Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — Pershing of French Descent [ARTICLE]

Pershing of French Descent

Some interesting associations may easily be woven into a news item telling about a celebration which recently took place at Laclede, Mo. The town, one of the oldest in the old Southwest of the United States, was named after Pier|e Ligueste Laclade, a native of Bion, France, founder of St. Louis, Mo. Years ago a man named Pershing, a descendant of an emigrant who left Alsace when it was a French province, settled in Laclede. His son, the present Gen. Joseph Pershing, commander of the Amerlca.fi expeditionary forces In France, was born there. The celebration referred to was, of course, in lionor of General Pershing, and it was one of the most enthusiastic ever held in what used to be an almost exclusively French section of the country.