Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-09-09
" PRESENTED
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PUBLIC
CHARACTER,
4lh July, lS47."
The service of plate is nearly ready for the Presen
tatiun, which was 10 have taken place in very few
days 1t will of course pass into the possession
of his family. As testimonial to his merits, says
the Eve Post it is the spontaneous tribute Of men,
who had no interested designs to promote by what
they have DONE The contributors are not politicians
of that class who looking for Offices would even
accept them if offered They admired and revered
the man. and wished to give him token of their SIM
and unbOught respect both for his public and his
private virtues.
Gov. WRIGHT, says the Albany Atlas, was only
- years Of age. He was born in the town of Am
herst, Massachusetts, the 24,h day of May, 1875.
The subsequent year bis father and family removed to
Vermont. In 1915 he was graduated at Middlebury
College, in that State, and in the fall of that year
moved to this State, 10 the study of law at
Sandy Hill In the fall of 1923 he elected to the
State Senate, from ST. Lawrence county. In 1896 he
was elected TO Congress. In 1929 he was chosen
State Comptroller, to which Office he was in 1882, re-
elected by the Legislature. In 1888 he was chosen
u States Senator, to which office he reelected
again reelected, and in 1914 was called from the
Senate TO take the post of Governor, which he en-
tered on tie LIST of January, 1916, and from which he
retired on the LIST Of January, lo47.
The Republican and Sentinel of Ogdensburg. gives
few particulars of the calamity which struck down
one of the noblest men in the country. On Friday
morning he called at the post Office, (Which is also the
medical Office of DR.. Darius Clark, his family physi
cian,) and seating himself perusing his papers,
when he was seized with pain in the chest, of
which he complained, and said that it was extending
through his limbs and that they powerless. His
physician was called n and after receiving some aid,
he remained an hour OF thereabouts when DR.. Clark
accompanied him to his house. He took to bed and
the Doctor got him into gentle perSpraton and left
few minutes after which he departed this life from
apOplexy. The intelligence of the departure of this
great and good from the of earthly hopes
and ambition, was communicated before night on Fri
day, throughout the line of telegraphc communica-
tomas far west Columbus Ohio, and east 10
Boston, and south to Richmond, Va. The shock that
paralyzed that noble heart and closed forever the
working of that calm, strong brain, spread through
the fame of the country and was impaired. almost
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No better idea can be gwen of the pursuits and
character of Sas Wright than is furnished by the
following narrative of an officer of the army, who
had visited him at his own home and Preside:
81 had occasion to visit Canton in October and
soon as | arrived inquired for the residence Of Mr.
Wright. | directed to small neat cottage,
whittier made my way; and on approaching it
saw a man, with his coat off, wheeling wheelbarrow
along one of the walks of very fine garden which
was attached to the house. As came near, discOv-
cred that the laborer was my friend Wright He
received me with great cordially; said his garden
was cultivated mainly by his own hands, and that he
putting away his winter vegetables, and prepar-
ing to depart for Washington towards the last of the
coming month. He further Said with the greatest
apparent satisfaction that he had recently purchased
a farm, and intended to extend his agricultural oPe-
ratlons He was asked how large the farm was that
he had purchased-to which lie said, trcenty acres!-
that either from natural inclination, the effect Of
early habit, he was much devoted TO the pure and
simple pursuits and pleasures Of the country"