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(VIII) John Clifford, the elder of the two sons of John W. and Martha J. (Hawkes) Warren, was born in Westbrook, September 29, 1879. After leaving the public schools he attended Westbrook high school, from which he graduated in 1898. In same year he en- tered the University of Maine, where he grad- uated in 1902, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Subsequently he attended the Boston University Law School and there took the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws in 1905. In Au- gust of the same year he was admitted to the bar in Cumberland county, and in November, 1906, was admitted to practice in the United States courts. He is engaged in the general practice of his profession, and has met with encouraging success. In politics he is a Re- publican. He was a corporal in Company M, First Maine Volunteer Militia in the Spanish war and served eight months. He is a mem- ber of Temple Lodge, No. 83, of Westbrook, Eagle Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, the Maine Historical Society, and the Portland Club. (See Hawkes.)
(For ancestry see James Warren I.)
(III) James (3), eldest son
WARREN and third child of James (2) and Mary (Foss or Frost) Warren, was born June 8, 1698, in Kittery, and resided in that town. He married Mary, daughter of Moses and Abigail (Tailor) Goodwin, of Kittery. She was born Septem- ber 18, 1699. Their children were: Sarah,
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Benjamin, Elizabeth, Moses, James, Samuel, Chadbourne, William and Martha.
(IV) Samuel, fourth son of James (3) and Mary (Goodwin) Warren, was born late in 1726 in Berwick and died in 1814. There are some conflicting records pertaining to him. It is shown that he was married in Biddeford, May II, 1749, to Sarah, daughter of Robert Gray, and the records of his home town show that he had a son, Captain Thomas, and also had sons: James, David and Samuel. The records of Kittery show the intention of mar- riage June 29, 1765, Samuel Warren and Mary Andrews. He resided for a time in Bristol, Maine, and in 1788 was sent to survey what is now Islesboro, Maine. The chart which he made may be found in the History of Islesboro, and shows his careful and energetic work. He was of great help in drawing to that town a fine class of settlers whose de- scendants are widely known in the Pine Tree State and in all sections of the country. He was selectman of the town from 1795 to 1807. He married a Miss Porter, a woman of great energy and helpfulness, and their children were: I. John, who was a very successful Friends minister and visited England. 2. George, married, 1803, Lydia Hatch. 3. Ben- jamin, married, 1810, Abigail Hatch. 4. Sam- uel. 5. Betsey, married, 1808, Isaac Hatch. 6. Martha, married, 1790, Jonathan Coombs, and had a large and very interesting family.
(V) Samuel (2), fourth son of Samuel (I) Warren, was born in Bristol, Maine, 1773, and died at Islesboro on the third day of May, 1859. He was a very efficient helper of his father in his work, and then became a suc- cessful farmer, being a man of great worth and executive ability. He married Ruth Sher- man, who died on August 30, 1835, and their children were: I. David, born October 6, 1799, married Olevia Trim. 2. Lydia, De- cember 7, 1801, never married. 3. Samuel, February 18, 1804, died August 5, 1870; mar- ried Philena Hatch. 4. Michael. 5. James, July 4, 1808, married Sabrina Parker and Amanda Burr. 6. George, June 12, 1812, died December 2, 1890; married Sally Veazie.
(VI) Michael, the son of Samuel (2) and Ruth (Sherman) Warren, was born at Isles- boro, February 16, 1806, and died in 1828, having been a very successful captain of coast packets, and largely engaged in the lumber trade. He married Belona Barr, and their only son was Luman.
