The daily gazette., 1881-12-05
SAMUEL TOWNSEND DFAD.
The ''Sage Of fAppOquinimink"Dies
at His Home After, u Severe Ill.


The ''sage Of fAppoquInimink"
at His Home After u severe Ill.
ness.
Samuel Townsend, of Townsend,
died at his home at $40 o'clock, this
morning, from the effects of severe
attack OF dropsy and Bright's disease,
aged about seventy years.
Probably the death of no other man
in Delaware could occasion more sur-
prise, comment and profound sorrow
throughout the State, for Samuel
Townsend was remarkable man, in
many respects. He was born and
raised at the place of his DEATH
Townsend, Appoquinimink Hundred
"a village that was named after his
father.
MIR. Townseni's youth was passed
without the benefit Of thorough edu-
cation, but sagacious mind,
faculty OF keen perception and an in
domitable will made great amends fer
the serious defects in his mental
education. AS business man he was
active and pushing, made considerable
money in cutting and selling ship
timber, and afterwards settled down
to successful farming and peach
growing at his Townsend farm. He
amassed considerable fortune.
But 1t was in his political life that
MIR. Townsend was most prominently
known. He espoused the cause of the
Democratic party, became actively
interested in politics as soon as he ar
rived at manhood, and was elected to
the lower house of the State Legisla-
ture in 1912. He was a delegate to
the National Democratic Convention
of 1S4S, that nominated Gen. Lewis
Cass for President.
| In 1860, during the troubles that rent
the Democratic party in swain Mr..
| Townsend adhered to the Douglass
wing of tho party. He espoused the
Douglass cause until after the election,
and then weIt with the "People's
Party" which practically twilh the aid
Of the Republicans) carried this State in
1862, eiecting Abram Cannon Governor
and Geo. p. Fisher Representative in
Congress. After that Mr.. Townsend
became, for short time, an admitted
Republican Che had previously been an
open, pronounced War Democracy but
the removal of Gen. Mcclellan frcm the
command of the Union armies aud the
emancipation proclamation OF President
Lincoln were more than his convictions
could stand and he soon returned to the
Democratic fold, voting for Mcclellan
for President IN 1854,
Thereafter MIR. Townsend never
swerved from the Democratic faith. lie
was intensely apposed to the citizenship
of the negroes, and was instrumental
in having III Democracy Of Delaware
adopt the plank OF "whlte men to rule
Delaware" in the Stale Convention ol
1868. 1t was as delegate TO State and
County Conventions, and not as al
office holder, that Mr.. Townsend helt
, his prominence in politics. Office HI
! never sought nor held with the exception
of his single Legislative term. But i
was strange Democratic Convention
that did not contain Mr.. Townsend as {
delegate. BY his devotion to the Demo-
3 cratic party, and his keen foresight IL
y political affairs he lained the sobrlque
OF "the Sage of Appoquininlnk."
: None are better aware than the res
! ders of the GAZETTE that Mr.. Town
= send was ready writer and welded
d trenchant pen on political subjects. Th
If GAZETTE was almost exclusively th
n vehicle used for placing his utterance
It before the public. He also wrote-exten
u sively upon the peach growing interest
- - of the State, and IN opposition to rail
70 road monopoly obstructing the shlpmer
1- of peaches to market.
W Ia many respects he was remarks
g. BILE man. Though he was a compositio
10 OF apparently incongruous elements, "
B. his many good traits showed forth col
spicously in all his Transactions. He wa
10 as honest and sincere as the light of da,
" and his motives and purposes wei
l- never concealed. lie was also Chart
l. BILE to an unusual extent, and winter a
o. ter winter the poor of his neighborhoo
q, had occasion to bless his generosity
al the contents of his we'll stored lard,
le were freely distributed among them.
Though violent in his passions his al
ger was not lasting. He frequently TO
W gave and his friendship was pernanel
aud sincere.
His death will be received with O.
or pressions OF regret throughout II
ed State for "Uncle SAM" as his frien'
!, loved to call him, was admired and r
=, spected wherever known. His funer
OF will take place from his late home,
nt Townsend, on Thursday next, at
a. o'clock, a. m., and his remains will
be TERED beside those OF the other mer
a. beIs of the family who have gone b
= fore, in the Friends burying ground,
y ODESSA.
10 DEATH OF DIR. MARK II. LoFLAND.
as DR.. Mark Il. Lofland, OF Milford, di
- at his home in that town; aboat7
OF clock Sunday morning, from the effe'
at of an attack of apoplsky, with which
ay was seized Saturday night, after retiri
he abe 1t 8 o'clock in his usual health.
Lotiand was skillful physician.
:. also took an acti ge interest in polite
no affairs as ID Democrat, but never souE
q official position. He was about 54 ye'
he of age. Hon. Jas. II. Lodand, who v
he elecJed to Congress in 1872 on the h
he publican ticket, is brother of the Z
n ceased.
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