Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-12-16

DEAru OF LOUIS A. AAcELor.-ltis is with
feelings Of ieepest regret that it becomes
our duty to announce the dea b Of our es
tsemed friend and fellow citizen, Louis
Antony de Aacklot de Coligni, Who d'ed
at the residence Of his mother in this city,
this morning. alter an illnesss OF fe"
days. of disease Of the heart, in tie forty
fourth year Of b . age. The deceased came
to this city with his parents IN the year
1889 since which time he has been pern'a-
nent resident. The first business in which
he Was engaged was that Of merchant,
and for few years conducted store on
the northwest corner Of Main and Second
streets. In 1853 he established himself In
the Banking businesses, and subsequently
took in IS y partner, Austin Corbin, Esq.
and continued in that business under the
firm name Of Macklot 4 Corbin, about sew
en- or eight years, after which he remained
In business alone until last spring when he
wound up his affairs aud opened an Office
on Main street. where he attended only to
matters connected with his own estate. AS
a banker he was successful. In all his
dealings with his fellow men, Mr.. Mscklot
has ever stood among the II ost scrupulous
'ly honest and upright. No man among al.
the thousands with whom b e has had busi-
ness relations can point to . single instance
where Louis A. Macklot even wrong
ed him out Of farthing. Truly
he Was an honest man-a man
of warm heart and generous impulses
man possessed Of reasoning and converse
tional powers Of the chest order-and
whose daily walk and conversation was al
dressed particularly and without DEVIATION
to his own afars-not to others. HIS loss
is one to be deeply regretted. Though ne
ranked high as gentleman Of foreign birth
and title, 20 modest and reserved was he in
his department towards his fellow men. not
one in thousand, except \ few Of his par
ticular family and intimate friends, knew
that he was by rank nobleman Of distinc
ton ~ Frenchman. In France the Mack
lot family ranked among the first nobility
holding social position and moving in those
higher circles into which = Kothsch,ld Aith
their tons Of gold and immense financial
power could never aope oenter.
The father Of the deceased, John Nicholas
de Macklot dc Coligni, Was French Count
by birth, and his son, Louis, succeeded in
in tint title and was SO acknowledged by
the French Government, in lS63-the year
in which he visited France His
father vas Colonel in the French
army, and at the time the Bourbon dynasty
was ove,thr,wn by Napoleon, Count Mack
lot de Coligni Was thrown into the Prison
de Navarro, and was condemned by the
First Consu! to be beheaded at the guillo-
tine. Two days previous to the time set tor
the execution of the sentence, the soldiers
Of his regiment assaulted the prison Castle
de Navarro and rescued their leader, who
escaped to England-was by the English
government furnished free passport to Ger.
many, and afterwards came to this country,
where hc married a daughter OF u French
refugee fam.y-the dtughtcr-now widow
MackIot-hsving a short time previously
escaped the horrld St. Domingo Massacre,
and reached Philadelphia. He then rcmov-
4 rrhara I An
thony was born in the year 1916. Subse-
quently they returned to this country-liv-
ing at several different points and finally
settled in this city in 1889, as previously
stated We believe that upon the re-ac-
cession Of Louis PHILIPPE to the throne Of
the Bourbons, Count John Mscklot de Col
ton OF his fortune that ne left behind when
he es, spcd to England. The history OF the
family Of the deceased is one Of most thrill
ing interest, and which, il written out,
would fill large and intensely interesting
volume In the death Of Louis, the Mack
,ot name becomes extinct--also the title as
CouUt uc COlioHt te Is Tue 'oSe We'e uS
scendant Of that noble French family that
at one timc-and for long period, stretch
ing down through four or five hundred
years Of the existence Of the French nation,
was . power III the land OF its birth-and
held . position second only to the royal
family itself.
This sudden bereavement falls heavily
upon an aged mother-whose only son has
thus been removed by the hand Of death !;
also upon the sisters and numerous rela-
tives and friends Of the deceased.