county i n 1839 . S eptember 6 , 1842

started by team for the far West— as I l l ino is was then cal l edreaching the Ten M i le House , now Auburn , kept by John Smithand Merri l l K i l e

,October 17 , and on October 26 commenced

housekeep ing in a l og cabin in the present town O f“forth,Cook

county,I l l ino is

,and has l ived in the same school di stri ct ever

s ince.Mr . Wingate has always been a farmer, and comes O f a

long l ine O f d i st ingu ished ancestors . John Wingate was aplanter at H i lton ’ s H ead , now Dover , New Hampshire ; s erved inK i ng Phil l ip ’ s War in 16 58 , and di ed Dec . 9th ,

1687 . JoshuaWingate he ld the rank O f Colone l i n the army that capturedLoui sburg , i n 174 5 , and d ied February 9th ,

1769, aged n inetyyears

. Rev .Paine W ingate was pastor O f the Second Congrega

tional Church in Amesbury ,Mass , for s ixty years , and di ed Feb

ruary l gth ,1786 , aged e ighty-three years . Joseph Wingate ,

popularly known as Farmer W ingate , died in Hal lowe l l , Maine ,September 18th , 1826, aged seventy-five . Paine VVingate , A lbert

’

s

father, d ied at Hal lowe l l , Maine , January 12 th ,1849 , on a farm

which he had c l eared O f the dense forest that covered it i n 1806 ,

when he first got it . A l l O f his ancestors Owned and l ived duringa port ion O f thei r l ives on a farm .


Joseph Wingate was a Federal ist,Paine Wingate a Federal i st

and Whig , and A lbert Wingate cast h is fi rst vote for pres identfor Wm . Henry Harrison , at O rono’

, Penobscot county , Me . ; votedfor C lay in ’

44 ; missed’

48 ; voted for Scott i n’

5 2 , Fremont i n’

56 ,

and al l the Republ i can cand idates S i nce that date , i n c l ud ing Benj amin Harri son in 1888 . Mr . Wingate has never used glasses , andhi s s ight is good today .

EMO RY B. WO LCOTT

Was born on the l gth O f September , 1806 , at Trenton , One idacounty

,New York . I n po l i t i cs , Mr . Wo lcott has never been

other tha n Whig and Republ i can . H e voted for Gen . Will iamH enry Harri son i n 1836 and 1840 at Rome , New York ,

and wasone O f a large party who , i n 1840, went from Rome to Utica inwagons

,mak ing a port i on of a three-mi le process i on in ce l ebra

t i on O f Gen . Harri son’ s e l ect ion , which was fol l owed by a bal l i n

the even ing . Mr . YVOICO tt voted in 1888 at Fern'wood , I l l . I t i sent i rely unnecessary to say for whom that vote was cast .

A . J . W R IGHT.

Born August 6th ,18 17 , at Dunstabl e , county O f Middl esex

,

Massachusetts . H is father was a C lay Whig , and voted for Wm .

Henry Harri son in 1836 and’

40. H is grandfather served i n theRevolutionery War. Mr . Wright took an act ive part i n thecampaign O f 1836 , but by reason O f h i s age d id not vote ; but d idvote for Wil l i am Henry Harri son , i n Nashua , New Hampshire , i n1840,

and -has voted the straight Republ i can ti cket ever s ince .

Mr . Wright has been in bus iness i n Chi cago s ince the year 18 54 ,

being quite wel l known to Our c i t izens i n general .

JO S H UA P A LMER YO UNG ,

Deal er i n real estate , was born at Brockport , N . Y . ,March 18 ,

18 18 . He voted for Gen . W . H . Harrison , at Brockport , i n 1840.


b etter of Benjamin Harris on, the S igner.

Benj amin Harrison,the s igner O f the Dec larat i on of I nde

pend ence ,rece ived an appoi ntment under General Wayne

,and

intended accompanymg him on the exp ed it i on against the northwestern I nd ians

,but was unabl e to do SO in consequence O f

having three O f h is r ibs broken near thebackbone,a l so l oosened

from his breast,and one broke near the middle .

” Under theseCi rcumstances he determ ined to send his son

,Wm. Henry

,even

in the humbl e capac ity O f private so ld ier,as wi l l be seen by the

fo l l owing extract O f a l etter wri tten to Maj -Gen . Char les S cott,

afterward Governor O f Kentucky :

OCTOBER 10, 1792 .

And now , before I take my leave , permitme to tel l you , ih y son, ayouthof nineteenyears of age , I have sent forward in the character Of a private sol

d ier, und erCaptainRollins . His you th and inexperience ,I make no doubt,

will stand in need of your friend ship ; therefore , I pray you , teach him the

duties Of his station, and if any accid ent shou ld happen him, pay some atten

tion tohim. Your obed ient and humble servant. BENJ AM IN HARR ISO N .

BIRTHPLACE OF TI PPECANOE.

MEMOR IAL BOOK OF THE

Froma Popu larCampaign Song of I84O.

Oh,what has caused the great commotion , motion , motion ?

Our country through ?I t is the bal l that ’ s rol l i ng onFor Tippecanoe and Ty ler

,too !

T ippecanoe'

s Tr‘iumphal March toWas hington.

Tuesday,J anuary 2 6 , 184 1 , crowds of the c it i zens of C inc in

nat i congregated i n front of the H enri e H ouse , to see for the lastt ime previ ous to h i s entering upon the important duti es of offi ceof Pres ident-el ect , Gen . Wm . Henry Harri son.

The day was c l oudy and the streets were muddy . A carri agehad been provided , but the General preferred walk ing , and wasescorted by several m i l i tary compani es , and a large number ofCi t izens , to the river , where l ay the steamboat Ben Frankl in ,

”

wait ing for the d i st ingu i shed passenger . The crowd upon thewharf was immense for those days , and was est imated at twelvethousand . Gen . Harri son was most deep ly affected when

,from

the deck of h is l i tt l e steamboat , he bri efly addressed h i s fri endsand ne ighbors . He spoke of the d i fference i n h i s fee l i ngs at thatt ime from those experi enced when he fi rst l anded at the spot anhumble ens ign in the army _Of his country ; and contrasted thepresent scen e with that of h is arrival , when only an occas ionall og cab in coul d be d iscovered , and al l around was a dense , darkwood

,the s i l ence of which was unbroken , save by the scream of

the panther and fierce yel l of the savage . He spoke of the parthe had borne inal l these Changing years , and of his l ove for thegreat West. He said he ful ly real i zed the vast responsibi l i t i es ofthe dut ies he was about to enter upon , and that the nat ion

’s wealwould be h i s compass and polar star . When he was found deviat ing from the h igh road of genu ine Democracy he fel t that hewould meri t the ir condemnat i on and rebuke . He Cl osed h i s re


itary that met h im at Wheel ing , made the c ircu i t o f the c ity inan open barouche . He St opped at the Pittsburg Hote l

,and

through that even ing and the fol l owing morn ing he rece ived thecongratu lat i ons o f the c it i zens . At el even O ’c l ock Saturday headdressed an immense aud i ence in front O f the hote l

,and i t i s

said that for squares in al l d i rect i ons there was a dense mass ofhumanbe ings eager to get a gl impse of the coming chi ef magistrate .