(VII) Luman, son of Michael and Belona (Barr) Warren, was born in Orland, Maine, February 17, 1830. He is one of the pros-
perous merchants of Bucksport, where he has long resided. He was while very young noted for his application to study in the schools of his native town, as well as for his trustworthi- ness of character. When but a youth he worked as a clerk in the country store of John A. Buck and Company at Orland, Maine. In 1850 he went to Bucksport, and readily found a position as salesman with J. L. Bradley and Company, becoming a partner in the business in 1853. In 1863, on the death of Mr. J. L. Bradley, Mr. Warren became the proprietor of the flourishing business, subsequently taking a very helpful partner, Leander Hancock, the firm name then being Warren & Hancock. After the death of Mr. Hancock, Mr. Warren conducted the business under the name of Warren & Company, which name it still con- tinues to bear. Mr. Warren still retains his interest in the business, but has retired from active management. He is everywhere highly esteemed as a business man and citizen. In politics he is a thorough-going and well-in- formed Republican. In religion he classifies himself as an Independent. Mr. Warren mar- ried Alice Buck Bradley, born in Bucksport, December 19, 1845, married in 1872, and died in 1906, a woman greatly beloved by all who knew her. She was the daughter of Mr. Jo- seph B. and Mary Somersby (Buck) Bradley. Her grandparents were Rufus and Sarah (Somersby) Buck, who were married Octo- ber 16, 1821, Mr. Rufus Buck being the son of Daniel Buck, from which Bucksport re- ceived its name, which was originally spelled Buckstown, and whose wife was Mary Sewall, of the famous Sewall family of York, Maine. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Luman War- ren was Margaret Bradley, born March 16, 1877, died March 7, 1905. The loss of his wife and daughter within such a short time was such a shock that Mr. Warren is greatly broken in health. He is in his seventy-ninth year and quite feeble.
"In the study of historic rec- HAWKES ords a few facts have been gathered from varied sources regarding Adam Hawkes, the first of his name who made any permanent settlement in New England. Nothing is known of him prior to his arrival in this country, nor the vessel in which he embarked. There is fortunately pre- served two interesting and ancient relics of the past, 'The First Book of the Records of Charlestown' and 'The History of the First Church of that place.' By the first of these Adam Hawkes' name is given among those
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who were admitted as inhabitants of the town in 1634. He had four acres of planting ground allotted to him January 10, 1635. To get this ground the law required the ownership of a house. Adam Hawkes' name also appears among the list of inhabitants January 2, 1635. In the history of the First Church of Charles- town, page 4, it is recorded that Adam Hawkes was admitted to membership. Adam Hawkes came to this country in 1634, resided in Charlestown a year or upwards, then moved to Saugus the latter part of the year 1635 or 1636, and with others settled on 'the river of Saugus.' 'Goodman Hawkes' erected his first rude dwelling on the site of L. P. Hawkes' house. His farm was mainly the land now occupied by the village of North Saugus lying east of the Saugus river, north of the iron works, south from and remainder by Lynn Common, in all several hundred acres, includ- ing a one hundred acre grant from Lynn in 1638. Besides this Adam Hawkes owned the George Hawkes farm in Lynnfield." (The foregoing and the ancestral data which follows was compiled by the late Hon. Samuel Hawkes, of Saugus, Maine.)
(I) Adam Hawkes was born in 1608, died March 13, 1672. He married (first) Widow Anne Hutchinson, who died October II, 1669; (second) 1670, Sarah Jane Hooper. Chil- dren of first wife: Susannah and John (said to have been twins) ; child of second wife: Sarah, born June 2, 1671.
(II) John, son of Adam and Anne (Hut- chinson) Hawkes, born 1633, died August, 1694. He built a house on a part of his farm, which farm was after his death divided between his four sons. He married (first) Rebecca Maverick, June 1, 1659; she died September 4, 1659; married (second) Eliza- beth Cushman, April II, 1661. John and Elizabeth (Cushman) Hawkes had nine chil- dren, four of whom died within a few days of the last of November, 1675; mention is made of only two, namely: Ebenezer, and Moses, who married Margaret Cogswell, a sister of John Cogswell, whose daughter married Eben- ezer Hawkes, brother of Moses.
(III) Ebenezer, son of John and Elizabeth (Cushman) Hawkes, wos born 1678, died 1766. He married Elizabeth Cogswell, daugh- ter of John and Margaret (Gifford) Cogs- well, of Ipswich. Children: I. Ebenezer, born July 14, 1702, had the farms now owned by Louis P. and Richard Hawkes, except the outside lots which included the site of the second house of Adam Hawkes. In 1720 he moved to Marblehead, where he followed the
trades of blacksmith and anchormaker ; he was one of the original grantees of New Marble- head, now the town of Windham, in the then district of Maine, and together with several others was granted the water power at what is now called Mallison Falls in that town; it is doubtful if he ever visited his Maine pos- sessions and certainly never settled them, as the grants were taken up after his death by his grandsons, who became the ancestors of the numerous Hawkes families in that section of the country. 2. Elizabeth, born April 24, 1704. 3. Samuel.
