Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1905 — Short Personals. [ARTICLE]

Short Personals.

The Baroness Burdett Coutts, now over 90 years old, is in excellent health. Manuel Garcia, nt one time a noted singer, is living iu London. He is 100 j years old. James R. Randall, who wrote “My | Maryland,” is still living. His home is J at Augusta, Ga. George Clinton Payne of Newark, N. J.. is an energetic book cnuvnsser, al- j though 90 years old. Mnj. Austin S. Cushman, private sec- j retnr.v to President Fillmore, lives in New Bedford, Mass. Manuel Enriquez, last survivor of Gen. Fremont’s battalion in tlie Mexican war, Is dend nt Los Angeles. W. B. Trask, Boston antiquarian nnd an authority on records at the Hub, lias Just passed liis 92d birthday. President Roosevelt’s grandfather was the first man to navigate a steamboat on the Ohio nnd Mississippi rivers. Dr. Andrew Sledd, a gradiJlte of both Harvard and Yale, has been chosen president of the University of Florida. Judge Andrew J. Harlan of Savannah, Mo.. surviving member of tho Thirty- | first Congress, was born in Ofyio in 1810.