Martin Christian Herman (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Martin Christian Herman,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/h/ed_hermanMC.htm.
Martin Herman was born on February 14, 1841 on the farm his German immigrant great-grandfather had cleared in 1771 near New Kingston, Pennsylvania.  He was one of the six children of Martin and Elizabeth Wolford Herman.  He prepared for college at the York County Academy under George Ruby and entered the class of 1862 at Dickinson College in September 1858.  His brother, David Herman, was a member of the class of 1865.
Dickinson Chronicles

John Aaron Rawlins (American National Biography)

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John Y. Simon, "Rawlins, John Aaron," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00828.html.
Although a Democratic presidential elector in 1860, [Rawlins's] impassioned patriotism in 1861 attracted the attention of fellow townsman Ulysses S. Grant, who, when appointed brigadier general in August, offered Rawlins a staff position…. Rawlins's career intertwined with that of Grant for the rest of his brief life. Appointed adjutant with the rank of captain of volunteers, he was promoted to major (May 1862) after the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh.
American National Biography Online

John H. Addams (New York Times)

Obituary
“Obituary Notes,” New York Times, August 19, 1881, p. 5: 6.
The Hon. John H. Addams, one of the pioneer settlers of the North-west, died Wednesday night at Green Bay, Wis., at the age of 59 years. At the time of his death he was President of the Second National Bank of Freeport, Ill. He was a member of the Illinois Senate from 1852 to 1868, and for a quarter of a century has been one of the most influential men in the business and politics of Northern Illinois.
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