surgeon of the 2nd New York, November 8th or 10th and ordered to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as Chief Surgeon, 2nd Brigade 2nd Division 2nd Corps. Order changed at Harrisburg to Macon, Georgia, as Sanitary Inspector 1st Division 1st Corps and to go with first troops to Cuba. I sailed from Savannah, Georgia, December 1st and landed at Trinidad, Province of Santa Clara, December 6th. Took station toward end of December in Aerifuegar on staff of Major General John C. Bates. January 14th, ordered with Major John A. Logan to Sangua La Grand. We took the trip across Cuba on horseback, examining into the condition of the country as we rode. May 1899, ordered to Matanzas as Sanitary Inspector in Department of Matanzas and Santa Clara on staff of General James W. Wilson. August 1899, I was relieved and ordered to New York, receiving on arrival orders to go to San Francisco. Reported there in September and sailed the 30th of September for the Philippines, arriving the 28th October. Ordered as Brigade Surgeon, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division 8th Corps (General Grant). Served there, going on campaign or what we used to call a 'hike,' until after Christmas, when was relieved and ordered to Zamboaryo, island of Mindanao as Chief Surgeon of the Military District of Mindanao and Jolo. Served until April 18, 1900, when we went on board hospital ship "Relief" ill. Sailed for home on transport "Grant" from Manila, May 15th, 1900. Arrived San Francisco June 10th. Granted four months sick leave in July, went to Rhode Island where November 13th, 1900, I was 'honorably mustered out by order of the President.' After that it was merely trying to recover my health, not doing any thing 'till I took hold of Herbert's school after his death to close it up. Last winter I was from September 'till June acting Professor of Military Science at the Rhode Island Agricultural College, Kingston. On June 21st, I was appointed on the Sanitary Corps for the Canal, landed here the 28th of June and on July, the 8th, assigned as health officer of Panama which same I am at present." In 1897 he published A Manual for Boards of Health and Health Officers. He married, November 2d, 1870, Jane Byrd Swann, at Hartford, Conn. 8. I. Lewis Balch, born May 3d, 1872. He was married November 2d, 1904, at Wakefield, Rhode Island, to Sally Rodman Thompson, daughter of Robert Thompson, and granddaughter of General Isaac P. Rodman, who fell at Antietam. The Rev. Dr. Balch (see ante page 228) married secondly, April, 1850, at St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, Emily Wiggin. She was born October 15th, 1825, and died April 2d, 1891. She was the daughter of Timothy Wiggin and Catherine Holme, his wife.154 Catherine Holme was descended from Edward Holme and Jane Hastings, his wife. Dr. Balch and his second wife had ten children: 7. VI. Alfred Holme Balch, born February 28th, 1851, died June 7th, 1898; he married in 1887, Ruth Flanders Paxton. 154 The Holme family predigree is traced back to Raudelphus Fitz Norman, who possessed the Manor of Holme. One of his descendants was Robert de Holme, from whom descended Burncustan Holme, Esq., (1664) of Keursley, County Lancaster. 7. VII. William Ralston Balch, born December 9th, 1852. He wrote and published The Life of James A. Garfield, Philadelphia, 1881, The Mines, Miners and Mining Interests of the United States, 1882, and The Battle of Gettysburg; an historical account, Philadelphia, 1885. 7. VIII. Catherine Holme Balch, born October 20th, 1854. 7. IX. Henry Herbert Balch, born May 7th, died February 19th, 1902; married November, 1891, Clarissa Tilghman Fleming. They have two children: 8. I. Henry Herbert Balch, born October 25th, 1892. 8. II. Clarissa Anne Balch, born April 17th, 1894. 7. X Emily Balch, born April 8th, 1858, died April 25th, 1890. 7. XI. Ernest Berkeley Balch, born January 15th, 1860. 7. XII. Adeline Balch, born August 9th, 1861; she married August 9th, 1887, Joseph Howland Coit, Jr. They have one son: 8. I. Henry A. B. Coit, born May 26th, 1888. 7. XIII. Ellen Mary Balch, born February 25th, 1864. She married August 31st, 1887, Oliver Whipple Huntington. 7. XIV. Edith Cazenove Balch, born May 29th, 1866. She married July 1st, 1897, the Rev. Clifford Gray Twombly. 7. XV. Stephen Elliott Balch, born March 5th, 1869. He married May 1st, 1903, Josephine Martyn Radcliffe. 6. III. Catherine Balch, born November 28th, 1815, and died July 1st, 1850. She married the Rev. Freeman Clarkson. 6. IV. Virginia Balch, born March 18th, 1818. She was married at St. Peter's Church, Baltimore, by her brother, the Rev. Dr. Balch, of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, in December, 1841, to Dr. Charles H. Stephen, son of the Hon. Judge Stephen, of Maryland. The following item appeared in one of the Washington papers, probably the Evening Star, in 1898: "Mrs. Virginia Balch Stephen on her eightieth birthday last week was given a surprise party. Friends made it a red letter day with gifts, floral offerings, letters and congratulatory visits. Mrs. Stephen is the granddaughter of Rev. Dr. Balch, the first minister in the District of Columbia. When on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. General Macomb, Sir Charles Vaughan, the English minister gave her a dinner on her eighteenth birthday, with the privilege of inviting all her friends, among whom she included Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and other celebrities of that day. On her recent birthday not only relatives and friends called, but some of the clergy and Baron Riedl de Riedenau, secretary of the Austrian legation; Wu Hsueh-Lien and Fung Ping Wan of the Chinese legation. The evening was very pleasantly concluded by musical selections rendered by Miss Power." Dr. and Mrs. Stephen had one daughter: 7. I. Elizabeth Juliana Stephen, who married Dr. James R. Rogers and had two children: 8. I. Charles Stephen Rogers born in 1870, and died young. 8. II. Katherine Elizabeth Rogers born in 1872. 6. VI. Thomas Balch was born July 23d, 1821. He entered Columbia College (now Columbia University), New York, in 1838, with the class of 1842. At the end of his Freshman year he received from the college a silver medal for standing at the head of his class in geometry. Abram S. Hewitt, a classmate of his, said that "Tom Balch was the master of English style in the class." At the beginning of his Senior year he became ill, and so was unable to keep up with his class. In addition, owing to his father having manumitted his slaves in 1834, he was unable to count on further help from home, and he found it, therefore, additionally difficult to put off the study of a profession. Accordingly, he began soon after his illness the study of the law with Stephen Cambreling and was admitted to the New York Bar, January 17th, 1845.155 In 1849 he went 155 "BY THE HONORABLE "SAMUEL NELSON, ESQR. CHIEF JUSTICE (of the) STATE OF NEW YORK. "To all to whom these PRESENTS shall come, Greeting: "BE IT KNOWN that Thomas Balch having been duly examined and regularly admitted as an Attorney in the Supreme Court of the |