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the reason that the memory of a public man so useful and 

 deserving should be perpetuated in a manner broad 

 enough to encompass his various traits, and disclose the 

 consensus of public and private opinion concerning him. 



In person he was a well-rounded but not apparently 

 robust figure of medium height. He was always well 

 dressed and I never saw him save in a tightly buttoned 

 Prince Albert coat of dark material. He was polite in 

 manner and his agreeable address was well calculated to 

 ingratiate him in the favor of any company in which he 

 might be placed. The last time that I saw him was, I 

 think, in 1898. In company with his then unmarried 

 daughter he called at my law office in Kansas City, Mis- 

 souri, where he found me and my partner, ex-Governor 

 Thomas T. Crittenden, with whom I think he was pre- 

 viously acquainted. He seemed as vigorous and spright- 

 ly as when we separated at the close of the Pleasant An- 

 derson murder trial, more than twenty years before. We 

 had a delightful little visit, and bade each other, as it 

 proved, a last farewell. 



His writings, particularly his sketches of Generals Rice 

 and Steele before alluded to, show that if he had devoted 

 himself to purely literary pursuits, he would have at- 

 tained distinction in that field. 



He was in his seventy-third year at the time of his 

 death. He left surviving him his widow, whose maiden 

 name was Martha Newell, a most interesting and lovable 

 lady, and two daughters, Mrs. James B. Brewster, of San 

 Francisco, and Mrs. Carroll E. Sawyer, of Oskaloosa. 



