The Daniels had two children, Elizabeth (later Mrs. Two years later he married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Marshall and opened the Daniel Studio on Capitol Street. In 1905 Daniel moved to Jackson, Mississippi, to work at a photography studio. He attended college in Lebanon, Ohio, and upon graduation returned to Beattyville to teach in the public schools. University Microfilms, 1967).Ī copy of th Hymns of the Ages is available in the Dickinson Archives (DF Student: Rusling, James Fowler).Albert Frederick Daniel was born around 1876 in Beattyville, Kentucky. He was buried in the Riverview Cemetery in that city.įor more information please look at the National Encyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 35 (Ann Arbor, MI. James Fowler Rusling died at his home in Trenton on April 1, 1918, two weeks before his eighty-fourth birthday. He and his second wife had a son and a daughter. He married Mary Freeman Winner of Pennington, New Jersey in 1855 and, after her death, later married Emily W. He had already received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater in 1890. At his fiftieth class reunion, he endowed the senior prize at the College which bears his name. He served as a trustee of Dickinson College from 1861 to 1883, and then again from 1904 until his death. He was also a tax commissioner of his home state in 1896. A devout Methodist, he wrote several articles on subjects like "Hymns of the Ages" for various religious publications.īack in his Trenton law office, Rusling was a New Jersey pension agent between 18. He also wrote an history of the Pennington School. Rusling was an observant and entertaining writer and completed several other accounts, most notably the story of, and observations from, his 1866-1867 inspection tour for the Quartermaster's Office of the Army of the West, which he called The Great West and Pacific Coast (1877). His extensive service in all of the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac between 18, together with his activities in the Army of the Cumberland for the remainder of the war, are detailed in his 1899 book, Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days. At the end of the war he was the Inspector of the Quarter Master Department of the United States Army and received a brevet promotion in February 1866 as Brigadier General of Volunteers before returning to private practice in September 1867. By October 1862, he was a captain and quartermaster of the 2nd Division of III Corps and in May 1863, he was named as a lieutenant colonel of Volunteers and 3rd Corps Quartermaster. On August 24, 1861, he became a first lieutenant and the regimental quarter-master of the 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. He was admitted that year to the Pennsylvania bar and to the New Jersey bar in 1859 when he set up practice in Trenton.
He graduated with his class and immediately took up a teaching post at the Dickinson Williamsport Seminary, where he taught until 1857. While there he studied the natural sciences and was a member of the Union Philosophical Society. He was prepared at the Pennington School and entered Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1852, joining the class of 1854. James Fowler Rusling was the fifth of the seven children born to Geishom and Eliza Hankinson Rusling. Unit: 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Division of III Corps, Volunteer Army, 3rd Corps QuartermasterĪlma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. Birth: ApWashington,Warren County, New Jersey
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