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As Adam Sutler in the Natalie Portman film V for Vendetta, Hurt brought this tyrant to life.

The Sutler Saloon opened in 1976 and became a prominent watering hole for Nashville's music business community as well as famous, and infamous, players.

In a later bit of casting that nodded to his "1984" performance, Mr. Hurt portrayed the venomous High Chancellor Sutler, the leader of a fictional fascist political party called Norsefire, in "V For Vendetta," a 2005 movie based on a graphic novel in which England has become a totalitarian state.

Sutler tokens are similar to store cards. Rather than listing the name of a private business, however, these tokens bore the name of a particular army unit (usually a regiment) and the name of the sutler who conducted transactions with the regiment. Of the three types of Civil War tokens, sutler tokens are by far the rarest.

Intent on securing the leadership for himself, Creedy makes a deal with V to assassinate Sutler. Creedy and his men kidnap Sutler from his bunker and bring him to V in the London Underground. There, Creedy shoots his hated boss in the head at point-blank range. As in the graphic novel, Sutler lives in an underground bunker in self- imposed exile and leaves the day-to-day operation of his empire to his lieutenants.

Sutler is described as "a young and upcoming politician" and "a member of the Conservative party". At one point he served in the government as Under-Secretary for Defence during the "Saint Mary's crisis." Sutler and his cronies use a bioweapon to create a viral epidemic that kills 80,000 people, and blame the attack on terrorists. Sutler crosses the floor to Norsefire and is elected High Chancellor by promising to restore law and order to the country.

Once in power, Sutler turns England into a fascist dictatorship; he outlaws political dissent, and has his political enemies and anyone who does not fit his Aryan ideal arrested and put in extermination camps. When Sutler watches himself lampooned in a farce on a talk show, he is enraged and orders the show's host, Gordon Dietrich, arrested in the dead of night. Dietrich is later executed. Sutler blames Creedy for the failure to stop V and threatens to fire him.

In the film adaptation, the character is named Adam Sutler - a portmanteau of "Susan" and "Hitler" \- portrayed by John Hurt. His title is "High Chancellor". The Fate super-computer subplot is not featured in the film version. Here Sutler is described as "a deeply religious man" with a single-minded desire for absolute power.

Salame di felino - Naso&Gola; As cantine it was used to refer to the shop of a sutler, an army camp follower.

Thomas Sutler Williams (February 14, 1872 – April 5, 1940) was a United States Representative from Illinois and a Judge of the Court of Claims.

Planned activities for a typical skirmish weekend include children's programs, dances, cook-outs, and trips to "Sutler Row," where vendors display and sell Civil War firearms, accoutrements, and clothing.

Sultana married fellow sutler Enayetullah Khan. The couple has a daughter, Arshi, born in 2013. She completed her masters from Eden Mohila College in finance and banking earning first class.

Michael Reynolds had moved to Nashville after graduating high school, and was working at a McDonald's restaurant when he befriended Chad Jeffers. This led to the formation of Pinmonkey, and all four began performing at the Sutler, a club in Nashville. The four musicians derived their band name Pinmonkey from "And Maggie Makes Three", an episode of the cartoon The Simpsons. Record executive Joe Galante heard the band perform at the Sutler, and signed them to BNA Records in 2002.

When it took two years to even reach Fort Lisa (near present-day Council Bluffs, Iowa), Congress cut its funding.Delo, Peddlers and Post Traders, p. 39 O'Fallon continued as an army sutler in the Council Bluffs area.

A typical transaction with a sutler is dramatized in the third chapter of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955). Sutlers, frequently the only local suppliers of non-military goods, often developed monopolies on commodities like tobacco, coffee, or sugar and rose to powerful stature. Since government- issued coinage was scarce during the Civil War, sutlers often conducted transactions using a particular type of Civil War token known as a sutler token. Sutlers played a major role in the recreation of army men between 1865 and 1890.

Ruth and Rose, twins who died in 1872, and Frederick, who died in 1876. Vandiver, v. 1, p. 6 When the Civil War began, his father supported the Union and was a sutler for the 18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry.

Thompson claimed to have been the first person to use fingerprints for identification in 1882, when he had his thumb print on a message that said "August 8, 1882-Mr. Jonas Sutler will pay Lying Bob Seventy Five Dollar".

Boss of the Indian Ring, Secretary of War, William W. Belknap Brady-Handy photo In July 1875, Delano was rumored to know that Orvil Grant, the president's brother, had received Indian trading posts, that were a corrupt source of lucrative kickbacks, from the sutler, at the expense of the Indians and soldiers. The higher the sale price on goods, that the Indians and soldiers would pay, the higher the profits. Even the sale of rifles to hostile Indian tribes was allowed, to make more money. The profits were split, and sent to the other sutler partners.

He was survived by his wife, Stephanie, and their three children, a three-year-old son, Christopher, and twin one-year-old daughters, Heidi and Karin. Injured in the bombing were Paul Quin, David Schuster, and Norbert Sutler. Schuster, a South African graduate student, who became deaf in one ear and with only partial hearing in the other ear, was the most seriously injured of the three, suffering a broken shoulder, fractured ribs and a broken eardrum; he was buried in the rubble for three hours before being rescued by firefighters. Quin, a postdoctoral physics researcher, and Sutler, a university security officer, suffered cuts from shattered glass and bruises.

Adam James Susan is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the comic book series (later graphic novel) V for Vendetta, created by writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd. He is renamed Adam Sutler in the film adaptation, in which he is portrayed by John Hurt.

O'Fallon was one of only four captains it chose to retain. However, on 31 July 1818, he resigned his commission, returned to St. Louis, and secured a post as sutler to the Yellowstone Expedition.Delo, Peddlers and Post Traders, pp. 36-37 The sluggish expedition never reached its destination.

Construction began in 1887 and was finished in 1889. The building has three floors and a loft and basement. The basement housed the sutler, while the first floor was used for offices and study rooms. The second and third floors and the loft were mainly reserved to house the soldiers.

During the American Civil War, Condit was a captain with the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. Events he participated in include the Siege of Vicksburg. Condit's brother, Ambrose, accompanied the regiment as a sutler. During this time, Ambrose's health began to fail, forcing him to leave.

New regulations in 1870 limited the number of traders to one approved sutler per military post, and Larpenteur applied to the secretary of war, William W. Belknap for approval. This was, however, refused, and Larpenteur returned with his family to Iowa, where he died in 1872.McBee 2012, pp. 133-136, 158.

