The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-04-26
DEATH OF Kx-Gov. COLES sAsHFoRD,

GOVERNOR BAsHFoRD is dead. Prescott
 i1as lost her foremost citizen, and his famil,
 kind and affectionate husband and father
 The sudden and unexpected announce
 ment at noon yesterday that Governor Bash
 ford was dead gave the people of Prescott
 shock such as few events could have produced It was known that he had been unweli fol
 some days, but the intelligence that he wal
 better yesterday and able to walk about tho
 room in the morning, had led his friends
 to hope that he would soon be well again
 His physicians, however had eommuni- cased the fact to members of the family, tha;
 he had an afect.on of the heart which was
 liable to take him away at any time, con- seguently close watch was kept and a few minutes before noon ne was discovered to be breathing harder than usual, the doctor was immediately sent for, but when he arrived he was breathing his last. He passed ava; peacefully and without pain, as in sleep.
 COLES BAsHFoRD was born at Cold Spring. opposite West Point, New York, on the 24th day of January 1916, received an Academic education at Wesleyan Univer- sity, and chose the law as a profession He removed to Lyons, N. r., where he com meDced the practice of his professor and was soon after elected District Attornsy of Wayne County, but before his term ex pired he resigned and removed to Wiscon- sin as Attorney for a Land and Lumber Company. He was elected and served three terms in the House of Representatives and two in the SeEate of Wisconsin. after which he returned to the practice ot the law, and was in 1856 elected Govt ernor of the State, being the first Rel publican Governor ever elected in Wis consin. At the expiration of his term of two years he again returned to the practice of the law which he continued until 1863. when he accompanied the newly appointed officers to Arizona and assisted them by his counsel in organizing the Territorial Govern ment at Navajo Springs, on the 29th day of December of that year. Here he held the office of Attorney General for a short time and in 1865 was elected to the Terri, torial Council, and by that body was chosel as its President. In 1867 he was elected Delegate to Congress from Arizona, and at the expiration of his term President Grant him Secretary of the Terri tory which office he held until 1876, when he resigned and removed from Tucson, the then Capital, to Prescott, where he was largely interested, with other members df his family. in the mercantile business, and although he remained partner in the con- cern he took no active part, and had prae tically retired from all business, intending to spend the remainder of his days In the enjoyment of the society of his family and friends, of whom he was very fond, and who loved him with sincere affec tion. We need not say that in all the places ofpublic or private trust which he was called to fill he did every thing we'll; those who knew him know that there was method and system in all he did, ,thaf his judgment was of a superior order, that his purposes were honest and his perform ances all faithful.
 He leaves widow, two sons and four. daughters, besides numerous other relations and friends in Prescott to mourn his death, all of whom realize that theirs is no ordin- ary bereavement, but that added to fillial af- lection for the deceased they possessed in him an adviser and director whose place cannot be filled.
 The following telegram among others, was received by mutual friend today:
 Sad news received In Governor Bashfords death the Territory loses of it's earliest and best citizens and very many true friend and safe and wise 'elor. To those much more to him in life than my .elf, I extend sincere coincidence. JOHN wAssoS.
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