THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 711 



All intimate friend writes of him : 



His manner of walking would remind yon of * the Indian — straight and carefully 

 measured paces. His manner of speech was quick and earnest, and his lectures pleas- 

 ing and entertaining. He never despaired ; hoped always. 



PORTRAITS OF MR. CATLIN. 



Three portraits of Mr. Catlin accompany this memoir — one a repro- 

 duction of one in oil, done by himself in 1824, when he was twenty-eight 

 years of age ; a copy of a water-color portrait on ivory, a miniature done 

 by Watkins, in London in 1841, when Mr. Catlin was forty- five years 

 of age; and copy of a photograph of Mr. Catlin, taken at Brussels in 

 1868, when he was seventy-two years of age. 



HIS HABITS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 



He was abstemious in his living, using no wines or other liquors, eat- 

 ing sparingly of meats, and in the later years of his life preferring bread 

 and milk for a diet. He never used tobacco, except in smoking the few 

 whiffs necessary in using the Indian pipe of peace or friendship. His 

 disgust at tobacco chewing was marked and emphatic. 



His habit of thought was incessant. He was a good mechanic and 

 possessed inventive genius, which developed in many suggestions for 

 patents. 



He knew nothing of the methods of acquiring money either by spec- 

 ulation or investment, so he was always poor. What money he had, 

 however, he made by his art or his publications, which, judiciously 

 handled, should have made him a competence. 



He was frequently in Chicago in 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836, at 

 a time when the investment of a few hundred dollars in real estate would 

 have made him rich. He did not invest, but was in search for Indians 

 and their life and habits. He sketched and resketched Chicago, and 

 was in daily association with men who were there for investment and 

 who eventually became enormously rich from land purchases made at 

 that time. Yet it never seems to have occurred to Mr. Catlin that he 

 could become rich as well as his friends. The Hon. Dudley S. Gregory, 

 of Jersey City, N. J., his brother-in-law, a far-seeing and sagacious man, 

 would gladly have made. investments in Chicago at the suggestion of 

 Mr. Catlin, but the suggestion was never made. Indians and their 

 habits were his objective point, not lands or wealth. 



Mr. Catlin was a clever angler and an unerring shot, and on horse- 

 back seemed born to the saddle. As a raconteur he was bright and 

 sought for. His lectures were interesting, and delivered in a most grace- 

 ful and interesting manner, his personal magnetism aiding him in hold- 

 ing his audiences. He was a fair geologist as well as a naturalist. He 

 was earnest in all that he did ; the results show this. In private he was 

 amiable and deferential to those asking for information. 



