Whereas, the result of his selection as Grand Marshal has been that every incident of the great event befitted the occasion, that it transpired without mistake or accident, and with features that have helped to glorify and strengthen loyalty and patriotic confidence; and Whereas, it was our privilege as members of his staff and aidesde-camp to share with him the task and the achievement, and to enjoy and appreciate that fellowship and service; in commemoration of which we have caused his portrait to be painted, in order that it might be presented to him, to remind him of our regard and to perpetuate his likeness;

Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the undersigned, members of the staff and aides-de-camp to Major General Grenville M. Dodge, Grand Marshal and Master of Ceremonies, at the formal transfer to the City of New York, on the 27th day of April, 1897, of the tomb in which are enshrined the remains of General Ulysses S. Grant,

Do hereby present to him the accompanying portrait of himself, and beg that he will accept it with this expression of our esteem.

Frank C. Loveland, Chairman
Richard E. Cochran, Treasurer
A. Noel Blakeman

Alphonse H. Alker

Francis R. Appleton

Alva B. Adams
James Allen
E. E. Alcott

Daniel Butterfield
George De F. Barton
Frederick Brackett
W. Butler Beck
Robert B. Baker
Abbott Brown
C. G. Bacon, Jr.
Nathan Bickford
Henry Birrell
R. E. Burdick
Ashley W. Cole
Francis J. Crilly
William F. Cody
John Crane
Elisha K. Camp
P. F. Collier
C. H. T. Collis
A. M. Clark

Charles Curie, Jr.
William H. Cummings

H. H. C. Dunwoody
J. L. De Peyster

Ernest A. Des Marets
Nicholas W. Day

John B. Doherty

A. E. Drake

Richard Deeves

Frank S. De Ronde

John W. Donovan

Stuart Duncan

Fitz Hugh Edwards

R. D. Evans

Dudley Evans
Charles W. Fuller

F. Farnsworth

John P. Faure

NOTABLE DEATHS

JOHN FORREST DILLON was born in Montgomery county, New York, December 25, 1831; he died in New York City, May 5, 1914. He removed with his parents to Davenport, Iowa Territory, when six years of age and attended private school in that place. When about seventeen years old he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Egbert S. Barrows of Davenport, attended one course of lectures in the Rock Island Medical School at Rock Island, the original of the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a second course at Davenport to which the school had removed. He graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1850. After a few months' experience at Farmington, Van Buren county, he found that the practice of medicine was physically impossible for him under the conditions of those days, and took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar of the district court in Scott county in 1852, and the same year was elected prosecuting attorney for that county. In 1858 he was elected judge of the district court for the Seventh District, served the six year term and was re-elected for a second term. The year following he was nominated by the Republican party for judge of the Supreme Court, received the election and served six years. After his re-election for a second term, but before he had qualified, he received from President Grant the appointment of U. S. circuit judge. This office he held until 1879 when he accepted the professorship of law at Columbia University, and removed to New York City, maintaining his residence and practice there until his death. He resumed private practice in 1882. His remains were interred in Oakdale Cemetery at Davenport on May 9th. He was the author of Dillon's Municipal Corporations, which is regarded as a legal classic and of numerous other books on legal subjects. A memorial to his wife, Anna Price Dillon, was published by him for distribution among her friends. He was an orator of repute and delivered many celebrated addresses and orations. A biographical sketch of Judge Dillon by Hon. Edward H. Stiles may be found in ANNALS OF IOWA, vol. IX, nos. 2 and 3.

GEORGE DOUGLAS PERKINS was born in Holly, Orleans county, New York, February 29, 1840; he died at Sioux City, Iowa, February 3, 1914. When he was but a small child, his father, on account of ill-health, removed his family first to Indiana and then to Milwaukee for short stays, finally settling in Baraboo, Wisconsin, where he died in 1852. Here George D. Perkins passed his boyhood, working on a farm and in his brother's printing office and helping in the support of the family as he could. He acquired a fair English education in the common schools, to which by systematic application and employment of his leisure hours he added a thorough knowledge of the principal branches taught in the academies and colleges of those days. History, particularly of his own country, logic, English literature and the practice of English idiom especially received his attention. In 1860 he removed to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where with his brother he published the Cedar

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On August 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Falls Gazette. He reThirty-first Iowa Infantry, but on account of an almost mortal illness he received honorable discharge in January, 1863. turned to Cedar Falls and the publication of the Gazette until 1866, when, with his brother he went to Chicago and opened a gummedlabel house, the first venture of that kind of any importance in the country. He also acted as agent of the Northwestern Associated Press which served the daily papers in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. In 1869 he disposed of his interests in Chicago and upon the adHis vice of L. D. Ingersoll, pioneer editor of the Muscatine Journal, removed to Sioux City and bought the Sioux City Journal. brother soon followed, and on April 19, 1870, they began the pubAs editor of the Journal from that date until lication of a daily. his death, Mr. Perkins attained high rank among the leading journalists of the day. His editorials were marked by candor, fairness, probity and clear and dispassionate conclusions, but when He insisted upon in controversy were keen and conclusive. veracious presentation of news in his paper and the separation of Mr. Perkins was not matters of opinion from matters of fact.

