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Show I I FOUR- FORMER COIVSANDERS-ggM-CHg-f OF GRAND ARMY I 1 m 1 MmMA.M m ' T. S. CT-ARKSON, H:; The four past commanders-in-chief of H: th" Grand Army presented above have H: nil ijfcu piomireut in the service of Blh the'r country. Lot It in military and civil 2m: life. All are living except, James A. Setfui. who died while occupying the Mai' pom' ion of conimamlcr-iii-chief of the Wli (icind Army and was succeeded by ,Se-f ,Se-f ' ,t X CommiiJiiler-in-Chief V. C. jpHIt JdM siiii, Foilmvinyr :n'c I ! biographies: J". ";. ClnrksoH, Elected commander-MH' commander-MH' , in hi'M at the thirtieth national en-K, en-K, uimcn'. held at St.'Piiul. Minn.. Sep-jHj; Sep-jHj; lei'Vr lsOtj. lie v;s born nt G'.'t- i; tii, Fa., Apiii -li, J S I". In lbJii jAwft W. C. JOHNSON. his father removed to Maryland, where Ihe sou was graduated at tho St. James college, near Hagcrstown in 3S57. On April 30, 1861 he. enlisted as a private in battcrv A, First Illinois, for threo months, but July Jo' 1SG1. ro-enlisted for three years in tho samo company. I lie was commissioned in December, ! 18U1. as lieutenant and adjutant of the Thirteenth IllinoiH cavalry, and in Ma i h. 1SU3. was nssigncd lo the coni-1 coni-1 maud of buttery K, Second Missouri ur-I ur-I tillerv, by Brigadier General John W. ! J)a iih-on! on whose stall" he wan then . ; r.crviiig in -Missouri, in September, j JAMES A. SEXTON. 3S69, ho war. commissioned as major of tho Third Arkansas cavalry and con tinuod to servo until December, 1864, ! when he resigned ou account of illness. Ho was postmaster of Omaha from 1890 to 1S95; was general manager of tho Omaha exposition; now 'lives in Portland Port-land Or. John P. S. Gobin. Elected coinmand-er-in-chief at thirty-first national on-campuioul:, on-campuioul:, Buffalo. 'N. Y August 25-27, 1S!)7. Born in Sun bury. Pa., January 2(t, 1S"7; academic education (LL.D-, Susquehanna university) served in union arm), attaining rank of brevet brigadier I JOHN P. S. GOBIN. general; since rector in various industrial indus-trial institutions; state senate sinco ISS-i; now commands Third brigado Pennsylvania national guards; served as brigadier general United States volunteers volun-teers in war with Spain; elected lieutenant lieu-tenant governor of Pennsylvania, 1S0S; Knight Templar; married Aiinio M. St owe, Florida i860. James A. Sexton. lilccted commander-in-chief at thirty-second national encampment, en-campment, held at Cincinnati. O, September Sep-tember 5-l. 1S0S., Was born in Chicago, 111., IS-bt, and died in Washington. D. C, February 5, 1S9D; was buried in Chi- cago cemetery. He recruited Company T, Fifty-seventh .Illinois infantry; in 18(52 wiis transferred to tho Sixty-sev- enlh Illinois infantry. He served as I lieutenant and captain iu Ransom's brigade, bri-gade, Mc.Arthurs division, Seventeenth Army Corps of tho Tennessee, and participated par-ticipated iu the Nashville campaign including in-cluding the. battles of Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill. Franklin and Nashville, Nash-ville, also iu 'tho Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigus. He commanded the Seventy-second Seventy-second regiment of Hlinois infantry m several important, engagements, and was especially commended for bravery at Frankliu", Tenu. He also took part at r.ho siege of Mobile, Ala. Ho was sev-oral sev-oral times wounded, and was frequently mentioned in the official roports for conspicuous con-spicuous bravery. He was appointed postmaster of Chicago in 1SS0 by President Presi-dent Harrison and served llvo years. W, 0. Johnson. Succeeded to the position po-sition of commander-in-chief on the death of Sexton in ISftS. He was born in Clermont county. Ohio, March 19, 184H, and was educated at the Ohio Wcslcyan university, at Delaware Ohio; was a member of "Company F. Eighty-ninth Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry; was commissioned second lieutenant, United States colored troops: was mustered out nt Hunlsvillc Ala., in 1SG6. Served in the campaigns in tho western nrmv under un-der Rosocrans and Sherman, participating participat-ing in the march to the sea and through the Carol inns, Has been vice president or president of the board of public service, serv-ice, Cincinnati, O., from .1900 to 1906. He is at present assistant postmaster at Cincinnati. |