An esc ort Of Pennsylvan i ans then took charge of Gen . Harri son

,and i n a veh ic l e provi ded for the occas i on , the pres ident ial

party proceeded to Brownsvi l l e , where they took passage i n astage-coach for Balt imore . At every point at which he stopped

,

i f on ly for an hour , he met with demonstrat i ons of the most fl atteri ng k ind

,and final ly arrived in Wash ington on hi s S i xty-e ighth

bi rthday— the 9th day of February— and fourteen days after hehad embarked at C inc innat i .

AT THE CAP ITOL .

He was warmly greeted .upon hi s arrival at the depot by al arge concourse of peop le , and was bri efly welcomed by theMayor . The recepti on committee and Tippecanoe C lubs es

corted him to the C i ty Hal l , where the Mayor made an addressO f welcome , and Gen . Harrison responded in a short speech .

He left Washington February 1 1 , for Richmond , Va. ,for the pur

pose of p lac ing i n school the grandsons who accompani ed h im .

The ce lebrat i on of Washington ’ s b irthday was observed with

great ecl at i n R i chmond , and on that occasion Gen . Harri son andGov . Tyler met for the first t ime i n publ i c l i fe . I n the morn ing

the Governor of Virgin ia , i n behal f of the S tate , presented el egant swords to n ine officers of the army and navy— who werenat ives of Virgi n ia , and di st ingu i shed themselves in the then latewar— s in the presence of the d i st ingu ished guests , and the members of the legis l ature , and others . A fter the ceremoni es of thepresentat i on were over , the whol e body were escorted to a largehal l over the market-p lace , where they were tendered a banquet,and where Gen . Harrison entertained them with a Speech , foll owed by Tyler, and other persons of prominence .

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB , CH ICAGO . 2 2 5

During the vis i t o f the General to Richmond,he amused

h imsel f by vi s i t ing the scenes of h i s boyhood,and

,notwithstand

ing the fat igue of entertain ing , which he continual ly underwent ,he was up by day-break , walk ing about the c ity , l o ok ing in atthe markets , pri c ing grain and other products , ask ing quest ions ,and hunting up the O ld p laces he knew so wel l . He searched outthe bu i l d ing where he was a student o f medic ine

,and

,although

he found i n the ol d , tumble-down house a grog-shop , he en

tered i t and explained to h i s compan ions , much to the surpriseof the keeper : “ Here , fi fty years ago , I worked the p estl e andmortar i n compounding medic i nes .”

Gen . Harri son went from Richmond to Petersburg , by invi tat i on , and thence to B erkl ey , on the J ames River, and by way ofAnnapol i s he reached Washington Monday , March 1 . For thethree days previous to h is i naugurati on he was the guest of theMayor O f the c ity , where he received ,

“ at al l hours of the day , theV i s its of h i s many fri ends and admirers . For days and weeksthe c ity had been gradual ly fi l l i ng with strangers , who travel edi n various ways . They came by land and water, i n wagons , carriages , and on foot .At e ight O ’c l ock the morn ing of March 4 , the mi l i tary com

panies , Tippecanoe Clubs , and del egati ons began to form , and atten O ’c l ock the process i on moved from the head O f Four-and-ahal f S tre et , when a salut e O f thre e guns announced the ir march

toward the quarters of the pres ident-el ect .

THE CEREMON I ES .

At th is po int Gen . Harrison , who , i t i s said , was mounted on

a magnificent white charger, and accompanied by his su ite o f

personal fri ends , took his place in the process i on immed iate ly

after the Offi cers and sold iers who fought under him . On hi sright were seven c i ti zen Marshal s , and on his l eft the Marshals

of the D istri ct o f Columbia and four aids .The enthus iasm was i ntense along the l ine of march among

b oth part i c ipants and l ookers-on, and when at the last the Pres ident-el ect St epped forth. upon the p latform , prepared over the

port i co of the east front of the Cap itol , he was rece ived with tu

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Inu ltuous and long applause . When the uproar had subs ided heproceeded to read hi s address i n a c lear and d ist inct tOne,thecommand ing vo ice never flagging unti l he had fin ished: A fte rthe oath of Offi ce had been admini stered , the deafen ing shoutswere renewed and prolonged

,and a peal ing cannon announced

that the country had a new ch ie f magistrate . The process ionagain formed and proceeded along Pennsylvan i a Avenue to thepres identi al mansion , cheered by the crowds that l i ned theAvenue and fi l l ed the doors and windows along the route .

Extract FromPres ident Wm. Henry Harrison’

s Inaugural Addres s

March 4th, 1841.

I deem the present occas ion suffic i ently important and sol

emn to j ust i fy me in express i ng to my fel low c it i zens a pro foundreverence for the Chri st ian re l igi on , and a thorough conv i ct i onthat sound mora l s , re l igious l iberty , and a j ust sense of re l igi ousrespons ib i l ity , are essent ial ly connected with

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al l true and l ast inghapp iness ; and to that good Being who has

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b lessed us by thegi fts o f c ivi l and re l ig ious freedom , who watched over and prospered the labors Of our fathers , and has h itherto preserved tous

i nst itut i ons far exceed ing i n excel l ence those of any other peopl e,

l et us un ite i n fervently commending every i nterest Of our beloved country in al l future t ime .

Harris on’

s Fami ly Tree .

BY MR . BLACKFORD .

Master J ohn Harrisoq— first Governor o f Virgin ia— 4 62 3.

Benj amin Harri son, of Surrey— born 1645 .

H is son, Benj amin Harrison , of Berkl ey —d ied Apri l , 17 10.

H is son,Benj am in H arrison— k i l led by l ightning .

H is son, Benj amin H arrison , great-grandfather of the Pres identH is son, Wm . Henry Harrison , Pres ident of the United StatesH is son

,John Scott H arri son , father of the President .

DEWEYICHABO D STODDARD .

L . ‘V2 PARKE A . H . MORR ISON


Report of George S . Knapp.

