Show ' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING 'JUNE 28 193L RealUnc ths LasjWith Acquainted etting His Name Was Samuel Wilson and He Lived in Troy New' York Where a Monument May Soon Be Erected to Perpetuate His Fame Above I Reproduction of the First Cartoon of Uncle Sam From the Original on File at the New York Public This Wee First Library Published in 1852 and Was Drawn by F Bellow It Was a Criticism of America’s Attitude Toward a Shipping Line as Contrasted With John Bull’s x :c& A r A asked the uniformed U men what the L D on their toljl the story continued “Uncle Sam’s Lazy Dogs" Ten years before Samuel Sam has been part and parcel and personification of the United States of America since the war of 1812 Before that Eng land had her John Bull The people of America swear by their spare smiluncle The British cheer the cor ing pulent Mr full Each to a very considerable degree represents the national spirit of a whole people And yet who is or was John Bull! Who is or was Uncle personification uring that have fire-aid- es the llvi hundred persons within its borders While still a youth Wilton moved over to Troy ’ yeaj-- j in weekly y Mr L F Rowles Aged 70 Above Worked for Six Months With Her Needle to Produce a Magnificent Crochetted Seal of the United States Which Hat Been Merged in a Way With the Cartoon Personality of Uncle Sam Throughout Mrs Rowlea Fought Against the Handicap of hailing Sight and engaged in brickmaking with his At various stages brother Lbenezer of his career he added other business tininterests managing them all with horn New England shrewdness He became a distiller a farmer a merchant He and meat -- packer J'c" Nobody Everybody liked him called name Everybody him by his last him Uncle Sam is a Still living of eld Sam Wilson This descendant Lucius E Wilson has written a letter to the committee of Trojans detailing certain facts which may prove of dcfi-—ivalue in the final determination of vln-- le Sem’a identity The letter relate Samuel’s migration from New Hampshire and describes the subsequent business ventures Then it says: "At this time (during the war of 1812) Samuel Wilson became associated with one Elbert Anderson who was a government contractor furnishing supplies to the army which was then stationed at Greenbush and Newte burgh "Uncle and two come-day-go-d- so claimed Government to recognize their claim officially and erect a suitable monument In honor of the old merchant whose face and figure have been immortalized in the hearts of all Americans He was one Samuel Wilson this tall old stalwart who was born in the tiny village of Mason Mason New Hampshire by the way must have been something short of populous in Wilson’s day there in the last quarter of the eighteenth century for by the latest - census less than three - the bailiwick of the Troians have echoed And now pros and cons something has come of it all An Influential group has asked the Federal In na- Cartoon From the Bystander a British Magazine Showing cartoon of Uncle the Overseas Conception of America’s Uncle Sam Sam appeared a at the Time of a Severe Coal Strike comic of March 13 1852 F Bellew the artist had conceived the cartoon of Uncle Sam was a caricature tall beaver hat and the benign fea- reincarnation of George Washington' tures He called his creation “Raising Some have thought fitting the preserthe Wind" The sketch was supposed to vation of the face and figure of Washrepresent the struggle between an ington with the stars stripes and American shipowner and a British beaver hat added But the difficulty has been pointed transport company with John Bull extending active assistance on his aide of out that Uncle Sam representing the a tub of water while Uncle Sam stood emotions of the nation in all periods by hands In pockets watching his pro- of its history must sometimes be tege struggle helplessly A reproduccharged in cartoons with mistakes tion of this famous cartoon appears on which the Father of His Country never this page id upper right hand made and perhaps never would make Corner For instance there is the very first Bellew’s figure became the model cartoon ever published reproduced on for contemporary artists and remained this page and described in detail above The Uncle Sam in that drawing was unchanged until Thomas Nast famous cartoonist of the 1870’s added the represented as genial affable with only a mild interest whiskers to the face and the stars to in the success or failure of an Amerithe vest In this year’s celebration of the can enterprise vital at the time to the of the nation Glorious Fourth about the city of Troy well-beithere will probably be numerous referThe artist could never have had ences in speeches to that old character George Washington in mind The whose memory bids fair to make the Father of His Country was powerful on the shrine a Hudson He decisive and courageous patriotic had a city Of course since it has become the spirit of patriotism which never fashion for chambers of commerce and dwindled into- a passive state of comkindred organizations to make claims placency First in war first In peace of varying feasibility in regard to any and first in the hearts of his countryhonor which would incretse the pres- men he was agressive and vigilant Uncle Sam is a symbol like the tiag tige of the community other cities and towns deny Troy’s or the seal Uncle Sam is the real seal of the right to Federal recognition But Mayor Cornelius F Bums sayS United States Aijd whether he origthere is a preponderance of evidence in inally lived in Troy New York or’ Troy’s favor The chairman of the hailed from some other point to the north east south or west he will enMayor’s committe Rutherford Hayner dure But just the same Trojans exis equally positive that the 'Trojans deserve the Uncle Sam honor pect soon to have a fine memorial A theory which gained wide circula-'tio- n erected in their city to perpetuate the for was that the original fame of the original Uncle Sam can Jou the flourishing offspring of an artist’s lively imagination The residents of the city of Troy in New York State insist that he once lived in the midst of their forefathers and that his remains lie buried on the hillside overlooking the city For many months some them the young: before Wilson’s death the first Ameri- far aa the evidence goes John Street corners and the tion as a mischievous youth with his thumb to his nose Eight - years after Bull is no more than that But Uncle Sam a goodly group of Americans would have know was more than ef of United States caricat- Sam? One's first impulse would be to say that both are merely fictitious characters made popular by cartoonists in so died Wilson the namely in 1814 cartoonists got busy In that year a London paper published a fNCLE fact r He was signified a Photographic Reproduction of the Famous Houdon Butt of George Washington Which Has Been Given Prominent Place f Display at Mount Vernon Virginia- This Likeness Has Been Chosen aa the Official Portrait by the Committee Arranging for the 1932 of Washington's Birth Altova S head-gea- Sam (Wilson) was given a contract by Anderson to supply the beef and pork he required and he packed it in casks and barrels marking it ’E A— US'” Among the" ' troops stationed (n Greenbush were many qjen from Troy ' When the consignments of meats arrived these soldiers saw the initials They knew that the lean spare dignified gentleman whom they all knew as Uncle Sam was associated with Eibert Anderson so although the ini- tials on the cask and barrels were de- signed to mean "Elbert Anderson to the United States’’ the enlisted men "Elbert adopted the interpretation Anderson and Uncle Sam” Other soldiers not from Troy who did not know the kindly old figure reThe peated their comrades’ quips letters “U S” began to connote pork barrels-food— and hence "Uncle — - jL r 4 it v' t - it s v I - -- Sam" A The term sprang into popular favor As early as 1813 newspaper accounts f Federal customs agents described them as "Uncle Sam’s men” In that same year a Troy paper apparently out of touch with army affairs and not knowing the story of the initials on the pork barrels declared in its columns: "This cant —Uncle Sam — has got almost as current as ‘John BulL’ The letters ‘U S’ on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it” In 1816 a Philadelphia newspaper referred to the rising use of the popular term A story published during that year explained that a rural citizen meeting a regiment of light dragoons P i n 4 r 7 ' 4 - f v j A Recent View ' of the Birthplace of Washington in Westmoreland Country Virginia as it Appears in the Process of Reslorationfur of Ills Birth Next Year Visitore Case Upon It in Great Numbers Even Now Every Effort It Being Mads to Restore the Old Building to Their Original Appearance ’ Nswapapsr feature Service 1IU the 4 |