Show t DEWEYS DEWEY'S NAME SO SAYS JOHN A FIRST COUSIN Irish In All Hut lint Nam Spelling Name Spelling Changed Chanced to Slake Drake Sound More American American In In Interesting Old OId 01 1 trio Appeals Appeal to the Chicago Letter PP Y the theS theman theman S man who is responsible responsible responsible sible for forr the PhilIppine Philippine Philippine Phil Phil- question Is Admiral George John Tu- Tu hey says so and he further remarks that he ought to know for the reason reason reason rea rea- son that the hero of Manila Manna Is his first cousin Whether or not John Tu- Tu heys hey's story is true it Is good reading and the old man Is an interesting char char- acter He Is here in Chicago stranded and has appealed to the police pollee to get his transportation to Cleveland where he says he has two married daughters In good circumstances He came hereto here hereto hereto to find a son James a railroad man His search has proved In vain and Lieutenant Seery at the Armory Is taking care of the old man who Is 82 years of age and hale haie and hearty until transportation n can be obtained for him Asked how the admiral came to change his name from to Dewey Dewey Dewey Dew- Dew ey the old man said All my children call themselves Dewey and spell their name In the same way as the Admiral does I suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose they want to maKe malce their names sound more American But the Commodore Commodore Commodore Com Com- never went b back ck on anything Irish but the spelling of his name The Admiral changed the s spelling ellIng of his name when he was on the Potomac during the war That was after he left leftus leftus leftus us but if any n one should tell him he was not of Irish descent he would want to cut his throat out of him When somebody told him that he was of Dutch descent and somebody else told him that he was of Scotch descent descent descent de de- de- de scent he answered that If he knew that there was a bit of Dutch or Scotch blood In his body he would c cut t It out with a knife for he was Irish all the time It was six years ago when I last saw the Admiral He was In NewYork New NewYork NewYork York but he came to to see me and stopped with comrades he had had inthe inthe in inthe the war In Youngstown Ohio where I was for about eight or nine months Chicago has the color sergeant In Illinois His name is Louis A. A and he is 6 feet 4 Inches in height and weighs pounds Mr Is a Norwegian by birth He was a classmate of the now celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- explorer Dr Nansen Nausea and as schoolboys they shared the same bench During Dr Nansen's short stay in Chicago last winter there was a cordial meeting and many pleasant reminiscences of school-boy school days passed between the Justly famous Nansen Nansen Nan- Nan Nansen sen and his old schoolmate After Arter being being being be be- ing graduated from the high school In Christiana Mr entered the Polytechnic college at Norten Norton Norway Norway Nor Nor- way graduating from that Institution In 1886 Shortly afterward he emigrated emigrated emigrated emi emi- grated to this country and found employment employment em em- 1 as architect and draughts draughts- 1 i k 1 j K i f Two Tao of my sons Thomas and WIllIam Willlam Willlam Will- Will lam Iam who spell their names Dewey are on board of the Admirals Admiral's vessel one of them being an engineer They are 62 and 34 years of age The story of the old mans man's life lite as ashe ashe ashe he tells It is interesting I came from Ireland to this country country country coun coun- try when I was about 3 years of age With my father whose name was Patrick Patrick Patrick Pat Pat- rick came also his two brothers my uncles James and Thomas both of whom are now dead My two brothers broth broth- ers one six years older than me and the other eight years older were also along with us My father settled in Orange county New York My uncle Thomas when he was able t to do for for himself went up to Vermont and commenced farming obtaining acres acrea of land He was also a horse and cow doctor and a smart man generally generally generally gen gen- and made money rapidly He was Admiral Deweys Dewey's father He was married In Vermont about tw two months after he settled there and his son the Admiral was born there My father an and grandfather helped him to buy the farm My brother Thomas made considerable considerable considerable con con- of a fortune While he was In Vermont Orange county was di divided dl- dl divided vid vided d up into three counties and we moved into one of the new counties r JL r rJOHN JOHN Dutch Dutchess ss which was further up the river than where we had been living My Thomas did not make all his money by farming but In this way An old Englishman named Fassett had considerable property there through which the Hudson River railroad wished to get a right of way The Englishman would not give the company company company com com- pany the right of way way through his land excepting to the width of feet and so the company which owned all the water front would not allow TALLEST COLOR w 5 t tl l l lW lr r W F M Ml 1 l T t m 1 1 T I LOUIS O. O man with various railroad companies Mr II soon became impressed impressed Impressed Im im- pressed with the grand simplicity of a republican form of government where all human beings are free and equal as contrasted with the effete monarchical monarchical monarchical mon mon- forms of Individual power and glory prevalent In Europe and early became one of Americas America's adopted sons As soon as war was declared with Spain he enlisted with the Blue and Gr Gray y regiment of Illinois volunteers and was selected color sergeant but most of the time he Is practically regimental regimental regimental regi regi- mental clerk and draughtsman and all of the time the pet of the rank and file He also claims to have been the first man who carried the Cuban flag through the streets of Chicago early in March while the Blue mue and null Gray regiment was recruiting J t t iii s j. j 1 r J any boats to land anywhere near the land They took another route and would not allow any boats to land at and Hyde Park which were about eighteen miles from the city of PoughkeepsIe Previous to this dispute my uncle the Admirals Admiral's father had bo bought two acres of landin landin land landin in Poughkeepsie for The he courthouse court courthouse house and Jail were afterward built on the two acres s which my uncle sold for between and buthel but bu the thel Dutchman who bought the land was still shrewder than my uncle and got double as much for the two acres as did my uncle T The e Admirals Admiral's father finally came down doyn to a little town called Washington Washing WashIng- ton In Dutchess county and from there thero went to North Haven In Connecticut The Admiral was then at West Point having gone there from Dutchess county where his hIs hIs' father had considerable considerable consid consid- erable enable influence I was in the same saIbO county and had there a nice farm This was after I came back from servIce service service ice in the army during the civil war I served In the Sixty-Ninth Sixty New York YOlk infantry But my health was very poor and I came to Chicago and lived two years In tl this Is city and kept a little little little lit lit- tle hotel on Kinzie street near Clark known as the theOld Old Velveteen hotel I I lost a great deal of ot money there as I could not get any trade I moved moved from here to Pittsburg where my wife had well-to-do well brothers living They owned distilleries and other property From there I moved to Ohio t taking kl little littIe little lit lit- tle tIe contracts for railroad and other work and then I went to Omaha to live with my daughter and son-in-law son James Wilson We lived in Lincoln county Nebraska My father and uncles were born in Clonmel county TIpperary Ireland When my other uncles came over from Ireland William McKInley the father of President McKinley came with them themon on the same vessel McKinley coming from county Antrim where the Mc- Mc were well to do and lived In Ina ina ina a large stone house McKinley being a tax coll collector They settled In C Columbiana Columbiana Colum- Colum lum- lum biana county Ohio and they and my uncles would visit one another They I have told me that their voyage from Ireland to America took eighteen weeks and that they were in a desperate condItion condition condition con con- when they got here nere I knew William McKinley now the president when he was 14 years of age He studied law with David Wilson when he came home from college and acted as clerk He was a smart young fel fel- fel- fel low He was born in NIles Ohio His father had removed from Columbiana Ohio to NIles where he worked In a rolling roIling and mill His son and andI I were great friends I have seen him many times since then When he was running for governor he asked me If I would vote for him I answered No Major you know I could not do it I would do anything else for you but no man can make me change my politics politics' |