Tom Jeffords embarked on a series of ventures as sutler and postmaster at Fort Huachuca, head of the first Tucson water company trying to bring artesian water to that city, and as prospector and mine owner and developer. He died at Owl Head Buttes in the Tortolita Mountains 35 miles north of Tucson.

In 1861 the Dodds moved to Little Rock to be closer to Senhora, who attended school in the city and lived with her aunt, Mrs. Susan A. Dodd. David Dodd went to classes at St. John's Masonic College. His father left the family to serve as sutler with the 3d Arkansas Cavalry Regiment.

Satterlee Clark (May 22, 1816 - September 20, 1881) was an American politician. Born in Washington, D.C., he went to Utica Academy. In 1828, he moved to Green Bay, Michigan Territory and then to Fort Howard where he was a sutler. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1849, as a Democrat from Marquette County.

On June 8, 1864 an additional law was passed that forbade all private coinage.Yeoman, R.S., A Guide Book of United States Coins (2004 edition), Whitman Publishing, 2003. Civil War tokens are divided into three types—store cards, patriotic tokens, and sutler tokens. All three types were utilized as currency, and are differentiated by their designs.

Marie, Michigan, and a sutler at Fort Brady named John Hulbert. By 1827 he had established a permanent residence in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He served in a variety of official posts in Michilimackinac County in the 1820s, and served as a witness to treaties the United States signed in 1826 and 1836 with the Chippewa and Ottawa nations.

Altogether, about 70 Minnesota citizens volunteered. About 10 of them were women and others were related to soldiers. Company B membership rose from about 65 to over 200. Some notables include Sutler B.H. Randall, Ordnance Sergeant John Jones, Dr. Alfred Muller, and Major E.A.C. Hatch, an experienced cavalry man who would one day lead Hatch's Battalion, Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry.

It was named for Colonel Hiero T. Wilson. He was a successful Indian trader who had been the first white settler of Fort Scott, Kansas and had served as postmaster and sutler at the fort. He could speak Cherokee, Creek, and Osage and the Osage called him "Big White Chief". He was a delegate to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention.

Sutlers' stores outside of military posts were usually also open to non-military travelers and offered gambling, drinking, and prostitution. In modern use, sutler often describes businesses that provide period uniforms and supplies to reenactors, especially to American Civil War reenactors. These businesses often play the part of historical sutlers while selling modern-day goods at reenactments.

Chicago doctors who inspected the prison in 1863 called Camp Douglas an "extermination camp." It quickly became the largest Confederate burial ground outside of the South. The Army ordered sutler stores at prison camps shut down on December 1, 1863, in retaliation for reported Confederate mistreatment of Union prisoners. The store at Camp Douglas was closed on December 12.

George Blake Cosby (January 19, 1830 - June 29, 1909), was a Confederate States Army Brigadier General during the American Civil War. He was an 1852 graduate of the United States Military Academy and served in the United States Army until May 10, 1861. In his antebellum years, he was a farmer in California, a sutler in Oregon and held several government positions.

He acted as a "sutler", or supplier, for the army's Fort Armstrong. Fort Armstrong was located on the northwestern tip of Arsenal Island with the purpose of monitoring fur trade traffic in the area and keeping the peace between local Native American tribes. He contributed to the organization and mapping out of the community, now known as the Quad Cities.Svendsen, p.

Norsefire used the fear and chaos to elevate Sutler to the office of High Chancellor, win an overwhelming majority in Parliament, and profit off the cure for the virus. Finch discovers that Rookwood was V in disguise. Though he initially disbelieves the story, his faith in the Norsefire government is shaken. As November 5 nears, V distributes thousands of Guy Fawkes masks.

Denis witnessed the 1815 Iowa Treaty and received licenses to trade on the upper Missouri River in 1816 and 1817. During this time he remained connected to the Chouteau and Robidoux families of Saint Louis. An entry dated December 26, 1825 in James Kennerly's journal at Fort Atkinson suggests that Julien shot and wounded another man. Kennerly was the fort's civilian sutler.

In this regiment, she received a soldier's pay with an additional twenty-five cents for each day spent working at the hospital. She became the "daughter of the regiment." She worked alongside the 114th Pennsylvania as a sutler as well as cooking, and washing and mending clothing. After a particularly deadly Battle of Chancellorsville, Tepe began working with a field hospital.

Frost, originally from Missouri, had come out to Oregon with a pioneer rifle regiment.Bancroft, History of Oregon 1848-1888, at 255-56 He had been a sutler in this regiment, and his brother was quartermaster. When the American Civil War began, he returned to Missouri, where he served with the rebel militia. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri after the war.

Lloyd Sutler, the Murray River Performing Group's resident writer, wrote the script. Performed inside an octagon made of three-inch agricultural piping on a big yellow mat, the show involved a mixture of naturalism, Brecht and satire. In the same year Heap, written by Mark Shirrefs was performed by Mark, Boris Conley, Mort for the upper three grades of Primary School.

In 1860 Miller moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he submitted articles to local newspapers. During that period Miller decided to leave medicine to pursue other ventures. Miller helped recruit the First Nebraska Regiment prior to the Civil War and served as sutler at Fort Kearny until 1864. That year he returned to Omaha and ran for territorial delegate to Congress and was defeated.

Robinson became a sutler to the American troops during the war. He traveled with the soldiers to Detroit, Mackinac Island, and Green Bay, all centers of the fur trade, where he had the opportunity to study the business first hand. In 1820, the American Fur Company chose Robinson to be their central fur trader in west Michigan when Madeline La Framboise retired to Mackinac Island.Johnson, 129.

Once she was well enough, Cavanagh, now back to being called Mrs Welsh, was formally discharged from the Scots Greys. As part of her discharge, the officers of the Scots Greys paid for a new wardrobe for Mrs Welsh. Some sources have reported that she fought openly as a woman; however, this is unlikely. She was, apparently, carried on strength as a wife and a sutler.

Also located along Boulder Highway was a replica of Las Vegas' Old Mormon Fort. The $3.5 million fort housed several attractions, including a sutler store and a blacksmith area. The fort also included the Hondo Cantina, featuring a first-floor saloon and steakhouse, and a 225-seat banquet room on the second floor. Also within the fort was the Hondo Casino, and a historical museum.

De Garmo Jones was born in 1787 in Albany, New York; the first name of his father is unknown but his mother was Rachel De Garmo, daughter of a prominent Albany family. He served as a sutler during the War of 1812, during which time he passed through Detroit. In March, 1818, Jones married Catherine Annin. The couple immediately moved to Detroit, arriving in 1819.

