New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-30
DEATH OF AN EDITOR.


CHICAGO, September 24-The people of
Chicago were severely shocked and deeply
grieved this morning by the announcement
Of the death of DIR. Charles H. Ray, editor
in-chief Of the Chicago Erening Post. His
death was quite unexpected, even to his
associates in that office. His disease was
brain fever, q severe attack Of which he had
Just recovered from after an illness lasting
for months.
DR.. Ray was q native of Norwich, Che
mango county, New York, having been born
in March, 1921. At the age Of twenty-five
he became graduate Of medicine, and
went directly to Muscatine, Iowa, where he
practiced his art for few years, whence he
moved to Mackinaw, Tazewell county, Hi
nois, and thence, after few years practice,
to Galena, in the same State.
While at Galena he became editor Of the
Je6ersos,iam. The Democrat of that city
having broken with the party on the Kan
sas-Nebraska issue, he severed his cOnnec
ton with that paper, and after serving one
session as secretary of the Illinois Senate,
he came to Chicago in the spring Of 1855,
and, in connection with Mr.. Joseph Medill,
purchased q controlling interest in that pa
per. He continued this connection until the
fall of 1867, when he retired, to pursue other
avOcatiOns.
About three years ago he formed con-
nection with the Ereniag Post, and became
its edit0r-in- chief.
Mr.. Ray was attacked with brain fever
last January, and after months of suffering
so far recovered as to be considered able to
resume his duties in the Office Of the Post.
After weeks moderate labor, on Tuesday
evening last he was was again FRUSTRATED
with the same disease, which terminated his
life in three days. He leaves a wife and six
children. DR.. Ray was one of abe best
thinkers and most powerful writer's con-
nected with the press of this country.
The Erening Post of to-day pays the fol
lowing just tribute to his memory:
THE office of the Erening Post is dressed
in black to-day, and that is the poor symbol
of an event which, sooner or later, is the
common lot of all. But the eyes of its in
mates are suffused with tears, and their
hearts are mufled with sorrow. These be
our tongues to-day. For poor, vain words
we have neither heart nor brain.
To those whose only knowledge of our
beloved chief came through the medium of
common report, the announcement of his
death will prove shock; but to his dear,
dear friends, to his every day associates, to
those who, knowing him thoroughly and
well, and loving him as deeply as they es-
teemed him highly, the sorrowful story
strikes clear home.
There was that about the man which took
the senses captive. To the most casual OBJ
server he stood confessed in mind no less
than in frame very giant. Yet, his heart,
which few, perhaps, got near enough to
know, was as gentle and as tender as a wo-
mans, and as open to appeal. A giant
could not drive, but a little child could lead
him. 4
While therefore the characteristics of
the man were Of the most positive charac j
ter, his very rOughness endeared him, for
his anger was not swifter than his soften
ing, nor his reproOf more sudden than his
forgiving, and so it was that his associates
had learned to cherish their chief as their
best of friends
AS such, they have missed him from his
accustomed place for the months that have
attended the malady to which he has at last
succumbed, and as such they will tenderly
cherish his memory, now that he has gone
forever from them, and this in such manner
as to himself would have been most CRATE
full. by perpetuating in this paper the advo-
cacy of principles which he loved SO well,
and by striving to realize in its conduct tho |
high ideal which was born of his love for all |
that was good and pure and high in man.