Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-14

Chief Justice Chase.

SALMON PuRTLAND CHASE led a 10 o'clock,
Wednesday mornlng, May Z at the residence
ii his daughter, Mrs. William ). Hoyt, OF
New York. Death was caused by stroke
II paralysis, which attacked him at eight
clock, Tuesday morning. He was totally
unconscious from the moment of the attack
until the hour of his death, and failed to rec
osuize any of the relatives and friends who
were assembled around is bedside The
Chief Justice arrived there from ashingtOn
On Saturday evening, and proceeded to the
house of Mr. Hoyt. He was in good health
and Spirits and intended to visit Boston af-
ter few days stop in New York, and subse-
quently proceed to Colorado, where he pro-
0 1sed to remain during the summer for the
benefit of his health.
He was perfectly well until Monday even
Ing, when he complained slightly and went
to bel early. Tuesday morning, about half
past SIX, his servant, entering the. room, found
him sleeping quietly with his hand under his
face, as he habitually lay. On approaching
she bed, a few moments later, the servant
saw that the Chief Justice was seizsd with a
spasm, the features being convulsed and a
slight foam appearing on the lips. Drs. John
6. Perry, Metcalf and Clarke were at once
summoned, and it was pronounced an apo
plectic attack, with paralysis on the left side.
Inc paralysis of the attack of June, 1870,
was of the right side, and had virtually dis
appeared, there being still very slight traces
of it in the lips and right han1.
From the time of the attack, Tuesday
morning, he remained entirely unconscious
his head was motionless, while the right arm
was restessly active. The convulsive spasms
REQUIRED frequently during the day, and the
doctors finally placed their patient under the
influence of chloroform, which was applied
whenever spasm was seen to be approach
| ing. Its effect was Immediate
| All unremitting attention and care that
affect on could suggest found no response
At few minutes past o'clock, Wednesday
morning, it became evident that he was sink
NJ fast; his breathing became more and more
iabored, until finally, at 10 o'clock precisely
1t ceased altogether. A spasmodc twitching
beginning with the lower portion of the body
followed, which lasted few seconds, and
then all was STILL
There were present in the room at the
time, Senator Sprague and Mrs. K. c.
| Sprague, the Chief Justices eldest daughter
W. s. Hoyt and Mrs. Janet R. c. Hoyt, Mr.
| Edwin Hoyt and Mr. Hiram Barney
Mr. Oh Use WIS b)rn at Cornish, N. H.
y. Aquia Chase, the ancestor, came from
Cornwall, England, 10 1910; Salmon P. had
for his uncles Dudley Chase, Senator from
this State and Chief Justice of our Supreme
Court, VINO died at Ra dol phi some twenty.
4even years 20 Barach and Silmon, law
yers, and phl4nie Ter, who became Bishop OF
Ohio, all Of whom were graduates of Dart
n ,uth college. He moved with his father
u Keene, n Ii when be was seven years o
ge. Here he passed his &C ZOOLOGY days IN
I'll he was twelve years old, when, his father
having d ed three years before, he went &c
WORT ington, Ohio, the residence of his un.
Gle Pmlander, then shop OF that diocese
~ whom his educition was superintendent
md with whom he prepared for college
) ,on after, he entered Cincinnati College, O.
which his uncle was president, and won by
sheer merit "a promotion to the Sophomore
class.
tie had remained only year at Cincln
natl when be was called home to New
Hampshire. and in 1924 entered the Junior
class at Dartmouth, where he was graduated
In 1926.
His Uncle Dudley being Senator from 1926
to 1881, his nephew naturally gravitated tt
Washington, where tradition has it that hi
uncle discouraged his application for Office
Tne next winter after graduating BIZ
opened classical school in Washington, ane
studied law with William Writ ,having among
5 his pupils the sons of Henry Clay, William
Writ, Samuel l.. Southland and other men oil
distinction. He was admitted to the bar in
1929. In the District of Columbia In the
spring of 1880 he returned to Cincinnati
having just turned twenty -four, and since
then he has been prominently identified with
the political activity of Ohio, and to some
extent with its literature; for early in hi.
: career be publ he'd work in three volumes
the proper title for which would have beer
:. Legal Ohio" and which included history
OF the State and a copiously annotated edition
q