Having represented the O l d Tippecanoe Club , of Chi cago , i nWashington

,at the inaugurat i on o f Gen . Benj amin Harri son as

Pres i dent of the Un ited S tates , on the 4th of March , 1889, I begl eave to report that as such representat ive 1 was everywhere re

ceived with demonstrat i ons of respect , and treated with theh ighest cons iderat i on . Dressed i n plain b l ack , wearing the badgeof the C lub upon my breast , and bearing al oft the t ime-honoredflag which floated i n the breeze i n the pres identi al campaigns o fGrant , Garfiel d , B laine and H arri son , and which saluted GeneralGrant on hi s return from hi s trip around the worl d - mysel f always the ens ign— that flag which represents the princ ip l es o fCivi l and rel igi ous l iberty , for which my grandfather, CaptainS imeon Crandal l , struggled on Bunker H i l l , and throughout thewar of the Revolntion. 1 was ass igned a pl ace i n the l i n e o fmarch d irectly i n rear o f the regiment o f veterans who servedunder General H arri son i n the war o f the Rebel l ion . A rrivi ng atthe cap itol , I had an excel l ent opportun ity to hear the Pres i dentd el iver h i s abl e and patri ot i c address to the peopl e of the Un itedS tates . I was then an i nvited guest t o the reviewing stand ofthe Pres ident . The s ight from th is pos it ion i s never to be forgotten by those who were so fortunate as to witness it— was so

subl ime as to baffle descript i on .

At the inaugural bal l — a dense forest of peopl e , al l nati onsrepresented , moved , unostentat i ously and serene the cynosure ofal l eyes , the cho sen ru ler o f s ixty mi l l i ons O f freemen .

“ Onwith the dance , let joy b e unconfined !’

Tis mornIng! Now , as the k ing o f day salutes the summit ofWashington ’

s Monumegt with a k i ss , a wel come summons greetsthe ear: “ The Pres ident w i l l , th is A. M . ,

rece ive al l C lubs fromouts i de the c i ty . Thereupon , your obed ient servant , accouteredas on the previous day , passed through the door o f the WhiteH ouse , and hal t ing i n the presenc e of the chie f magistrate , said :Mr. Prosz

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a’mt:— Representing on thi s occas i on the O l d Tippe

canoe Club , of Chicago , compri s ing some five hundred veterans ,


I congratu late you,and I am authorized to pl edge the C lub to

the support of your admin i strat ion with the same zeal and devot ion that i t man ifested i n your e l ect i on . I n accordance with mypromise

,I now and here , i n the White House , i n the name and in

the honor of the O l d Tippecanoe C lub of Ch i cago , take p leasureinwaving thi s flag of our Union before you .

Whereupon the Pres ident rep l i ed substanti al ly as fol lowsMr. Knapp :

— I thank the O l d Tippecanoe Club of Chicago forits act ive and effic i ent service i n the recent campaign , espec ial lyfor the un i form k indness shown me . My home i s open to al lthe O l d Tippecanoes

,and I shoul d be p leased to have them cal l

on me when here .

LieVi P. Morton, Vice-Pres ident of the United States ,

Was born at Shoreham,Vermont , May 16, 1824. H is father was

the Rev. Dan ie l P . Morton ,aCongregat ional m in ister of smal lmeans

,and a l i neal descendant o f George Morton , who came to

thi s country from England i n 1623. Lev i rece ived a commonschool educati on

,was a c l erk in Concord , N . H . I n 18 50 he be

came one O f the fi rm O f Beebee , Morgan 81 Co. , merchants i nB oston ; i n 1863 he founded the bank ing house o f Morton , Bl i ss

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81 Co. ,i n New York , and Morton , Rose 81 Co. , i n London , Eng

land . The two compan i es ass i sted largely in funding the debt ofthe United States , enabl ing the government to save several m i ll i ons o f dol lars . The Wa l l S treet firm has s ince that t ime beenon e O f the most consp i cuous i n America. Mr . Morton enteredpol it ical l i fe

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i n 1876 . I n 1878 he was e l ected to Congress fromNew York by a maj ori ty exceedi ng the ent ire vote of h is Opponent

,and at once took a commanding posi t i on on finance . As

Minister to'

France he was extremely agreeabl e and prominent atthe French cap ito l

,and hi s house became s ingul arly popular .

With the coming into power of the C leveland administration ,Mr . Morton

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s-of Course , returned home . I n January , 1885 , his

name was before the Republ i can caucus i n A lbany for nominationfor United S tates Senator, when Mr . Evarts was chosen and


elected .

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Mr. Morton uses hi s vast wea lth so that hi s name hasbecome synonymous with benevo lence . A notabl e i nstance washi s fitt i ng out , i n 1880, the sh ip Const itut ion w i th provis ionsfor the starving peop le i n I re land . H is contributi on to thisworthy Obj ect amounted to a smal l fortune . He enj oys the ful lconfidence O f the party which elected him to his h igh o ffice

,and

the whol e peop l e fee l assured that in any emergency the countrycoul d safely be entrusted to his care .

Facts About Pres idents .

The tabl e below gives at a glance the po l i t i ca l history of thePres i dents . The letter 0 s ign ifies that the Pres ident whosename is Oppos ite fi l l ed the spec ified O ffices before he was ca l l edto gu ide the ship of State :

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0 0 0 0 0

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

0 0 0 0 0

Cleveland was Sheriff and Assistant D istrict Attorney .


History does not bear out the general bel i e f that a seat in th eCabinet or a pos i t i on at a fore ign court ends a man ’s Pres i dent ialambit ion , for J e fferson , Madi son , Monroe , Quincy Adams , VanBuren and Buchanan each served as S ecretary of S tate . A l l ofthem except Madison and Van Buren represented the nationabroad as M in i sters . Gen . Grant was Secretary of War . SevenVice-Pres idents reached the h igher offi ce . They were JohnAdams , Je fferson and Van Buren , who were el ected to i t ; andTyler

,Fi l lmore Johnson and A rthur

, who succeeded the fourPres idents who di ed i n offi ce , viz : Gen . Harri son , Gen . Taylor,L i n coln and Gen . Garfi el d .

Only three Pres idents occup i ed office after vacat ing the Presid ential Chair— Quincy Adams , who afterwards spent seventeenyears in Congress ; Monroe , who became a Justi ce o f the Peace ;and Johnson , who was elected Un ited States S enator i n 187 5 .

The Speakersh ip O f Congress has not proved conduc ive tothe Pres i dency . Only one manwho pres ided over the Hous e hasreached the Chief Magistracy

,and that was James K . Polk . Two

of Ameri ca ’ s most bri l l i ant sons— Henry Clay and James G .

B lai ne— are cases in point . Both were sent to the Legis l aturewhen young , and they became the Speakers of the i r resp ect iveHouses . They were e l evated to Congress and each becameS peaker of the H ouse . Both served i n the S enate and in theCabinet as S ecretary of State . They were als

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o unsuccessful cand idates for Pres ident . Each was defeated by a comparat ive lyunknown man — Clay by Polk

,and B laine by Clevel and .

Virgin i a has furn ished no l ess than seven Pres i dents— Washington, Je fferson , Madison , Monroe ,

“O l d Tippecanoe ” Harri son,

Z achary Taylor and John Tyl er . Harrison was a res i dent ofO hi o and Taylor O f Lou i s iana when el ected .