On February 2, 1860, Ward married Mary Frances McCarty, the widowed daughter of Col. John Harris of Westport, Kansas City. McCarty refused to live in Fort Laramie and Ward eventually moved with her to Nebraska City, Nebraska in 1863. In 1871, when his time as official sutler expired, he moved to Kansas City where he bought the farm of a trading friend William Bent.

Benjamin Hoyt Randall (November 25, 1823 - October 1, 1913) was an American politician and businessman. Born in Greensboro, Vermont, Randall moved to Chicago, Illinois and then to Springfield, Illinois where he worked as a hotel clerk and then owned a barge boat. He then taught school in Missouri. In 1849, Randall moved to Minnesota Territory and settled in Fort Snelling where he was a sutler/clerk.

Guerrier sent his son back East to St. Louis University while he and Ward continued their trading business with settlers. Ward and Guerrier got the exclusive sutler contract for Fort Laramie in 1851. In 1852 they moved to a few miles to Register Cliff. Their practice of trading goods for the worn oxen of settlers is sometimes said to make them the first ranchers in Wyoming.

Sewers were not authorized until June 1863 for the camp, and took time to be completed. Initially the prisoners received enough to eat, with cooking stoves and utensils to aid in preparation, and clothing. A good sutler store was set up. The Union Army sent three tons of corn meal and large quantities of blankets, clothing, shoes and eating utensils to the camp on March 1, 1862.

Although still willing to resort to violence and brutality to accomplish his goals, V also displays a certain compassion, killing the former camp doctor with a painless poison as a way of accepting her sincere apologies for her role in Norsefire's crimes, as opposed to the brutal assaults he carries out on other former Larkhill staff. V is also shown sobbing out of guilt for what he put Evey through, and admits before his death that he fell in love with her. In place of Finch, Norsefire official Peter Creedy and his men confront V at the end of the film, bringing High Chancellor Adam Sutler (Adam Susan in the graphic novel) as V has demanded. Creedy executes Sutler, but V refuses Creedy's command to take off his mask and surrender: through a hail of gunfire, V stays on his feet long enough to kill Creedy and his men.

After the Civil War, Cosby moved to Butte County, California where he was a farmer. For a period of time, he also was a sutler in Oregon. He held several government positions, including Secretary of the Board of State Engineers and member of the West Point Board of Visitors. General Cosby committed suicide on June 29, 1909 at Oakland, California, allegedly due to continuing pain from his old war wounds.

Col. John M. Francisco, the sutler at Fort Garland, and his business partner, Henry Daigre, purchased 48,000 acres of land in Cuchara Valley in 1862. The land was part of the Vigil land grant. They established a settlement for farmers and ranchers, with Francisco Fort as the commercial center. The 100-foot-square building was constructed with 2-foot thick adobe walls, interior rooms, that opened up to a central plaza.

Robinson, pp. 168, 169. However, in Punch's 30 May edition, she was heavily criticised for a letter she sent begging her favorite magazine, which she claimed to have often read to her British Crimean War patients, to assist her in gaining donations. After quoting her letter in full the magazine provides a satiric cartoon of the activity she describes, captioned "Our Own Vivandière," describing Seacole as a female sutler.

The Land of Goshen in Egypt, mentioned in the 45th chapter of the Genesis in the Bible, has been suggested as the most likely. And, John Hunton, who was ranching in the area by the 1870s, was told by Seth Ward, the post sutler at Fort Laramie, that the area was named for the Biblical land. The name of Goshen Hole first appeared on a map years later, in 1888.

In 2027, the world is in turmoil, with the United States fractured as a result of a second civil war and a pandemic of the "St. Mary's Virus" ravaging Europe. The United Kingdom is ruled as a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist police state by the Norsefire Party, helmed by all-powerful High Chancellor Adam Sutler. Political opponents, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, atheists, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" are imprisoned and executed.

On the eve of November 5, Evey visits V, who shows her a train filled with ANFO explosives in the abandoned London Underground, set to destroy Parliament. He leaves it to Evey to decide whether to use it. V meets Creedy, with whom he made a deal to surrender in exchange for Sutler's execution. After Creedy executes Sutler, V reneges on his deal, killing Creedy and his men.

Dédée Bazile was born near Cap-Français to enslaved parents and made a living serving as a sutler to the army of Dessalines. There are varying accounts of her madness but according to legend, Dédée Bazile either developed mental illness after she was raped by her master at age 18, or after some of her family members were killed in the defeat of Dessalines’s army by General Donatien Rochambeau.

John S. Evans, the experienced sutler already at Fort Sill, appointed on October 10, 1870, did not want to give up his lucrative trader post to Marsh.Trial of William W. Belknap, p. 555 An illicit financial arrangement, approved by Belknap, was made where Evans would keep the tradership and gave Marsh quarterly payments amounting to $12,000 per year. Marsh then split this profit in half; giving $6,000 per year to Sec.

During the middle to late 1970s, Jon Butcher toured the Northeast U.S. with the Boston-based band Johanna Wild. The band generated a large following during its tenure. Their early success was due to promotional practices such as self-promotion, self marketing and self-management. The most successful Johanna Wild lineup was: Jeff Linscott (guitar), Derek Blevins (drums), Troy Douglas Sutler III [bass], and Jon Butcher [guitar and vocals].

General Lewis H. Little was killed at Iuka. On 18 September 1862, Armstrong's cavalry galloped into Iuka, Mississippi followed immediately by the 3rd Louisiana Infantry. The town had been hastily abandoned by its Federal garrison and many supplies left behind. The Louisiana soldiers quickly broke into the sutler stores and helped themselves to a variety of food, which was much better than their usual diet of beef and hoecake.

Patrick F. McManus then went on the gold strike in Yreka, California, served as a sutler during the Modoc War and was killed in the Yreka area while driving a team and hauling mail. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, through the research of Barbara Bateman. It was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934, done during the Works Progress Administration. With .

Akers spent the next two-and-a-half years working as a sutler at Fort Verde. In January 1885, he returned to prospecting and spent two years working in the area of Tip Top, Arizona Territory. Unsuccessful this time, he took a job with the Maricopa and Phoenix and Salt River Valley Railroad when his funds ran out. Returning to Prescott in early 1888, he took a job as a bookkeeper for a local merchant.

