FISHING JAUXTS AND AXGL1XG ASSOCIATES. 



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Thomas A. Logan ("Gloan") ; L. B. France ("Burgeois"), late of Denver; Hon. 

 Robert B. Roosevelt, Aleck Shevvan, and half a score more, of whom only Colonel 

 James Gordon ("Pious Jeems"), Aleck Shewan, Hamilton Busbey and Chas. Banks 

 remain alive. Banks was a member of the New York Sportsman's Club of 1858, 

 two years before me, and is still an active worker in the reorganization of the New 

 York Association for P. G. and F. We used to meet at the old Sinclair House, 

 at 754 Broadway, which was torn down two years ago, where the president erst- 

 while occupied a chair made of elkhorns which was presented by "Grizzly" 

 Adams, a noted mountain man from the Great Divide, who was contemporary 

 with Kit Carson, Lieutenant Ruxton, Jim Bridger, et al. P. T. Barnum and he 

 fell together at the old museum opposite Saint Paul's Church, in New York, 

 and startling exhibitions were given, to which Daniel and the lions were as 

 nothing. 



COM. .T. U. GREGORY, 

 Celebrated Salmon Fisher. 



MR. W. F. WHITCHER. 



Veteran Angler. 



Then there were Isaac McLellan, who used to do poems for the Journal of 

 Commerce in the forties, when William C. Prime wrote fishing sketches for the 

 same paper over the signature of "W.", and his cousin, Samuel C. Clarke; Daniel 

 Webster, their intimate hunting companion; George A. Boardman ; Spencer F. 

 Baird ; George D. Lawrence, who donated a marvelous bird collection to the 

 National Museum all of them eminent naturalists and game seekers, whom I 

 knew personally and often intimately now gone the way of all the earth. 



And now I devote an extended biography to Com. J. U. Gregory, I. S. O., 

 whom we may name as the leader of sportsmen of the last half century. He 

 is eighty years today, living out his honors in quiescence and hope of hereafter. 

 He is a scion of English, French and New Yorker, the third son of Dr. S. 

 Gregory, who married a French lady in Montreal, and after a time returned to 

 Troy, N. Y., his native place, where J. U. Gregory was born and partly educated 