The two Adamses , John Adams and John Quincy Adams,were both nat ives of Massachusetts . Frank l i n P i erce was borni n N ew Hampsh ire , and Gen . A rthur was a native of Vermont .Thus New England has had four representat ives i n the WhiteII ouse . 1

Five of the men el evated to the offi c e Were e ither natives orres idents of Ohio , and sold iers— viz :

“Old Tippecanoe ” Harri son,


trained at Kenyon Col lege , Arthur at Un ion Col l ege , and Harrisonat Miam i Univers i ty .

No l ess than el even Pres i dents had m i l i tary t it l es wonon thebattl efie ld . Washington and Grant were command ing General s ;Jackson , Wil l iam H . Harri son , Taylor and Garfiel d , Maj or-Generals ; Pierce , Hayes , and Benj amin Harri son , Brigad ier-Generals .Monroe was a Maj or and L i ncol n a Captain . Washington , Monroe and Jackson took part in the Revolut i on ; Jackson , Harri son ,and Taylor i n the War O f 18 12 ; Taylor, Pi erce and Grant wentthrough the Mexican war ; L i nco ln fought i n the B l ack Hawk

war, and Grant , Hayes , Garfie ld , and Benj amin Harri son i n thewar of the Rebel l i on .

A l l the Pres i dents except Jackson , Taylor, Grant , A rthur,Cleveland

,and Benj amin Harri son served i n the ir State Legis la

tures . Al l of them except Taylor, Grant , Arthur, Clevel and , andthe new Pres ident were Congressmen .

Je fferson, Jackson , Van Buren , Harri son , Tyler, Polk , Johnson ,Hayes

,and Cl eveland were Governors o f their respect ive States

for"

one or more terms . Both H arrisons , the younger Adams ,Monroe

,Jackson

,Van Buren , Tyler, Pi erce , Buchanan , Johnson ,

and Garfiel d were Un ited States Senators . Garfiel d was el ected ,but he never served , having been el ected Pres ident shortly afterward . Jackson never Spoke i n the S enate .

S even of them were Cab inet offic ial s . Je fferson , Madison ,Monroe

,John Qu incy Adams , Van Buren , and Buchanan served

as Secretari es of State , and Gen . Grant as Secretary of War forfive months . Both the Adamses , J e fferson , Monroe , TippecanoeHarrison

,and Buchanan were M in i sters to fore ign countri es .

Only One Pres ident was a Sheri ff ; that was Cleveland . Onlyone an A l derman— Johnson . Both J ohnson and Cleveland were ~

Mayors . Gen . Grant -was the youngest Pres ident , 47 , and O l dTippecanoe ” the Ol dest , 68 . Monroe , Grant , and Arthur wereres idents of New York C ity when they d i ed .

I n bus iness l i fe Wash ington was a surveyor ; Jackson workedin a harness shop , sol d cotton and mul es ; Taylor, a farmer ;

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Fi l lmore

,a Clothmaker’ s apprenti ce ; L i nco ln , a boatman and wood

chopper ; Johnson , a tai lor ; Grant , a tanner ; Garfiel d , a canaler ;


John Adams , Arthur and Cleveland , teachers .Several Pres idents had n icknames , Jackson was “O l d H ick

ory ” ; W . H . Harrison , O l d Tippecanoe Taylor,

“ Rough andReady Buchanan was cal l ed “ O l d Buck L i ncoln

,

“ O l dAbe , and Gen . Benj amin Harri son

, L i ttl e Ben .

Tippecanoe Entertainment, J-le id April 4 , 1889.

When the O l d Tippecanoe Club announced a musical andl i terary entertainment , to be given under the i r ausp ices , everybody knew it would be a good one , because the old Tippecanoeveterans have dOne wel l everyth ing they have tri ed s inc e the O lddays O f ’

40, when they helped elect Tippecanoe and Tyler , too .

Last n ight they deserted the Wigwam for Central Music Hal l,

where they assembled in l arge numbers , with many of the i rfri ends , to l i sten to a most attract ive program of mus ical andl iterary se lect i ons . The stage was effect ively draped with American flags inprofus ion , and at the right was the portrait of Wi ll i am Henry Harrison , the unve i l i ng of which was the secondnumber on the program . Mr . Harrison Wi ld played on the organwith hi s customary success an opening number, which usheredupon the stage the members o f the c lub to the number of about

one hundred . I t was an imposing and affect ing sight to see thearray of aged

, who have been act ive and enthus iasti c i n pol i t icalaffairs for over forty years . Here and there a dark head wasseen

,but a large maj ority were white , and there were a good

many canes,which came in excel l ent p lay for applause later in

the evening . After the unve i l ing of the portrai t Hon . Thomas B .

Bryan del ivered an address , substant ia l ly a fol l owsFELLOW CITI ZE NS

Inthis venerable presence it seems tome that silence would best becomea stripl ing of only three score years .

Despite , however, my protest, several hundred of these sprightly octogenarians have summoned me to this platform.

As the elections are over, and the d iscussionof politics would not accordwith the proprieties of this occasion, my compliance with the request for an

2 38 MEMO R IAL BOOK O F THEintroductory address shal l b e limited toa few word s , uttered in d eference to

age. Inpassing, however, and speaking general ly, itmaynot b eamiss todeclarethat no danger so threatens the permanence of ourRepublican institutions asdo the hot-bed s of corruption in the politics and administrationof cities. In

this respect a somewhat extend ed comparison has forced uponme the painful conv ictionthat ourAmericanCities present amortifying contrast to those

of Europe . It behooves our legislators and patriotic citizens to d evise someplanofmunicipal government that will d ivorce, as faras possible, party politics fromthe control of our city administrations, so that oft-recurringmunicipalelections may not tempt excited and eager partisans to vie with each other in

courting the support of the worst e lements of society. The best men of boththe pol itical parties that battle for city prizes, acknowledge the ev il , and inexpressions thatmay b e condensed in some such epigramas th is

Twixt the I roquois ‘

and the TippecanoesInour city elections there ’

s l ittle to choose ;'

Forw ith cither’ s defeat (horse , foot and dragoons )There yet flourish alike the d ens and saloons .

As banks and great commercial houses are confid ed tomen of businesscapacity , without regard to their political anteced ents and connections , whyshou ld not the more complex affairs of great cities b e entrusted ,

w ithoutregard to politics , to those possessed of the requisite business qualifications ?But a truce to th is grave topic !

Could the years of these fathers , now occupying this stage , b e regardedas not contemporaneous , but b e extend ed to the past in a continuous Chain,

with l inks of three score years and tenormore , it is startl ing to th ink that it

wou ld reach toaremote age of hundred s of centuries ago. Such areflectionupon the present pervad ing atmosphere of antiqu ity about th is platform re

cal lsmy impressions when first pacing the streets of Pompei, and fancyingthempeopled as of ol d .

