Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — CALVIN TITUS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CALVIN TITUS.

The Young Soldier Who Planted Old Glory on Pekin’s Walls. The residents of Vinton, lowa, are proud to claim Calvin P. Titus as a townsman, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald. When he scaled the walls of the city of Pekin and hoisted the Stars and Stripes as the first alien flag to float above the Chinese capital, young Titus did no more than his lowa friends might expect from him. He is a

native son of Vinton. His father was Calvin Titus, a blacksmith in that town. There young Calvin was educated and there, he spent his youth. The family, removed to Wichita, Kan., and were living there at the time the United States declared war on Spain. Young Titus, who was paying a visit to Vermont, enlisted in Company K, First Vermont volunteer infantry, and 'was dischorged from the service on Nov. 2, 1898. In April, 1899, he enlisted in Company E, Fourteenth United States infantry, and was sent with that regiment to the Philippines. There he remained until last month, when he was transferred with his regiment to China. Pekin’s hero is not yet 20 years old.

BUG[?]ER CALVIN TITUS.