Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.

   BRIG. GEN. E. V. SUMNER DIES.
  Veteran of Civil and Indian Wars
        Was 77 Years Old.
  SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24.---Brig. Gen.
E. V. Sumner, U. S. A., retired, died late
last night at the Presidio Hospital, aged
77. He was born in Carlisle, Penn.
  Edwin Vose Sumner was the son of
Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner and Han-
nah Forster Vose. He was appointed
from New York Second Lieutenant in
the First United States Cavalry, Aug.
5, 1861, and was promoted to First Lieu-
tenant Nov. 12, 1861. He was Major Aid
de Camp of volunteers in May, 1863, and
in the following August he was honor-
ably mustered out of the volunteer ser-
vice. In September of the same year
he was made Captain in the regular army,
but in Sptember, 1864, he resigned and
was appointed Colonel of the First
New York Mounted Rifles. He was brev-
eted Brigadier General of volunteers in
March, 1865.
  Gen. Sumner was Major of the Fifth
United States Cavalry in 1879, Lieutenant
Colonel of the Eighth Cavalry in 1890,
and Colonel of the Seventh Cavalry to
1894. At the outbreak of the Spanish-
American war he was appointed Briga-
dier General of volunteers, from which
he was honorably discharged Feb. 24,
1899, retaining the same title in the reg-
ular army. At his own request he was
retired March 30, 1899, after thirty years
of service, in which he participated in
the Indian wars of the Modocs, Nez
Perces, and Bannock tribes, took part
in the campaign in Southeast Nevada,
and the Sioux campaign of 1890-91. He
married Margaret Forster, daughter of
Gen. John Forster, Harrisburg, Penn.,
in 1866. His home was in Syracuse,
N. Y.
  Gen. Sumner is survived by a brother,
Major General Samuel S. Sumner, U. S.
A., retired, who lives in New York, and
two daughters, Mrs. Edward King, wife
of Capt. King, Second Cavalry, stationed
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Mrs.
Carson, wife of Col. Carson, now in the
Phillippines.