Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-09

The Nashville Dispatch, of the 2Sth ult.,
contains biographical reference to Col. j.
ID. b. DeBow, whose death occurred at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the 9th OF Feb
rHaFy. Ten days previous he left Nash
Vile upon q summons to attend his brother,
who was dangerously i'll at Elizabeth On
the morning of the day of his death his
wife received a telegram requesting her to
come to him without delay. But before
evening the announcement came that he
Ehadexpired. tits ceBjectured that he died
of pneumonia, resulting from exposure
during his journey to the bedside of his
brother. 7z-r@8 .4-r.,.s. ff,-, .....
Mr.. DeBow was a native of Charleston,
S. c., and would have benn forty-seven
years old next July. In 1S45 he removed
to New Orleans, where, in 1916, he COM
menced the publication OF DeBow's Re-
view with which he was connected up to
the time of the war, resumiDg its publica-
tion with the return of peace. The Review
was edited with ability, and was authority
in matters of statistics, in which Col. De-
! Bow achieved high distinction. He was a
vigorous writer, displaying liberal culture
and varied learning in numerous articles
which commander attention throughout
the Union. In 1913 he became Professor of
Political Economy in the University of
Louisiana. In 1858 he was appointed Su-
| perintendent of the United States census,
completing the work of the census of 1850
I in 1866. During this period he published "a
statistical view of the United States" and
also the Industrial Resources OF the South, p"
in three large volumes. The Dispatch says
of him:
"No man. ever took deeper interest in
the advancement of the material and intel
lectual resources of tile South. He was a
member of every Southern Commercial
Convention from the first in 1S45, and pre-
sided in that at Knoxville in 1857. He was
constantly employed in some enterprise
tending to promote Southern interests and
developments, and was never idle. The
course OF the Review. since the war changed
the character of our industrial system, has
been directly to the restoration of our pros
perity on the new basis, and to stimulate
and encourage that energy and persever-
ance that will surely restore the losses OF
the past. 1ft4sF 1at s.s.-te..-L-
"Some months ago he was selected as the
President of the Tennessee Pacific rail-
road, and has been actively working to Sc
! cure its success. The first section, from
this place to Knoxville, was, in his estima-
tion, but the beginning. He looked to its
continuance and completion to the Pacific,
and the full realization of what its name
implies. "A man of flarge intellect, he grasped
the most magnificent plans and enterprises
and great and accurate as he was as a
statistieian, he was still greater as the COM
! prehensive advocate of the broadest ma
| terial and intellectual progress of his coun-
try and people.
GAS friend he was genial and kind, and
among his associates his life and manners
were as simple, unaffected and guileless as
a child. Having made this city his home
/ for eigIt or ten wears, he had drawn around
him large circle of personal friends, tc
whom his death will seem as great u private
!, calamity, az it is unquestionably public
loss"