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Death of Cupt. George If. Pettis.Tho California veterans will be distressed to learn of the death of Capt. George H. Pettis. State Sealer of Weights and Measures of Rhode Island, and who has beon for ho many years the life and energy of the California Veterans' Association. lie was in Washington a few months ago in attendance upon the convention of the State Sealers and Weighers and seemingly In good health, but after Christmas bis health began to decline, and he died In his apartments at Providence Jan. -S. No man was better known than Capt. Pettis. He began life us a printer in Rhode Island, then capght the gold fever and went to California, crossing the Isthmus at Nicaragua. Ho was in sovertd of tho expeditions to pew gold Holds, hut did not mako any great stake, and returned to I he printing business, b- coming u reporter on tlie San Francisco papers, lie entered tho service at Lincoln’s first call in the 1st Cal., and served in that regiment until It was mustered out, when he entered tho 1st N. M. ns a Captain, and was brevetted for distin-gulsned and gallant service In lights with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians. He was not mustered out until 1868, when he returned to Providence with hla wife and three children. He served in the Common Council, in the Legislature, and then os Hoarding Officer of the Port of Providence. He was next marine editor of the Providence Journal. and then became State Sealer of Weights and Measures, a duty In which he took much Interest. He was an active Grand Army man from the first, and particularly interested in the California Volunteers, of which organization he was President for several years and Secretary afterward. The Providence papers speak in the highest terms of him os au officer and a citizen.For rriNorthi ▼atlon. Hoi River. FinThU farm U easy tSTBM I *vomo uiraiio description ifor jroilislio-MarryKrvo lakk, 111.Marryof av l J. Martha!'AltilYnr D*HPISELECTcMarryDiraci plan. UozWould Y« tiUnln; bun from all Catholics, aWu8ffM. H.8*dlt;V) ROT HI I f will r Gladly ranIJ. P.Jiivan Ptlla reaultt. Thlt; forca than I
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Washington National Tribune
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Thu, Mar 11, 1909
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