Charles Pendleton Bowler was born at Auburn, Geauga County, Ohio, October 26^th, 1834, and was the son of George Irish and Lucy Chesbrough Barber Bowler. His grandparents were Charles Bowler and Rebecca Irish, on his mother’s side Nathan Barber and Mary Pendleton. His predilection was for the Christian ministry and for several years attended school at Hiram, Ohio, under James A. Garfield as teacher. In the year 1859 he was sent to Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, to complete his education, and to graduate therefrom fitted for the ministry, which he had selected as his life work.

At the breaking out of the civil war, under the call of President Abraham Lincoln for 75,000 volunteers, a company was raised consisting wholly of the students of the college, under command of three of its professors, and he enlisted as a private therein, April 17^th, 1861, for a period of three months. On arrival of the organization at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, it was assigned to the Seventh Regiment O. V. I., as Company C, and was known as such thereafter. He was promoted to sergeant and the regiment was transferred to Camp Dennison, situated near Cincinnati, Ohio, for drill and discipline and to receive its equipment.

On June 19^th, 1861 Bowler reenlisted in the service of the United States for a period of three years, and was reappointed sergeant on account of good behavior and soldierly conduct, and served in that capacity until killed in action. After reenlistment the regiment was sent to West Virginia, where he participated in the battles of Cross Lanes, August 26^th, 1861; Winchester, March 23, 1862; Port Republic, June 9, 1862, and numerous skirmishes and marches, suffering from hunger, cold and wet for the future good of his country, which was borne uncomplainingly by him. After the latter-named battle the regiment was sent to Alexandria, Virginia, for recuperation. While there he sent the following letter to the Cleveland Leader, he wrote which was published in their columns, and was probably one of the last that.

Dear Leader: If you had been in this neighborhood last evening you would have thought from the lively appearance of our camp that something was going on. As soon as it was dark those who had provided themselves with fireworks began to display them. Some of them were very fine, the bands played lively airs, and the boys seemed to enjoy themselves very much. This morning General Tyler and staff, many citizens of Washington being present reviewed us. After passing in review and being formed in solid column, Sergeant Bowler of Company C, Seventh Ohio, read the Declaration of Independence. Chaplain Wright then delivered a short address and offered prayer for the success of our arms. General Tyler then made a short speech telling what had transpired during the past year. He said when we left Ohio the brigade was four thousand strong; it now numbers a little more than a thousand. His remarks were appreciated by all and I could see many tearful eyes around me. The General is a good man and a fine officer, and is well worthy of the position he now occupies.

"After returning to camp and partaking of dinner the boys pitched upon the commissioned officers who have lately been promoted and made them stand treat, which they did willingly. General Tyler then ‘treated the brigade,’ which caused a great deal of amusement. At 3 P. M. the order was given for the Seventh to fall in, which we did, and marched to the front of Colonel Creighton’s quarters, where General Tyler introduced us to the Hon. A. G. Riddle, who made a short and beautiful speech.

"On Wednesday I paid a visit to Fort Worth. It was built last winter by the New Jersey boys, and mounts twelve guns. In the fort there is a battery of steel guns presented to the U. S. Government by the loyal Americans in England.

"Our regiment is now resting and we are enjoying good health. Our numbers are small but I think they are effective. Since I wrote you last I have seen a portion of the Bull Run battlefield.

"We expected to go to Richmond, but the order was countermanded, so we are now camped about three miles from Alexandria, and may move at any moment. Will write you again when anything special turns up.

"Yours,

"Charles P. Bowler"

Something special did turn up, and the regiment was ordered to join General Sigel at Little Washington, Virginia but the order was changed later and it was assigned to the corps of Major-General N. P. Banks. Taking the cars at Alexandria it moved to Warrenton, Virginia, remaining in camp there for a few days. Marched to Culpepper Court House, Va., where it went into camp. Hardly was it established, before the boom of cannon was heard. The men were ordered into ranks and marched in the direction of firing, and soon reached the neighborhood of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, where it went into action immediately, supporting artillery, and then passing it moved to the front line of battle, where an enfilading fire on both flanks and front tore the regiment to pieces.