DuBay was born on 10 July 1810 in Green Bay, Illinois Territory, the son of a French trader and a Menominee Indian.Wisconsin Dictionary of History, op cit. At the age of 15, he started working for the sutler at Fort Detroit, and shortly thereafter began working for the American Fur Company in Saginaw. He eventually struck out on his own, and became so successful that the Company bought him out so as to eliminate competition.

In addition to hay and grain, Bean operated a ranch near Fort Verde and a sutler store. He was known to import items from St. Louis, Missouri to avoid the higher prices charged in San Francisco, California. Mining became Bean's primary business interest. After visiting a mine for the first time in January 1869, Bean began to acquire mining claims and was shipping thousands of pounds of silver ore to San Francisco by 1870.

While at Fort Snelling, Randall served in the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives 1851 and 1852 to 1853. In 1862, Randall moved to Fort Ridgely and served as a sutler until 1867 when the fort was abandoned. Randall then moved to St. Peter, Minnesota where he owned a boot and shoe manufacturing company. He served as mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota and then served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1883 to 1884.

In the Civil War, Hyer worked as a sutler, selling wares including food from the back of a wagon or tent, and traveling with the Union Army as it went from field to field. He contacted rheumatism during the winter of 1862 while sutlering at Hooker's camp, and returned to Washington disabled. His condition may have been exacerbated by his boxing injuries and the wounds he received from James Turner in 1855.

Samuel Scottron moved with his family to New York City when he was a child, where he completed grammar school. During the American Civil War, he was the sutler for the 3rd United States Colored Infantry and almost went bankrupt. To recoup his fortunes, he first operated grocery stores in Fernandina and Jacksonville, Florida, and then a barber shop in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was there that he developed and patented his first invention, the adjustable window cornice.

Whitney engaged in a series of trade expeditions, sometimes by himself but usually while employing hired hands as voyageurs, freight haulers and clerks. In these expeditions, Whitney explored the Fox to its source, and the Wisconsin from Point Basse to Prairie du Chien. He established trading posts on the upper Mississippi to the west and Sault Saint Marie to the north beyond Mackinaw. In 1821-22 he was the sutler at Fort Snelling (modern day Minneapolis).

Gorse, Harry Bartell as the slightly green Lt. Seiberts and Jack Moyles as Major Daggett. Heard on a more irregular basis were Howard McNear as Pliny the fort sutler, Sam Edwards as Trooper Harrison, and in a variety of roles, such actors as John Dehner, John McIntire, Virginia Gregg, James Nusser, Parley Baer and Barney Phillips. Amerigo Marino supplied the music. The scripts were mostly written by John Meston, Kathleen Hite, Les Crutchfield and John Dunkel.

News reached Captain John S. Marsh at Fort Ridgely (then spelled "Ridgley") that the Lower Sioux Agency had been attacked on August 18, 1862. Marsh went to the Lower Sioux Agency with 47 enlisted men and Interpreter Peter Quinn. The remaining inhabitants of the agency were Second Lieutenant Thomas P. Gere, Post Sutler Ben H. Randall, Ordnance Sergeant John Jones, two sergeants, three corporals, and about 32 privates. Marsh sent Private James C. McLean to Fort Ripley for reinforcements.

Finch meets William Rookwood, who tells him about the program. Fourteen years earlier, Sutler, Secretary of Defence at the time, launched a secret project at Larkhill which resulted in the creation of the St. Mary's virus. Creedy, the current leader of the Norsefire Party, suggested releasing the virus onto the UK. Targeting St. Mary's School, a tube station and a water treatment plant, the virus killed more than 100,000 people. The outbreak was blamed on a terrorist organisation.

The mission began in Woodbury, Tennessee, on June 10, 1863, where Morgan had a picket camp. At the start of the mission, Hines only told his men that their mission would be "long and dangerous" and allowed any man who did not wish to go to step out; none did. From there, they traveled through Brownsville, Kentucky, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky. At Brownsville, they stole clothing from a Union sutler, consisting of shirts, trousers, and boots of Union uniforms.

Seacole, Chapter XVI. In a dispatch written on 14 September 1855, William Howard Russell, special correspondent of The Times, wrote that she was a "warm and successful physician, who doctors and cures all manner of men with extraordinary success. She is always in attendance near the battlefield to aid the wounded and has earned many a poor fellow's blessing." Russell also wrote that she "redeemed the name of sutler", and another that she was "both a Miss Nightingale and a [chef]".

The Jacobite prisoners were kept in the gunpowder magazines and 45 died from typhus before they were sent on to London for trial. The living conditions at the fort were poor. It was surrounded by marshes, with a poor road network, and the garrison had to survive on collected rainwater. A trader called a sutler built a house inside the southern entrance, growing vegetables within the south-west bastion and enjoying an effective monopoly on selling food to the soldiers.

Belknap arranged an illicit tradership partnership between himself, two of his wives, Caleb P. Marsh, and sutler John S. Evans at the Fort Sill tradership. This was done to support Belknap's and his two wives lavish entertainment lifestyle in Washington D.C. Belknap's household would receive as much as $20,000 in illegal profiteering. The House investigated Belknap in March 1876, and found him guilty of five articles of impeachment. Before his House impeachment, Belknap hastily went to Grant and resigned office.

He also enlisted and served as a sutler in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Griggs was extremely influential in the decision to locate the Illinois Industrial University, which would later become the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He started with $40,000 appropriated by the Supervisors of Champaign and Urbana Townships and traveled throughout Illinois meeting with elected officials. In a period of five weeks, he had met with 40 Members of the Illinois House, 15 of which pledged their support.

The following year he started the Democratic Omaha Daily Herald. Miller was attacked by Republican Edward Rosewater of the Omaha Bee on September 6, 1876, as a "jack-of-all trades and a master of none. . . . a medicine man, a hotel builder, an army sutler, a cotton speculator, a railroad jobber, an eating-house keeper, journalist, and a politician. . . [and] a dishonest, unscrupulous, and unprincipled money-grabber." He was the editor of the Omaha Daily Herald for almost twenty-three years before selling the paper in 1887.

Colonel Staneley's expedition suffered 11 men killed, and 1 man wounded. Names of four of the killed: John Honsinger, 7th Cavalry senior veterinarian surgeon; Augustus Baliran, 7th Cavalry sutler; Private John Ball, 7th Cavalry; Private John H. Tuttle, Company E, 7th Cavalry; One of the wounded; First Lieutenant Charles Braden, 7th Cavalry.Brown, Mark H., Plainsmen of the Yellowstone, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York 1961, p. 206 Native American casualties while fighting the Expedition were estimated to number 5 killed, with numerous other warriors and horses wounded.

