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glt;y paper, publishes the following sketcharcnanoI him: • ■ ■ n_OTJlllam McE. Dye, the present com- UD mDder-tii-clilef of-the Coreau army, Is well known to some of the old residents of Chicago, . Although not a native of this city fie passed several years oftls jpjlife here and his wife’s parents lived at Jioi Monroe and Dearborn streets, whore the j™iliUlilUO ---. —-- - “ q+Chicago Rational bank now stands.^ At ™the time of his wife’s birth' the farmhouse was well out on the outskirts of the city and was, surrounded by a few haj acres of prairie land and trees, P®1Qua who was probably better rac- jde dutnted with. Gammitder-ln-Chicf Dye for than anyone else In this city ig N. E Dawson, the private secretary of Dlrcc-i tor General Davis of tho World’s tVir They were cadets'-together In Weet Point, about the yearlSSO, and, although in different, regiments, they fought In »s[ many battles together during the war. cal Later gd they were old comrades and ^ passed many pleasant hours in each 23,1 other’s company, “Sghling their battles rac o'er again” at Washington, D- C. Mr. P1Dawson was a lleateoant in the Nine- 13teeMh Iowa Infantry, -while Mr%D?a E® was a colonel in the Twentieth Iowa Id-wlbynaSOIreiR3peor:ceSB'frireId’onsbAiA01araraiatJiW!Jubeai a iTYo!fan try, and later on commanded abrigade at the battlo of Prairie Grove,Ark., ono of the hard eat battles fought west of the Mississippi*Statements have appeared In the newspapers recently crediting Commander Dye with being born in Chicago* That is a mistake. His wife, who was a MissRucker, was born here, and he hag adaughter, Mrs* 0 S, Bayliss, who is a resident of this city. Her home is at BljCS Indiana avenue. Mrs. Dye Is at present at Ann Arbor, Mich., where the two younger children, a daughter and a son, are completing theJr education. Mrs. Dye and the widow of General Sheridan, who was also a Miss Rucker, arecousins. •According to Mr. Dawson, Commands!*Dyo ,was born in Washington, Pa , aboutslxty-three years ago. While he wag yet.young his family removed to Mansfield,Ohio, and It was ir cun that placehe entered We^t Point. In theregular array ho attained the noteof captain, when ho resigned andsettled at Marion, Linn county,Iowa- When the war broke out ho wasappointed colonel of the Twentieth IowaInf entry. Joseph. B. Leake* the well-known .Chicago lawyer, was lieutenant ■.olottOl ot the regiment and was Us cow-naDder at the baule of Prairie Grove trhila Dye was In charge or the brigade. Sonerl Can by looked at Dyo as one of its beat soldiers and he was credited with rrlous deeds In the battles in tho souin.14At the close of fcbo war,1’ said Mr, Jaweon, •'Colonel Dyo camo to Chicago phero he met and married Miss Rucker.Io soon afterward settled in Des Moines, .qw, but made frelt;juen t trips to Chicago, where his wife’s reiativBs con-laued to live. Wbil©' still a resident ™f Dos Moines ho nod Colonel G. :?. Stone, who was General Bank'sshiof of staff in the dspartmeut of ,he gulf were sent for by the khodjve.of Egypt, who wanted the services of some joGd American o dicers to organize his Saryptlan array. They hoth accepted iho jdor and went to Egypt. While there ;bev went with the army on a dangerous sxpedliion Into Abyssinia, where a fnrm-sr array of G.000 of the khedlvo’s soldiers iad been literally annihilated. The army sommanded by Dye and Stone fared joincwhat better,but Dy* rncoived * dan-jfircras wound which almost caused hisJeath-“After being in Egypt for six or seven fears Col. Dye and Col. Stone returned to America Start© died a few yeara igo. Dye settled down in Washington trnd was not long thera until ho was appointed chief of police. Five or six years ago the Coran ■ embassy expressed a desire to engage the service of an experienced American soldfor to reorganise tho fcrmy of Coroa. By© was chosen. Hisfirst contract with the Coreans was fortwo years, but It has been renewed threeAattrreIxtlPt:£t-if-ilCiVhm-VrT.tVc0101:t\:c1les since.Mrs- Dye did not accompany her ntiH-□d to the orient; not because she jaded the lonf; voyage and living In it far away country, but principally be-as© the children were young and she .iitedl to have them educated in Amen-a schools.[q appearance Comman^cr-In-Ohlei 3e is a Ut.i'0 above tho medium, height* d well built* Ho has sandy hair, tight abrows acd bright blue ©yes. in man-r ho Is unassuming and matter of fact, company he Is quiet and reserved anditikes ostentatious display.Mrs, Dye was In this city recently and th her friends she drove- to the si to of a Chicago National bauk. where once tho farm house In which sho was u. She said she could hardly realise t It wa3 tho place where she romped k girl, and she told how she had often 0 out after the cows on prairie, in direction of Michigan, boulevard*11*i,t1r1c!tsS25.Q0; Moulton, the Tailor.—1 -mmrry Dnme^tic aoap and you will usooa C i\ Tiutchfins. 4rj5 ff Avo. Wosurousors S*ri f}0. Moulton, the Tailor*tpp)y to Mather A Uravcllc for the qst and bsst office in fcho city*1ronsor« 85*00. Moulton tho Tailor;ci1c11J(11J%J( .—*—*-noke the Frtir Citv 5c Clgarivlist.Ids1 Highest of all in Leavening Powc u 0
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1894
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