Charles Hall Buxton was born in Batavia, Genesee County, New York, September 7^th, 1836. In his youth he attended the public school until fourteen years of age, then assisted his father in business. In the fall of 1854, at the age of eighteen, wishing to obtain a liberal education he went to Oberlin, Ohio, and entered the Preparatory Department of Oberlin College. In order to partly meet his expenses he taught school winters, and worked two and three hours a day during term time. He entered college in 1856, studied three years, and then spent one year teaching school in La Fayette, Indiana. He then returned to college and pursued his studies until the spring of 186i, being then in the senior class expecting to graduate in the month of August. When the news reached the college that Fort Sumter had been fired upon and war declared between the North and South, he, with one hundred other students, after serious deliberation, decided to take up arms in defense of their country.

He enlisted in the United States service for three months at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, April 30^th, 1861, the organization being designated as Company C, Seventh Regiment O. V. I. After some time drilling in Camp Dennison the call for three years was made and he responded by being mustered in again June 19^th, 1861. Ht served as private, corporal, and sergeant. He was engaged in several skirmishes and battles, Cross Lanes, Winchester, Port Republic and Cedar Mountain. In the latter he was wounded in the shoulder and forearm. While in the hospital at Alexandria, Virginia, he was unanimously elected by the company in October, 1862, to take its command, but the uncertainty of his early recovery rendered it inexpedient to forward his name to the Governor for a commission. After partial recovery, served as clerk in the Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria; acting hospital steward from January, 1863, to January, 1864, when he was detailed by the War Department as clerk to the Adjutant Generals Office, where he remained until he was mustered out of service June 19^th, 1864 by Adjutant-General Samuel Breed, U. S. A., at War Department, Washington, D. C. Immediately afterward, on the recommendation of Senator B. F. Wade, he received an appointment in the United States Treasurer’s Office, Washington, D. C.

Edgar Mantelbert Condit was born a farmer’s boy January 24^th, 1840, in Trenton Township, Delaware County, Ohio. One morning early in May, 1856, he climbed into a covered wagon loaded with household goods, to drive the team to Anamosa, Iowa. It was one of nine wagons embracing his father’s family and two of his sons-in-law. This trip as it seemed to him at the time was likely to remain the event of his lifetime. For three years he shared the novelty as well as the hardships of a pioneer life on a frontier prairie. At nineteen he had the choice of a college education or to continue on the farm. He chose the former and began his studies at Oberlin with the fall term of 1859, teaching country district schools during the college winter vacations, and pursuing his studies the balance of the year until the war broke out in April, 1861. His was among the first fifty names subscribed to the enlistment roll at that memorable Saturday night, April 20^th, meeting in the old First Church. By Monday morning the allotment of one hundred was overflowing, while some cried because there was no room for them. A few days later this band of students became Company C of the Seventh O. V. I.

Following, and probably the result of long exposure in mountains, after the battle of Cross Lanes he had a long siege of typhoid fever accompanied by other ills, which culminated in his absence from the company from early November, 1861, until August, 1862, joining his company at Culpepper a few days after the battle of Cedar Mountain. He participated with his company in the battles of Cross Lanes, Antietam, the skirmish at Berryville, Virginia, and the fight at Dumfries, where he was severely wounded in the left thigh. On account of this wound he was discharged from the service at Alexandria, Virginia, February 11^th, 1863. He served in the ranks until November 1^st, 1862, when he was made a corporal. January 1^st, 1863, he was promoted to sergeant.

He reentered the service for the last year of the war with Battery G, Second Illinois Light Artillery. He was at once detailed to Sixteenth Army Corps headquarters where he served with the Chief of Artillery, John W. Lowell. He participated in the reduction of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely on the gulf, and later the capture of Mobile and Montgomery, and was discharged at Springfield, Illinois, September 4^th, 1865.

The war over, the old zeal to complete his college course could not be summoned back, and so he fell into matrimony with. Miss Eliza Bell, whose acquaintance he had made while they were both Oberlin students. She was the eldest daughter of the Honorable James A. Bell, of Medina County, Ohio. They were married February 8, 1866, but no children were ever born to them. Following his marriage three years farming was enough. He plunged into the general insurance business with several Western States for his field. He added the banking business, and a little later real estate on his own account, first at Anamosa, then in Chicago after 1887.

