The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-15

CremaIiOnist, and an emiDen. citizen Vi
this place, died at his residence here this
afternoon at three o'clock. Ills remains
are 10 be cremated, in accordance with
long standing instructions to that effect,
but the time OF cremation has not yet
been decided upon by the inmily. He
was about eighty.one years Of age. o.
Biographical Sketch.
DR.. LeNloyne was one Of the remarka-
be men Of tie country. He has been q
well known character in Western Penn.
sylvania for nearly half century. He
was the son Of an old French physician Of
local note who settled in Washington
back in the last century, and was born and
educated in the town OF Washington,
where he has always resided. lie gradu-
ated at the college there in early life, read
medicine with his father, and was lead.
ing physician for the greater part Of his
adult life. He took sides at very
early day with the anti.slavery sentiment
Of the county, and boldly cspoused the
cause and NIL the Odium that attached to it
in the estimation Of his friends and neigh.
bors, and in fact, Of the whole country.
He never knew what 1t was to quail be.
fore public sentiment on any question,
lie was a man OF the most adamantine
convictions, and knew no such words as
compromise or Cancellation in the advoca.
cy Of what he believed TO be right. He
fought the anti.slavety fight with
the same indifference to criticism
or ridirule that he has for years
past VIGOROUSLY shown in the
espousal and advocacy Of Cremation.
There were times in his early life when
he was scarcely safe from mob violence in
his own town. Yet, like VIM. Lloyd Tar
rison, he he vas iGGGy,ci Htgi be, to be led
through the streets with a halter about
his neck. Aud there have been times in
his cremation experience when persons
talked about tearing down his thurman
bake oven," as his cremation furnace was
called. Speaking OF that threat reminds
us Of the following article that appeared in
the Daily Gate City, newspaper published
at Eeokuk, Iowa, in Feb, 1873. It is
from communication written in answer
to u somewhat severe article that had pre-.
viously appeared in the same paper in OPP
position 10 DR.. LeMoyne's cremation the
cries and practices. We quote it as fol.
lows:
Whatever opinion'you may have OF ere.
nation us a method OF disposlng OF the
dead, it is not the purpose Of the present
article To discuss. But it is the design to
defend DR.. LeMoyne from the aspersions
made upon him. He is physician OF half
century's experience. He is walking
encyclopedia" on oil matters Of medicine,
law, physics, mechanics and sciene. His
lecture at his old home made in build.
ing the pride Of the town, and the repre-.
sentative OF his liberality-on the subject
OF cremation, is pronounced by compe.
tent judges Us exhaustive. DR.. LeMoyne
was the foremost expounder OF the old
abolition doctrine, and il he had been on
the popular side Of politics, could have
been Governor Of Pennsylvania, and to-
day, and for the last thirty years, he is
and has been the best educated and most
scholarly man in the Keystone State. lie
has positive knowledge. lie don't have
to go to the immense library he has on his
shelves 10 find what he wants like the bal
anCG oil U.s. but has tin his head.
There is not question Of any import
which he does not understand and COM
prehend, and which he cannot apply.
No! he has not only large "degree OF
intelligence" but larger degree Of it
than any man in Pennsylvania. He
fought the best men Of the nation on the
slavery question, and dared defend Abby
Kelley when in that magnificent old town
OF Washington she was assaulted with
rotten eggs, and the whole Union to-day
admits that DR.. LeMOyne, Major McFar-
land, William Lloyd Garrison, Gerritt
Smith, John Brown, and that most noble
army Of men were right; and in the front
OF that grand battle was DR.. LeMoyne.
DR.. lie Moyne has none Ofthe "instincts
vi brute" He is brave, fearless, un-
daunted man, facing opposition and ask
ing no favor. Hehas unfortunately been
on the wrong side like every other radi-
Nhb lClOlllCNN liz uGGullC Oll lllG
side Of the slavery question, after the
world was forced by fire and blood to ad.
nit it. lie takes no grim satisfaction"
in anything, He is student Ofnature, OF
God, OF law. lie learns his lesson as not
one in million has learned it, and when
he reaches conclusion he does it from
tho force OF brain power which chaI.
lGnges the attention Of all who listen or
read.
Yes! to tear down the "human bake.
oven" would be only fair parallel to
breaking up Elijah L. Lovejoy'S press and
throwing II into the mississippi river.
Who would dare do such an act to-day?
Who is there to eXtenuate the crime of
the men who did it. The people who
threaten 70 tear down DR.. LeAIOyne's
"human bake.oven" arc arrant towards
and scoundrels, no less than the men who
threw Lovejoy'spressintO the river, whoare
to-day exeCrated-even by themselves, il
any yet survive.
DO DR.. LeMoyne this little justice. He
is man worthy Of all praise He thinks
he is right. He knows he is right. lie
has nothing to gain by his cremation
Ideas lie has everything to lose; but as
in the past, he has that mAtChless courage
which, in the face OF all opposition, inCites
him to stand squarely up to what he
knows 10 be the best. And undertake
TO say that there is not man that dare
meet him on the rostrum and discuss the
question OF cremation with him. In less
time than it would take to cremate
body, his opponent would wish himself in
the cIemalory, aud his body reduced To-
"odorless dust"
In May, 1877, the editor Of this paper
happened to be up at Washington Pa, and
in company with the late ex- Congressman
Moore, OF that town, made caiison the
Doctor at his residence. We quote the
following extract from what wc ihan