The judges of the Court of Claims would then serve as a board of review for the commissioners. In 1932, Congress reduced the salary of the judges of the Court of Claims as part of the Legislative Appropriation Act of 1932. Thomas Sutler Williams was one of the judges of the Court, and he sued the federal government by claiming that his salary could not be cut because the Constitution had specified that judicial salaries could not be reduced. The Supreme Court ruled on Williams v.

Soloman Jacob Spielberg was the oldest of a family of ten children and the first to leave Germany. He arrived in Santa Fe via an ox train along the Santa Fe Trail. He worked there for E. Leitendorfer and company, or Houghton & Leidensdorfer Co. of St. Louis, until joining the Doniphan campaign to Chihuahua, for whom he may have acted as sutler. During the campaign, he used his savings and credit to outfit his goods and transportation, allowing him an opportunity to engage in southern trade.

Henry Stanton Burton was born on May 9, 1819 at West Point, New York, where his father was employed as a sutler. Appointed from Vermont, Burton graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1839 and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd U.S. Artillery Regiment. From 1839 to 1842, he served in the Florida Indian War and on November 11, 1839 was promoted 1st Lieutenant. From 1843 to 1846 he was assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics at West Point.

Interior, Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida – Sam Cooley, 1864 Samuel Abbot Cooley (1821–1900), from Connecticut, surfaced in the Beaufort area before the war as a photographer. He stayed in the occupied area as a sutler and photographer for X Corps, employing his large format, drop-shutter and twin lens stereo cameras. By 1863 Cooley had a photographic studio above his store located next door to the Arsenal. He sold his photographic business in May 1864 with the intent of returning to the North.

Henry Kittson, son of Norman Wolfred, published in: C. W. Rife, Norman W. Kittson, a fur-trader at Pembina, Minnesota Hist. (St Paul, Minn.), 6 (1925) : 225–252. By Michel RobertLes Canadiens-français du Michigan, by Jean Lamarre, Septentrion, Sillery, Québec, 2000, "Norman W. Kittson – 15 to 20 years old" Census, 1830 Michigan Territory:Michilimackinac County Kittson served at various posts in what became Minnesota Territory in the United States. Kittson left the American Fur Company in 1833 to become a clerk to the sutler at Fort Snelling.

Manuel Antonio Chaves of the New Mexico Volunteer Militia took command of a garrison of three companies numbering 8 officers and 206 men at Fort Fauntleroy. Chaves was later accused of being frugal in dispensing his post's supplies to the 1,000 or more Navajos that had remained close to the fort and was maintaining remarkably lax discipline. Horse races began on September 10 and continued into the late afternoon of September 13. Col. Chaves permitted Post Sutler A. W. Kavanaugh to supply liquor freely to the Navajos.

Map showing land annexations and Richfield's original borders as a town in 1854 and present day borders as a city In the 1820s, some small settlements developed around Fort Snelling. By the late 1830s, the fortress served as a destination for newcomers—lumbermen, missionaries, farmers, traders and travelers—migrating to the borderlands people were now calling "Minisota."William Watts Folwell, A History of Minnesota 1:455-57,(St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society). 1921 reprint 1956 Minnesotan Franklin Steele first reached the area in 1837 where he worked as a sutler, selling goods to soldiers.

Old Fort Owen near Stevensville, Montana By 1850, hostility to the Catholic missionaries led to the closure of the original St. Mary's mission. (Another church, also called St. Mary's Mission, was constructed in 1866 about to the south. This structure still stands, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.) John Owen, a civilian sutler at Fort Hall in what is now southeastern Idaho, moved to the Bitterroot Valley and purchased the site of St. Mary's Mission for $250 ($ in dollars). This was the first recorded land transaction in Montana.

Davenport in 1865, facing north from Rock Island First bridge over the Mississippi River at Davenport Colonel Davenport arrived in 1816 with the establishment of Fort Armstrong. He acted as a "sutler", or supplier, for the United States Army garrisoned at Fort Armstrong. Fort Armstrong was located on the northwestern tip of Arsenal Island with the purpose of monitoring fur trade traffic in the area and keeping the peace between local Native American tribes. He contributed to the organization and mapping out of the community, now known as the Quad Cities.

Merrill was born in Utica, New York, in 1804, and moved with his family to Sackett's Harbor in 1819. In 1834 he was appointed sutler and postmaster of Fort Winnebago, in the Wisconsin Territory, and served as a superintendent of the Bank of Wisconsin, which was established in 1835. He arrived in Wisconsin at Green Bay in the spring of 1834. There he met and became acquainted with several notable early Wisconsin settlers, including future territorial governor James Duane Doty, future congressional delegate Morgan Lewis Martin, entrepreneur Daniel Whitney, and pioneer Ebenezer Childs.

Rosario Ortiz (born 10 October 1827; year of death unknown), also known by the nickname La Monche, was a Chilean political activist who supported the Revolution of 1859, led by General José María de la Cruz against President Manuel Montt. She recruited soldiers for this cause and enlisted as a vivandera (sutler) in the Army of the South, fighting in the Battle of Loncomilla. In the Revolution of 1859 she returned to take up arms against Montt as part of the revolutionary troops of Alemparte. She eventually reached the rank of captain.

106–107 Col. Custer was rumored to have anonymously aided the New York Herald in their investigation into Indian Traderpost rings, particularly a March 31 New York Herald article, titled "Belknap's Anachonda". Custer testified to Clymer's committee that sutlers (military post traders) gave a percentage of their profits to Sec. Belknap. Custer had initially become suspicious in 1875 as his men at Fort Lincoln were paying high prices for supplies, and then found out the sutler at the fort was only being paid $2,000 out of the tradership's $15,000 in profits.

These merchants often followed the armies during the French and Indian War, American Revolution, and the American Civil War to sell their merchandise to soldiers. Generally, the sutlers built their stores within the limits of an army post or just off the defense line, and needed to receive a license from the Commander prior to construction. They were, by extension, also subject to his regulations. They frequently operated near the front lines and their work could be dangerous; at least one sutler was killed by a stray bullet during the Civil War.