Colonel Selden Allen Day’s military career began when he raised a company of volunteers in Ohio at the first call for troops in 1861. Owing to the excess of troops enrolled under this call his company could not be mustered and was disbanded. Captain Day then enlisted as private in Company C, Seventh Ohio Infantry, June 20^th, 1861, and participated in the campaign in West Virginia that year. After the action of Cross Lanes, August 26^th, where his regiment suffered heavy loss, he was made corporal. In the winter of 1861-62 he was at Loop Creek, Pawpaw, Romney, etc.

He was promoted to sergeant and recommended for a commission for gallantry at the battle of Winchester, Virginia, March 23^rd, 1862, under General Shields, where he was wounded, but remained at the front, and in a charge of his brigade was one of the first over the stone wall forming part of the defense of the enemy, and was one of a small party following Major Casement of the Seventh Ohio into a battery and capturing the guns. At the close of the fight with the aid of a comrade, he captured and brought in a staff officer of General Jackson.

In the battle of Port Republic, June 9^th, 1862, Sergeant Day, bore an active part, and, though again formed one of the rear-guard in the retreat after the battle, for which he was highly commended by General Carroll, who commanded in that fight. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9^th, 1862, where his regiment suffered terribly, Sergeant Day, though at one time "between two fires," escaped unhurt, and at the close of the action was in command of the remnant of three companies.

As a result of the fatigue and hardships of 1862, he was for some months in the hospital at Frederick, Maryland, where, having formerly studied medicine, while convalescing he performed efficient service, assisting in the care of the sick and wounded. Being given the option of a discharge for disability or a transfer to the Regular Army as hospital steward, he elected to be transferred in order that he might remain in the service of his country, and was ordered to Baltimore for duty. In the summer of 1863, when that city was threatened, Steward Day, under the Mayor, was instrumental in organizing and drilling for special service companies made up of members of the Union League and convalescents in the hospital. Upon recovering his health he applied for field service and was appointed second lieutenant Fifth Artillery, and in the spring of 1864 was ordered to the front. He joined Battery A in the battle of Cold Harbor and was breveted first lieutenant for gallantry in that action. He served continuously in the field until the close of the war; entered Richmond with Battery F, Fifth Artillery, April 3^rd, 1865, and was breveted captain for "gallant and meritorious services during the war."

He was detailed in charge of cholera quarantine at Craney Island, Virginia, and afterward to command Battery F, Fifth Artillery, at Richmond, Virginia, 1866, in which year he was promoted first lieutenant. He was made president of Board of Registration and Elections, and military commissioner in Virginia under the Reconstruction Acts in 1867-68. He was graduated from the Artillery School in 1874, and from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 1880. He was recorder of Board on Magazine Guns, 1881-82; promoted captain Fifth Artillery, 1886, and commanded Fort Wood, Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor, March to June, 1887.

He traveled in Europe in 1888; was ordered to the Pacific Coast in 1890, and commanded Fort Mason, San Francisco, California, for four years. Colonel Day, then captain, was mentioned with others in the general order from Headquarters of the Army in 1897 for gallantry displayed in the rescue of seventeen people from a sinking steamer in a storm at Fort Canby, Washington, February 28^th, 1896. The next year he spent traveling in the Orient.Colonel Day’s record in the war with Spain was also notably brilliant. At the opening of the war he became major of the Fifth Artillery, and while in command at Galveston, Texas, was ordered to Tampa, Florida. From there he took out the siege train and reported to the commanding General of the Army then in Cuba. With this train he went from Cuba to Porto Rico, being with a part of his command, acting as infantry, in one of the first boats to land at Guanica, July 25^th, 1898, and taking a prominent part in the capture of the town. Three days later, his command furnishing the guard for "headquarters of the army in the field," he went with it to Ponce Playa, where he ran up a ship’s flag on the custom house, that being the first United States flag ever hoisted over a public building in Porto Rico. After the promulgation of the peace protocol, he, as commandant of the artillery, took over the forts and armament, hoisted the flag over El Morro Castle at San Juan, and fired the national salute on the day of final occupation, October 18^th, 1898.

