The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-02
Death Of Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice.
President Of the United States.

fresideht OF the United States.
WASHINGTON, Nov D.
NIcE-PREsIDENT WILSON died very sud
denly at 80 this morning. He rested
well last night, awoke at seven O'Clock
thls morning, and expressed himself as
feeling bright and better He sat up in
bed to take his medicine, lay down on his
lett side and expired in few moments
without struggle.
IL having been represented last night
that the Vice President had SO much i'm
proved that he would be able to leave the
city for the North this week the intell
gence of his sudden death this morning
fell with startling force and suddenness on
the community. The Vice President
seemed ON Saturday to be great deal bet
ter than at any time during his late sick
ness, but yesterday he was not quite so
we'll.
Postmaster Burt, of Boston, called in
the morning, and had a pleasant CONVEX
satlon with him. Mr.. Crossman, of New
York, literary friend, also visited the
Nlce-President on business concerning
his (Mr. Wilson's) unfinished volume on
the subject Of slavery. The Vice -Presi-
dent being in condition requiring rest
Mr.. Crossman retired The Vice -Presi-
dent then slept from one to three o'clock,
when heJose. Mr.. Crossman returned in
the afternoon at the Vice Presidents re-
| quest, and remained until evening.
The Vice-President went to bed at an
early hour, and slept tolerably well during
the night. In his waking intervals he
asked for water. About midnight he got
up and walked around his room. Then,
going to his table, he took up little book
of poems entitled The Changed Cross"
with the motto Not as l will, but as
Thou wilt" and read three verses from it,
one of which is as follows:
Help us, o Lord, with patient love to bear
| Each others faults, to suffer with true meek
| ness;
| Help us each others joys and griefs to share,
| But let us turn to Thee alone in weakness
| Other verses had been marked in the
book, among them the following:
| What if poor sinners count thy grief the signal
| He who can give thy soul relief knows that thou
| art submissive still.
This volume belonged to his wife, and
contained photograph of her and their
son, both deceased He treasured it be-
yond value and always made it his COM
panion, from which he seemed to derive
much comfort.
tI,a 1,n 1.-,fI
gratitude of the kindness of his friends
during his sickness, and Of the wide
spread sympathy in his behalf.
He then returned to bed, in happy
mood, and slept.
At three O'Clock this morning he
awoke, complaining of pain in his stom-
! ach One of his attendants rubbed it,
and, being thus relieved, he again fell
asleep.
At seven O'Clock he awoke, remarking
that he felt brighter and better than at
any time previous. He said he was going
to ride out to-day, as his physician, DR..
| Baxter had advised him to do so if the
weather was fair
At twenty-nine minutes past seven
O'Clock he said he would get up and take
breakfast. He then called for "bitter
water" which had heretofore been pre-
scribed, and, having drank it, he laid
down, with his left side on the pillow, as
| if with sudden exhaustion, breathing
heavily, but uttering no words, and in
few moments he died without a struggle
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
The following brief sketch of the life OF
the late Vice President is taken from the
+ Chicago Tribune of the Esd:
The life of the deceased statesman has
been marked one, and its record is one
that may be protitably studied by all
Americans. Born in 1912, in poverty. he
was apprenticcd to farmer at ten years
of age, and served laboriously until his
| majority, in 1888. With little opportu-
nifty for schooling he found the means,
even in those days, when books were not
as plentiful or as accessible as now, to
read a great many volumes of history and
biography. As soon as he had CON-
pleted his apprenticeship on the
farm he walked to Natick, Mass,
where he engaged at shoemaking, at
which he worked diligently, practlcing
temperance and rigid economy, until he
had accumulated some $500. He then
tried to improve his limited education by
attending an academy in New Hampshire,
but the depository of his savings hav-
ing become insolvent he returned to
shoemaking at Natick. His good habits
and his natural abilities, however, made
him conspicuous among his associates,
and in 1910 he was enlisted IN behalf
of Gen. Harrison's election to the
Presidency, he making great many
speeches. From that time to the
present he has been conspicuous in
American politics. He was almost con-
tinuously a member of either one or the
other branch of the State Legislature, and
frequently the presiding officer. He was
an active anti-slavery man, and opposed
the annexation of Texas. In 1S4S he left
the Whig National Convention when it
rejected the anti-slavery platform, and
united with the Free-Soil party. For two
wears he edited an anti-slavery paper in
Boston, serving also in tine Legislature.
In 1852 he presided at the Free-Soil
National Convention in Pittsburgh.
In 1858 he was the Free-Soil candi-
date for Governor of Massachusetts, but
was defeated When the Know-Nothing
organization elected Gardner Governor OF
Massachusetts Mr.. Wilson was member
of that party, but when that party subse-
ouently rejected an anti-slavery platform
he abandoned it. In 1855 he was elected
to the United States Senate in the place OF
Edward Everett, resigned, and continued
by successive elections member OF that
body until 1878, when he resigned to be-
come Vice President, to which place he
was elected in 1872.
| THE FUNERAL.
The funeral services in Washington OF
the late Vice President Henry Wilson took
place in the Senate Chamber on the morn
ing of the Goth.
The crowd in attendance was large, not
withstanding the weather was unfavora-
ble. and many were unable to gain ad-
| mission to the building. The Senate
Chamber was heavily draped in mourn