(IV) Samuel, son of Ebenezer and Eliza- beth (Cogswell) Hawkes, was born May 12, 1706, resided in Lynn, died 1772. He mar- ried Philadelphia Estes. Child : Ebenezer.
(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Samuel and Phil- adelphia (Estes) Hawkes, died August 21, 1791. He married Rebecca Alley, who died October 20, 1822. Children: I. Ebenezer, born May 8, 1766, died August 31, 1791. 2. Ahijah, see forward. 3. William, born Octo- ber 14, 1769, died October 20, 1822. 4. Re- becca, born December 10, 1771, evidently died in infancy. 5. Abigail, born September 4, 1773, died 1846. 6. Rebecca, born May 22, 1776, died 1839. 7. Elizabeth, born June 12, 1778, died 1844. 8. Lydia, born October 9, 1780, died 1856. 9. Anna, born September 28, 1785, died January 27, 1855.
(VI) Ahijah, son of Ebenezer (2) and Rebecca (Alley) Hawkes, was born Decem- ber 10, 1767, died December 23, 1838. Mar- ried, November 25, 1807, Theodate Pratt, born July 12, 1787, died December 23, 1838. Children : 1. Rebecca, born December 4, 1808, died May 8, 1893. 2. Ahijah, born Decem- ber 20, 1809. 3. Ebenezer, born June 22, 18II, died August 6, 1884. 4. Richard, born January 9, 1813, died November 15, 1870. 5. Stephen E., born May 25, 1814, died October 2, 1877. 6. William, born December 1, 1815, died March 1, 1852. 7. Samuel, born Decem- ber 4, 1816. 8. Tacy Pratt, born January 2, 1818. 9. Deborah, born August 20, 1819, died August 5, 1871. 10. Theodate, born October 4, 1820, died November 3, 1820. II. Daty, born July 8, 1822, died January 22, 1824. 12. Louis Penn, born June 26, 1824, died 1896.
(VII) Ahijah (2), son of Ahijah (I) and Theodate (Pratt) Hawkes, was born Decem- ber 20, 1809, died May 18, 1888. He mar- ried, December 3, 1835, Louisa Hawkes, of Windham, Maine, born April 6, 1811, died January 5, 1868, daughter of David and Anne Hawkes. David Hawkes was of the Maine branch of the family and direct descendant of
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Ebenezer Hawkes. Children: I. Loretta Theodate, born September 30, 1836, married Harlan P. Murch. 2. Victoria Augusta, born December 19, 1837. 3. Elizabeth Rebecca, born August 24, 1839, married Eben Plum- mer. 4. Anne Louisa, born July 12, 1841, died August 19, 1858. 5. Louis Penn, born February 28, 1843, died January 18, 1848. 6. Tacy Pratt, born December 24, 1844. 7. Al- bert Ahijah, born May 5, 1847, married Cora B. Warren. . 8. Ellen Deborah, born March 7, 1849, married Alonzo Plummer. 9. Martha Jane, born May 12, 1851, married John W. Warren (see Warren VII). 10. Walter Ver- ian, born July 24, 1853, married Nellie Fisher.
PEASE This name is given by many au- thorities as coming from the name of the pea-plant; the Pease family of England is said to be of German origin, and they are supposed to have emi- grated much later than the Saxon conquest of England, but have been in that country some four or five hundred years; the Ger- man form of the words is Pies or Pees. They are found among members of parliament, as bankers, among the yeomanry, and various other English classes. Between the years 1635 and 1672 there lived in New England as many as six men who had the name of John Pease, and it has been correspondingly diffi- cult to keep track of the various families.
