The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-12-02
The Death OF ThurIow Weed - Bio
graphical Sketch.
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Thurlow Weed d ed at : rs " cock this morn
ing. surrounded b. lis weeping children.
grandchildren. phys clans. nurses and attaches
of his householi. His daug liter. NJ So Harriet
Weed. who hRs devoted her life to her father.
SO ov rcome that she had to be supported
by two female attendants The grief of the
other Chi dren was mono the less poignant
Just before passing away Mr.. Weed CROPPED
with his ght hand around the bed, rs though
he sought h : childrens han s. His grand
daughter took the extended hand, felt a soft
pr ssurc and the next momont ne was dead.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Thurlow Weed was born on November Is,
11g1, at Cairo, Greene County, y. Y. VIII Their
his parents had cmigratcd from Stamford,
Conn lie was the son of joel Weed, a car
man, ana was named Edward Thurlow after
lwsrd Lord Thurlow, but the Edward was
soon dropped. When about ten years of
age he became a cabiu-hoy on board a sloop.
He learned to set type in the Office OF Macky
Crosswell, at Catsk H. During the war of
1872 " unE Weed was in the army, having en-
listed in Herkimer County regiment under
Colonel Petre in 1873. He was shortly after
ward made Quartermaster-Scrg ant, and spent
several months in camp life at SacSetts Har.
Dor, N Y. After the war he was emp Dyed in
var Gus offices in Franklin Square and Pearl
street, in New York. Mt one I me being IA fell
low-workman with James Harper, the late
head of the great publishing house. in April,
1919, Mr.. We d married Miss Cathar ne NJ. Os-
trander, of Cooperstown, n. y, woman OF
remarkably good sense and prudence, indus
try relig ous pr nciples and domestic habits.
His first connection with the press as nm edi-
tor was in Chenanyo County, where he started
the weekly Republican AyrieIlttT S, in Deem
Der, 1915 1t was Clintonian in politics, and
supported the project of constructing the
Erie Canal. In 1921 he purchased an interest
| in the Manius Times. which he sold out year
or two later. Going to Rochester he secured
| the position of assistant editor on the Roches-
| ter Telegraph. In 1924 he repre- ented the city
| of Rochester in the State Legislature. During
| his service in the Legislature he
displayed the skill for political ma
nipuation which characterized his after
| life Return ng to Rochester he became editor
and half owner of the TIE egraph. whose circu-
| lation and influence was steadily increasing.
| The mysterious disappearance of Captain
| William Morgan and the ant-Masonic excite
| ment which followed the alleged Masonic muir
| der suddenly became important factors in Mr..
| Weeds life. He took the ant-Masonic side,
and in the height of the excitement the Tele-
| graph went down through the withdrawal of
! all Masonic support. Mr.. Weeds tact as
| party manager and his services in 1926 in Sc
curing the election of De Witt Clinton as Gov
! ernor, suggested him as n competent person
| to oppose the Albany Regency" which, with
the Albany Argus as the organ, was the con-
trolling power and the Albany ErcnlnJ Jour
nal was established with Weed as ed TOR By
the spring of 1884 the nucleus of the new
party, called the Wing, had been formed. 1t
mt once took firm foothold in New England.
| In 1885 Seward and Bradish, the Wing candi.
dates, We're elected Governor and Lieutenant
| Governor of New York State, and the Wings
had a majority, in the State Assembly. SO
/ nd had nj n m a
| the guidance of the bUeHng Journal and its
editor, that politicians of the State were in
| constant C Insulation with Mr. Weed, who was
| already called the Dictator" "the Warwick"
| "the Old Man. etc. 1t is doubtful if any one
man ever had such complete control of n
| party or had his advice so impl c thy followed
| by its members as Mr.. Weed IN his relation to
the Wing party. The great secret of his sway
undoubtedly was his d sntere sickness. He
| sought no Office himself and won d take none.
| He preferred to be the power behind the
| throne rather than the semblanct of power on
the throne. He was repeatedly ureed to run
for offices, ranging from icc-PrpSident down
| to Mayor of Albany. but invariably declined.
Three mes he was offered the English Mis-
| sion by three different Presidents whom he
! had helped elect He WAS prominent i'm pro-
| curing the Presi lential nominations of Harri-
! son, Taylor and Scott. He warmly adVo"atad
| the election of Fremont in lNEi and Lincoln in
1860 In 1861 he was sent to Europe by Presi-
dent Lincoln in semi-dipljmatic capacity.
| On his return from Europe in lst2 the graft
tude of New York for what ne had done took
the shape of "A formal presentation to him of
the freedom of the city. and several of his
| more intimate friends un ted in presenting
him with costly memorial in silver, which is
| one OF the most precious heirooms IN the
| family.
In January, 1863, NJ. Weed dissolved his
connection with the Albany journal, both as
editor and proprietor. During the summer
AM autumn of 1868 the war of the rebellion as
| sumCd an aspect which oocasioned Mr.. Weed
| great sole tude. The consequence was that
he worked out plan, after long reflection, by
the adoption of which he believed the war
| could not only be more vigorously prosecuted,
but speedily ended He went 10 Washington
and laid the plan before the President, but il
was not adopted. Since the close of the war
Mr. Weed has lived i'm New York, and for a
time g | ted the Commercial Advertiser He has
maintained lively interest in all public ques-
tons. and has frequently favored the met
ropoitan press with his views on the
top cs of the day and with "reminiscences.
In 1872 he returned to active politics for a
brief time. ana secured the nomination of
General John A. Dix by the Republican State
Convention for Governor On March ~. 1880,
he once more assumed the editorship of the
JOlu1IG'-for one day-on the occasion of the
celebration of the tiftieth anniversary of its
foundation.
He leaves three daughters, Mrs. William
Barnes, of Albany, N. Y; Mrs. James Alden,
of Morrisania, N. Y, and Miss Harriet Weed,
who has been his constant companion sinccthe
death of his wife, about thirty years ago. He
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