Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — PERTINENT Personal [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personal

Melville E. Ingalls was born on a farm and began work as a lawyer. Frank H. Burford, a 15-year-old boy, has been admitted to the bar in Guthrie, O. T. > Four Richardsons and six of their relatives have been Governors of South Car- . olina. Ephraim Dougherty of Rochester, Ind., although 90 yearn of age, still supports himself by manual labor. Hiram Cronk of New York is the only surviving pensioned soldier of the war of 1812. He Is 99 years old. Congressman Bingham of Pennsylvania is said to be the handsomest man in the House of Representatives. A movement has been started to buy the Daniel Webster estate at Marshfield, Mass., including the tomb in which he is buried. William Badge has resigned his position as conductor on the Maine Central Railroad after fifty years’ service as a railroad man. Joel Chandler Harris has never seen a play acted. The only time he has visited a theaterhas a reading by