And this is aClub ! A club not of commercial men; not of dancers ; notof scientists ; not of

“themliterary fe llers ; b ut,

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apart from its political affi liations , a club of silver beard s and glistening head s .

Somemay cal l it hobby-rid ing. But shal l the rid ing of hobbies b e con

fined to the young ? Why shou ld old men voluntarily shelve themselves ?Death of themind is worse thantotal d eath , wh ich it oftenprecipitates . W ithman’

s faculties d isuse is decayp The genial prince of anglers occupied hisninetieth year w ith successfu l authorsh ip . In our own day two continentsl isten with eager interest to every utterance of Bismark and of G lad stone.

Just homage to age is intensified when the Old ev ince intelligent interest incurrentaffairs .

Not a few are the compensations of age. Among the ch ief of these is thefeasting ofmemory. Youth rarely occupies itself with thoughts of age, b ut

240 MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THEage continually reverts to youth . Rarely indeed do we hear— once only haveI ever heard — anold manquote

“0 Memory ! Thou lingering murmurW ith in joy ’

s broken shell ,Why have 1 not, in losing al l I loved ,

Lost thee as wel l ?These gentlemend elight to recal l the earlier presid ents, and especial ly

the eld erHarrison, forwhom, as for h is il lustrious grand son, they worked andvoted — with an interval of nearly half acentury betweenthe two. Some haved escribed with accuracy tome the personal appearance of the first, for asGeo. El l iott says : “Old men’

s eyes are like old men’

s memories ; they arestrongest for things a long ways off.”Then, too, th is club, like that of the “

O ld Settlers , is a club of peculiarexperience . A th ird orahalf acentury inChicago is equal toawhole age ofMethuselah insome sleepy hollow . Whatmarvels of growth since we wad ed

through the mudd y vil lage, with its varying grad es, necessitating climbingand d escend ing steps fromblock to block , familiarizing one w ith the ups and

downs of life ! Now_

behold a mighty metropol is bold ly aspiring to commercial supremacy among the cities of the earth ! Was there ever before so

great analembic, inwh ich , with like rapidity, old customs and conservativesluggishness, were d issolved , and resu lts of genuine and startling progress attained ? Not among these aged eye

-witnesses of that progress canb e found

one man to question the mighty d estiny of Ch icago. Such a doubter couldonly find comfort inPascal 's consol ing Observation, that Man is necessarilysomuch of afool that it wou ld b e a species of folly not to b e afool . Then,too, these Old men, unlike some of the opposite sex, whose age some growlerd eclares tob e the only secret they ‘keep inviolably, rather plume themse lvesupontheir years . And we l l they may— for experience such as theirs is apt to

purify themind , and strengthen the judgment. They ought, as abody, to exercise a salutary influence overus al l , especially at times of electionwhenman'

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morality is rathera loose-fi tting garment. Look at thesemen, and say if theirhonest faces donot answer effective ly the il l-natured comment of that scofier

atmankind , Heine , whenspeaking of La Fayette as the only honestman, andthat at

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his d eath the situationwas vacant.0

Whatevermay b e their infirmities of bod y, however heavy and laboredthe step of some , they seemat least light-hearted . And somen shou ld b e ;realizing that ifmanis the only animal that knows hemust d ie , he is also the

only animal that knows how 18 laugh . Extremely rare are those whose lifelease is ninety-nine years , and none with aclause of renewal inthis— what the

Book of Ecclesiastes might cal l— grasshopper country . But, though , as with

most scarce things, the fewer the days left us , the more precious they shouldb e, I have no patience with themanwhomakes of himself asand-glass , constantly brood ing over the d escend ing sand ,

instead of being a sun-d ial everbrightly reflecting the goodness and mercy of God .


The glowing remark of one of this club , a day or two since, and of one.

too, whowas inactive business when I was stil l in the crad le, that he lovesnow, more thanever, both his country and the womenwho glorify it, amusedand gratified me not a little. The love of country takes d eep root incongenialsoil , grows with one ’

s growth , and endures to the end . That the heart which haspulsated for over eighty years with the love of woman, shou ld by that timefully appreciate so good a thing , is not unnatural ,nor should such aflame in agood old heart occasionanymore surprise thanthat green wood kind les lessquickly thanthat wh ich is old and thoroughly dry.

1 wel l remember seeing Grant, Sheridan and Sherman together in a

social company inWash ington, the last the liveliest of the illustrious trio. He

amused h imself, and everybody else, by his frolicsome snatch ing of kisses fromyoung women, whose ringing laugh attested theirwil ling tribute tohis age andd istinction. If all his enemies had but one neck Nerowould have severed it atone stroke . If all the fair Of our land had but one pairof lips , and ourgreatestsurviving General were anywhere inreach , terrific would b e the concussion.

Two things are entitled , as arule , to especial respect, long lives and short

speeches . My aged friend s having insisted uponmy being theirmouth-piece .

I greet you warmly, brothers, in their behalf. And the cord ial greeting ex

tend s toyou also, my fairaud itors , who canbest enlightenme onal l the dutiesof amouth-piece. One thing, however, is certain, the lip

-salutationof these veteranworshippers of women could not, evenwere they wil ling, b e warmly andeffectively tend ered by proxy .

Then Rev . Dr . Withrow rec ited in the sp irit o f i ts authorO l iver Wendel l Holmes— the humerous poem , entit led “The

Boys .

A fter a march on the organ by Mr. Wild , the Imperial Quartette sang in its usual successful manner , and later in the eveningagain

,both times responding to wel l-merited encores . A rec ita

ti on, Susan Cool i dge’ s Ginevra ,

” by M iss Hatti e Flem ing , was

one of the most p l eas ing things heard in many a day in Chicago .

Miss Flem ing has not appeared in publ ic before , but by hercharming grace and fini shed reading of the poem she captivatedher aud ience

. She was fol lowed by M iss Mary Shelton Woodhead

, who sang in h ighland costume ,“ A Hundred Pipers . Miss

Woodhead is always wel l rece ived , and last n ight added laure lsto her reputat ion . Later i n the program she sang

“Ann ie

Laurie , and as an encore“The Land o

’

the Leal ,”

which alwayscaptures an aud ience when she s ings i t . The danc ing of M issCora Sp icer

,a l ittl e g i rl

,was very good , and gave general p lea


sure . The old song ,“The Sword of Bunker H i l l , was sung by Mr.

A . H . Wil l iams , an aged member of the c lub . He carri ed an oldsabre which saw servic e at Bunker H i l l i n the hands of CaptainS imeon Crandal l , from whom it had descended to hi s great-grandson, Mr. G . S . Knapp . A fter th i s song , Mrs . J oseph ine Turck ~

Baker rec ited two sel ect i ons from Josi ah A l l en ’ s Wife,giving

much sati sfacti on to the high ly pleased aud i ence . Two rec itat i ons by Mr. Eugene Hal l were wel l rece ived . Mr. Fenton B .

