The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-10-09
DEATH OF Ex-PREsIDENT FRANK
LIN PIERCE.


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DEATH OF Ex-PREsIOENT FRANK
LIN PIERCE.
Tho following dispatch announcing tho
death Of ex.President Franklin Pierce, who
has been In III health for some time, was re-
cclvod In this city yesterday morning,
CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 90 ;. ID.
Hoovsr.-Ex-Preside Pierce died early this
(friday) morning. Funeral will probably
take place on Monday next. j. MIsor.
Franklin Pierce was born at Hlllsboro,
New Hampshire, on the Esd day Of Novem-
Der, 1904, and upon his election to the Pros
idency had Just reached his forty-eighth
year.
He entered Bowdoin college at Brunswick,
Maine, In 1920, and amongst his FELLOWSHIP
dents and associates were men who have
since made their mark high In the niche Of
fame. It will DO Sufficient to name Pro-
fessor Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the
plous Caldwell and the chivalrous Ciley.
whilo at college he was made the chairman
OF the Athenian society, and arst displayed
his inclinations for the pride, pomp and cir
cumstances Of glorious war as an officer Of
military company composed Of his fellow
colleglans.
After leaving college Franklin Pierce
became a student Of law In the Office Of
Judge Woodbury., of Portsmouth, and from
thence he went to the law school at North
ampton, In Massachusetts,, and finished his
preparatory studies In the office OF Judge
Parker, at Amherst. In the year 1927 he
was admitted to the bar, and began to prac-
tice in his native town. He was not very
successful in his earliest cases, but in proof
OF his lndomitablc will and self reliance is
recorded in the remark made by him to q
friend who wished to condolc with him on
the loss of a case, 81 will try nine hundred
and nlnety-ilne cases, and II I fail Just as
have to-day will try the thousandth." He
felt tho strength within him, and knew that
time would bring II out.
In 1899 he was elected representative oil
his native town to the Legislature of the
State, and served In that body four years,
the last two years as speaker, to which office
he was chosen by o vote greater than two
thirds.
He was elected to Congress in 1888, and
was a member of the Judiciary and other
Important committees.
He continued In the House OF Representa-
tlves four years, and In 1887 he was elected
to the Senate, and in June, 1912, he resigned
his scat and retired 70 the sweets of country
life, taking up again his profession to repair
by Its practice the inroads which the public
service had made upon his means.
In 1884 he married a daughter of the Rev.
DR.. Appleton, q former president of Bowdoir
college.
In 1888 he removed from Hllsboro tc
Concord, where he sedulously applied him
self TO the duties Of his profession, and
where he fulfilled the promise of his youth.
In 1915 he was offered by President Polk
the post of Attorney General of the United
States, which he modestly declined in con.
sideration of the interests Of his clients and
the health of Mrs. Pierce. He had previously
been rendered by the Governor of his State
the appointment of United States Senator,
which he declined for similar reasons.
In his letter to President Polk, declining
the Attorney Generalship, this passage oc
ours;
"when resigned my seat In the Senate, In
lsi2, ] did so with the hxed purpose never
again to be voluntarily separated from my
family for any considerable length of time, ex.
cept at the call OF my country in time OF
war;
And this contingency did soon present It,
self, for shortly after, in lsi7, when the
State of New Hampshire was called upon L
furnish its proportion of troops for the Mexi
can war, Mr.. Pierce enrolled himself mem
Der Of one of the first volunteer companle
Of Concord, and performed the duties O
private in the ranks; and on the passag,
of the bill for the increase of the army he
received the appointment Of colonel Of the
9th regiment, and In March OF the same
year was commissioned brigadier general In
the army. Until the close of hostillties
Gen. Pierce's history is part Of the history
of that war. He remained in Mexico until
December, when the war being concluded
and negotiations for peace nearly settled, he
returned to his loved home, and, resIgniug
his commission, applied himself to the prac-
tlce of the law.
In 1850, In pursuance OF vote Of the peo-
~ "o'
assembled Tor the review oil the constitution,
and Gen. Pierce was elected It's president by
a unanimous vote.
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