Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1881-12-07

COOLEY TO IOWA.

VI k1A~NhOVs AhUsssRSsC6&N
Dubuque for = Residence In Mos
pills, Tenn.
Dubuque Herald, Dec. z.
On Thursday evening ex-G0y. StcHn61
Hampstead, who has resided in Dubu4M1
ever since the year 1886, a period OF foTfk
five years, left the city and the statet6 take
up his residence with his sol in Memphis.j
Tenn. On the evening before his depaature
a number Of his friends gathered at his res.
idence to bid him go0d-by, and at the same
time presented him with a purse OF Si00|
which had been collected upon short ma
tice. u
This departure OF the oldest living ex-
chief magistrate of what Is now the greaf.
and powerful state Of Iowa, tends to cali
up memories of the past, of the times whes
Gov. Hampstead took all active part In Affairs
OF the day. He was, it is said, the first full
fiedged attorney who settled in Dubuquesa az
early as 1886, but 1t was in his connection
with state affairs that he has always been
the best known. After taking an active
part in the territorial Legislature, he was On
the 9Th OF August, 1850, elected governor Of
the state, a position he held for four
years, the limit TO the term of office fixed
by the then existing constitution. He was
the second chief magistrate OF the state.
and the last democratic one. After his re-
tirement from this position, he was elected
by the people OF Dubuque their county
judge, which position ana that of county
auditor. In which it was merged, he held
continuously until 1878, when he retired
permanently from political life.
1t is impossible, almost, In this day OF
rapid transit and growth and prosperity to-
properly compare the Iowa OF to-day with
sided, though but thirty years have rolled
around since then. When he was elected
In 1850, all Iowa contained q population of
but l9l U.s. peOple--nO more than that con-
tanned IN four or five of the largest counties
now. We now have ten persons in the state
where there was but one then. What were
then but small villages are 20 large aud
prosperous cities. The state was but lit
tle inhabited beyond the river counties.
what was then the broad INT Doundless and
u~nbroken prairie is now turned into thrifty
farms. Many a town u village and even
city are now TO be found where then not a
man resided. n at places where then even
the foot OF u white man had never trod.
Most Of the men who were then in public
life with Gov. Hampstead have since passed
away, or where n still here and there r.
mains he has retired and Is passing down
the declivity Of life we trust, in ease and
comfort, looking back with satisfaction, We
nope upon the retrospect OF his own life.
Among. the active men OF his dAyAKere
Judge Joseph Williams, Judge Dyer, J. w.
Grimes, Chas. Mason, Jos. T.. Faies, S. q.
Hastings, Shepherd LETTER, Enos Lowe,
Elijah Sells, Ebenezer Cook, James Grant,
Robert Lucas, George w. McCleary, Ma
turin l.. Fisher, Thomas ii. Benton, ir..
George Greene. Caleb baldwin, and Others
whose names could be mentioned. Now
few OF them still live, most of them having
died, and some of them SO long ago that
their very names are even unknown to Il
large part of the present generation OF
Iowans. r
1t is an unpleasant fact that so valuable
an old public servant and so excellent a man
proved himself to be, should feel compelled
IN his old age to tear himself away from the
scenes and endearments of a lifetime and
20 to live In a land OF strangers. 1t is with
a matter OF necessity and not OF choice,
and though he goes from us vet he saws that
when he dies 1t Is his desire, and he has
laid aside a sum OF money to be preserved
sacredly for the purpose, that his body be
returned to Dubuque for burial, there to lie
In the soil of his beloved Iowa, of which,
he has always been SO proud, and to return
TO the dust from which it came alongside OF
those dear to him who have gone before to
the Iona home. We believe there is not a
man, woman or child in Dubuque but re-
grets the departure of Gov. Hampstead, and
TINS feeling we have every reason to believe
Will extend over the whole state. So amia-
bic and gentle and polite and nnselfish and
considerable OF others has he always been
that we know he leaves no enemy behind.
none but friends.