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Rh Indians, he rendered services that have added to the glory and stability of our country, and made his name a household word in our land. Later, as Lieutenant General of the army, he attained the highest military rank in the United States, and during his tour around the world was tendered receptions by kings, emperors, and other rulers. He is honored in civil life as an eminent patriot and citizen. General Miles married Mary Hoyt Sherman, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has two children— Mary Cecelia Sherman and Daniel Sherman. Mrs. Miles accompanied her husband in his tour around the world, and was received with distinguished honors.

Mrs. Sprague takes an interest in the soldiers who have served with her brother and with other leaders, and also in the army nurses of the Civil War, being an honorary member of the Massachusetts Army Nurse Association.

ELEN C. MULFORD, Superintendent for nine years of the Franchise Department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Barnstable County Mass., is a native of Chatham, Mass., where she now resides during the greater part of the year.

She was born August 3, 1845, daughter of Isaac Bea and Maria J. (Marston) Young. She is a grand-daughter of Joseph. Jr., and Bethia (Bea) Young. ojreat-grand-daughter of Joseph and Anna Dickerson) Young, and great-great-grand-daughter of Hiatt and Mercy (Hinckley) Young.

Two of these ancestors, nanicly, Hiatt Young, of Chatham (born about 1739), and his son Joseph, fought in the war for American independence, Hiatt Young appearing with the rank of Sergeant on the Revolutionary rolls of the State. For a number of years he was in Captain Webb's, later in Captain Holbrook's company, Colonel William Shepard's regiment. It is related of him that upon reaching his little home after his discharge from the army, without a cent, weary and footsore, having suffered many privations and hardships, he left his footprints in blood upon the newly scrubbed floor, and that they never could be erased while the house remained standing. An old memorandum records the fact that the town refused to pay him the bounty which was his due, amounting to thirty pounds. His actual grave remains unknown.

The following is the inscription on a monument standing on a lot in the Universalist cemetery, now owned by Isaac B. Young, inscribed many years ago under the direction of his eldest son, Joseph: —

Joseph Young was so anxious that this inscription should be executed correctly before his death, which he felt was approaching, that he had the stone brought to his front yard, and the work done where he could look upon it from his sick-bed and see that no mistake was made.

Joseph Young was born September 25, 1762, in Liverpool, N.S., and died July 31, 1848, about one week after the completion of the monument. At the age of thirteen, in his father's absence, he had nominal charge of the support of the family. That his mother could spare him a few years later is shown by the fact that he himself enlisted before he was sixteen.

The following was recorded by him in later years:—

"I was so very small and short of stature that I had to resort to stratagem to pass the very yielding eye of an enlisting officer. I put on a pair of my father's big cowhide boots, and filled under my feet all that I could to raise me up. Then I put on all the clothes I could to make me stout. When I went before the