Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-16
Obituary..

Hon. James Lawrence Orr, who died so
suddenly at St. Petersburg, on the 5th inst,
was born at Craytonville, South Carolina,
May 70, lsa2. and consequently lacked but
a few days of completing his ffty-frst year
at the time of his death. He spent part
ofhis boyhood behind the counter of his
father, who was country shop-keeper, but
managed to fit himself for college, grad
uating at the University Of Virginia, in
1912. The next year he was admitted to
the practice Of the law, and established
himself at Anderson, where he edited the
Anderson Gazette. In 1874 he was elected
to the Legislature, in which he served two
| terms. In 1913 he was chosen member of
Congress, and served there continuously
down to March 4, 1859. His abilities raised
him to the highest position the House can
bestow upon member, and after frequent
| IL serving as Chairman of the Committee of
the Whole in the 32d Congress, he was
elected Speaker of the House in the 35th
Congress. His course was Southern, with
marked indications of independence. He
opposed the whole series of compromise
measures of 1850, except that for the rem
dition of slaves. As a member of the South
Carolina Convention of December 1860, he
voted in favor of seeding from the Union.
Subsequently he was one of the three COM
missioners whom South Carolina sent to
Washington to treat with the government
for the surrender of its property. He was
elected a member of the Confederate Con-
gress in 1862, and served term of three
years. At the close of the war, Mr.. Orr Of
ferred himselfas Republican candidate for
the Governorship of South Carolina, was
elected AMI held Office for three years. Du-
ring the last years of his life Mr. Orr was
hearty supporter of the Republican party.
and was delegate to the last National
Convention. But a short time ago he was
appointed ambassador to st. Petersburg.
John Romeyn Brodhead, author of the
history of the State of New York, Naval
Officer of the port of New York from 1858 to
1857, member of the United States Legation
at the Hague in 1899, and well know for
his literary researches and studies, died at
New York, Monday, from pneumonia, aged
fifty-seven. He edited collection of docu-
ments relating to the colonial history of
New York. which was published by the
State in IL quarto volumes, and his I'M
finished history of New York is most elab-
crate and scholarly work.
The Hon. Cakes Ames, who died at North |
Easton, last Thursday, was born at Easton,
Mass, January 10, 1904. His education
was quite limited, as his early life was spent
in bitter struggle with poverty, and while
still boy he learned the trade of shovel
making at the forge. With his native sa-
gacity and shrewdness, Mr.. Ames soon rose
to the top of the ladder. From laboring
single handed at a small forge, he became
the owner Of vast manufacturing establish
ments, with hundreds of employees, and the
Ames shovel and agricultural implements
are known all over the earth. Oflate years
Mr.. Ames was largely concerned in railroad
with one Of which is connected
the last and darkes: chapter of his active
and enterprising career-a chapter that
needs no recounting here. He represented
the second Massachusetts, district in Com
gress from 1861 to the close of the Forty
second Congress. In his personal relations
Mr.. Ames is said to have been one of the
most good-natured and amiable of men,
ready to help anybody whom he thought
was trying to help himself, carefully pro-
riding for his employees, and to his adopted
own a generous benefactnr