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Forsythe, John Auld

soldier, journalist, meteorologist, was born July 10, 1834, in Zanesville, Ohio. He received a liberal education, and his early years were devoted to educational work and literature. His military service began with the march of the army of the invasion to Utah in 1857. He served as a union soldier during the civil war; and was promoted to lieutenant of artillery and aidede-camp. At the close of the war he entered journalism, and is now the editor and owner of The Democrat of Seymour, Ind. He is a practical meteorologist; the observer for the weather bureau at Seymour, Ind.; and is the inventor of a code of steam whistle signals for the more general dissemination of the weather forecast.