Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-17
DEATH VI A. N. EDGINGTON.

which in long life Of journalism
We have been called upon to per
form, says the" Enterprise" OF the
18th, is the announcement Of the
death of Colonel A. NJ. Edgington
After a long struggle with that
most obstinate and hopeless OF
human maladies, consumption, he
passed to his final sleep in Sacra-
mento, yesterday morning. just as
the first rays of the rising sun
threw across the valleys the shadow
Of the mountains in which he had
made his home nearly quarter of
q century ago. He died conscious
and at peace with the world, leav-
ing behind him more friends and
the records of more kindly deeds
than often bless the death-beds of
mortals. He was born in East
Springfield, Ohio, about forty
seven years ago. He came to CAL
ifornia in 1852, and for eight years
shared in full the rough life of the
mountains. He settled in Placer
county, and was in turn a mer-
chant, miner, teamster and lum-
herman. In 1860 he came to Neva-
da. He was a Deputy Sheriff
under Colonel Howard, and in
1865 and 1866 Deputy Internal
Revenue Assessor under Warren
WATSON. When Andrew johnson
withdrew from the Republican
party after the death of President
Lincoln, Mr.. WATSON approved the
detection. and invited his deputies
to join him in call for the organ
ization of a Johnson party in
Nevada. This Mr.. Edgington
promptly declined to do, and at
once rendered his resignation,
with the remark that he was prob
ably the poorest man in the world.
but his principles were for sale at
no price either to demagogue Rev
enue Assessors or apostate Pres
idents. Soon after he was given
the position of book-keeper in the
Morgan mill, and in 1868, we be-
lieve, was appointed Superintend-
ent Of the Union Mill and Mining
Company, which place he filled
until forced to resign by the dis
ease which, with slow approaches.
had for years been undermining
his life. He leaves a wife, q step
daughter, Mrs. Mark Strouse a
sister, Mrs. Huscroff; half-sister,
Mrs. Hambleton, and half-bro-
Their, Frank Mccullough. Only
feelings of profound sorrow, and q
sense of an infinite loss sustained,
are awakened by the knowledge of
the death of Mr.. Edgington. He
was graduate of no college, yet
was possessed of a wisdom and
capacity above the teachings Of
schools; and, without being a
churchman, was Christian in all
the attributes of charity, self
sacrifice, and the disposition to do
unto others as he would that others
should do unto him. While
shrewd in business, he was the
soul of honor; and, while some
times INDUCING in bluntness of
speech, the gentleness of his soul
was perpetually proving that all
that might seem rough in him was
the thinnest and most transparent
veneering that ever a great heart
tried to hide behind. His sense of
duty was his ruling trait. There
was not power enough in all the
world to cause him to swerve a
hairs breadth from the path of
right. He had blended in his
nature a sense of humor and a
stubborn courage which all the
pangs of disease and all the solem-
nifty of approaching dissolution
could neither dim nor abate. He
looked death as calmly in the face
as if he were an old friend, and
seemed with the King of Terrors,
as with mortals, ready at any time
either for jest or for business.
OF course, such a nature could not
help but draw toward it, and bind
to it with indissoluble bonds, the
friendships Of the frontier. Men
knew they could always depend
upon Abe Edgington for anything
where either fidelity, honor, cour-
age, charity or sterling manhood
was required; and for years ho has
walked these streets beloved as few
men ever are. Sorrowfully and
tearfully will the strong men of
this State gather around his bier
tomorrow, and with tremulous
"all halls and farewells," heap the
sods above him; and for many q
year to come, to say here that any
man is as good a citizen as was
Abe Edgington, will imply that all
that could be meant of sterling
worth had been said. To the
stricken relatives of him who is
gone, the sympathy of this COM
munity goes out in measure pro-
portionate to the loss inestimable
which they have sustained.
CosT OF THE WAR. Lieutenant
Governor Adams has kindly given
US the figures representing the total