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Pcrham tljo most Jramous, cijlWu
nbw roa!lant.ot;iackHn county, cer
tainly; tmMnost fatuous warrior. Is
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(man"dc o,t civjsJry In GrnnCsVIcke
burs'catofcilpHaud hero of' ninny
battlv.now vl(,vlnjc upon his orchard
homo near Mcdford.
"Gaa.nj-aL Sooy-Smith ia. in his S3rd
c4ri(stlil; vigorous ami a command
ing lKF " ln U,'S hohalf,. Senator
Chamberlain Introduced nt tho pres
ent session of congress, a bill to re
storq him to hla rank in the army
a itesurvod recognition of his bril
liant ecrylccs to his. country. ,
In addition to his army record.
.General Sooy-Smith has aa enviable
record, as an engineer, having de
signed and built the first steel bridge
at Niagara, the Sarannah, Georgia,
six bridges across the Missouri river,
two across the Mlssisslpl, two across
the. Ohio, and many others, small
and largo, throughout the country,
and built the first 100 feet of the
Hudson river tunnel at New York
and developed tho pneumatic process
for sub-aquQuos constructions. Ho
first devised the- methods in vogue
for laying the foundations of Chica
go1 skyscrapers and aid In tho devel
opment of steel buildings.
Dora It. Ohio
General Win. Sooty-Smith as. born
at ITarlton Pickaway county, Ohio,
July 22, 1830. Ho received an ex
cellent common school eduoatlou In
the school of that village which was
an exceptionally' good one, taught
by a very fine teacher; and stood
first in bis class when he completed
his course at the ago of fourteen.
He had an ardent desire for a col
legiate educatien: in which he was
encouraged by his father, who was
unablo to supply him with the money
necessary for procuring it.
At the close of a conversation with
his' father on the subject, tho latter
took a quarter of a dollar from his
pocket, and handing it .to young
Sooy-Smith,, said: .
"Take this, which is all tho money
I have, VI give you my be$sing with
it. and hope that 'you will be .able
qwork"your own way through col-
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you and I bo ardently desire." i
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Speaking of the incident. General
Sooy-Smith sas: "I thanked him
from tho bottom of my heart, and set
out for Athens, the scat of the Ohio
university. I had married brother
living there and made my way to his
house, where I remained until I got
additional preparation In an excel
lent school, and then got ap
pointment as Janltorat the uutversity
and took carp of its three large
buildings and Us campus of ten
acre, with its trees and graveled
walks, and made the fires in the
recitation rooms, carrying the 'coal
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up threo pairs of stairs during the
winter time.
"For these soryiccsJ received eight
cents per hour of actual work, and
my room rent and tuition. In this
way 1 worked my way through and
had fifty dollars saved when I grad
uated at the head of my class,
fioi? to Wet Point Point
"Jubt then the cadet who had
represented our congressional dis
trict nt West Point came homo to
die of consumption, and urged nut lo
apply for an appointment as cadet
to take his place, which I did. Our
congressman, the Hon. Samuel V,
W'uton, gave me the appointment til
preference to the sons and relative.;,
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MTOFORT), ORISON, SATURDAY. OOTODKR 12, 15)112,
oMiU strongest ,ioltt lrnl"f f laiHlSjnf
tOr onrpffilly oMpilnltii. tho i'lnljis,of
hljy.1)pUo4t4UNvtM'.nK: v
5J 'Young man', l glvo you liln ap
pointment, miv mtiko u man nf yoir
self.
"l HRMircd him that 1 would do
my best, ns tho tojrs or grntltudo tl
t'd my oj.cn. And thn mitlitfnvtinh
with which' ! ucnl him our cadet
register fvoin er to oar,Hhown
my plnro lit tha first five of pur
class, wiw wcru to bo placed In thu
stuff corys, can he, bettor Imagined
Hum prcficd.
KcnIuiin Army OmunUMon
"Aer griuluntlng at Went Pglut.
1 Bet'ved In tho regular nnny for two
icnia; ;umI then finding uimy lire In
tliuo of peaco Idle and uupromUIng,
I took tho ndvlco of my HUporlor of
ficers and resigned my commission,
taught n sotcct school for two yara
In lluffalo, Now Yorkt and then en
tered tho profession of civil engineer
and followed It for fifty eurn with
most gratifying success, as, nhown In
tho following detailed account of my
works, which Is given not In tho
spirit of boasting but la tho hope
that It may stimulate all tho joung
men who may pcruso III to do like
wise or hotter If they cau.
''Then lot us bo up and doing
With a heart for auy fate,
Still achieving. hIH pursuing.
Learn "in- labor and to wait."
KitttlHccrlug Kxplolts
n 1SGT he made tho first survis
fop the International bridge, across
tho Niugara river, and vaa also cut
ployed by tho city or lluffalo ns an
expert, to examine tho brldgo pinna
that wcro submitted.
