Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — OLD TIMERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD TIMERS

J. Lnthrop Allen, who made the first band instruments in the United States, is still living in New York at the age of 90. Lord Strut jeonn, high commissioner ot Canada, has just turned his eighty fifth yenr, hut is still as active as most men of tiO. There nr« four Governors thnt sty-ved during the Civil War still living. William Sprngre, whose home is near Narraguusett Pier. R. I.; Frederick Holbrook of Uratfleboro, Vt.: Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas and John J. l’ettus of Mississippi. - Dr. William Rolfe, the celebrated Shakspeareap scholar, has Just Celebrated Ills seventy-eighth birthday at Cambridge. Mass. John Rartlctt of “Familiar Quota* tipns” fame, one of the most retiring in lutbits aud valuable iu service of the literates of Boston, died recently at the age of 80. j .William Thompson, who died the other ,day at Shelbyville, Ind., aged 77, ( was known as the man who sold his gold at $2.75 during the Civil War. This premium was -within 10 cents of thg highest price ever paid for gold.