Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
NEUROLOGY OF 1860.
Rrfes Biographical Notices OF the
Distinguished Dead for the Past

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| United States, died Oct. 8, at Concord
New Hampshire. He was elected t
Congress in 1888, and in 1897 was che
sen United States Senator. He serve
with distinction in the Mexican war, an
! WIS promoted to a Brigadier General. Il
1852 he was. nominated by the Demo
cratic party for the Presidency, and wa
| elected. defeating Gen. Winfield Scott.
| No less than tiyeex- Governors of State
have ''put on immortality, their name
being Pickens, of South Carolina, WHIT
died Jan. %; Hubbard, of Maine, WHIT
died Feb. 6; Dalton, of Connecticut
who died April 26; Ritner, of Pennsyl
| yania. who died Oct. %, Pratt, o.
MARYLAND, who died Nov. 8, anC
Grape, twice Governor of Michigan, who
died July %. Pickens was a distin
guished member of Congress from 1884
to 1s47, was appointed Minister to Rus
STA in 1857, and elected Governor of South
Carolina in 1860. Ritner was elected as
the Anti Masonic Governor of Pennsyl'
yania in 1885, when the feeling against
the Free Masons of that State was intense.
John Minor Bolts died Jan. 8. Born
in Virginia, he was several times 8
member of her Legislature, and was mem
Der of Congress from 1889 TO 1843. He
was one of the few "irginians WHO re-
sisted secession. He was an ambitious
man, and was distinguished for having an
uneasy feeling for notoriety.
James Guthrie, who died March 10,
was one of the distinguished men of Ken
lucky. Commencing life as an humble
business man, he soon left his mercantile
pursuits and studied law. He was ap-
pointed Prosecuting Attorney for Nelson
county was a member of the Kentucky
Legislature for fifteen years; in 1858 was
appointed by President Pierce Secretary of
the Treasury, which Office he filled for
four years, and was United States Senator
from 1865 to 1868, when failing health
compelled him to resign. He was distin-
gGished for great versatility of talent, vast
mental powers, and practical business
qualifications.
John Bell, who died Sept 10, was
another distinguished statesman. Born in
Nashville in 1897, he practiCed law in
Williamson county, Tenn, was elected TO
Congress in 1927, and reelected consecu-
lively till 1871, during which time he was
elected Speaker. He was appointed Secre-
tary of War in l64l. In 1917 he was
elected United States Senator. In 1860,
he was run as a candidate for the Presi-
dency, in conjunction with Edward Ever
EFT for the Vice Presidency, but was de
feated.
Isaac Toucey, who died July 30, was
born in 1898. He was a member of
Congress from 1885 TO 1889, elected
United States Senator. in 1852, and ap
pointed Secretary of the Navy under
Buchanan from 1857 to 1861. He was
eminent for his abilities, and in debate
was the peer of Henry Clay and Douglas.
He was a stanch Democrat, and in conse-
quencc of the prominent position he held,
was viliGed and Sandered by the ultra
Radicals, but history will vindicate his
memory as a pure patriot, and his name
be handed down % posterity with stain
less reputation.
James Harper of the great publishing
firm of Harper Bros, died in New York,
March y. He commenced life as print
er, but by industry, he succeeded in ac-
standardization capital to commence
business. Hcwas distinguished for rare
business abilities, and had wonderful in
tuitive perception as TO what books would
meet with ready sale. His death was
caused by b4ying been thrown from his
carriage, ae was elected Mayor of New
York in 1914.
Henry J. Raymond, late editor of the
New York Times, died suddenly, June
Is, in the prime Of life, not having reached
his fiftieth year He taught school at
sixteen years of age, graduated at the
University of Vermont and became a
to the New York Tribune
when ii started. Iu 1919 he was elected
TO the State Senate of New York,
and the next year was appointed its
Speaker. In 1850 he started the New
York Times, and during his life re
manned its principal editor In 1856 he
was Lieutenant Governor of the State of
New York. In 1864 he was sent to
Congress from that State. He was fine
scholar, a man of independent thought
ard action, a powerful writer, and an
speaker.
John A. Roebling died July p, in New
York, from lockjaw. He was educated
at the Royal Polytechnic School, Berlin,
and became celebrated as the most emf
rent bridge engineer in the world. He
bIilt the Allegheny river aqueduct; the
bridge over the MOnongahela
at Pittsbmg; the Niagara suspension
bridge, with a span of S25 feet, and the
splendid bridge between Cincinnati and
Coviugton, which has a span of 1,0O5
feet At the time he met with his acct
lent he was making preparations for the
erection of a bridge between New York
md Brooklyn. As an engineer his name
IS impeTishable.
General John A. Rawlins died, Sept.
6, at Washington, only thirty-eight
years of age. He commenced life very
poor In his youth he was a farmers
abOrcr. lie devoted all his leisure to
and studied law. Admit
ed to the bar Of Illinois in 1855, he was
in practice. He raised a regi-
nGnt of volunteers shortly after the
breaking out of the war. He had been
intimate with Grant, at Galena,
Illinois, where they were both in business. /
He was soon appointed Adiutant General,
with rank of Captain, by Grant, who was
hen BrigadiCr General of Volunteers.
He remained with General Grant as Ad-
iutant General and Chief Of Staff through
out the war. He was made Lieutenant
Colonel in 1862, Brigadier General of
' volunteers in 1868, Brigadier General and
Chief of Staff inthe regular army in 1863,
and, upon the accession of Grant to the
Presidency, was made Secretary of War,
but his health failed him, and he was
unable to attend to the active prosecution
Of his duties.
William Pitt Fesscnden, one Of the
most distinguished of the Radical men,
bcrs of Congress, died Sept. s, aged sixty
two years. He was admitted to the bar
in 1927; was elected United States Soma
tor in 1854; reelected in 1859; was Secre-
,ary of the Treasury from July, 1864, to
March, 1860 He Te-entered the Senate
in 1865, and was one of the incorTupible
who refused TO sustain the i'm
of Andrew johnson. He died
with the respect of men of every shade of
politics, and the manly and conscientious
course he pursued on the impeachment
trial will give him deathless fame.
Maj. Gen. John Z. Wool, the cotem-
porary of Scott and Taylor, the hero Of
Queenstown and other desperate fights in
the War of 1912, passed from earthly
scenes on Nov. 8, at a ripe old age, leav-
;p, IN lie pO,,,,t r,-u,er, n brilliant ,or,-n and