Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1909 — UNUSUAL HONOR CONFRRED [ARTICLE]

UNUSUAL HONOR CONFRRED

On Dr. James H. Honan By the German Government. Attorney E. P. Honan has got a letter from his brother, Dr. James H. Honan, who is a surgeon located at Beilin, Germany, in which he states: “Through the minister of Education, his majesty’s Imeprial government has handed me a certificate of honor for scientific attainments which comes with it special privileges. “This is perhaps the first time in the history of Germany such a courtesy has ever been extended to an most unusual honor. I have Just received from the U. S. Ambassador Dr. David Jayne Hill, a very warm letter of congratulation, part of which runs: ‘I hasten to offer to you my congratulations upon this news and especially upon the just recognition of your eminent attainments.’ ”