The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . mbers of this family was hisgreat-uncle. Benjamin Bristow. who servedas secretary of the treasury in PresidentGrants cabinet. For years he was also at-torney general for the New York & HudsonRiver Railroad Company, and it wasthrough his influence that Samuel A. Bris-tow took up the study of law, being offereda position in his otfice, but shortly before oursubjects admission to the bar his uncle Bristow. his fathers brother, isnow second assistant postmaster general andwas one of the number that unearthed theXeely-Rathhone fra
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . mbers of this family was hisgreat-uncle. Benjamin Bristow. who servedas secretary of the treasury in PresidentGrants cabinet. For years he was also at-torney general for the New York & HudsonRiver Railroad Company, and it wasthrough his influence that Samuel A. Bris-tow took up the study of law, being offereda position in his otfice, but shortly before oursubjects admission to the bar his uncle Bristow. his fathers brother, isnow second assistant postmaster general andwas one of the number that unearthed theXeely-Rathhone frauds in Cuba. Aha C. Bristow. the father of SamuelA., was born in Ohio, and was a sonof X\illiam Bristow, one of the ?49ers,wlio considerable wealth inCalifornia, but was killed and robbed on hisway home. His wife, who bore the maidenname of Abigail Smith, belonged to an oldand prominent family of Kentucky. Beingleft an orphan when young. Alva C. Bris-tow spent his early life with relatives, andwith an micle. George Smith, he came to. S. A. BRISTOW. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 793 Vermilion county. Illinois, in 1858. anotheruncle. Dr. S. S. Smith, having previouslylocated here. The latter was one of thepioneer physicians of the county. Here started a newspaper called the In-dependent, which he published until i860,when he returned to Kentucky and made hishome w ith his grandniotlier until the countrybecame inxolved in civil war. He then ranaway and enlisted at blazon. Illinois, inCompany F. Fifty-fifth Illinois \olunteerInfantry. He was with Sherman on hiscampaign and during the battle of Atlantawas shot in the arm. At the close of thewar he joineil the regular army as a ser-geant and was stationed at Cairo. Illinois,for some time, remaining in the service until1869. when he returned to Xermilion coun-ty and located at Iithian, where he engagedin merchandising until 1872. During thatyear he became a resident of Danville a
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