mother, who needed the assistance of the boys in starting a little farm. Mr. John Butler says of Edwin:

"In the spring of 1842 his mother applied to me to take Edwin into my family and have the care of him, he then being about seven years old, his father having died a few months previous to that time. He accordingly came without any time being fixed then, how long he should remain, and stayed with us until the spring of 1850, during which time there was nothing to remark in point of character, except that he was fearless, never manifesting anything like cowardice in times of danger or at night. He was a very industrious and careful boy, more careful and particular that everything was kept in its proper place on the farm and about the buildings, and to have his work done well and more prompt, to have it done in a given time, than is common with boys of his age."

After going to Iowa, he and his brothers labored hard to improve their prairie farm, and succeeded in building a house mostly of hard wood lumber, that still stands. Edwin worked out among the farmers and was considered one of the very best of farm hands and he was very industrious and willing, and when he was about the house made himself generally useful and by his little acts of kindness and humorous ways, endeared himself to all the matrons and maidens in the neighborhood. One of his old acquaintances says that he never saw a young man who could win the good will of ladies like Edwin Coppoc.

He and his brothers inherited a small amount of money, each, and Edwin was employed to go to Tama county and select some land for himself and brothers. He found a few

excellent pieces of land which he entered for his brothers and took a rougher, poorer piece for himself. It was not in his nature to "put all the cream in his own pocket." In the spring of 1858 Edwin and three companions went to Kansas, and during the summer ran a breaking team, and in the fall cut and put up hay for sale. During the summer he had taken a claim and while absent a short time his claim was "jumped"

by an unprincipled squatter, and after a lawsuit he was compelled to abandon it. This so discouraged him, that in December he returned to Iowa and made arrangements to work the home farm during the following season. This arrangement pleased his mother (Mrs. Anna L. Raley) and step-father, who felt sure of a good crop under Edwin's care, but, alas, their hopes were doomed to be shattered, for about midsummer, the two brothers, Edwin and Barclay were found to be preparing for something, for they had sold their stock, etc., and Edwin had engaged a colored man to take care of the crop.

On the 25th, of July Barclay said to his mother:

"We are going to start to Ohio, to-day."

"Ohio!" said the mother, "I believe you are going with 'Old Brown,' and when you get the halters around your necks will you think of me?"

"We cannot die in a better cause," said the brave Barclay. So, at ten o'clock, with cheerful countenances and tear-dimmed eyes and quivering lips, did these noble young men part with that mother, who had struggled for years to rear a family of children, only to see them fade with consumption, or fall in their country's cause.

DEATHS.

WILLIAM COOK, who lived at Dubuque for sixty years, died there February 11th, 1895.

JOHN L. CONZETT, a resident of Dubuque for fifty years, died in that city February 18th, 1895, aged eighty-four years. JUSTUS CLARK, of Red Oak, died February 17th, 1895, at Los Angeles, California, aged seventy-six. He was born in Vermont, and came to Burlington in 1839, but removed to Montgomery County in 1876. He served three terms in the lower house of the Legislature, and had acquired large wealth.

MRS. ELIZABETH DUNHAM, at the age of ninety years, died March 2nd, 1895, at Clinton, where she had lived forty years. She attended the reception given General Lafayette at Geneva, Tennessee, on his visit there in 1825, by Albert Gallatin, one of the compatriots of Washington.

GEORGE W. VAN HORNE, aged sixty-one, died at Muscatine, February 8th, 1895. He had been United States Consul at Marseilles, France, by appointment of President Lincoln; was a graceful magazine writer, and a vigorous political editor. At the time of his death he was postmaster at Muscatine.

CAPTAIN I. V. DENNIS died suddenly at his home near Coralville, Iowa, December 26th, 1894. He was born November 13th, 1822, at Batavia, Clermont county, Ohio, and came to Iowa in 1839. He built the first frame house in Johnson county, and was a compositor in the office of the first newspaper published in Iowa City, the Standard, of which the Iowa City Republican is the direct and legitimate descendant. He entered the volunteer service in 1862 and was elected Captain of Company G, of the Twenty-second Iowa, Colonel William Stone's regiment. After a service of seven months in Missouri, he was discharged on account of permanent disability from sickness. He was a member of Kirkwood Grand Army Post, of Iowa City, and was buried with military honors at Oakland Cemetary, adjoining Iowa City.

NOTES.

WE are indebted to Hon. Charles Aldrich, of Des Moines, for a copy of the proceedings of the Pioneer Law Makers of Iowa, at their Reunion in February, 1894. It is a pamphlet of 152 pages and is extensively illustrated, and contains interesting addresses delivered by eminent members of the Bar, of the olden time and of the more modern days from that of the President, Hon. George G. Wright to the end.

A MEDAL two and a half inches wide and four ounces in weight is reported by the Hamilton County Journal to have been picked up on a farm in Winnebago County. It is thought to have been one of five medals issued to Indian chiefs by President Madison. On one side is Madison's profile, with the words "James Madison, President of the United States, A. D. 1809;" on the other an Indian peace pipe and tomahawk, and the words "Peace and Friendship."

WE have received from Mr. G. W. Walker, of Tama, Iowa, a letter pleasantly commenting upon the article from the pen of Capt. W. H. Michael, on "Iowa and the Navy During the Rebellion," which appeared in the October number of the Record for 1895. Mr. Walker was Chief Engineer of the Flag Ship "Black Hawk," of the Mississippi Squadron from the time she went into commission until she was burnt at Mound City, April 22, 1865, and was a worthy representative of Iowa in the Navy during the late war.

COLONEL CORNELIUS CADLE, who enlisted as a private in the 11th Iowa Infantry, and rose by intelligence and bravery to the rank indicated above, has been appointed by the Secretary of War one of the three Commissioners to transform the battlefield of Shiloh into a National Park, as authorized by the last Congress. Cadle and General Don Carlos Buell represent respectively the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio, which fought on the Union side; and Major Looney, of the insurgent forces which fought there under Johnston and Beauregard, is the representative of the Confederate Army in the Commission.