WILLIAM H. TEDFORD, '69, Corydon, Iowa, was born November 8, 1844, in Blount County, Tennessee. He enlisted at the age of sixteen years in Company F, 11th Regiment Iowa Infantry, and served as private and non-commissioned officer three years and nearly eleven months. He graduated from the Law Department of the State University with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1869. In 1884 he was a Presidential Elector, and in 1890 was elected Judge of the Third Judicial District of Iowa and in 1894 was reëlected to the same position by the unanimous vote of both the Republican and Democratic parties. His present term expires January, 1899.

WILLIE D. TISDALE, 75, Ottumwa, Iowa, was born at Bloomfield, Iowa, February 23, 1853, and graduated from the Collegiate Department of the State University in 1875 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1878 from the Law Department with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was City Solicitor of Ottumwa from 1880 to 1882, and Judge of the Second Judicial District of Iowa from 1893 to 1895. He is now engaged in the practice of the law.

ANTHONY VAN WAGENEN, '76, Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Washington County, Iowa, December 28, 1852, and graduated from the Law Department of the State University with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1876. He engaged in the practice of the law at Washington, Iowa, until 1882, when he removed to Lyon County, Iowa, and was in active practice for eight years, when he retired from general practice to devote his entire time to the Lyon County Bond Cases. In 1892 he was appointed Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Iowa, and elected the same fall for the remainder of the term. He refused to be a candidate for reëlection in 1894, and is now engaged in the active practice of the law at his present home.

MARTIN JOSEPH WADE, '86, Iowa City Iowa, was born October 20, 1861, at Burlington, Vermont. He graduated from the Law Department of the State University, with the

degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1886, and engaged actively in the practice of law. During the years 1890-1892, he lectured in his alma mater, and from September, 1892, to January, 1894, he was Professor of Law, and since that date has been Lecturer on the Law of Evidence. He was appointed Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Iowa, in December, 1893, and in November, 1894, was elected to fill the unexpired term and also for full term from January, 1895, to January, 1899.

PATRICK B. WOLFE, '70, Clinton, Iowa, was born in Chicago, Illinois. October 7, 1848. He removed to Clinton County, Iowa in 1852 and has since resided in the county. He attended the Christian Brothers' School at La Salle, Illinois for two years and subsequently the State University for one year, then entering the Law Department and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1870. He began the practice of the law at DeWitt, Iowa, in 1871, and was City Attorney for four years, and a member of the school board for fifteen years. He was elected to the State Senate in 1885 and reëlected in 1889, resigning in 1891 to accept the Judgeship of the Seventh Judicial District of Iowa, which had become vacant by the resignation of Judge Howat, and in 1892 was elected to fill out the unexpired term, and in 1894 he was reelected. He removed from DeWitt to Clinton, his present address, in 1893.

Bear once again the flags ye bore
'Midst howling shot and shell,

And squadron's charge, and cannons' roar
And shrieks and shouts of hell;
And touch your silken flags again,

And kiss yon shining stars,

And hold them to your breast as when

You held them in the wars.

Rewaken memories of the past

That long have slumbered still,
And hear once more the bugle's blast,
And feel the battle's thrill.

And hear again the shout, "They fly!"
The cry the victors gave-

Oh! never vet was such a cry

Heard this side of the grave.

And if some comrade's heart blood stain

The tattered stripes and stars,

And naught of the old flag remain

But faded battle scars,

Think not 'twas vain that comrade stood

His sacrifice too high

For every drop of freedom's blood

Is written on the sky.

And angels meet with smiling eyes

The comrades that ye gave,

And welcome into Paradise

The spirits of the brave;

And whether in the battle's smoke,

Or in some prison drear-

God's angels heard the hearts that broke,

And answered with a tear.

Oh! stars and stripes of Donelson,

And Shiloh's bloody flags,

Think ye there's naught of all ye won

Save these poor faded rags?

Think ye no memories of the past,

Can stir our hearts to-day?

Nor cry "To Arms," nor bugle's blast,
Nor battle's fierce array?

Oh! banners that Atlanta knew

And Vicksburg's frowning heights,

With bloody hands they welcomed you
In half a hundred fights.

Think ye the hands that bore you then
On Chattanooga's brow,

On Corinth's field, and Belmont's plain,
Can be forgotten now?

Cursed, doubly cursed, who would forget

That these torn banners here

With his own father's blood were wet,
With his own mother's tear;

That when on Lookout's heights was borne
Amidst the battle's shout,

Yon stars and stripes, now old and torn
His brother's life went out.

Oh! flags that never knew defeat,

Or led a conquest war,

That waved o'er many a fort and fleet,
And never lost a star;

Come there not sometimes in the night,
When all the world is still,

The heroes of Iuka's fight,

The men of Champion's Hill,

Assemble round you once again,
In uniforms of blue,

A thousand spirits of the slain,
That gave their lives for you?

From out their graves at Winchester

See ye their columns wheel?

From Pea Ridge, and from Wilson's Creek, The stormers of Mobile?

Come they not smiling once again

About your table-round,

To sit there in the moonlight, when
There is no battle sound?

And tell of dangers half forgot,

Of battles long since by

And how for liberty 'tis not
So hard a thing to die?

Oh! Land with patriots such as these,

Securely can'st thou rest

And fear no foes, on land or seas,

No traitors, East or West.

Oh! Thou that kept these heroes brave
When the dark conflict came

Make us but worthy what they gave,

And worthy of their fame.

[This inspiring poem, by the gifted author of "The March to the Sea," was read at the ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, at Des Moines, August 10, 1894, the anniversary of the battle of Wilson's Creek.]

EDWIN COPPOC.

[In sketches of John Brown and his men, contributed to the Salem (Ohio) Era, is the following concerning Edwin Coppoc, who, with John E. Cook, was hung at Charlestown, Virginia, December 16, 1859, for participation in John Brown's attack on the Harper's Ferry Arsenal.]

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HE States of Kansas, Iowa and Ohio, contributed more men in aid of John Brown's scheme than all others put together, although the New England States perhaps did more in a financial point of view. The Iowa men who gained historic fame, and are laid away in martyr's graves, were: Edwin Coppoc, Barclay Coppoc, and Steward Taylor.

Edwin Coppoc was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, June 30th, 1835, hence at his death was in his twenty-fifth year. When Edwin was seven years old, his father, Samuel Coppoc, died and left a large family in destitute circumstances, so that the family had to be broken up and scattered among relatives. Edwin was sent to reside with his maternal grandfather, Mr. Joshua Lynch, but as his grandfather was old and there were no children about the house, Edwin soon became tired of the home and was finally placed in the family of Mr. John Butler, a worthy Quaker of the neighborhood, where he found an excellent home and where he remained until the year 1850, when he removed to Cedar county, Iowa, and lived with his