People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — GEN. PLEASANTON DIES. [ARTICLE]

GEN. PLEASANTON DIES.

He Passes Away at Ills Home in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 28.—Gen. Augustus J. Pleasanton, known as “Blu Glass” Pleasanton, died Thursday night. He was a bro'ther of Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, the famous soldier. [Augustus J. Pleasanton was born In Washington eighty-six years ago and graduated from the United States military academy in 1826. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania militia and at the outbreak of the civil war was made commander of the home guard of Philadelphia. He was the originator of the theory that the sun’s rays when passed through blue glass were particularly stimulating, not only to vegetation but to the health and growth of animals.]