Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — DEATH OF GEN. ADAM BADEAU. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF GEN. ADAM BADEAU.

A Man One* Famous As a Favorite With Ben. Grant. Gen. Adam Badean, who was on .the staff of Gen. Grant, as military secretary, afterwards Consul-General to London, died at Ridgewood,' N. J , March 20, aged sixty-four. Hen, Badean wasborrT In Westchester county. New York. ' Ho was a newspaperman at tho outbreak of the war. At tho opening of the Vicksburg campaign he was captain of volunteers and assigned to duty as aid-de-camp to Major-General U. S. Grant, for whom at that date—and until iB6O he went to

London as consul-general—he acted as secretary. After the death of General Grant, Badeau brought suit against Mrs. Grant for the royalty on the “Memoirs” of her husband, alleging that he had written the book, a claim which he was not able to substantiate, and for which he was much criticised. Since then be has been doing occasional newspaper work.

GEN. ADAM BADEAU.