Francis E. Pinto

      GEN. F. E. PINTO DEAD.
  Only Surviving Officer of the First
     New York Who Served in Mexico.
 Gen. Francis E. Pinto, who was the
only surviving commissioned officer of
the First Regiment, New York Volun-
teers, which served with distinction in the
Mexican War, died yesterday at his home,
105 State Street, Brooklyn, in his eighty-
third year. He had been in failing health
for some time.
 Gen. Pinto was in business at 136 Lib-
erty Street. In recent years he had not
taken a very active part in the concern
of which he was the head, the business
being carried on by his sons, one of
whom is President and Director of sev-
eral mining companies with offices at
35 Wall Street.
 A close friend of Capt. Mayne Reid dur-
ing the lifetime of the famous writer of
romance, Gen. Pinto was something of a
writer himself. He compiled a book of
memoirs of the Mexican war. He was
one of the party which pursued Santa
Anna in advance of the whole United
States Army from Cerro Gordo.
 Gen. Pinto, while in Chalco, with the
army, also overheard the angry words
between Gens. Worth and Scott over the
supposed disobedience of Worth to an or-
der issued by Scott.
 Gen. Pinto was with the storming party
which placed the first flag--which hap-
pened to be the flag of the City of New
York--on the walls of Chapultepec. He
entered the army as a Second Lieutenant
in the New York Volunteers. He was
brevetted a Captain, and later, when he
raised a regiment for service in the civil
war, he was made a Brigadier General.
He was a member of the Sons of the
Revolution and of the Military Order of
Foreign Wars.