They also took over the television companies, creating NTV (Norsefire Television), and implemented the technologies that would allow for a closely monitored society, including closed-circuit television. In the novel the British monarchy continues under Queen Zara. No direct reference is made to the monarchy in the film, though "God Save the King" is played during a television comedy sketch to greet an actor playing Chancellor Sutler. By the time the story of the graphic novel has begun, Norsefire has shut down the concentration camps and is essentially in complete control of society.

Alfred Cumming (September 4, 1802 – October 9, 1873) was appointed governor of the Utah Territory in 1858 replacing Brigham Young following the Utah War, when President James Buchanan wanted a non-Mormon governor. He was born in Augusta, Georgia. Cumming also served as mayor of Augusta, Georgia, sutler to Zachary Taylor during the Mexican War and at Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, and superintendent of the Upper Missouri Indian Superintendency Cumming was a Democrat and was appointed by President Buchanan. He served as governor until 1861 and returned to Washington, D.C. His wife Elizabeth died in 1867.

In about 1829 Sanford's father moved his family to Fort McHenry, Maryland, to take up the post of an army sutler. As a consequence, 4 of Sanford's sisters met and married military men: Charlotte married General James Barnes, Henrietta married Major John B. Clark, Mary married Colonel Henry Bainbridge and Irene married army surgeon Dr John Emerson. The 5th sister, Virginia, who was the youngest, married stove manufacturer Samuel H. Ransom of Albany. Sanford’s brother, naval captain Joseph P. Sanford, married Ransom's sister Lydia, and between tours of service, worked for stove manufacturer Rathbone in Albany.

During the Mexican–American War in 1845, he was engaged by a sutler to be an interpreter for the United States Army. When the troops were dispatched to Santa Fe, Ceran St. Vrain dispatched Abreu in advance to buy up the goods of competing sutlers for St. Vrain so it could enjoy a monopoly with the United States. Abreu worked in a store for St. Vrain in Santa Fe, and worked as an interpreter for the United States and in the winter of 1848–49 delivered the U.S. mail between Santa Fe and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (a process which took 40 days).

By 1863, enlisted men and junior officers (mostly lieutenants and captains) of the prison population were living in the wooden barracks on the northwest side of the island. These two classes of prisoners were separated by a tall fence complete with a catwalk for the guards. In 1864, the War Department ordered the rations to be cut in retaliation for the treatment of Northern soldiers in southern POW camps. Although prisoners were only receiving two small meals, they were allowed to purchase extra food from the sutler, and allowed to fish in the waterways on the island and in the Delaware River.

In 1954 the fort fell out of use as a military post. Several documents reference an "old magazine entrance" in the location of "Casemate #11", and the number 11 comes from a map legend, dated 1954 and associated with "old magazine entrance", but the only evidence extant appeared as nothing more than the cap of a chimney. Fort Mifflin closed, ranking among the oldest forts in continuous use in the country. G.E. Brumbaugh renovated the interior of the sutler storehouse in 1960; in the 1980s Harold Finigan, then executive director of the fort, renovated its exterior.

12–13 Encamped at Roach's Mills, Virginia, the 68th participated in the defense of Washington, losing three men in their first combat, a minor skirmish with a Confederate patrol. In November, the Army was reorganized; the 68th was shifted to Colonel Adolph von Steinwehr's brigade and Blenker moved up to command the division. They encamped at Hunter's Chapel, Virginia, for the remainder of the winter. There, Betge was brought before a court-martial, accused of "conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman": confiscating two horses and other property from "loyal" Virginia citizens, and taking a bribe to hire the 68th's regimental sutler.

He left Chicago in 1860 and arrived in Denver, Colorado, August 1, 1860, seeking to make a fortune in the gold mines near Pikes Peak. He moved with his brother-in-law Barney L. Ford, and the area they settled was named "Ford Hill" in 1964 (before that time it was referred to by a racial slur).Junger 2008, p156 In the fall of 1861 the American Civil War (1861–1865) was underway and he returned to Chicago and took work as an assistant to a sutler for the Union Army. He secured a commission to recruit for the 29th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry.

Map illustrating Mary Seacole's involvement in the Crimean War Seacole often went out to the troops as a sutler, selling her provisions near the British camp at Kadikoi, and nursing casualties brought out from the trenches around Sevastopol or from the Tchernaya valley. She was widely known to the British Army as "Mother Seacole". Apart from serving officers at the British Hotel, Seacole also provided catering for spectators at the battles, and spent time on Cathcart's Hill, some north of the British Hotel, as an observer. On one occasion, attending wounded troops under fire, she dislocated her right thumb, an injury which never healed entirely.

In an effort to be self-sufficient, the soldiers of the fort built roads, planted crops, and built a grist mill and a sawmill at Saint Anthony Falls. Later, Franklin Steele came to Fort Snelling as the post sutler (the operator of the general store), and established interests in lumbering and other activities. When the Ojibwe signed a treaty ceding lands in 1837, Steele staked a claim to land on the east side of the Mississippi River adjacent to Saint Anthony Falls. In 1848, he built a sawmill at the falls, and the community of Saint Anthony sprung up around the east side of the falls.

The trader post scandal, or Indian Ring, that took place during Reconstruction, involved Secretary of War William W. Belknap and his wives, who received kickback payments derived from a Fort Sill tradership contract between Caleb P. Marsh and sutler John S. Evans. In 1870, Belknap lobbied Congress, and on July 15 of that year was granted the sole power to appoint and license sutlers with ownership rights to highly lucrative "traderships" at U.S. military forts on the Western frontier.Koster (2010), p. 59Forty First Congress, Statutes At Large, pp. 319-320 The power to appoint traderships by the Commanding General of the Army, at that time William T. Sherman, was repealed.

Franklin Griswold's house at 163 Nicollet Street The original bridge across the Mississippi Nicollet Island and the rest of the area of the falls were opened to settlement in 1838. Several settlers tried to obtain the best land near the falls, of whom Fort Snelling's sutler, Franklin Steele, took the best part of the east bank including Nicollet Island. He purchased the land for $1.25 per acre, which comes to about $60 for the island. After Steele obtained proper title to his land in 1848, he turned his energies to building a sawmill at Saint Anthony Falls to cut lumber from upriver, which began operations in September 1848.

John Rogers, an Army sutler and land speculator, bought up former government-owned lands at this site and promoted growth of the new civilian town of Fort Smith. Due to the strategic location of this site, the federal government re-established a military presence at Fort Smith during the 1830s era of Indian Removal, primarily of tribes from the American Southeast to west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma. In 1838 the Army moved back into the old military post near Belle Point, and expanded the base. They used troops to escort Choctaw and Cherokee, from their ancestral homelands in the Southeast; they were the last of the tribes to leave.