Turck gave some excel l ent impersonat ions , do ing Professor

Swing and Dr. Lorimer, to the unmistakabl e del ight of the aud ience . The program concluded with a most p leas ing Seri es ofcharacteri st i c p ieces p layed by Mr. Pau l O lah ’

s HungarianO rchestra from the Eden Musee .

The Sword of Bunker Hill .

AS SUNG BY MR . A . H . \VI LL IAMS .

He lay upon his dy ing bed ,

H is eye was growing dim ,

When with a feebl e voi c e he cal l edH is weep ing son to him .

Weep not , my boy , the veteran said ,I bow to Heaven ’ s h igh wi l l

,

But qu ick ly from yon antler bringThe Sword of Bunker H i l l .

9K 9k 9?

Now s ixty mil l i ons bl ess the s ire ,And Sword of Bunker H i l l .


ANotab le Gathering.

Peopl e who happened to be on S tate , between Washingtonand Randolph streets , Thursday even ing , a l ittl e before e ightO ’c lock

,heard the shri l l tone of a fi fe and the sharp rat-a-tat of a

tenor drum . Then there passed through the d im l ight o f thegas-l amps a process ion , headed by two American flags and abanner

,i n which marched men two by two , going toward the

north .

The voic ings of the fife were a trifle querulous , as i f the windof the p layer were scant , and the tones O f the drum were somewhat quavering and uncertain , as if the hands that held the st ickswere a l i tt l e weak and shaky . There was a pecu l iar accompaniment to the hes itat i ng utterences O f the instruments— that of thetapp ing of metal on the stone of the s i dewalk . I t was the impactO f canes carri ed by the members of the process i on , each of whichstruck the pavement as if i t were impel l ed by a heavy weight .One coul d not see the faces of the ind ividual s of the pro

cess i on , i n the Obscuri ty ; but on e cou ld see that many of themstooped as they wa lked , as i f there were a powerful attract i onpul l i ng them toward the earth . Some of the i r l egs were st i ffenedso_thatmovement was an awkward sort of hop-and-sk ip ; s omeof the heads were dropped wel l forward so that the chi ns almosttouched the breasts . A l l the way the canes p layed a consp i cuousstaccato accompaniment to the march .

A l i ttl e later the aud i ence i n Central Musi c Hal l saw on thestage a dense mass of black which was covered with fl eecy whiteas from a covering O f vi rgin snow . Under the strong glare of thefootl ights the ind ividual i ty of the process ion from the street b ecame d i st inct . I t was the O l d Tippecanoe C lub , men who hadvoted for the original l og-cab in cand idate , and who , on the ann iversary of h is death , had gathered to do honor to h i s memory .

I t may be that the assembl ing on the 4th of Apri l was not intentional ; i f not , the co inc idence was a curious one .

I t was someth ing to i nsp ire reverence,almost awe , the spec

tacl e of th i s snow-thatched aggregat i on . There was much that


was patheti c i n thei r atti tudes as they patiently stood,with

bowed figures and leaning heavi ly on the i r canes , d uring the longprel iminary performances . Thei r rheumat ic legs must have hurtthem , and the ir p oor O ld

”

backs ached , as for a lmost a ful l hourthey were forced to stand without opportun ity for a change ofpos it ion .

I t i s a ha l f c entury s ince the youngest among them was oldenough to vote for Tippecanoe and Ty ler , too .

”

Some of themvoted eight years before the advent of Harrison

,which would p lace

them now in the eighti es . Some of them are as O ld as the century .

I t was a curious sp eculat i on on the part o f some of the aud ience as to what these ol d men were think ing of as they stoodthus in a so l i d mass . Did the contact , the numbers , strengthenthem and make them reflect , each one think ing : “ I am not theonly one who i s aged , white-haired and fai l ing . A l l these menare the same as I , and I wi l l not have to cross the river a lone .

Did the fact that there were so many of them afford a spec ies ofgrim consolat ion ?That they thought of the past cannot be

‘

doubted . Theirmemories took them back to 1840, when hard c ider was a partybeverage and a ral lying cry ; when the country b lazed w i th bonfires ; when log cabins ranked higher than pa laces , and the nationwas crazed with an enthus iasm which has not s ince been rival ed .

And poss ib ly , too , they thought of the i r victory , the interpos it i onof crue l death

,and that i n the re-e lect ion of the grandson O f

thei r venerated ch ief there was something in the nature of acompensati on .

One cou ld not avo id think ing as he gazed on the gray , stoopshouldered men

,lean ing heavi ly on the ir sti cks , of the contrast

between them and the ir former se lves . Then these men , withthe wan faces and shrivel ed forms , were rose-cheeked , ful l as tochest and muscl e

,with hair brown , raven and dense , and with

voices,not as now

,th in

,weak and tremulous , but stentorian as

they shook the ground with thei r mighty huzzas .

NOTE— The above mentioned coincid ence was undesigned , and the

banner referred towas d isplayed in the conventionwhich nominated Gen.

Wil liamHenry Harrisonfor Presid ent in


Members

Abbott , S . G .

Abernethy , J . W .

Ackerman , JamesA ckl ey , Benj .Adams , J amesA iken , Dani e lAmes , CheneyA shbury

,Capt . H .

A sk in,Robert Y .

A tk ins , Henry M .

Averi l l , A . J .

Avery , W . B .

Ayers , E .

Ayers,W . B .

Babcock,John N .

Backer,Fred

Badger, Leon idasBaker

,John P .

Baldwin,Henry

Baldwin,Wm . G .

Bal lard , 0 . W .

Barbour , L .

Barber, L i l l ibridge

Barnard,R . H .

Barnes , A . H .

Barnett , A l exanderBart lett , J oseph P .

Bartl ett , E . L .

Bassett , JaredBates , A . T .

Battershaw ,M .

Beecher , J eromeBeecher,Wm. HenryBeefie ld ,

W i l l i amBennett , R . J .

Beckwith , C . H .

Becker, J . W .

Be idl er , J .

Beidl er,Henry

Benton , R . O .

B ig low,L . H .

B ishop , G . O .

’

of the Old T ippe canoe Club .

B i l l i ngs, A . M .

B i l l ings , Henry L .

Booth , J udgeBone , J . C .

Bonham , G . W .

Bosworth , A .

Bosttetter, J .

Boyden , Jas . W .

Boyington , W’m. W .

Brace , Wm.

Brackett , J oseph W .

Brad ley ,Wm. Henry

Bradley , D .

Bradl ey , FrancesBrayton , J . W .

Brayton,E . F .

Brooks , J . W .

Brown , Charles E .

Bri sto l , GeorgeB lackal l

, A . H .

Blai r,M . R .

