Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . of its satistactiiry operation on thebusiness of the nation was the re-estab-liahment of comnieice. See ,UiMTE)) States. Funston, Frederick, military officer;born in Ohio, Nov. fl, 1805; attended theKansas State University, but did notgradtiate; became a newspaper reporterin Kansas City in ISOO; botanist of theUnited States Death Valley Expedition in1891; and special commissioner of the De-partment of Agriculture to explore Alaska,with a view of reportinj on its flora,1893
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . of its satistactiiry operation on thebusiness of the nation was the re-estab-liahment of comnieice. See ,UiMTE)) States. Funston, Frederick, military officer;born in Ohio, Nov. fl, 1805; attended theKansas State University, but did notgradtiate; became a newspaper reporterin Kansas City in ISOO; botanist of theUnited States Death Valley Expedition in1891; and special commissioner of the De-partment of Agriculture to explore Alaska,with a view of reportinj on its flora,1893-94; joined the Cubans in 1890 andserved in their army for a year and a half. At the beginning of the war withSpain he was commissioned colonel of the20th Kansas Volunteers, which he accom-panied to the Philippines, where he .subse-quently made an exceptionally brilliantrecord. On March 31, 1899, he was thefirst man to enter Malolos, the Filipino in-surgents capital. On Jlay 2, 1899, Presi-dent McKinley promoted him to brigadiei-general in the newly organized volunteerservice, on the recommendation of (Jen-. FRKDERICK FVNSTOV. erals Otis and MacArthur, for signal skilland gallantry in swimming across the RioGrande at Calumpit in the face of a heavyfire from the insurgents, and establishinga rope ferry by means of which the Ameri-can troops were enabled to make a cross-ing and to successfully engage the insur-gents. On ilay 2, 1900, while making apersonal reconnoissance up the Rio Grandede la Pampanga he discovered a perpen-dicular ladder leading up a cliff ero\vnedwith a dense forest. Beside the ladderhung a rope which, when pulled, rang analarm bell in the woods back of the preci-pice. Deeming these appearances sus-picious, he ascended the ladder and at thesummit found many large wooden easesfilled with documents comprising a greatnumber of the archives of the insurgents,including all the correspondence of Agui-naldo from the time of his earliest com-munications with Dewey do
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