great help to general grant chicago grundy stidger formerly one of the chief off officers cers of the golden circle who dropped dead here mon day at his home was burled buried saturday scarcely known by his neighbors and having only a small acquaintance with the civil war veterans of chicago his death attracted little attention it if he h hid ld passed away forty five years ago general grant might have taken two more summers to reach richmond stidger was a secret service man dur ing irig the last two years of the war