Blair,W i l l i am

Blakesl ey , LeviBlakestee , L .

Blodgett , Phineus M .

Bue l,James

Burroughs,Phi l l ip

Burl ey , A rthe r H .

Bur ley , A rthe r GBurns , A . H .

Burns,Patrick

Burbank , T . W .

Burt , A . S .

Butlers , M . R .

Carr, Dr . WatsonCarrington

,N . S .

Cary , John M .

Carter , Thos . B .

Carpenter,Geo . W .

Castl e , Col . E . H .

Case , S . S .

Campbel l , B . H .

Cannon , M . S .

Chadwick , James N .

Chadwick , Wm . B .

Chessmann, N .

Chalmers , Thos .

Chap in,L . R .

Chap in , Henry LChase , J . R .

Churchi l l , S t i l lmanC lark , J . H .

Clark , Dr . W . E .

C leaver,Chas .

C lement , J . C .

C lement , S tephen H .

Coal e , I saacCobb , S . B .

Cobb, Luc i us I .

Cobb , G . W .

Coo l , Benj .Coon

,P . H .

Coffin,Fred W .

Coffin , R .

Cogswe l l,F .

Co lby , E .

Colb son, J . H .

Co le , I srae lCo l ton , C . W .

Conkey , W . H .

Converse , H enryConna l ly , A . P .

Coultright , J .

Crana , D . E .

Craig , C . W .

Crawford , J ohnCrawford

,H . P .

Cross , A sahel T .

Crittonton, E . 0 .

Crim , Dr . M .

Crure , Dr . M .

Currey,James

Dame , Capt . J ohnDavis , F . M .


Lane , E . S .

Lan ing , Capt . JamesLanghurst , Wm .

Law , J .

Lawrence , M . A .

Lawrence , W . H .

Leake , J as . B .

Loomi s , J ames W .

Loomi s , J . M .

Lovej oy , M .

Lovej oy , F . CLord , J . F .

L i ttl e , D .

Lyman , N . R .

Macaul ey , M .

Magee,W .

Magee James K .

Mann, 0 . L .

Marsh , I saacMarsha l l , James A .

Mason,Car l i s l e

Mason , J . E .

Mason , NelsonMathews , P . P .

Matthews , G . L .

McCu l loch,C . G .

McCu l loch , L . G .

McDanie ls, A .

McHenry , Capt . H .

McK ind ley ,James

McLean, J ohnMcMaster, B . D .

Mears , J . C .

Mears , NathanMears , C .

Merril l , J . B .

Merri l l , Nathan F .

Merri l l , Benj .Merri am

,Jas . L .

Mend sen, W IIIiamMeyers , HenryM il l s , Luther Lafl inMi l l er, JohnM il l s , Wm . BruceM i l l er , T . L .

Mil l er, Dr. A .

Miner , G .

Mitche l l , F . M .

Mitchel l , Thos . FMoore , A . J .

Moore,Warren

Moore , Geo . S .

Moore , Thos . C .

Morrison,Co l . A . H .

Morrison , E .

Morri son , C . E .

Morri son L .

Morton Chas . H .

Munger , C . W .

Murray , E . D .

Myrick , W . F .

Newel l , J . W .

Nichol s , Chas . H .

N ickerson , W . H .

Norton,E . H .

Northway , E . H .

Nourse , Franc i sNourse , J ohnNowl in , LewisOfficer, A .

Ol cott , O rvi l l eO sborn , W . A .

O sborn , Judge A . L .

O sborn , HenryO sborn , S . S .

O sgood , I saacPackard

, J . A .

Pap l in , N . S .

Parks ,L . WParker , ThosParsons , A .

Pattl e , Moses L .

Patte rson,Wm .

Patterson , W . H .

Pease , W . H .

Peck , C . E .

Peck , C . M .

Peck, J . C .

Perry,James M .

Perk ins,W . S .

Phi l l ips , M .

Plummer, B .

Pomeroy , G . W .

Pope , Geo . G .

Pote , RobertPotter, J ohn O .

Powers , LeviPowers

, Amos H .

P l att , Maj . O . H .

Prebl e , J . G .

Pridmore . W . H .

Prince , Luc ianPring l e , Thos .

Pring le , Thos . J .

Pritman, V . C .

Pul lman,A . B .

Pul lman , G . M .

Pu l isfer, S amue lRamsey , O . D .

Ranny, A . D .

Rawson , A lonzoRaymond

, A . N .

Reed , A l ansonReed , H . B .

Reiter , W .

Rew , Henry A .

Reyno lds , A . S .

Richards , RawsonRichmond , H . M .

Rin , D . A .

Rip ley , Wm .

R ip l ey , Geo . C .

Risb ig,Lev1

Rob ertson, .ThomasRobinson

, J . N .

Rodgers , W . B .

Rogers , Thos . H .

Rogers , ThomasRoss , R . C .

Roundy , D . C .

Sanford , S . A .

Sayrs , HenrySearl es , Wm . D .

Sedgwick , Dr. S . P .

Severence , J . F .

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB , CH ICAGO .

Sawyer, D . B .

Sayers , R . F .

Scammon , J . Y .

Schaffer, J .

Schmidt , J .

Scott , Gen . HoraceScott , Geo . W .

Scott , W . D .

Scribner , Wiley S .

Shaw , Calvi nShepard , W . W .

Sherwood , P .

Shipman , Geo . E .

Shourd s , Benj .Shourd s , JamesS i eber, J os iahS inc lai r, JaysonSkinner , Wm .

Slater , F . A . , M . D .

S loauneb , A . D .

S l eeper , J . A .

S locum ,E . F .

S losson, EnosSmith ,

Benj .Smith , Benj . E .

Smith ,Dr . D . S .

Smith , H . R .

Smith , 0 . A .

Smith,W . G .

S'oper

,A lbert

Spear, S . L .

Spry , JohnStap l es , R . B .

Start , J ohn

HO NO RA RY MEMBERS .

49

Blaine, Hon.James G. Roach ,

Hon. JohnA. El liot, Mrs . M inerva K.

Sec . of State of U . S . Mayorof Chicago Garl ick , Mrs . Annah S .

Drake ,JohnB. W ithrow , Rev. Dr. J . L . Hall

,Mrs . S . C.

Douglas , StephenA . Bosworth , Mrs. A_

lbert HarrIson,Mrs . A . I .

Fifer, Hon.Joseph W . Burroughs , Miss K . Hopkins , Mrs . Mary M .

H is Exce llency Collins , Mrs . Thomas Knapp , Mrs . G . S .

Harrison, Benjamin, Cooke , Mrs . A. Augusta Remington, Mrs . BellePresid ent of the U . S . Dewey , Mrs . Mary TenEyck ,

Mrs . Thos .

Mercer, Rev . L . P .

Steel , E . P .

Stedman , D . B .

