Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — PEN PORTRAITS OF NOTED PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEN PORTRAITS OF NOTED PEOPLE

V. M. Lewis, Nominee For Governor of New Jersey.

Vivian M- Lewis. Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, is the present commissioner of banking and insurance for the state Beginning his career as a newspaper man in his native towm-Paterson, Mr,- Lewis soon attracted attention in his profession as ■ correspondent of several New York dailies. Then he began the study of law and,finally entered politics. In 1898 he went to the state assembly and was twice re-elected. During his last term be served as floor leader for the Republican majority. After bis legislative experience Sr. Lewis devoted his time to the practice of law.and was for several years counsel for the state board of health. In 1904 he was elected city counsel for Paterson, resigning to become clerk in chancery. He continued to serve in the chancery office until he was appointefl bead of the state department of banking and insurance. He is a native of Paterson and is forty-one years old. He is the youngest banking commissioner the state has ever had. just as he was the youngest chancery clerk that ever held that important office.

New Head of the Grand Army. Colonel John E. Gilman of Boston, the new commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, began his career as a soldier when he ran away from home and enlisted in the famous “Fighting Twelfth” of Massachusetts. The first colonel of bis regiment was Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster, who fell at the second battle of Bull Run. During hi- entire civil war experience Commander in Chief Gilman served successively under Generals Pope. McClellan. Burnside, Hooker and Meade. The bloodiest engagement of his regiment was at Antietam, where 80 per cent of the men were

either killed outright or were mortally wounded. He was at the front during most of the heavy fighting at Gettysburg and left the battle line only when his right arm was torn off by a Confederate shell. (■ The new commander in chief is a native of Boston and sixty-six years old. He has‘ been a member of the Grand Army since 1808 and is a past department commander of Massachusetts. He was adjutant general of the national body during the terms of Commanders Blackmar and King.

Mrs. Burnett a Hard Worker. Although Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is an amazing worker, as one must readily realize in glancing over the long list of her works, yet she by no mrans confines her activities to writing. She is interested in a multitude of things. She is an omnivorous reader; is fond of the social amenities of life; is an enthusiastic gardener, a devout lover of every bulb and shrub and tree that grows.

JOHN E. GILMAN.