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I k\ 4 1VI illsem bled * breast uni the organslaid*.it forty jo wristlie SUf-HS Stillm after-were in »re left0 have is theitiy in-which»w I i i g aboxed,aged 10,and the brokeng could ifteriog,Barrett.ground no hun-fences, rolling dy was1 where os pro-\y indl-Eoany ofthe cm*ip*.d*V severe is even*m glassu firo.n roofed weather na Box t oh manLaity in*factoryjounttoi.rst hail nyears ur this ws allhouses08 u I todmbard-severalueci.AltgoldHooortlint forniliama o and a r’s rea*iccount f, Wash* Ipbia 3,I, New0 on aeon acity 11;knowntg timeiway ; one of*t. lie tesnmn md theus. A ents of mother i, JereDecatur; Mrs. Ward, of lt;libson City.Who the Officer* A re.Comrade H li. McDowell was born inthe state of Indiana, In i860 his family moved to Livingston county, III. in 1858 he returned to Thorntown, Boone county, 5 Ind., and took a course of study prepare-I tory to entering Wabash Coliege, In the spring of 1801, immediately following the first gun, he enlisted in Company B. .Seventeenth Indiana volunteer infantry, and early in July, 1801, went with this rogi* meat into the vatioy of West Virginia, aud served through all the campaigns in that state during that summer and fallWhen the army of West Virginia wastransferred into Kentucky Comrade McDowell came home to Illinois and during the summer of Ihfiffi mmlisted in the 129th Illinois volunteers, then orvani/iug at Pontiac, 111. In September, 1883, his regiment beenne a part of Buell’s “Grand Army of Invasion” at Louisville, and the last three years of lib service was with the Army of the Cumberland. On the reorganization of the army in Wuhatchie valley the One Hundred aud Twenty-Ninth Illinois was assigned to the First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, the brigade later on being | commanded by Gen. Benjamin Hardtop,; ex-president of the United States, j At the commencement of “Sherman’s I March to the Sea/1 Comrade McDowellwas detailed ris tflflMto oft mo at brigadeheadquarters, and served In that capacity j on that memorable march and up through ! the Carolines, being mustered out at Washington City in June, 18fi3, having followed the flag of his country through nearly four years of bloody strife, Comrade McDowell Its a member and past, commander of T. Lyle Dickey Post, No. 105, Pontiac, and has for years been a working member of the Department Encampment.E, A. KEBLEH.Comrade VI A, Keeler enlisted before he I was 10 years of age in Company K. Sixth ! regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry, j and served throe years. Was promoted to captain after having served two years in the ; ranks, and was brovetted lieutenant colonel ; United States volunteers for meritorious | service and conspicuous gallantry on the field before he w as 18. Has been promt*1 nentiy identified with U. A. It. affairs in ! Chicago for yours, aud has served as commander of Parragut Post, No. 603. He is now president of the Cook County Memorial Association, composed of the leading Grand Army men of the county, having received that position by unanimous vote. He now belongs to Geo. Benjamin F. But-j ier Post, No. 754, of Irving Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he resides.B. J. INMAN.Comrade John B. Inman was born in Wes field, Medina county, Ohio, October 31, 1849, and moved to Minnesota with his parents in 1855, attending school roost of the time up to the date of his enlistment. After throe attempts he finally enlisted as a drummer boy in Company IC, First Min no sota H. A., arid served during the lastf||ir of the war under Gen, George li. Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland, operating in east Tennessee.Young Inman saw his sixteenth birthday two months after being mustered out of the service by reason of the close of the war, soon after which time* he engaged In railroad and telegraph work, and in 1873 ideu titled himself with the Western Union Telegraph Company as manager. He served this company in Chicago from 1884 until 1891, when he was transferred to Springfield, 111., and placed in charge of the company’s interests in that city, where be still remains, a popular and painstaking official and a respected citizen Comrade Inman was mustered into Farm gut Post, No. 602, Chicago, in I8NH, where he held the offices of junior and senior vie* commander, resigning the latter to entei Stephenson Post, No. 30. at Springfield in 1891. He was a delegate to the department encampment in 1802, chairman of the board of trustees for 1898, officer of the day forthe department encampment the same year, and was elected commander lor 1894.Western I riitsrian Confrpuiion.Chicago. May 17.—The Western Unitarian conference adjourned today, after
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Fri, May 18, 1894
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