Stevens , I saacStevens , James P .

S t i tt , JohnStoddard , I chabodStone , W . B .

Storey , Geo . H .

Stout , Gen . A . M .

Stovie , C . U .

Tait , JohnTanner , HenryTap l i n , M . S .

Taylor, J . B .

Taylor , J . H .

Teal e , E .

‘

P .

Ten Eyck , T .

Thomas , B . W .

Thomas , T . D .

Thomas , Wrn.

Thompson , JaredThompson , M . M .

Throop , Amos G .

Ti ffany,Dr . E .

Toms , Col l ins S .

Townsend , C .

True . Danie lTurner , JohnTurner , J . V .

Turnor, J . A .

Tutt l e , FredVai l , A . S .

Van Dercook , C . R .

Van Houtten,A . R .

Van Ve lzer, B .

Viberts, J ohn

Wakefie ld , James A .

Wa lrath , H . M .

Warner, A . G .

Wash ington Geo .

Watk ins , El ias J .

Watson , B . A .

Watts , RobertWe igs lebaum,

B .

Wel ls , M . A .

Whee ler H iramWhitbeck

,H .

White , C . B .

Whitney,E . H .

Wil lard , A . J .

Wil l iams , A sa

Wi l l i ams,A . H .

W i l l i ams , M . D .

Wil l iams , Chas .Wi lson

,Washington

W i l son,W . R .

Wingate , A lbertW i ns low , J . H .

W i nston , N .

VVO lcott , E . B .

\7\70rster, Asa’

VVOrth ington, D .

“Night , A . J .

Wright , E . L .

Wright , J . G .

Wright , S . F .

Yates , H . H .

Young , J . P .


The Old Guard .

The O ld Tippecanoe Guard wi l l not be the l east among theattract i ons at the forthcoming centenn ial ce lebrat i on . I t is ex ~

ceed ingly graceful , as wel l as appropriate , that these veteranvoters should be given an honored place at an assembly convenedto Observe the ann iversary of the inaugurat i on O f the fi rst Pres ident of the republ i c . Some st i l l survive who part i c ipated i n , orwitnessed the semi—centenn ial which was commemorated theyear before O l d Tippecanoe led the log-cab in , coon , c ider, andsong campaign that ret i red forever L i ttl e Van to private l i fe

,

and wrought so potential ly upon the Wh ig consc ience of nearlyfi fty years ago .

The pol i t i cal canvasses of 1840 and 1888— O i O l d Tippecanoeand Young Tippecanoe— were both pecu l iarly p icturesque . An

e ffort was made to transform the bandanna into the semb lance ofa sentiment , but campaign exposure and evas ion early took shapeand form out of it and l eft on ly a shapel ess , col orl ess shred ,

nomore l ik e what i t started out to be than a rag compared to thestars and stripes . But theattracti ons of the s imple , s incere canvass O f l og-cabin days never fai l ed to awaken patriot ic impu lses ,to qu icken the publ i c l i fe i nto high resolve , to an imate thepeopl e

,and at the same t ime to expe l the gal l of bi tterness from

a campaign that became famous i n song and story .

‘ The strongAmerican i sm of the campaign of 1840 was healthful to the nat i on

,j ust as that deci ded bias was l ast year which Young Tippe

canoe gave to h is party and the peop l e i n al l h i s publ i c utterances . There had been much in po l i t i cs that was too pract i calor too profess i onal . The change from th i s s i de of selfishness andp lace-seek ing to the other of patriot i c endeavor , of generous servi ce for the industrial classeS, of s imple worth against sham andshoddy

,that was brought about by both Tippecanoes was re

freshing and hopeful for the republ ic . SO unusual was i t thatthe peop le fe lt i ts p icturesqueness and cherished the change . A

new l iterature was i ntroduced . New music came . The songwriters O f the war for the Un ion had for the most part passed

MEMOR IAL BOOK O F THEThe tid ings of the patriot's death ,

A d irge , by nature sungBut echoing stil l the anthemh igh ,

That burst the freedom,whenthe cry

Of Ind epend ence rung .

Forwhen that Heaven born spirit gaveHerCharter fromthe oceanwave ,

Of Atalanta’

s throne ,

And bad e Americaawake ,

( In accents that made empires quake , )And armed aWash ington,

The very triumph that she gaveRol l

’

d o’

er the ashes of the brave,And sad dn

’

d v ictory ’

s swel l ,And though nomigh ty battle ’

s breathBurst around thy b ed of d eath

And bore afar thy knel l .Thou , honored brotherof the free ,

A nations tears are s hed for thee .

Ye potentates of Europe , you

Of old hered itary sway ,Who battle holiest truth— ii new,

And not the faith of grand sires— say,I f al l the pageants that have shownThe picture of anempty throne ;Or al l the hired peals that ringAround the coffinof ak ingOral l themercenary gloomOfmourners at a d espot’s tomb,Can equal that spontaneous tearWept overaworth to freedom d ear.

As sunligh t to the gem,

A worth that shed aholier glowround the patriot hero’

s browThanempires d iad em.

No I Though the mil lions weeping, bendO

’

er St. He lena’

s empty tombAnd monarchy d ead , aglory lendTo Russia’

s frozenwomb .

Though sepu lchres embannered vie

W ith columns troph ied to the sky,

nd pyramid s ofmarble dareTo shoot beyond the tid es of air,To heaven’

s empyreal blue ,

Though proudest ministers o’

er yourshrines ,

Are d ecked fromfarthest Ind ia’

s minesInfettered gofd for you .

For himanobler trophy springsThan d ecks adateless line of kings,Which time cannever d im,

Til l skies wrapt up indoom shall b e ,

Deep inthe hearts ofmil lions free .

Behold the shrine of H IM

OLD TI PPECANOE CLUB , CH ICAGO .

Pres ident Harris on’

s Tribute to the Tippecanoes .

WASH I NGTON , D . C. , May 9 .

— The Assoc iati on O f Veterans of1840,

composed O f members of the Tippecanoe Club , who ass i stedin the el ect i on O f Pres ident W i l l iam Henry Harrison , ca l led atthe White H ouse today In a body , for the purpose of payingthei r respects to the Pres ident .There were about seventy veterans in a l l Inc luding ex-Minister

Schenck , ex-Senator Pomeroy and ex-Pubhc Printer C lapp . Thelatter acted as Chai rman of the de legati on , and made an address .

The pres i dent responded as fol l ows :Mr. Chairmanand Geizz‘lerrzeiz: — I beg to assure you that I ap

prec iate very highly thi s evi dence of your respect and confidence .

I f I were to set before me an ambition which would insure thesuccess of my administrat ion , i t wou ld be that I m ight cont inueto hol d fast the respect and confidence of sue/z men as yourselves , matured of mind and unbiased in j udgment . 1 thank youfor com ing , and for your k indly words .

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