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COREA'S AJ. iV * •jA FORMER RESIDENT OF MARION IN■command of THE troops.J*Pc\ to I*0\tloi.theml]prcU VIboiginla:annaiDoRO«salthefoltlaforStsIftRmiha-polthe?oiay]IQIw-A*fOIaalcaeanitPIiswl by a asoreftcpeorcoSBfrreIdotWilliam McE. Dys Chosen Military In-j Qf lt;stractor of ihft Homnt Kingdom HoResigned Viom the Regular Aimy toBecome * Resident of tiim's County*Sett*i mGeneral-Dye, who is la command of Corea’s army, fe a former resident of Marlon and well remembered by theolder settlers of Cedar Rapids* A Chicago- paper, publishes the following sketchof him: • ■ * ■ .William MeE, Dye, the present command er-ln-ehief of-the Coron army, is well known to some of the old. residents of Chicago- . Although not a native of this city he passed several years of mis life hero and his wife’s parents lived at Monroe and Dearborn streets, whore the Chicago National hank now stands. At the time of his wife’s birth' the farmhouse was weli out on the outskirts of the city and was. surrounded. by a few acres of prairie land and trees*Qua who was probably better 'acquainted with Gommacder-In-Chief Dye than anyone els® In this city is N. E Dawson, the private secretary of Director General Davis of tho World’s Fair They were cadets'-together Sc West Point, about the yearlS50, and, although in different, regiments, they fought In many battles together during the war. Later on they were old comrades and passed many pleasant hours in each other’s company, “fighting their battles o'er again” at Washington, D- C. Mr. Dawson was a lieutenant In the Nineteenth Iowa infantry, -while Mr%Dy* E® was a colonel in the Twentieth Iowa lo-fan try, and later on commanded a * brigade at the battle of Prairie Grove,Ark., ono of the hardest battles foughtwest, of the Mississippi*Statements have appeared in the newspapers recently crediting Commander Dye with being born in Chicago* That is a mistake, flis wife, who was a Miss Rucker, was born here, and be has a daughter, Mr3* 0 S. Byliss, who is a resident of this city. Her home la at BbGS Indiana avenue. Mrs. Dye is at present at Ann Arbor, Mich., where the two younger children, a daughter and a son, are completing their education. Mrs. Dye and the widow of General Sheridan, who was also a Miss Rucker, arecousins. •According to Mr* Dawson, CommanderDye ,was born in Washington, Pa , aboutslxty-three years ago. While he wag yet. young his family removed to MnsJteld,Ohio, and It was irom that place he entered Wett Point. In the regular army ho . attained the rcuk of captain, when ho resigned and settled t Marion, Linn county, Iowa. When the war broke out ho was appointed colonel of tbe Twentieth IowaInfantry* Joseph B. Leake* the well-known Chicago lawyer, was lieutenant colonel ot the regiment and was its com-mADder at the. baule of Prairie Grove while Dye whs In charge or the brigade. General Can by looked at Dye as on6 of ble best soldiers and he was credited, with various deeds In the battles in tbo sound.14At the close of tbo war,1’ said Mr* Dawson, ''Colonel Dye eamo to Chicago where he met and married Miss Rucker*Ho soon afterward sauted In Des Moines,Iowa, but made frCQuen t trips to Chicago, where his wife’s reiativBs continued to live. White' still a resident of Des Moines ho and Colonel C,P. Stone, who was General Bank's efc$of of ataif in the department of the gulf were sent for by the khodjva.of Egypt* who waatod the aervices of somegood American a Dicers to organize hisEgyptian army. They both accepted iho iffor and wcot to Egypt. White there bev went with the army on a dangerous ixpedliion Into Abyssinia, where a. fnrm-ir army of G.000 of the khedlvo’s soldiers lad been literally annihilated. The army ;omm3oded by Dy« aod Stonn fared lomcwhafc baUer.but Dy* received * dan-;erous wound which almost cairscd hisieath.“After being in Egypt for six or seven rears Col. Dye and Col* Stone returned x America Stone died a few years igo. Dye settled down in Washington md was not long there until ho was appointed chlftf ol police. Five or sis years Lgo the Corean ■ embassy expressed a deni re to engage the service of an experienced American soldier to reorganise the Irmj of Coroa. Dye was chosen. HisSrst contract with the Coroans was fortwo years, built has been renewed threesbAA03aiaiaiaiJ]wjLhia1aiTYojAattir£I;tln*c.c.VX£t.filrv1rTt1Cc1£les Since.tfrs- By® Old not accompany her ttua-□d to the orient-, not because she jaded the long voyage and living In it far away country, but principally beasts the children were young and she ■iited to have thorn educated In Amen-n schools*Ln appearance Coraman.^er-ln-Chtei e is a Ijttio above the medium, height* d well built* Hu has sandy hair, light abrows aad bright bluo oye3. In inan-r bo is unassuming and matter of fact, company be ts quiet and reserved andilikes ostentatious display.Mrs, Dye was In this city recently and th her friends she drove- to the site of a Chicago National bank, where onestbo farm house In which sho was She said she could hardly realise t it was the place whoro sho romped i girl, and she told how she had often o out after the cows on the prairto* in direction of Michigan boulevard*1li1lt;1itiij]
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1894
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