Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-12-07
The Death OF Thurlow Wee&~- Bio.
graphical Sketch.
new YORK, November =.


NEW YORK, November q.
81 rnurlow Weed ded at s:55 o. clock this morn
tnc surrounded by his weeping children.
grandchildren, PHYSICIANS. nurses ana aItacnes
e h;s household His daughter, Miss Harriet
well (vho mas de1oted her life to her father,
,x,as 40 overcome hat she had to be supported
NJ two female attendants. The grief OF the
other children was none the less poignant
Inst before passiig away Mr.. Weed gropeo
with his right ham around the bed, as though
he sought his chldren's hands. His grand
daugbter took tn, extended hand, felt soft
pressure and the fex moment he4as dead
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Thurlow weedvas born on November 10,
1857. at Cairo, Greene County, Ny ~ ynltner
his parents had 'emigrated from stamford,
Conn. He was he son of Joel-M car
man. and was named Edward Thurlow, after
Edward Lord TbIriow, but the iEd~afd was
soon dropped. When about ten years OF
ape he became scabin-boy on board sloop.
He learned to setype in the office of Macky
CrossweIl. at Caskill. During the war OF
1879 Young Weedxas in the army, having en-
listed in Herkiler County regiment under
Colonel Petrie, iI1Sl3. He was shortly after
ward made Quartrmaster Sergeant and spent
several months camp life at Sackett'S Har-
bor NY. Aftefthe war he was employed in
street, in New lork, at one tiule being fei.
Iow@workfrlan With James Harper, the late
head of the grea publishing house, in April.
1918. Mr.. Weed mrried Miss Catherine M. Os-
trander, of Cooprstown. N. X, a woman of
remarkably goo sense and prudence, indus
try. religious prlciples and domestic habits.
His first connec,on with the press as an edi-
tor was in Chenago County, where he started
the weekly Repptican -A0ricuHuyist IN Decem-
Der. 1915 1t wa Clintonian in politics, and
the ,tojeet Of constructing the
Erie Canal Ins2I he purchased am interest
in the Manlius INES, which he soldloata year
or two later. Ding to Rochester he secured
the position Of ssistant editor on the Roches-
ter telegraph. 1924 he represented the city
of Rochester inhe State Legislatures. During
his .. service In the Legislature he
displayed tbs skill for political ma
nipulatfon with characteri8eds his after
life Returnngo Rochester he became editor
and half ownerf the ISegrdph, wAese circu-
lation and inflnce was steadily, increasing.
The mysteriou disappearance of. Captain
William Morgaand the anti Masonic excite
ment which foIwed the alleged Masonic MUIR
der suddenly b.ame important factors in MIR.
Weed life II took the anti-Masonic side.
and in the heiG of the. excitement the Tele-
9ra1,h went don through theyYithdrawal Of
all Masonic sport, Mr.. Weeds tact as q
party managerial hts: services in 1926 in Sc
curing the elecon Of De Witt Clinton as Gov
ernor, suggest him as a competent person
to oppose the Albany Regency" which, with
the Albany rAiis as the, organ, was the con-
trolling powennd the Albany EUenin0 Jour
nal was establhed with Weed as editor. By
the spring ofiS3i the nucleus of the new
party, called 4 Wing, had been formed. It
at once took, I'm foothold in New England.
In md Ind l.
dates. were elfed Governor and Lieutenant
Goyern0r Of Nv York State, and the Wings
the guidance ! the Evensng Journal and its
editor, that piticians of the State were in
Msaa
"the Old Man.etc. It is doubtful If any one
man. ever BIG such completes control of
By i its membe'as Nj Weed an BIS relation to
undoubtedly Is his dsinterestedhess. He
sought no Off himself and would take none.
He preferredo be the power behind the
throne rattle man the semblance of power on
the throne. Twas repeatedly urged to run
to Mayor OF bany, but invariably declined.
Three times Twas offered the. English Mis-
sion by thrediferent Presidents whom he
curing the Psidenrial nominations of Rarri-
son, Taylor a Scott. He warmly advocated
II ss and L hv in
dent Lincolnn semi-di plomatc capacity.
On his returfrom Europe in lSi2 the graft
tude of New ork for what he had done took
the shape offormal presentation to him of
the freedomf the, city, ana several of his
more ,intims friends united in presenting
him with a ely memorial in silver, which is
one OF the psf precious heiriooms in the
family. ~
In Januaryis63 Mr.. Weed dissolved his
Vi the Albany Journal, both as
editor and ppietor. During the summer
and autumnl 1865 the war of the rebellion as
sumed an aSG which occasioned Mr.. Weed
great solctie The consequence was that
be worked CHAPLAIN after lonssreflection, by
the adoptiorD1 which he beloved the war
could not oni more vigorously prosecuted,
but speedily ntd. He went TO Washington
and laid the Ia before the President. but it
was not asibptJ Since the close Of the war
Rr. Weed hasted in New York, Land for a
time edited theimmerciU Advertiser. He has
maintained a lily interest in ull public Ques-
tons. and hasfeouent1y favored the met
ropolitan prd with bis views on the
top cs of the " and with "reminiscences.
In 1872 he retted to active politics for
brief time, sarteoured the Romination Of
General John Dix by the Republican State
fobvernor. r. On March - 1880.
hcoHce more kImed the editorship of the
JOufpdi-for of1ay--On the occasion of the
celebration ofe hftieth anniversary of its
: He leaves de daughters. Mrs. William
Barnes. of Altf. N. Y; Mrs. James Alden 4
of Morrisania{ Y :, and Miss Harriet Weed 4
who has been constant com panion since the
death of his vi about thirty years ago. He
caves an estaftimatedEat over Sl,000,000. 4