Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-07
From the Gin. Commercial, Sunday, 49,
Death of Thomas Buchanan Read

Mr.. Thomas Buchanan Read died at the AstOr
House, New York at | l O'Clock last night. He
celebrated his fnelh birthday less than two
months ago Mt Rome, and made a speech review
ing his career aud referring in feeling terms to
the friends Of lis youth and his manhood in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Among the cougratu-
latiOus received during his birthday festivity
was telegram from his friends in Cincinnati
and a letter from the Crown Prince OF Italy.
Soon after he set out for home, bearing in his
system the seeds OF the maariAl fever OF Rome,
" hicli has recently proved fatal to several Amer
lean travellers. In Paris he was quite Ill, aud
on shipboaTd was pr"strated by the violent out
break Of the fever, from which he never recoV-
cred.
Mr.. Read was native of Chester county
PenusyIvania, bst in his boyhond emigraled to
this cGy, where he 5;s,auired distinction both as
poet INA P,e PS,ee} lis p5lesqually with pen and
Pr"GI and hi1 original = btl Es Numbered oy
'nilo M, oems I'll hdf dozen oy scoLes'
~,i,,r,ss He lived mucA abroad. nj FIarenr. .
ond Ro,n(, and about tWehy- five vears ago
wrnic NEies Of European letter. for his naner
hat we're mach sdu<<- lis poems, about len
years ago, "a HeIng attentions from the
| british Reyil }g,J' fhe was on terms of int
mate friepdsSe. #i,h the. Literary celebrities of
England 11i Ian ar ( 45I9ln ''''' -
He was rssiJbgin Rome at the outbreak of
the American war, but came home and
was an enthusiast in his devotion to the National
cause, as several Of his ringing lyrics testify,
0ne of his most lengthy ana ambitious poems,
4" The Wild WagnneT," was written at this per-
iod, and "Sheridan's Ride" perhaps the best
known Of his recent productions was prepared
one afternoon, at the residence of his brother
inlaw, Cyrus Garrett. in this city, suggested
by a cut in Harper's Weekly, and expressly for
recitation By his friend james T.. Murdock, who
gave reading at Pixies Opera House that night.
1t was received, as will be remembered, with
eEtraordinnry applause. The Union League Of
Philadelphia, gave him commission to paint
"Sheridan's Ride" and this paintog is one OF the
chief ornaments OF their CLUB house. During
the visit Of sheridan to Europe, he was the guest
Of Read at Roam. as also was General Sherman
few months ago, Much that Read has written
will live. and his reputation will rest rather
upon his writings than his paintings. He had,
with his faculties, the temperament called Poetic.
| He was ardent, imaginative, touched by subtle
influences, with fertile and glowing fancy, and
the capacity of exIuisitcly expressing himself
In musical lines rich with delicate imagery. In
looking over the works one must be struck by
the persislency Of his industry, that enabled
him 20 accomplish 50 much, as well as by the
nicsty Of his workmanship impartng the taste
fu finish without which he would permit neither
painting nor poem to lea We his hands.
while vending our way out Of ikes Opera
House, Cincinnati, one evening in the autumn Of
1852, after being entertained by a reading by
JANIS L. MURnooK from selection from Mr..
READS "Wild Wagner Of the Allegheny,
a gentleman at our side remarked thai he would
give the best farm ho had ever seen to be the
author Of thal poem. 3D.