St. Clair was sent up the Ohio River on 23 October 1862 to assess rebel inhabitants of Caseyville, Kentucky, for robbery of the transport, Hazel Dell, and to close the ferries and curtail cross-river communications. She was ordered to effect reprisals against those persons known to shelter and supply guerrillas by confiscating goods and destroying property as a lesson to others. Failing to receive an indemnity of 35,000 dollars from the townspeople, St. Clair's crew arrested those who could not prove loyalty and held them on board to turn them over to the Union Army. Among those arrested were an official named William Pemberton and a notorious sutler, J. M. Scantlin, who dealt in gunpowder with the Confederates.

The Patrick F. McManus House (also known as the Hiram Colver House) was built sometime between 1853 and 1855 by sutler and prospector Patrick F. McManus. McManus was one of the first of a group of white men in 1853 to reach what is now called Crater Lake as part of the Hillman group of prospectors. It sits on the Corner of 1st and Church Streets in Phoenix, Oregon and was built on the corner of one of the first donation land claims in the area belonging to Samuel Colver. McManus sold the home back to the Colver family in about 1857 for the use of the widow and children of Samuels deceased brother Hiram.

During one of these sorties Robert Redhead, a sutler, had captured two very important Spanish prisoners: Cosimo d'Alexandrini and Pedro de Lugo a Commissary of the artillery. They had been captured not far from the North Fort by an English scouting party, Redhead was looking for items to sell to the troops inside when he stumbled across the Spanish officers checking the strength of the walls.Regan p 207 The North Fort was a strong fortress which secured the entrance to Bergen op Zoom from the Scheldt on the north-east side. The two Spanish stayed as guests at the Lieutenant of the garrison's house belonging to William Grimstone and large bribes were offered to allow the Spanish into the North Gate.

Harriet Rochlin, Fred Rochlin, Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West (2000) Following the war, he was appointed as sutler for the United States Army at Fort Marcy. Levi arrived in New Mexico in 1848, when Spigelberg Brothers was founded, followed by Elias (1850), Emmanuel (1853), Lehman (1857), and the youngest, Willi (1861).Malcolm Ebright, Advocates for the Oppressed: Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, and Their Land in New Mexico (2014) By 1852 Solomon Jacob was doing well enough to advance the territorial legislature four thousand dollars to pay its members salaries, until repaid within the following year.Henry J. Tobias, A History of the Jews in New Mexico (1990) In addition to managing Spiegelberg Brothers, the brothers established themselves as traders with the Native Americans.

Company H then left the fort on 12 April 1859 "to take post" at Fort Stockton along Comanche Springs. Fort Lancaster was abandoned by the U.S. Army on March 19, 1861, after Texas seceded from the Union. U.S. troops and their dependants (a few families, including enlisted men's wives serving as laundresses) and the contract sutler were allowed by Texas State Troops to leave the fort with their arms, equipment, horses, draft animals, wagons, and personal belongings; they went to San Antonio, boarded trains for the Texas coast, and sailed away on U.S. ships. After declaration of war the fort was garrisoned by Company F, Second Regiment of the Texas Mounted Rifles, recently taken into the Confederate States Army, from December 1861 through April 1862.

Simultaneously with the emergence of the McDonagh fife, a maker named Ed Ferrary assumed the mantle of the now-defunct Cloos company, producing traditional 6-hole cylindrical fifes. For those who continue to play traditional fifes, the Ferrary became the fife of choice. After Mr. Ferrary's death, his tooling and equipment were purchased for Ed Bednarz of Warehouse Point, Connecticut, who markets his fifes through outside sellers, including fellow Lancraft fifer Ed Boyle of Philadelphia and the well-known Ancient sutler, Leo Brennan of Madison, Connecticut. Bednarz brands his fifes with the name "Model F". In October 2000, another Connecticut maker established "Peeler Fifes" in Moodus, Connecticut, producing a Ferrarry-style instrument as well as several other, more historically-oriented models copied from original early instruments.

The will was discovered in 1866 and Louis P Guinard stated that he was advised by Major Bullock, sutler at Ft. Laramie, that the will left him as sole owner of the property and that he should remain and hold possession of it. The U.S. troops occupied Guinard's buildings for three years during the Civil War. Louis P. Guinard stated that one of the officers promised him $1000 for use of the said buildings but he never received any payment. The bridge was later destroyed by Indians when the troops left in 1865, and with hundreds of Indians appearing on the opposite bank of the river, Guinard felt he had no choice but to leave for the protection of himself and his family.

On January 8, 1964, an 80-man detachment from the 36th Iowa and similar detachments from all of the Union regiments encamped near the arsenal formed on the parade ground to witness the execution of 17-year-old David Dodd, a Confederate spy. Dodd had attended nearby St. John College—a private secondary academy—but dropped out after a few months andrelocated with his parents to Texas when the Union Army occupied Little Rock. He became a telegraph clerk and learned Morse Code and next joined his father who was a civilian sutler for a Confederate regiment stationed in Mississippi. Returning to Camden Arkansas, Dodd intended to return to Little Rock, ostensibly to visit former classmates and an older sister still enrolled there.

Starting off a grocer, Ira Howard became rich as a sutler wholesaler during the American War of the Secession but died of old age at 48 or 49 years old. The trustees of his will carried out his wishes to prolong human life by financially encouraging those with long-lived grandparents to marry each other and have children. By the 22nd century, the "Howard families" have a life expectancy exceeding 150 years and keep their existence secret with the "Masquerade" in which the members fake their deaths and obtain new identities. The Masquerade helped the Families survive the dictatorship of Nehemiah Scudder, but as an experiment, some Howard members reveal themselves to The Covenant, hoping that the free society established after Scudder's defeat will be friendly.

Nye then sailed to California, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot, and arriving in San Francisco shortly after the Fire of 1851 which had destroyed much of the city. He worked in the re- building of the city for several years, helping to construct some of San Francisco's first brick buildings. 1894 advertisement for Nye's oils In 1855, Nye returned to New Bedford and set up an oil and kerosene business which he operated until the outbreak of the American Civil War when he joined the Union Army as a sutler to the Massachusetts Artillery and the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry. He was with the advance guard of the cavalry when it entered Richmond, Virginia in 1865 and set up a trading post there in one of the city's remaining brick buildings.