(I) John Pease is first mentioned in the records of Martha's Vineyard in 1646, when he was grantor in a deed of land, and from that date until the time of his death his name appears often, and he seems to have taken rather a prominent part in affairs. He was one of the original pro- prietors of the town of Norwich, Connecticut, in 1659, although he was not one of the first settlers there, as he may at one time have in- tended to be. He was called captain, it is supposed from having command of a small sailing craft. By his first wife, Elizabeth, he had two sons, James, born in 1637, and John, about 1640; by his second wife, Mary, he had : Thomas, about 1656, Jonathan, Samuel, David, Abigail, Mary, Rebecca and Sarah. When he made his will, dated March 4, 1674, he was "stricken in years." Many of his descend- ants settled in Maine.
(II) Samuel, son of John and Mary Pease, was born about 1660, and the latest record found of him on Martha's Vineyard is in his father's will, so he probably removed from there when a young man; as there was a Sam- uel Pease living in Exeter, New Hampshire,
about 1690, whose descendants have a tra- dition that he was from Martha's Vineyard, it is supposed he is the one before mentioned.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Samuel Pease, was born in 1691, at Exeter, New Hampshire, and died October 20, 1748, at Newmarket, New Hampshire, then a part of Exeter. He was a carpenter and owned land. There is a tradi- tion among the family that he was killed by Indians, and as they were very annoying to the settlers of Exeter in the early days, this may be so; although the records were not kept of those who met death at the hands of the sav- ages, it was necessary for them to sleep in garrisons often and till their land with their rifle or other weapon near at hand. He mar- ried, November, 1725, Phebe, daughter of John and Sarah (Philbrick) Sanborn, born February 5, 1706, and their children were: I. Sarah, born July 10, 1726. 2. Samuel, De- cember 14, 1727-28, died January 6, 1805, in Parsonsfield, Maine. 3. Ann, November 17, 1729. 4. Abigail, January, 1732. 5. Bath- sheba, March 16, 1734. 6. Phebe, December 21, 1735. 7. Nathaniel. 8. John, July 10, 1739. 9. Zebulon, July 21, 1741. 10. Benjamin, Au- gust 2, 1743. II. Eleanor, June 2, 1745. 12. Simeon, March 24, 1747. 13. Eliphalet, May 13, 1749.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), second son of Nathan- iel (I) and Phebe (Sanborn) Pease, was born February 21, 1737, and settled in Newmarket, New Hampshire. He married Lucy Page, and they had ten children, as follows: I. Zebulon. 2. David. 3. Nathaniel, married (first) Judith Pease and (second) Dolly Pease. 4. Asa, born July 18, 1769, married Sally Parsons, and set- tled in Parsonfield, Maine. 5. Josiah, married Nancy Parsons. 6. Joseph. 7. Lydia. 8. Hannah. 9. Sally, married John Stevens. 10. Lucy, who became Mrs. Drew.
(V) Major Zebulon, eldest son of Nathan- iel (2) and Lucy (Page) Pease, was born January 16, 1761, at Newmarket, New Hamp- shire, and served in the revolutionary war, in Lieutenant-Colonel Senter's New Hampshire regiment ; enlisted July 2, 1777, discharged January 6, 1778. In 1810 he received the com- mission of major from Governor Christopher Gore, and served in the war of 1812 as ma- jor of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment; his original commission is in the hands of his great-grandson, Major Albion P. Pease, men- tioned later in this article. He married, March 29, 1784, Mrs. Mary Burleigh; he died De- cember 31, 1837 ; his wife died May 10, 1831. Their children were: I. John, born July 9, 1785, died November 20, same year. 2. Nath-
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aniel. 3. Andrew, May 13, 1788, died October 18, 1851. 4. Mary, November 2, 1789, died January 19, 1797. 5. Elizabeth, September 24, 1791, died unmarried January 6, 1864. 6. Martha, January 20, 1794. 7. Zebulon, Sep- tember 21. 1795.
