Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-28
DEATH OF COL. j. D.B. DEBOw.

The friends ana admirers OF COl. De
Bow in this city aud throughout the
country, will receive the announcement
Of his death with profound regret 1t
occurred at Elizabeth New Jersey, yes
terdav, 9th Some ten days or two
weeks ago he was summoned b attend
his brother, who was dangerously IN but
has preceded him to the tomb .lester-
day morning q telegram was recei ed by
his family requesting his wife to come to
him without delay and before night
they received the startling announcement
thatlle 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 a few days ago it is
presumed to have been pneumonia, re-.
sulting from exposure during the journey
to the bedside Of his brother lie was
twice married-the last time in this city
and leaves a grieEstricken wife and sew
eral children
Mr. DeBow was born in Charleston, :
C., July 10th, 1920. Seven years Of his
youth were spent in a mercantile house
in that city. He then entered college at
Charleston, graduated in lS43-studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1874
and the same year became editor of
the Southern Quarterly ReoietC. In the
latter part Of lS45, he removed to New
Orleans, and in January, lS46, commenced
the publication of DeBoac's ReCieU. His
vast powers as statistician, and his
splendid abilities as journalist attracted
general attention throughout the country,
and while he continued the publication
of the ReUielo without intermissisn, he
was called to and discharged the duties
Of several important public stations. In
1913 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 Superintendent Of the United
States census He completed the work
connected with the census Of lSj0in 1855
He, during this period, published "Sta
tistical View of the United States, and
also the Industrial Resources of the
Southwest in three large volumes. He
continued also all the while to edit his
ReUieIc, until January 1869, when it was
suspended by reason Of the war-only
two numbers being published thereafter
at irregular periods, until January 1866,
when it was resumed and continues to
the present During the war he was
charged by the Confederacy with the
purchase, shipment aud 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 in
tellectual resources of the South. He
was member of every Southern Com
mercial Convention from the first in lS45,
and presided in that at Knoxville in 1851
He was constantly employed in some en-
terprise tending to promote Southern m
terests and developments, and was never
idle The course OF the ReUielo, since
the war changed the character of our in
dustrial system, has been directly to the
restoration Of our prosperity on the new
basis, and to stimulate and encourage
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 its success. The first section,
from this place to Knoxville, was, in his
estimation, 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 large
intellect he grasped the most magnificent
plans and enterprises, and great and ac-
curate as he was as a statistician, he was
still greater as the comprehensive adyo-
cate Of the broadcast material and intellec.
tual progress Of his country and people
As a friend he was genial and kind,
and among his associates his life and
manners were as simple, unaffected and
guileless as child Having made this
city his home for eight or ten years, he
had drawn around him large circle of
personal friends, to whom his death will
seem as great private calamity, as it is
unquestionably a public loss.