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General Orders) Headquarters Grand ARMY OF THE Republic, INDEPENDENCE HALL,

No. 8.

PHILADELPHIA, June 23, 1900.

VIII. Announcement is made of the death of the following members of the National Encampment and of National Officers;

PAST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF JOHN PATTERSON REA,
Born in Lower Oxford, Chester County, Penna., October 13, 1840.
Died at Nicollet Island, Minnesota, May 28, 1900.

John P. Rea became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in December, 1866, at Piqua, Ohio. Was a charter member and Post Commander of Post No 81, Lancaster, Pa. Was Post Commander of Geo. N. Morgan Post No. 4, of Minneapolis, Minn. Was Senior Vice Department Commander of the Department of Minnesota for two terms, and was chosen Department Commander of the same Department, January 17th, 1883. Was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, at St. Louis, Missouri, September 29th, 1887.

Comrade John P Rea was widely known in Grand Army circles, and possessed in a marked degree those qualities of mind and heart that rendered him conspicuous as a leader, safe as a counsellor. trusted as a friend, loveable as a comrade. He was thoroughly representative of that sturdy citizenship of the Republic, who at the close of the conflict turned from the demands of war to the demands of peace, bringing to civic duties and to civic station that earnestness of purpose and devotion to duty that made our armies invincible in war. He filled the highest official station in the Grand Army of the Republic, and as Commander-in-Chief and comrade exemplified that fraternity and comradeship that makes men loved while living and mourned when dead. He was laid to rest in a village churchyard in Pennsylvania, among his kindred and amid the scenes of his boy-hood days. May his rest be sweet.

(From Address of Albert D. Shaw, Commander-in-Chief)

The most conspicuous names upon the roll of our honored dead for the year are those of Past Commanders-in-Chief

GEORGE SARGENT MERRILL, OF MASSACHUSETTS,

who died at Lawrence, Massachusetts, February 17th, 1900. And

JOHN PATTERSON REA, OF MINNESOTA,

who died at Nicollet Island Minnesota, May 28th, 1900. Each of these comrades enjoyed the highest honors this great patriotic organization could bestow, and brought to the discharge of their duties that earnestness and comradeship, that won for them the reverence and love of the Grand Army of the Republic. The members of this Encampment knew them, loved them. They were wise in counsel grand in leadership, devoted in comradeship. We place for them in tribute the vacant chair, and for every member of the Grand Army I voice the sentiment, to their memory honor; to their ashes peace.

[Extract from Journal Thirty-fourth National Encampment.]

Past Commander-in-Chief Louis Wagner moved that the Adjutant General be directed to prepare for the Journal of the Thirty-fourth National Encampment, memorial pages for Past Commanders-in Chief Geo. S. Merrill and John P. Rea, and the motion prevailed.