(VI) Nathaniel (3), second son of Major Zebulon and Mary ( Burleigh) Pease, was born November 26, 1786, settled in Parsonsfield, Maine, where he died January 25, 1863. He was engaged in farming. He married, March 21, 1816, Olive Towne. Their children were: I. Sophia, born October 16, 1816-17, married Amasa Allen. 2. Mary, September 7, 1818, married Amasa Doe. 3. Usher P. 4. Clara T., August 31, 1821, married Uriah Butland. 5. Burleigh, August 13, 1823, married Nar- cissa Pease. 6. Lorenzo D., January 25, 1825, married Hannah Fitzpatrick, died 1907. 7. Liz- zie W., November 9, 1826, married Edward Gordon, and lives at Winter Hill, Massachu- setts, with her nephew, Wesley Doe. 8. Roxy S., March 27, 1828, married Hiram C. Walker, and lived at Springfield, Illinois ; died in New York City. 9. John A., November 17, 1829, married Sarah Shaw, and resided at South Parsonsfield, Maine; now deceased. Io. La- vinia, July 4, 1832, died 1892. II. Martha, January 7, 1837, died December, 1908. 12. Bradbury N., June 4, 1841, died February II, 1843-
(VII) Usher P., eldest son of Nathaniel (3) and Olive (Towne) Pease, was born Jan- uary 29, 1820, at South Parsonsfield, Maine. Soon after reaching his majority he removed to Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was first employed on the Cooledge Farm; he then entered the employ of a firm dealing in ice, Russell, Harrington and Company, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, remaining with them and their successors (Reed & Bartlett) until the forming of the Boston Ice Company, with which he became connected, and served this company for more than thirty-five years, until his death. From 1851 he made his home in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He married, January 12, 1845, at South Parsonsfield, Maine, Juliette Williams, born February 22, 1821. He was one of the oldest members of the First Free Baptist Church, of Boston, of which he was deacon for more than forty years. His children were: I. Major Albion P. 2. Cur- tis S., born June 8, 1849, married. Cora E. Butler, and has two children, Ethelwyn and Bronson ; he resides in Malden and has been connected with the Boston Ice Company for forty-three years. 3. Susie E., May 21, 1855, married James Morrison, and has two daugh-
ters, Ella, who married Richard Veale, and Lillian, who married Harry E. Osgood, and resides in Somerville. 4. Alta, July 31, 1859, married Charles E. Crouse, of Syracuse, New York. 5. Elmer E., May 22, 1861, married, in Boston, June 26, 1888, Lizzie Folsom, and has one child, Roland F., born in Kansas City, Missouri, August 30, 1890. Lizzie Folsom was daughter of Josiah D., born in Stark, Maine, March 27, 1830, and Louisa P. (Up- ton) Folsom, of North Troy, Vermont, born September 29, 1829; they were married in Saugus, Massachusetts, November 26, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Pease reside in Somerville and he is with the American Net & Twine Com- pany, of Boston.
(VIII) Major Albion P., eldest son of Usher P. and Juliette (Williams) Pease, was born December 14, 1846, in Parsonsfield, on the old Pease homestead, which has been in the possession of the family for more than two hundred years. He received his early educa- tion at Charlestown, remaining in that place until he reached the age of fifteen years, when he enlisted in the United States army, being enrolled as private, September 10, 1862, in Company H, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, and discharged July 2, 1863. Shortly after- ward he accepted a position in the quarter- master's department of the Cavalry Bureau, at Memphis, Tennessee, where he was in the service under Captains Grierson and Bow- man, and soon won the confidence of the for- mer. A battalion of citizens was being or- ganized to prepare for attacks which might be made by Forrest's Rough Riders, and at his request Mr. Pease was appointed a cap- tain to drill them, exercising the authority of captain and being recognized in that capacity. This appointment was not made through the war department, but was done by virtue of the commanding officer's granted or assumed authority. He was never regularly mustered, and in addition to his work of drilling men he still, at intervals, attended to his duties in the office of Captain Grierson, of the quarter- master's department. He continued this until the close of the war and at one time took a fleet of boats, loaded with horses, to Gen- eral Sheridan on the Red river, in Louisiana, who had his army massed there prepared to suppress Maximilian, of Mexico, should it be- come necessary at the close of the war. Dur- ing the time he was in service he was engaged in the following battles: Kinston, Whitehall, Gouldsboro, Blount's Creek, Rawls Mills, Moseley's Creek, Deep Gully, Siege of New- bern, Wilkinson Point, Core Creek, all in
