Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Succeeds Gen. Grant. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Succeeds Gen. Grant.

The new Assistant Secretary of War, Joseph Bodwell Doe, who succeeds Gen. Grant, resigned, was born

in Janesville, Wis., in 1855, and for the past three years has been at the head of the States militia, having been appointed brigadier general by Gov. Peck. He is a lawyer by profession and is a forceful and eloquent

orator, a man of fine executive ability, and of attractive personality. He first became connected with the Natioial Guard of Wisconsin in 1878, and his new appointment raises him to a position next to the highest in the whole War Department.

GEN. J. B. DOE.