About )S58 Gen. Smith removed
to Trenton,. J., having been olecto.il
engineer and secretary of the loco
motive works In that city, then the
chtof iron bridge manufactory in
America. Whflp hep. tho plvll war
developed, and he was Immediately
sought for aud commissioned colonel
of the Ohjo volunteers, as before
mentlonqd. Previous to leaving tho
Tcanton Iron Works, General Sooy
Smith had done importnut work for
his firm In Cuba and also constructed
an Iron bridge across the river at
Savannah, for Iho Savannah &
Charleston Railway company, in
which ho sunk cylinders pneumatic
ally, which was u novel Imprqvemcnt.
From tho time that ho ro-cutorcd
tho army, Gen. Sooy-Smith was
steadily advanced, ills part In tho
West Virginia campaign was an nc
tlve ono and ho was present nt Shi
Ioh and Pcrryvlllc.
Fine War ltwottJ
From April 13, 1802. when he
was made brlgalor-generaL of vol
unteers ho commanded successively
the 3d and 4th divisions of the Army
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of Ohio, until Into Into I Kit!!, whon.
under den, Grant, lialnn Joined the
army, ho was mado co)nmiUdar of, thu
1st dlylNlon of thu lfltlt urmy corps.
This Vlohshurg cnmiwlgn gnvo him
much oxperlouce,
When Gen. Sooy-Smith was mado
chief of tho cavalry of tho dopnit
meat of Touuossoo, ho wan attached
to tho staff of both tumorals Grant
and Sherman until, y token of hla
Httcunous llfo, his hqulth wub so im
paired that Inflammatory rhotima
tst!) forced lii ttj jeitve tm vorytcn
In SeptemhtM' of ISO I,
After thu wur Gouural W. Sony
Smith roHtimed the pructlco of plvll
englueurlhg in Cilcago and sluro
then has hcun nil llliiBtintlnn of what
men of ago aud experience can nc
comidlsh. As at) export wpiker on difficult
.nroblouis qonornl Sooy-Smith Iuih
been success. Ills ingenious nhjllty
niH stnod hlu In goqd stend, and he
has .biased tho way In hU prgfosslitu.
'l,Io r.econstructpd tho Wnugoshnnve
light bouse, nt t(o western entrance
of the, trails of Mackinac, bult the
first,. nl-sttc railway brldgo u tie
wjrd, ,9ver Mc Mlssour.1 rlvort nt
OjaaowV Mo., ?nd HuhatructureR pf
Hlxvot)iqr hrligc by pnomnntlc pro
cesscoflndl $ HudHpn mYfv ,ljiiiel
at fjtovy 'orK vl
urrMSfH Sfodcni ."Methods
Gonoral tymyStu., with l! .
Introdupod Into tho United States tho
free-lug' process fr difficult sub
aqqepus .work and at onp tlmo sank
two Shafts tu a dopth of 1()0 feet,
no cr before acconiplUhcd by any
known method.
Ills clover brain completely chuug
ed th methods of constructing foun
dations for heavy buildings In Chica
go and other clticn. Ills Invqntlon
' carries the limits down through
mud aud soft earth to hard bottom,
"0 feet or mqrp by menus of pjles
cut off bqlow waiter surface, and
whoro these could not bo driven
without eiidaugurlpg foundation of
adjacmt buildings by Hlnklng col
umns of concrete to bard bottom and
resting tho buildings on them.
General Sooy-Smith has also aided
It) development of plnuv of high steul
buildings throughout thu world
General Sooy-Smith assisted In
opening the harbor of Green luy,
Wis... and has many bridges to
bis credit- When one passes over
tl)o famous bridge of T)mnhn aud
Leavenworth, qnu must remember
General Sooy-Smith who built them,
as well as that oyer tho Missouri riv
er nt PlnttsniQulh, Nebraska.
An Alt Jtoiiml (icitliiN
General Sooy-Smtl had served on
numerous engineering commissions,
bqch for government and prlynto
convents and ho was a loudpr In urg
oi the
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ing tho govornhu'iit to '"cleat uiit
lo"ard to tout AmOilcau i)ici)ht iud
waa a jiuomber of suqjt u.bofird for
An iti) Inventor una iiutlijtMh'lun'itl
Sooy-iJnilth has ntso demonstrated
his elovoruuMH. Ito Invented tho first
pneumatic caisson .over coiiMtructed
and designed and Introduced, huccohh
fully n now syBUMH-of fireproof build-
in gf.
vAh an iMituir, Oumirnl Hopy-Smlth
Ih wo)l known, athough m linn oi
flllOd hhiH.ilf tq lepoitri ind pn)11
Hlnunl pnpois. Ills biochuio entitled
"Tho iliulson lllvr Tunuol," vas
read on Optpbcr 0, IHSt,lipfqi tho
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A ftnV aeijoiiilrt Intisr ho
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(Jlouir pliolograplmrrf' and"
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