Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Theodore Runyon. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Theodore Runyon.

Among the appointments made by Mr. Cleveland this Week was that of Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, as

Minister to Germany. Mr. Runyon was born in Somerville, N, J., in 1822. He is an alumnus of Yale, being graduated in 1842, and afterward he studied law and was admitted to the New Jer-

sey bar In 1846. In 1857 Mr. Runyon was appointed Brigadier General of Militia for the county of Essex, and when the war ’ broke out he went to : the front as General of the First New Jersey Brigade. This force, under his command, was the first to go to the defense of Washington. It reported at the capital nineteen days after the first man had been mustered in. • He served with the brigade till it was mustered out and received the personal thanks ol Mr. Lincoln for his services in; tbe ; presence i>f his' Cabinet. Mr. Runyon tfras l Aififesidentlal elector 1n 1860, and for tyvo years was Mayor of Newark. In 1873 he was nominated Chancellor and was reappointed to office in 1880,

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