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North Carolina, also in raids on Memphis and the raids of Generals' Osborne and Grierson, and in Sheridan's Texas expedition. Captain Pease at this time expected a captain's com- mission from President Lincoln, but the trag- edy which took away the nation's ruler pre- vented this, and as Captain Pease was then a very young man he did not realize his pecu- liar position and continued on his round of duties until the spring of 1866, when he re- ceived a commission as major, though he never had a chance to see active service with his regiment, which was the Seventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry, then stationed at Mem- phis, Tennessee. He assisted, however, in winding up the affairs of the quartermaster's bureau and in the sale and inventory of the large number of mules, horses and other prop- erty, and in July, 1866, resigned from the army and returned to Massachusetts. He lo- cated at Charlestown, starting a wholesale es- tablishment for the sale of jewelry and fancy goods, in Milk street, Boston, where he re- mained until the big Boston fire, in which he sustained a heavy loss, and after closing up his business he took a position as traveling salesman for Charles W. Baldwin. In June, 1874, he opened the Albion Ninety-nine Cent Store, at Dover, New Hampshire, and subse- quently opened branches at Great Falls and Rochester, continuing in this industry until the latter part of 1876, when he was advised to remove to the country on account of impaired health, and he then purchased a farm of twenty-five acres at Andover, remaining on it until 1880. In that year he sold his farm and removed to Kansas City, Missouri, where he represented the jewelry firm of M. D. Quimby & Company, of Boston, Massachu- setts. Two years later he was appointed United States. marshal for the Western Dis- trict of Missouri, serving until Cleveland's in- auguration, when he resigned. These were probably the two most strenuous years in the life of Major Pease.
During this time the James brothers, Frank and Jesse, were committing their acts of crime, and Major Pease was ordered to ar- rest Frank. As they were considered the most desperate criminals then at large, the task was a most hazardous one, yet his courage did not fail, and going to their home, taking with him a posse of deputies whom he left outside, he entered the house alone; they were warned by members of their family of his arrival there, got out of bed, and going over an adjoining roof on their hands and feet, they reached the ground, and, grunting like hogs, deceived the
men who were stationed outside, and made their escape in the darkness. A short time afterward, however, Major Pease arrested Frank James at Gallatin, Missouri, and with the assistance of but one man took him to Huntsville, Alabama, for trial for the robbery of Paymaster Smith, of the United States army. During this entire trip he did not even place handcuffs upon him, but previous to starting he informed Mr. James that if he should make the slightest attempt to escape he would shoot him dead instantly. Major Pease was largely interested in real estate until the depreciation of 1889. Shortly afterward he received the appointment of general agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, at Kansas City, Missouri, and until 1904 represented this and other companies at that place, being then requested to return to the East, where important matters awaited him. He was the leading spirit in the organ- ization of the Employers' Association of Mas- sachusetts, with headquarters at Boston, and still fills the responsible office of secretary to that body. This bids fair to become one of the most important national organizations, its principles being as follows: I. No closed shop. 2. No restriction as to the use of tools, ma- chinery, or materials, except such as are un- safe. 3. No limitation of output. 4. No re- striction as to the number of apprentices and helpers, when of proper age. 5. No boycott. 6. No sympathetic strike. 7. No sacrifice of the independent workman to the Labor Union. 8. No compulsory use of the union label. The capacity for work possessed by Major Pease seems practically unlimited. As an instance : During the teamsters' strike in Boston he was at his desk eighteen hours each day for a period of four months, and during this time had a steamship which had been a government transport fitted out in New York City and sent to Boston, where it remained in the har- bor for the housing and feeding of the men. Ever since the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, Major Pease has been one of its most active members and has held offices as follows: Captain and charter member of Post No. 10, Department of Maine; officer of guard, Post No. II, Department of Massa- chusetts ; adjutant and commander, Post No. 4, Department of Missouri; charter member of Post No. 3, Department of Missouri ; assist- ant adjutant general of Department of Mis . souri. In 1881 he organized the Department of Missouri and served four years as assistant adjutant general under Major (now United States Senator) William Warner, of Kansas
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