Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-03-16
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Death Of the Postmaster.General.

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This distinguished official died at his
residence in Washington city on Tuesday
The 9Th inst, The Philadelphia Daily
Pennghu,ian announces the melancholy
event in the following language;
"A duty of no ordinary degree of sad
ness deyolyes upon us this moring--that
ofrecording the melancholy intelligence Of
he deceOse of the Hon. AARON V. BRowN,
late Postmaster-General. This mournful
event took place at his residence, in the
City Of Washington, yesterday morning
ut halfspast nine o'clock. Tho nation
mourns the loss of one of its most illus
rious men, one who has filled high posi-
ions of honor and trust with distinguish,
ed ability and success.
He was born in Brunswick county, in
The State of Virginia on the 10Th Of Au-
gust, 1895, and continued to reside in that
state until the year 1915. He was educa-
ted at the Chapel Hill University, in the
State of North Carolina, ard graduated at
that institution in 1914, when nineteen
years of age The following year his faith
cr and family emigrated to the State Of
tennessee, taking him with them. lie
devoted himself to the study Of law, and
when admitted to the bar, he formed a
partnership with the late JAMES x. Polk,
afterwards President of the United
States,) who then resided in Giles county.
He commenced his public career as a
member of the State Legislature, to which
e was repeatedly elected; and in 1889 he
vas elected a member of Congress-re-
lected in lS4l and lS43, serving for three
'uccessive terms, with great credit to him
self and to the perfect satisfaction of his
constituents.
On his retirement from Congress, in lS-
49, he was triumphantly elected Governor
f Tennessee. Upon the accession of Mr..
BUCHANAN to the Presidency, he accepted
the office of Postmaster-General, a situa-
lion which he has filled with eminent abil-
ity, making some vitally important chan-
res and improvements in that department
Of the Government, among which may be
mentioned the establishment ofa new and
shorter mail route to California, by way oi
Tehuantepec, the great overland route to
California from Memphis by way Of St.
Louis, and another land route by the way
of Salt Lake.
His great energy and untiring industry
his inflexibile integrity and exalted patri-
otism marked him as one of the most re-
markable men of the times. His death
will leave vacuum in the Councils Of the
Nation which it will be difficult to fill
His loss will not only be deeply felt by his
family and immediate circle of fondly de
voted friends, but by the Nation at large
Remarkable for his suavity Of manner
in all relations of life, he was evidently
beyond reproach. AS a sagGcious and far
seeing politician, he had no superiors and
but few equals. His devotion to the par
ty to which he belonged, and the best in
terests of his country, never knew luke
warmness or indifference; the energies o.
his useful life were devoted to their SER
vice. In all the high positions in which
he has been placed, he has been immovea
bic and unfaltering in his attachment tc
the Democratic party and to Democratic
principles. In his decease we mourn the
loss of one of the worthiest of men.
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