The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-04
O B L II u A r. " .
JOSEPH M. sAEDERsON.


In our death list this morning will be found
the name of this distinguished citizen H He died
III this city on the I'd inst, aged seventy-four
years
Mr.. Sanderson was born in Carlisle Pennsylva
MIA, in 1892, and, himself the son OF a Revolu-
tionaTy sire. volunteered in q company about to
join the army during the war OF 1872, which he
accidentally encountered while in search OF en-
ployment On the restoration of peace he occu-
pied himself in collecting materials for the great
national work entitled "The Biography OF the
Signers of the Declaration OF Independence"
which was published by himself and brother
the celebrated author John Sanderson-con-
Jointly.
He was subsequently employed as publisher
and printer OF the noted Altf0rG, in which he ad-
vocated very strongly the election of Andrew
Jackson to the Presidency. His next occupation
was that OF the proprietor OF the Merchants
Coffee House in Philadelphia, and editor and pub
Usher Of the Philadelphia Prices Current.
As the commerce and trade of the city in
creased, so did the wants and ambition OF Its
merchants and the humble cotfee-house was
merged in the splendid Exchange, which still
stands monument of his energy and enterprise.
Ousted from his position as superintendent OF
that institution during the stormy political con-
test between the stern Jackson and the mOneyed
leviathan of that day-the United States Bank
he became hotelkeeper, as which he was most
tayorably known all throughout the United
States, especially in the Western ones. To him
Philadelphia was indebted for the first hotel
ever erected, as such, in that cty-the Mer-
chants Hotel-which he subsequently relin-
quished for a more splendid establishment, also
new, in CDesnut street. In lS4S ne sold out his
interest and retired nom public life entirely, re-
moving shortly after 10 New York, where he
| has ever since resided. A man OF enlarged and
liberal views he has ever sought the public good
| before his own personal interest, and, although
| the undoubted originator and inventor OF
many useful Improvements, would never consent
| to tetter their dissemination by patent. Chief
| among them may be named the speaking tubes
| now in use ia almost every building, public and
| private, throughout the land, and a very noted
heater and cooking stove, greatly in vogue In
| philadelphia. While recognizing the speclaltes
| OF the various States, he always contended that
| the State OF his birth was, from its position,
| mineral wealth, and agricultural resources,
| really the keystone OF the arch. Pennsy lyania
| never had more devoted son. and to him is
she, in great measure, indebted for one OF her
! chief arteries Of trade, the Reading Railroad,
which he ever regarded as a favOrite child.
Coming in direct contact with the fathers OF
his country, few men were better posted in the
earlier history OF the republic and the compro-
misses OF the Constitution. His knowledge OF the
statistics OF the country was something amazing,
carrying, as he did, the figures relating to its
trade, commerce, and productive resources at
his finger ends. OF kind and gentle disposi'
ton, he was never 30 happy as when making
others so, and but few men could converse with
him without carrying away with them some
novel idea or useful intOrmation.--M. Y. Herald