The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . c. His song, GoodNews from Home, written during the war, attaineda world-wide popularity; When Johnny ComesMarching Home Again, the words of which he wroteunder the nom de plume of
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . c. His song, GoodNews from Home, written during the war, attaineda world-wide popularity; When Johnny ComesMarching Home Again, the words of which he wroteunder the nom de plume of Louis Lambert, was verypopular during the war, and long after it politics, as an Irishman, he was for home-rule,and a concert he gave in response to Irelandsappeal, netted for the Parnell parliamentary fundthe sum of $6,000. In religion he was a practicalCatholic. Among the material evidences of publicfavor which outlast him are jeweled, gold, silver,ivory and ebony batons, jeweled and gold medals,silver and gold goblets, costly badges and emblems,gold and silver instruments, plate, ornaments, etc.:but the proudest laurels laid upon his grave werethe tears of the poor, the love of the people, and thepraise of his fellow-musicians. On Saturday, Sept. 34,1892, during the initiatory engagement of the Columbian tour of Gilmores one hundred at the StLouis exposition, in whose magnificent music-hall, in. eight successive seasons, his band had given over1,500 concerts to ever larger and more enthusiasticaudiences, Mr. Gilmore died from heart failure,after one days illness. In death he was paid bothmilitary and civic honors. His wife and his onlychild (a daughter) survive him. SAWTELIiE, Leila Bobinson, lawyer, wasborn in Boston, Mass., on July 33, 1850. She wascarefully educated, and after leaving school was forseveral years employed as awriter for various Boston papers,being at that time the only wo-man thus engaged. In 1878 shematriculated at the law schoolof Boston univ
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