The community was originally known as Beaver Creek as ranchers and farmers settled along the banks of the creek named for the prolific numbers of beavers found there. Wales Arnold, the first settler along Beaver Creek, came to Beaver Creek in 1870 and lived at what became known as The Montezuma Well Ranch. Arnold, who came to Arizona as a member of the California Column during the Civil War ultimately became the sutler or civilian merchant of the firm Arnold and Bowers at Camp Lincoln following his discharge from the Army at Fort Whipple August 29, 1864. His partner in this enterprise was George Bowers who was killed by Indians near the head of Copper Canyon while en route to Prescott alongside a young soldier named Robert Nix.

The first trading license at Fort Defiance was issued to Lehman after the Navajos were moved to the reservation in the summer 1868. Willi was the first trader at Fort Wingate, also in the summer of 1868, and later became sutler to the Navajo Indian Agency. Floyd S. Fierman wrote that the Spiegelbergs revolutionized the retail business and its territory, attracting many Spanish-Americans from the villages into the towns, where they could buy either for cash or on credit without feeling cheated, or losing their land if they fell behind in their payments.Floyd S. Fierman, The Spiegelbergs: Pioneer Merchants and Bankers in the Southwest (1967) Willi's wife, Flora, recalled that all five brothers joined the Masonic order, and that in the early fifties, Solomon was among its first members.

Hurt at the London premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011 In the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), he played Mr Ollivander, the wand-maker. He returned for the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though his scenes in that film were cut. He also returned for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. In the 2006 film V for Vendetta, he played the role of Adam Sutler, leader of the Norsefire fascist dictatorship and in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) he appeared as Harold Oxley. He voiced the Great Dragon Kilgharrah, who aids the young warlock Merlin as he protects the future King Arthur, in the BBC television series Merlin (also 2008).

The Belknaps could not afford to pay for the damages, and were faced with leaving Washington society and reducing expenses by living in a boarding house, or finding a way to enhance their income. They decided to look for additional income, and Carita engineered a plan to obtain a lucrative "cash cow" Indian tradership position at the recently built Fort Sill, located in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Carita lobbied her husband to appoint a New York contractor, Caleb P. Marsh, to the Fort Sill tradership; John S. Evans, an experienced sutler, had already been appointed and did not want to give it up.McFeely (1981), p. 58 To settle the question, Marsh drew up an illicit partnership contract which allowed Evans to keep the tradership at Fort Sill, provided that he pay Marsh $12,000 per year in quarterly installments (approximately $236,000 in 2018).

The McKenney Building in Edmonton, 1913 Faced with ill health, McKenney then moved to Minnesota, where he was a sutler during the 1869 Red River Rebellion. He would soon move back to Canada, in 1870 moving to Fort Garry and Portage la Prairie before settling at Westbourne, Manitoba, where he once again engaged in the fur trade, in his uncle's business, Henry McKenney & Company, and later in his father Augustus' business. Three years later he would move back to Fort Garry, which was now named Winnipeg; there he would work in a relative's hardware store for two years. On an 1875 trip to the Rocky Mountains on a coal expedition for the Centennial Exposition with a local geologist on which he was serving as an interpreter, McKenney would gain employment with the Hudson's Bay Company as a clerk.

The article observes, "It will be evident, from the foregoing, that Mother Seacole has sunk much lower in the world, and is also in danger of rising much higher in it, than is consistent with the honour of the British army, and the generosity of the British public." While urging the public to donate, the commentary's tone can be read as ironic: "Who would give a guinea to see a mimic-sutler woman, and a foreigner, frisk and amble about on the stage, when he might bestow the money on a genuine English one, reduced to a two-pair back, and in imminent danger of being obliged to climb into an attic?""Our Own Vivandière." Punch. 30 May 1857, pg. 221. Mary Seacole, depicted as an admirer of Punch along with her British Crimean War patients in "Our Own Vivandière" (Punch, 30 May 1857).

His brother – who the family thought was dead – immigrated to the United States in 1849 but soon moved to Chicago, as did two of his sisters: Sarah Spiegel married Michael Greenebaum, the owner of a chain of hardware stores in Chicago; and Theresa Spiegel married Henry Liebenstein, a successful Chicago furniture merchant, in 1865. Joseph Spiegel worked as an apprentice in several retail stores in New York until 1862, and in 1863 he enlisted in the 120th Ohio Volunteers. He served in General Ulysses S. Grant’s army in Louisiana where he acted as sutler to his brother's regiment, witnessed his brother’s death in battle, and was later captured and sent to the prisoner of war camp at Fort Camp, Texas, where he remained until May 1865. He returned to Chicago where he entered the furniture business with his brother-in-law, opening a small furniture shop on Wabash Avenue named J. Spiegel and Company which sold Liebenstein furniture.

The novel concerns the adventures of Leon of Atrax, a Thessalian cavalry commander who has been tasked by Alexander the Great to bring an elephant captured from the Indian ruler Porus, to Athens as a present for Alexander's old tutor, Aristotle. Leading a motley crew that includes an Indian elephantarch to care for the creature, a Persian warrior, a Syrian sutler and a Greek philosopher, Leon sets out to cross the whole of the ancient known world from the Indus River to Athens. The journey is long and adventurous, involving frequent skirmishes with bandits, unruly noblemen, Macedonian commanders with ideas of their own about who is in charge, and a runaway Persian noblewoman. It doesn't help that the goal of the whole enterprise is essentially a malicious prank concocted by Alexander on his former teacher: he gives Aristotle the elephant but no funds for its upkeep, while sending the funds (but no elephant) to the savant's arch-rival Xenocrates.

Packages of butter thus wrapped were called prints (for example, pound prints weighed one pound each). The conceptual distinction of print butter, as opposed to any other type of butter, merited a separate name up until the mid-20th century, as before that time many people got their dairy products (milk, butter, cheese), eggs, and produce in ways that did not involve much branding or packaging—for example, either produced at home (in the case of family farms, which were formerly widespread), directly from a farmer that produced them (via either a regular delivery route or at the town market), or from any of various resellers who bought from farmers and resold (for example, grocer, huckster, or sutler). Unlike today when even bulk foods at a supermarket are usually labeled to show who produced them, in the past, the pickles or peanuts bought from a barrel at the general store, or the produce bought from a huckster's cart, were usually not labeled, let alone branded. Thus the idea of prepackaged units with branded labels was worthy of a differentiating name, somewhat similar to how "name-brand merchandise" is still differentiable from "generic merchandise" or "bulk commodities" today.