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Show the picture, which waa a good price In thosa days. Howard Waldo also recollects hay-Ing hay-Ing met Daniel Webster In New York and having been Impressed by the majestic ma-jestic appearance in a rough, long napped beaver hat of light gray color, a dark blue coat with plain brass buttons but-tons and buff vest and trousers. THREE STILL ALIVE WHO SAWJACKSON Cardinal Gibbon of BaltU more One of Number KNOXVItXEL Tenn.. March 5. Only thre known praom mm Urine today who saw Andrew Jackaon. Until recently only two known living liv-ing porftona had teen Oeneral Jarknon and publication of their names reitulted in a third being found by a local hln-j torlan. The firat of these la Mrs.; JtiidiaH Jackson Lawrence of Nashville, Nash-ville, the general's great-granddaugh- 1 ter; the aecond is Cardinal Gibbons of j liHlrlmore. nnd the third Is Howard, Waldo of Campbell Hall. Orange county, coun-ty, X, y.t who Is 8 years nld- I When Mr. Waldo waa 9 years old. his father. Kamuel Levett W'aldo, an eminent artlat. made a portrait of An-, drew Jackson In his old Ilne atrcet studio In New York City, and the boy saw the general on hia visits. The portrait por-trait now hanga In the old United States custom houae In New Orleans.: ,Mr. Waldo, relating his recollections of) Ceneral Jackaon, aald he waa a stern looking man. He always came to the j studio In citizen's clothes, but the artist Waldo painted the general In uniform. The artist sketched Jackson's head and shoulders on a wooden panel which waa never touched except when the general waa Billing. Krom this panel, j which la now In the Metropolitan mu-'seura mu-'seura of art in New York City, the portrait por-trait waa transferred to tha hfe-aiae painting of General Jackaon on horseback. horse-back. The painttna. which was made In I MO or 1841, was done by Bamuel L Waldo, having been commiesioned by the people vt New Orleans In honor of General Jaekaon's . victory at New Orleans ovr the British' forces) under General Pakenhara. The New Orleans peopla paid 0 saar I be. painting ot |