Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-12-23
HON. LEWIS Il. LINN.

death of his late colleague, DIR. Linn. His ad-
dress made deep impression, and was exceed
ingly appropriate and interesting. Mr.. Benton
said;
Mr.. Presdent:-I rise to make the Senate
the formal communication Of an event which
has occurred during the recess, and has been
heard by all with the deepest regret. My COL
league and friend, the late Senator Linn, depar-
ted this life on Tuesday, the Sd day of October
last, at the carly age of forty years, and without
the warnings or the sufferings which usually
precede our departure from this world. He
laid him down to sleep, aud awoke no more. 1t
was to him the sleep of death and the only
drop of consolation in this sudden and calami-
tous visitation was, that it took place in his own
house, and that his unconscious remains were
Immediately surrounded by his family and
friends, and received all the care and aid which
love and skill could give.
discharge a mournfnl duty, Mr.. President
in bringing this deplorable event to the formal
notice of the Senate in offering the feeble tri-
butte of my applause to the many virtues ofmy
rv the last honors which the respect and ailec.
ton OF the Senate bestow upon the name Of a
deceased brother.
Lewis Field Linn, the subject of the annun-
citation, was born in the State Of Kentucky, in
the year l795, in the immediate vicinity of Lou
isville. His grandfather was Colonel William
Linn, one Of the favorite officers of General
George Rodgers Clark, and well known fer his
courage and enterprise in the early settlement
of the Great West. At the age Of eleven he
fought in the ranks of men, in the defence Of a
station in Western Pennsylvania, and was
seen TO deliver deliberate and effective fire.
He was one of the first to navigate the Ohio
and Mississippi from Pittsburg to New Orleans,
and back again--a daring achievement, which
himself and some others accomplised for the
public service, and amidst every species OF
danger, in the year l716. lie was killed by
the Indians at an early PERIOD leaving family
of young children, of whom the worthy Colonel
William Pope Gather Of Governor Pope, and
head ofthe numerous and respectable family o.
that name in the Vest became the guardian
The father OF Senator Linn was among these
children, and at an early aye, skating upon the
ice near Louisville, with three other boys, he
was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians
carried of, and detained captive for three years
when all four made their escape and returned
hundred miles of wilderness, and swimming tht
OHIO river. The mother of Senator Linn wa
n Pennsylvania by birth her maiden nam,
Hunter: born at Carlisle; and also had heroic
preserves the recollection of her courage anC
conduct at Fort jefferson, at the Iron Banks, il
l1Sl, when the Indians attacked and were re
pulsed frcm that post. Women and boys wer
men in those days. The father of Senator Lin
died young, leaving this son but eleven year
of age. The cares of an elder brother suppie
Gas far as such loss could be supplied) the los
of father and under his auspices the cducG
tion of the orphan was conducted. He was r
tended for the medical profession, and receive
his education, scholastic and professional, in til
State of his nativity. At an early age he wa
qualified for the practice of medicine, and con
menced it in the then Territory, now State
Missouri and was Immediately amongst tn
formost of his profession. lntuitive sagact
supplied in him the place of long experience
and boundless bencvolence conciliated univc,
sal esteem. To all his patients he was t.
same flying with alacrty to every call, altent
ing upon the poor and humble as Aealousy
on the rich and powerful, on The stranger
readily as on the neigabor, discharging to a
the duties of nurse and friend, as well as
physician, and wholly regardless of his own il
tcrest, or even of his own health, in his ze
to serve All to save others.
The highest professional honors and rewar,
were before him, Though commencing on
Europe or America in which he would no, ha,
attained the front rank in physic or surger
But his fellow citizens perceived in his varit
abilities capacity and aptitude for service in
different walk. He was called into the po
teal field by an election to the Senate OF
adopted State Thence he was called to 4
performance of judicial duties, by Federal a
continent to investigate land titles. Then
he was called to the high station OF Sena'
in the Congress of the United States first
an executive appointment. then by three 81
cessive almost unanimous elections. The Il
Of those elections he received but one yt