Colonel Day’s unflagging efforts for the advancement of the profession to which he has given his whole life are also matters of record. It is believed that one of his inventions, a projectile of peculiar construction, will undoubtedly some day be adopted when further relief from excessive pressure in heavy guns becomes imperative through the development of smokeless powder. The "dum-dum," or soft-pointed bullet for small arms, was invented by Colonel Day, and patented by him in all prominent countries except the United States. ‘ He has been frequently employed by the Government as well as by the City of New York and others in scientific work, for which his qualifications as a physician and surgeon, an expert rifle shot, and his knowledge of explosives specially fit him.

He   was born in England, October 25^th, 1842. He came to this country soon after the death of his parents, when a young boy, and was educated in the common schools. At the age of nineteen, when the call for volunteers came in the early sixties, the land of his adoption had become so dear to him that realizing the need of immediate action when the insults to the Stars and Stripes made such dire consequences possible, he enlisted in the Seventh Ohio Infantry, at Cleveland, Ohio, in Company C, as a private, September 11^th, 1862. He served the country faithfully and with devotion until disabled by a bursting shell, at Dumfries Landing, Virginia, making necessary the amputation of his right leg. He met this calamity as a boy of twenty, just as he did every reverse in subsequent life, with unflinching courage and quiet fortitude. He was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., August 12^th, 1863, crippled for life, and his fondest hopes blighted. Notwithstanding the disadvantage under which he labored, nothing daunted, he applied himself unaided to the study of the law, and after a few years became proficient in his chosen profession and was admitted to the bar. Here he applied himself as in his military career, with indomitable courage, and was ever true to his highest ideals. His integrity of character was always unquestioned, whether in the many public offices he held or in private life. He discharged every trust with fidelity and ability, and his excellent qualities were appreciated.

While at College, in April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Seventh Regiment, O. V. I. for a period of three months; reenlisted June 19^th for three years, and was with the regiment continuously until dangerously wounded in the thigh, his right thigh bone being broken near the hip joint by a gun shot, and was confined with eight others in a small room about 9 by 15 feet.

While in the hospital he traded his army overcoat for two old volumes of "Blackstone’s Commentaries," which he studied carefully during the weary months there. Afterward, he attended the Law University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1864.

In 1866 he located at Princeton, Missouri, and engaged in the practice of his profession in partnership with Ira B. Hyde, which existed to 1891. He is a man of good business ability, and has been successful in the practice of his profession.

Marvin C. Stone was a son of Chester Stone, was born at Rootstown, Ohio, April 4^th, 1842. Later he became a resident of Ravenna, Ohio, where he acquired his high school education. On August 30, 1862, he was mustered into service as a recruit in Company C, Seventh Regiment O. V. I. For three years he served his country faithfully, sharing all the dangers and hardships of war. During one of the forced marches the southern sun produced a blinding headache; being unable to proceed, he lay helpless by the way until an acquaintance, recognizing him, placed him on his horse, thus saving him from falling into the hands of the enemy. He participated in the battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. At the battle of Lookout Mountain he received a wound that disabled him from active service, and from which he never fully recovered. On October 31^st, 1864, he was transferred to Company B, Fifth Ohio Infantry, and December 1^st, 1864, he was transferred to the "Veteran Reserve Corps," and sent to Washington on special duty, where he remained until mustered out, August 7^th, 1865.

He graduated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and took up journalism.

On January 7^th, 1875, he was married to Miss Jennie F. Platt, of Baltimore, Maryland, and made Washington his home. He was an inventor of some note and had already taken out several patents. Now he added to them lemonade straws and cigar and cigarette holders, which he manufactured extensively, employing several hundred people, with great success. His factory was a model, including a large circulating library for the use of his employees, and in many other ways he showed an interest in their welfare. His last patent was a process for coloring fine china.

He found his greatest pleasure among his books and in his home, which was a center of attraction to many others especially during the terms of Senator Lyman R. Casey, Mrs. Stone’s brother-in-law, where the diplomatic and government officials were often entertained.