The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06
Death of Andrew Johnson.

Ex-Presldent Andrew Johnson died ut
the residence of his sister, Mrs. w. r.
Brown, in Carter county, Tenn, on the
morning of Saturday, July 81. He left
his home in Greenville, Green county,
on Tuesday, the 9th, in his usual
health, hale, alert, and vigorous, TO spend
few days with his daughter. On
the evening of The following day he
was suddenly stricken down with paraly-
sis, mainly affecting his left side, and
rendering him unconscious, in which
condition he remained for many hours.
On Friday he rallied, feeling was par
TALLY restored to his left side, he con-
versed intelligently, and his friends had
every reason to hope for his early re-
covery. On Saturday morning, how
ever, Mr.. Johnson received a second
attack, which he survived but short
time.
A dispatch from Greenville, Tenn, to
q Nashville paper gives the following
particulars of Mr.. Johnson's illness and
death: "He had been complaining some
what of ill-health during the past month,
but felt no apprehensions. Last Wednes-
day he took the morning train to visit
his daughter, with whom Mrs. Johnson
had been sojourning for the past six
weeks. He rode in hack from Carter's
depot to her residence, some six miles
distant, and seemed in good spirits on
arrival, and ate hearty dinner, and
after few minutes of general converse
ton retired up stairs, and was talking
alone with his granddaughter, Miss Lille
Slower. While thus engaged, his tongue
refused to utter tone, and to her great
CONSERVATION he fell from his seat to
the floor. Help was instantly sum-
moned, and almost as soon as raised he
expressed indistinctly that his right side
was paralyzed. After being taken to
! the bed, when the family spoke of send
! ing for physician, he forbade it, say
| ing that he would soon recover. In this
way the summoning of medical aid was
deferred for twenty-four hours. When
| Mr.. Jobe was called from Elizabethtown,
some two miles distant, he instantly be-
! gan heroic treatment, aided by DIR.
Cameron, and seemed at one time the
next day to be succeeding The patient
conversed imperfectly in regard to
domestic matters, and did not seem con-
scious of approaching dissolution, but
his case was beyond the skill of
! physician, and at o'clock last night he
became unconscious. Mrs. Patterson
and Andrew Johnson, Jr, arrived an
hour later with two physicians from
Greenville, Drs. Brey and Taylor, but
he did not recognize either of them, and
after seven hours and half of uncon-
seriousness peacefully breathed his last,
surrounded by his wife, children, and
all his grandchildren, except the son and
daughter of ex-senator Patterson"
Mr.. johnson short time previous to
his death, expressed desire that his
winding-sheet be the flag of his country.
Andrew Johnson was eminently a self
made man. 1t was his reasonable boast
that from youth of extreme poverty,
which denied all advantages of education,
he had steadily climbed the ladder of
public preference, round by round, un-
til he reached its highest possible point.
He commenced his career at the age of
ten tailor. Death finds him Mt the age
of sixty-seven, Senator of the United
States, who had been its President. He
was born in Raleigh, North Carolina,
December %, 1908. His fathers social
standing and monetary worth may be
imagined when it is stated that he was
the city sexton, and porter of the State
bank. In 1896 young Johnson moved to
Tennessee, there to pursue his trade as
journeyman tailor. He settled at Green
vile, which, during all the years of
his busy and eventful life, continued to
be his home. There shortly after his
arrival, he married, and it was under
his wife's instructions that he learned to
write and cipher. His first appearance
in politics was as the organizer of
workingmen's party in opposition to the
rich element which ruled the town. He
was chosen an Alderman, and thencefor-
ward, until the day of his death, was in
public life. He was successfully elected
Mayor, member of the lower house of
the State Legislature, a Van Buren,
Elector 1910, State Senator, member of |
Congress in 1S43, held his seat through |
five terms. He was twice elected Gov
ernor of the State, and passed through
the exciting, violent canvasses which