The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-18
OBITUARY.
Hon. Lewis Cass.

General Lewis Cass died at his residence in
Detroit, yesterday morning. This noted states
man was born at Exeter N. H., October O. 1892
The family emigrated to the West when Lewis
was seventeen years of age. He accompanied
his parents as far as Marietta, where he re-
mained and commenced the study OF law. In
1902 he was admitted to the bar, and settled at
GAINESVILLE, and by patient endeavor acquired a
practice. His first success in the political arena
he aohleved In 1906, as a member of the Ohio
Legislature. He at once gained distinction in
his endeayors to counteract the nefarous
schemes of Aaron Burr For this service he was
complmented by President Jefferson and had
also conferred upon him the office of United
States Marshal for Ohio. The war of 1912 caused
the young legislator to lay aside his books and
papers, and assume the sword. He was chosen
colonel of the Sd OHIO Regiment. At the head of
this regiment Cass first entered Michigan with
the army of General Hull. The troops were
marched into Canada. The proclamatioH issued
on that occasion was penned by Colonel Cass,
and for him, too, is claimed the honor of being
the first man VINO, in the war of 1912, stepped
in arms upon British soil. But misfortunes soon
betel the command OF Hull and on the 10th of
August, 1912, the campaign was ingloriously
ended by a surrender to the enemy. Colonel
Cass was exchanged in Janury, 1918, and COM
missloned Colonel in the regular army, and in
the month of March following he was promoted
to the rank OF Brigadler-G eneral. He Joined
The army OF General Harrison in July, took an
active share In the pursuit of Proctor, and
shared in the victory OF the Thames. He was
next placed in command OF Detroit, and soon
after appointed Governor of Michigan. He
then settled at Detroit and laid the foundation
of his large private fortune by the purchase of
large tracts OF land, then in an UDimproVed con-
dition. Michigan, az this period, mad no Terri
torial Legislature, and the business of selecting
laws 1or its government devolved on Governor
Cass and the Territorial judges. He was like
wise eX-officio superintendent of Indian Affairs,
and this for several years remained the most
important part of his duties. In 1917 he OBJ
tained, in conjunction with Governor Macarthur,
Of, 80
within the State of Ohio, with adjoining tracts
in Indiana and Michigan, to the extent of
100000 OF acres. This cession removed the
Indian barrier which had intervened between
the settlements Of OHIO and Michigan.
Ia 1920 he SET on foot and bore a conspicuous
part in an exploring expedition to the northern
shore OF Lake Superior and the Upper Missis.
sippi. In 1926, in conjunction with Governor
Clark, OF Mississippi, he attended a grand
council at Prairie du Chen, of the tribes of the
Northwest and endeavored to conciate the
Indians then engaged iu fierce wars among
themselves. In 1928 he made two treaties by
which many millions OF acres were ceded to the
United States He resigned the Office of Gov
ernor in 1881, having concluded nineteen trea-
ties with the Indians, by which had been ac.
CURED territory equal 10 One-tourth the area of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
In 1881 President jackson appointed the ex-
Governor OF Michigan his Secretary of War. In
1886 Secretary CasS laid down the war portfolio
and became the Minister to the Court of
France. During mis- residence abroad he
MADE extended tour visiting the
Nile and Jerusalem. The most remark able in
cident OF his diplomatic career was his attock
on the quintupie treaty for the suppression of
the slave trade. In 1915 he entered the National
Councils as SenaIOr from Michigan, and soon
made himself famous by the stand he took on
the Oregon boundary question: insisting upon
the then popular claim of 81 degrees 40 minutes
Or hight. In l84S he was nominated by the De-
mocratic party as their candidate for the Pres-
dency; he was defeated for that office by General
Taylor. On his nomination, General Cass re-
signed his seat in the Senate, but was reelected
in 1849 TO serve the two years yet remaining
of his original term. He was again elected for
term Of six years in 1851. In March, 1857, he
was appointed Secretary OF State by President
Bucbanan-the last public office held by the
distinguished deceased. In tie secession trou-
bles of 1861, during the vacillatng policy of Mr.
Buchanan, Secretary Cass resigned, and entered
on the retirement he had well earned.
Younger men took his place. and for the past
five years the venerable statesman has been re-
siding in peace, on his angle estates in MIchi-
gan A blographer of Cass remarks that his
most characteristic trait Twas an aversion to
everything that savored of British" He GER
tainly did much to build up the glorious repub-
lie with which his name and fame will be for
ever hOnOraOly as sOciated