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DEATH OF DR. J. G. HOLLAND.
The Editor of s.Scribner'' Dies sud-
denly of Heart Disease-A
Sketch OF His Life.
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DR.. JIG. holland, the founder and
chief editor of Scribner's Magazine,
now known as The Century. died
suddenly at his residencerNo. 46.
Park avenue, yesterday morning be-
tween 6 and z O'Clock. He had been
apparently in perfect health. though
he knew that the disease of; the heart,
angina p~ectoris, with which he had
been afflicted during .the-last four
years, might. prove, fatal at any mo-
ment. For over three years the least
excitement was sufficient to produce
q violent pa%lpitatfon OF the heart,
which would render. him. helpless for
hours. Several times while he was
racing his yacht on the ST. Lawrence
river, near his beautiful summer res.
idelce Of Bonnicastle, on one of the
Thousand Island, he WAS forced ITO
rellnquish the wheel and retire to the
cabin. During the last two years,
however, his health had continually
improved, and Wnenhe'returned from
Bonnicastle October 9Th it was with
the intention.of,dOing mere vigorous
work during the coming winter. Last
Monday night, while watching the
burning of the Fourth Avenue car
stables, 9 friend said to him that four
years ago the sexcitemeDt of such an
event would have been fatal. Dr..
Holland said Che remark was very
true and added thathis present health
was 30 COED that he had ceased to
fear any such event. The day before
he died he was busy preparing his
"Topics of the Times" for the De-
cember number of the magazine, and
on leaving the Century Building, in
East Seventeenth street, he remarked
that he was we'll pleased with the
new Office and expected to do much
work, as he had et-felt SO we'll for
many years. Yesterday morning he
awOke at 6 O'Clock and complained of
dull pain in the region of his heart. !
His wife sent for a physician, but
before aid had arrived he became un-
conscious and died. He leaves a
wife = who was Miss Elizabeth
Chaplin, of Springfield, Massive
daughters, Anne aud Kate, and q son, |
Theodore, in the senior class at Yale,
who returned home yesterday after
noon. DR.. Holland was a regular |
Church, from which he will probably |
be buried, but the arrangements for
the funeral have not yet been made. |
Scribner Sons' store and. the offices of
the Century Company were closed
yesterday on account of the death,
n the sign of the latter firm was
draped in mourning.
SKETCH OF DR.. HOLLANDS LIFE.
JOSIAH Gilbert Holland was born
at Belchertown, Mass, July "a, 1919,
his mother being Anna Gilbert and
his father Harrison Holland, whose
character is sketched In the poem
"Dsnlel Gray" The family was in
humble circumstances, and willing as
its members were to help young Hol-
land to win q higher station in life he
had no easy task in obtaining an ed
ucation in the Intervals Of hard work.
After many struggles, however, he
was graduated with honor from the
Berkshire Medical College, ut Pitts
vile, in 1874, and practised his pro-
tession for three years. He had no
special liking tor medicine. having
already set his heart upon following
literature, and being an indefatigable
contributor to newspapers and peri
odicals, undeterred alike by the nom
appearance of a cherished effusion or
the advice OF s'practicaln friends who
regarded writing as q sheer waste of
time and paper. In 1847 he abandon
ed his profession to found and edit
the Bay State Courier, a %literary
journal published at Springfsid,
which lived six months n gave HIM
q good deal of experience, which
later in life he turned to profitable
account. Going down south he taught
school at Richmond, Va, and then
at Vicksburg, Miss, where he, was
superintendent of schools for a year.
In May, 1849, he returned to Massa.
chusetts, aud On the day after his ar
rival at Springfield was engaged ash
assistant editor OF the Republican,.
His first years., salary was $3.50 aud
his second 800; in the third year he'll
became the owner of a quarter. inter-
est in the at a cost of So, 800, the
value OF his holding increasing nearly
tWenty-fold during his long connee.1
ton with the Republican. 1t was in
that journal that first appeared his
"History Of Western NJ Massachusetts,
now regarded as an authority, which
secured his appointment. as a member
OF the Massachusetts Historical So.
clety, and furnished him with the
material for his first novel, "The
Bay PATH" published in 1857. "Bit-
appeared in 1858, and at once attained
to a wide and permanent popularity.
the authors vogue and fortune
being materially increased bv
q series of didsetio. volumes; pub
lished over the non de pkume of
"Timothy Titcom',-.hetters TO Tie
Young" 1858; '"Gold FoiI,o 1885,:
"Lessons in Life" 1861, and "Letters
to the Joneses," 1868. DIR. Holland
produced several other volumes ere
he closed his connection with the Re-
publican in 1866-an American story.
"Miss Gilbert's Career" 1860, and
"Plain Talks on Familiar Subiectsn
and a "Life of Abraham Lincoln. ,,
published in 1865. On quitting his
editorial chair he lectured- for Some
time on social and literary topics.
meeting with great success; then, in
1868, went abroad and spent two
years i'll travelling over Europe. It
was while he was in Europe that he
conceived the idea of Scribner's
Monthly-the plan was consummated
on the Bridge of Mont Blanc-and il
was realized Immediately upon bis
return to New York. The first num-
Der appeared in November, 1870.
amid many prophecies of disaster
but the new magazine speedily made
room for itself and, swallowing up
Hours at Home, Putaam's Magazine
and Old and New, became one of the
great successes of American periodi.
cal literature. DR.. Holland owned a
third in this fortunate venture. the
remaining two-thirds being held bv
the Scribners aud Mr.. Roswell Smith.
the business manager, who acquired
tho Scribners' interest, it nav. ha
said, in April last, Mr.. Holland hay-