Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-03-08
DEATH OF COL. J. d. b. DEBOw.

The friends and admirers of Col DeBow
IA this city and throughout the country, will
receive the announcement of hii death with
profound regret 1t occurred at Elizabeth,
New Jersey, yesterday 27th,. Some ten
days or two weeks ago bs was summoned to
attend his brother, wtJ was dangerously i'll /;
but has preceded him to the tomb. Yester-
day morning telegram was received by his
family requesting his wife to come to him
without delay and before night they receiv-
eG the startling announcement that he had
expired. The nature of the disease was not
stated, but from the fact that he was in
usual good health when he left home few
days ago, 1t is presumed to have been pneu-
monia, resulting from exposure during the
journey TO the bedside Of his brother. He
was twice married-the last time in this
city and leaves a grief-stricken wife and sew
eral children. :. ,ra "a. sr..r ..
MIR. DeBow was born in Charleston S. c.,
July 10th, 1929. Seven years of his youth
were spent in mercantile house in that city
He then entered college at Charleston, grad
uated in lS43--studied law and was admit
ted to the bar in l844--and tue same year
became editor Of the Southern Quarterly Re-
vfetc. In the latter part of 1s45, he remov-
ed to New Orleans and in January, 1916,
commenced the publication of DeBows Re
cfew. His vast powers as a statistician, and
his splendid abilities as Journalist attracted
general attention throughout the country,
and while he continued the publication OF
the Reriew without intermission, he was
called to and discharged the duties of seve-
raj important public stations. In lS48 he
was made Professor of Political economy
and commercial statistics in the University
OF Louisiana, which position he held for three
years. In 1853 he was appointed Superin-
tendent of the United States census. He
completed the work connected with the cen
sus of 1858 in 1885,, He, during this pc
riod, published statistical View of the
United States" and also the "Industricl Re-
sources of the Southwest" in three large vol
umes He continued also all the while To
edit his Reuiew, antil January 1862, when il
was suspended by reason of the war-only
two numbers being published thereafter al
Irregular periods, until January 1866, when
it was resumed and continues to the present.
During the war he was charged by the Con-
federacy with the purchase, shipment and
storage of cotton, which that power held .in
such quantities at the period of its extinction
No man ever took deeper interest in the
advancement of the material and intellect.
ual resources of the South. He was mem.
Der of every Southern Commercial Conven-
ton from the first in 1916, and presided in
that at Knoxville in 1857. He was con.
stantly employed in some enterprise tending
to promote Southern interests and develop
ments, and was never idle. The course O
the Rerie,c, since the war changed the char
acter of our industrial system, has been di
rectly to the restoration of our prosperity on
the new basis, and to stimulate and encour
age that energy and perseverance that will
surely restore the losses of the past.
Some months ago he was selected as the
President of the Tennessee Pacific railroad
and has been actively working to secure il
success. The first section, from this place Il
Knoxville, was, in his estimation, but thu
beginning. He looked to its continuanc,
and completion to the Pacific, and the full
realization of what its name implies. A mar
OF large intellect he grasped the most mag
ni6cent. plans and enterprises, and grea
and accurate as he was as statistician, h.
was still greater as the comprehensive advo
cate of the broadest material and intellect
ual progress of his country and people.
As friend he was genial and kind, an'
among his associates his life Nid manner
were as simple, unaffected and guileless as
child Having made this city his home 70
eight or ten years, he had drawn arount
him large circle of personal friends .t
whom his death will seem as great privat
calamity, as it is unquestionably publ
loss.-- Nashville Union d Dispatch 2sh'