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only a great editor but a public-spirited citizen, serving his city, state and country with unflagging interest and noteworthy ability. He was state senator in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth General Assemblies, commissioner of immigration for Iowa from May 1, 1880, to May 1, 1882, and United States Marshal for the northern district He was elected representative in of Iowa from 1882 to 1885. the Fifty-second Congress and re-elected three times, his full term He was delegate at large of service being from 1891 to 1899. from Iowa to the Republican national conventions of 1876, 1880, 1888 and 1908.

DeCHARLES A. CLARK was born in Sangerville, Maine, January 26, 1841; he died at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 22, 1913. scended from Hugh Clark, who settled at Watertown, Mass., in 1640, he was educated in the common schools of Sangerville and at Foxcroft Academy. He began teaching at the age of fifteen years continuing until the outbreak of the civil war. He was one of the first to answer President Lincoln's call and enlisted from Foxcraft in Company A, Sixth Maine Volunteer Infantry on April 24, 1861. He remained with this regiment, participating in most of the principal engagements of the army of the Potomac, until February 1, 1864, when he was honorably discharged because of wounds. In March he re-entered the service as Captain and Assistant Adjutant General for staff duty with his old commander, Colonel Burnham, and continued in this capacity until the close of the war. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for bravery at Rappahannock Station, and years later was awarded a congressional medal by the War Department for bravery at Marye's Heights, Virginia, on May 4, 1863. When the war was over, Colonel Clark returned to Bangor and began the study of law. In 1866 he removed to Webster City, Iowa, as the attorney of John I. Blair, who was building what is now the Illinois Central Railway from Iowa Falls to Sioux City. He was Colonel Clark removed to Cedar Rapids in 1876 and established a law practice that continued and grew until his death. associated at various times with Judge N. M. Hubbard, C. J. Deacon and F. F. Dawley, under the firm styles of Hubbard, Clark and Deacon, later Hubbard, Clark and Dawley, the latter firm dissolving in 1886, Colonel Clark continuing the practice alone until joined by

his son James Clark in the association that continued while the father lived. Colonel Clark never held office, but was never indif ferent to politics. He was a Republican until 1872 when he supported Horace Greeley, then a Democrat, until 1896 when he supported William McKinley upon the stump. He remained a Republican thereafter. As one of the leading lawyers of Iowa, he was either in charge, or of counsel in many noted cases including the Bever will case, the Jones county calf case, the American Emigrant cases involving swamp land titles of great aggregate value. He was commander in 1906 of the Iowa Department of the G. A. R. He was a scholar and a cultured, able speaker.

JOHN FLETCHER LACEY was born at New Martinsville, West Virginia, May 30, 1841; he died at Oskaloosa, Iowa, September 29, 1913. He attended the public schools at Wheeling, and after removing with his family to Oskaloosa in 1855, attended select schools there. He began the study of law in the office of Hon. Samuel A. Rice but at the outbreak of the war enlisted as a private in Company H, Third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was soon made Corporal. At the battle of Blue Mills Landing, Missouri, he was taken prisoner. Being paroled and discharged from the service by reason of the President's order, he returned home and resumed his law studies. Responding to the call of 1862 for additional volunteers, he again enlisted as a private in Company D, Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Col. Samuel A. Rice commanding. He was promoted to Sergeant Major and later commissioned First Lieutenant of Company C, and served several months as Acting Adjutant. After the death of General Rice he was assigned to duty on the staff of General Steele with the rank of Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of volunteers. He participated in the Mobile campaign, the battles of Little Rock, Helena, Prairie D'Anne, Jenkins Ferry and other engagements and served as Assistant Adjutant General of the Army of Observation on the Rio Grande river. He was mustered out of service September 13, 1865, with the rank of Brevet Major. Soon after his return to Oskaloosa he was admitted to the bar and in 1860 was elected Representative from Mahaska county to the Thirteenth General Assembly, serving one term. He was appointed city solicitor of Oskaloosa and later was a member of the city council. He was elected to the Fifty-first Congress in 1888 and served with the exception of one term until 1907. During this time he was for twelve years chairman of the public lands committee. He prepared and secured the passage of a bill for the protection of the lives of coal miners in the territories, aided in preparing the bill which originated our system for forest reserves, introduced a hill to transfer the administration of these reserves to the Department of Agriculture, and took active part in the preservation of our great natural objects of interest and in all efforts along the line of game and bird protection. He was the author of Lacey's Railway Digest, in two volumes.

JED LAKE was born in Virgil, New York, November 18, 1830; he died at his home in Independence, Iowa, June 7, 1914. His father died when he was a small boy and he worked on a farm and drove mules on the Erie canal tow path until he had earned enough money to start in college. He had four terms in the New York Central College and two years in Homer Academy. In 1855 he