708 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



Julius Catlin, a brother of George, graduated at West Point in 1824, 

 a cadet from Pennsylvania, and was assigned as a brevet second lieu- 

 tenant, Seventh U. S. Infantry. He was appointed second lieutenant 

 in the same month in the First U. S. Infantry. He served on the West- 

 ern frontier until 1826. 



George Catlin, full of his scheme of an Indian and natural history 

 collection, enlisted him in the venture. Julius, then stationed at Can- 

 tonment Gibson, Arkansas, where he had been several years, impressed 

 with his brother's views, resigned September 8, 1826, and went to New 

 York and joined George. Julius accompanied George to Albany in 

 1828. After the portrait of De Witt Clinton was finished, in the summer 

 of that year the Franklin Institute of Eochester, N. Y., ordered a copy 

 of it for their rooms. George Catlin made it, and Julius took it to 

 Eochester in September, 1828, for delivery. While at Eochester, on the 

 morning of September 21, 1828, he went to the lower falls of the Genesee, 

 at Carthage, then two miles north of Eochester, to bathe, and was 

 drowned. His body lies in the cemetery at Eochester. He is said to 

 have been a most accomplished young gentleman. 



MR. CATLIN'S MARRIAGE. < 



While at Albany, in 1828, George Catlin met Miss Clara B. Gregory, 

 who subsequently became his wife. He was married to Miss Gregory 

 (sister of Hon. Dudley S. Gregory, of Jersey City, N. J.), at Albany, N. 

 Y., in Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, by Eev. Mr. Lacy, rector, on Sat- 

 urday evening, May 10, 1828. She accompanied him to the West in 

 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837, and was an enthusiastic aid to him in his re- 

 searches and work. Throughout his letters and his published works he 

 constantly refers to her with loving and affectionate tenderness. Mrs. 

 Catlin, with their children, joined him in London in 1840, and was with 

 him during his English travels. She accompanied him to France in 

 1844. She died in Paris July 28, 1845. Her remains were sent to the 

 United States, and now lie, with those of Mr. Catlin and their son George, 

 in Greenwood Cemetery, Long Island. 



By this marriage (his only one) Mr. Catlin had four children : George 

 (who died young at Paris in 1845), and three daughters, all of whom sur- 

 vive, viz: Elizabeth Wing Catlin and Clara Gregory Catlin, of New 

 York City, and Mrs. Louise Victoria Catlin Kinney, of Washington, 

 1>. C. 



On pages 275 and 276, vol. 2, Oatlin's Notes in Europe, Mr. Catlin 

 refers to his wife's death, and says : 



The following obituary notice, penned by a lady of her intimate acquaintance, the 

 reader will excuse me for inserting here, as it is the only record of her except those 

 engraven on the hearts of those who knew and loved her : 



" Died — On the 28th inst., No. 11 bis, Avenue Lord Byron, Paris, Mrs. Clara B. Cat- 

 lin, the wife of the eminent traveler, so distinguished for his researches into Indian 

 history and antiquities of America, and so universally known and respected in 

 Europe and his native country, George Catlin, esq., from the United States of America, 



