Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Rev. Thomas Spurgeon will sail from Auckland, New Zealand, for San Francisco on May 20. He will pass several days in Chicago, and will assist Dwight L. Moody in his evangelical work in that city, Rev. William C. Winslow, of Boston, the eminent archaeologist, has been elected an honorary fellow of of the Society of Science and Arts of Great Britain on account of his valuable labor as an orientalist. The only surviving officeholder under Jackson’s administration is said to be Judge Benjamin Patton, who was at that time United States district attorney. He was present at Cleveland’s inauguration, though he is eighty-four years old. He lives quietly on his great estate of nearly two thousand acres, known as Fontland, near Picksville, O. . Admiral Blake, the hero after whom the flag-ship of the English fleet in this country is named, did not become a sailor until he was fifty yeare old, but made up for lost time when he did.