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Show BEGAN AS PRIVATE; i vjfff NOW A BRIGADIER J( CLEVELAND. O- June --"W J chance havs I I -IS::-, repea -JUST war times, and here Is , t appointed by,ewlv formed Third , , ' dier general of the newly . Ohio brigade. And there is an estlnc lapse between 1ST " "' mEJm, history to MP and His father died when he was e ana Charles X. quit school at 14 to ne.p support his mother. He made a corporal In a few months, then rsergeant nd a first sergeant- And A he kept on reading and studying, xth business and military books. When the war with Spain came J had risen to a captaincy in his regi ment and In civil life to cl ', . auditor. After the war with Spain he fl was elected colonel of the i Ifth. In private Ufe he kept pace by rln manager of Luna Park and fasher- of the Federal league club here. r 1 Last summer on the border he won -further honors by receiving merits for the efficiency with which he handled his boys. He Is popular with his men - . , tor he haa always seen to It that tney a Had "all that was coming to them. , I Now he is brigadier general of the fJ Third brigade and his "old boys ars 1 flocking by the dorens to be txana- v , F fprred to his command. ,.,- |