guest speaker at El Paso Post's Community-Legion banquet that evening in the high school gymnasium. He spoke on the navy's need for aircraft carriers and a well-balanced defense.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, colonel in the Civil War, noted Peoria lawyer and agnostic, was often in El Paso on legal business while a law partner in the firm of Harper, Ingersoll & Cassell.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN changed cars here the day after his Freeport debate with Douglas, August 28,1858, and was at the depot and the Chlopicki restaurant for an hour and fifty minutes, changing cars to go to Peoria. He was again in town with his family on a special Illinois Central train in July, 1859, inspecting the yards and the railroad's property here.

CHARLES F. LUMMIS, "super-pedestrian" came along the T. P. & W. on one of his transcontinental walking trips in September 1884. The boys met him east of town and dog-trotted beside him until he had passed El Paso on his way to Los Angeles. To rest, he walked backwards, and traveled in that manner about as fast as others walking in the regular manner.

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN stopped at the Campbell House on October 6, 1872 during a senatorial campaign. He made a political speech in a wigwam, or wooden building, which stood where the V. F. W. building is today.

MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN was here upon several occasions before he became famous. He was operating engineer and a vice-president of the Illinois Central railroad prior to the Civil War. His final visit here was on March 23, 1859, in company with Richard Cobden. (See Chapter on Ludwik Chlopicki.)

CARRIE NATION lectured at the Grand Opera House during one of her lecture tours following her smashing of Kansas saloons with her hatchet. It was about 1906.

JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the world's heavyweight boxing champ that time, changed cars sometime around 1890 at the Campbell House, where he shook hands with a number of El Paso citizens.

OLIN F. STOCKWELL, Methodist Missionary for twenty years in China, who was taken by the Chinese Reds in late 1950 and imprisoned for almost two years, fourteen months in solitary confinement, addressed a packed audience in the Methodist Church on July 5, 1953. His subject was the same as the name of the book he wrote on the margins of a bible while imprisoned, With God in Red China.

ROBERT VOGELER, International Telephone and Telegraph Company vice-president who was arrested by the Hungarian Communist Government and imprisoned in Budapest for 527 days, visited and held a press conference in El Paso the afternoon of March 25, 1952. That evening he spoke at the Community-Legion banquet on his experiences and present beliefs, outlined from his book, I Was a Prisoner of Stalin.

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