New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-14
Death of n Noted Philanthropist.

DR.. Samuel G. Howe died at Boston last
Sunday noon Of sottening of the brain. He
had been failing for the past few weeks,
and his death was expected at any mo-
ment. He was born in this city in 1901.
He was graduated at Brown University in
his twenty-tirst year, and devoted the next
three years to the study OF medicine. In
1924 he went to Greece, and joined the
Greek army as surgeon. During the men,
orable struggle tor independence, when
Greece was created into q separate king
dom, he organized q regular surgical ser
vice, in which he held the chief place. The
famine which followed the war induced him
to visit this country to solicit supplies, with
which he returned, and, establishing depots
in Greece, persoIally superintended their
distribution. He established . colony on
the 1sthmus of Corintb, but having con-
contracted q malarious fever was compelled
to leave the country in the spring of 1880,
having spent nearly six years in the scr
vice Of the Greeks. Journeying through
Switzerland, he arrived in Paris at the
breaking out of the revolution of July, aud
was in close relations with Lafayette dur
ing that time OF passion and peril. It was
also his fortune to be in Brussels at the
outbreak of the revolution there. In the
autumn of 1881 he returned to his native
city. The Institution for the Blind in Bos-
ton was then projected, and DR.. Howe ac-
cepted the presidency. He Immediately
visited Europe again to observe and study
the most approved methods of treating
those afflicted with q loss of sight, and while
there allied himself with the Polish cem.
mittee, the n in Paris, Of which he was made
president He personally undertook to
convey funds to Polish detachment that
had crossed into Prussia, was detected. ar.
rested and thrown into prison BY the Prus-
az hnt ro1oo or ho AND nf
six weekr, when be returned home, and in
1892 opened Perkins Institution for the
Blind in South Boston. He invented the
method of printing in raised letters, wrote
many reports and essays on the education
of the blind, and made extensive tours
through the States of the South and West.
The education of Laura Bridgeman, which
has always justly been regarded - most
remarkable triumph of ekill and patierce,
was DR.. Howe's achievement, and the fame
of it has gone through the world. In l848
perimentsl school for the training Of idiots
and feeble-minded children, and late in 1851
established public school for that class, of
which DR.. Howe was the principal from its
organization. He was for o long term q
member of the State boards of education
and charities, and was president of the lat
ter board. When the Free-Soil party was
organized he joined it, and was one of
the leading spirits of the party in
Massachusetts. In the time of the
Texas annexation and Mexican war excite
ment, he was candidate for Congress in
opposition to Robert C. Winthrop. but
failed of election. In 1851 and 1853 he
edited the Commonwealth newspaper, then
the leading organ Of the anti-tlavery party.
In the organization and work of the Repub-
lican party he was Jealous and efficient. He
was one Of the trusted friends of John
Brown. and knew so much about his Har-
pers Ferry campaign that when the con-
gressional committee undertook investiga-
tion he sought temporary abode in Can
ada. He was Q member of tho Sanitary
Commission, of which the Rev. DR.. Bellows
was president, during the war, and after .
member Of the commission appointed by
Secretary Stanton to visit the South and
report on the condition of the freedmen.
In 1871 he was appointed by President
Grant . member of the commission to visit
and explore the island Of San Domingo,
with reference to the proposition of an
nexation.-Chieago Tribune.