The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-05-10
A GREAT AND GOOD MAN DEAD.
DEATH OF HON. HORACE
MAYNARD.
Knoxville Chronicle, Thursday


out the United States and across the
waters in the old world. The sad
event came at an unexpected hour
The distinguished deceased was out
on our streets at a late hour Tues
day afternoon. During the day he
spent an hour in the editorial rooms
of the Chronicle Office, looking over
our exchanges and engaging pleas
antly in conversation with visitors.
He seemed to be in excellent health,
and after he retired it was subject
of remark that he was an extra
ordinary specimen of physical man
hood for one of his age. And we
have never seen him appear more
cheerful. Always interesting In
conversation, he never appeared to
better advantage than on this occa-
sion, charming those present by the
alaa-nosa and brightness with which
he touched upon different topics
mentioned. Little did we think as
he went out of our doors, so health
full and so cheerful, that we would
be called upon so soon to write this
melancholy chapter.
He remained at home as usual
Tuesday evening with his now dis
consulate companion. During the
evening he sent an invitation to his
neighbor and kinsman, w. p. Wash
burn, Esq, to spend the evening
with him, as he frequently did, but
the engagements of Mr.. and Mrs.
Washburn were such that they
could not, and Mr. Maynard retired
to bed soon after 10 o'clock. AT Il
o'clock he had occasion to get up,
and remarked to Mrs. Maynard that
he felt pains in his chest. She pro-
posed to get up and administer
something for his relief, but he said
it was nothing and would soon pass
away. Soon after lying down, he
remarked: II can't breathe" These
were his last words. Mrs. Maynard
Immediately summoned Mr.. Wash
burn; and their neighbor, lifelong
friend and physician, DIR. James
Rodgers, was sent for. Before either
of them arrived, life was extinct,
and the immortal spirit of the great
and good man had returned to the
God who gave it. Heart disease
was the cause. Of his death. Mr..
Washburn came up to the telegraph
office and to the Chronicle Office, but
no one being down stairs, the sad
news was not known through the
morning papers, but in a short time
after daylight it was known through
out the city, and a pail of gloom
rested over the entire community.
For however much men may have
differed with Mr.. Maynard on pub
lie questions, his neighbors and |
those who knew him best respected
him for the pbrity of his life. In
all the bitter and exciting political
contests through which he has
passed in the last quarter of a cen
fury, no man has ever made a charge |
against Hon. Horace Maynard af-
fecting his personal or official integ-
rity. All agree that in this respect |
even criticism was disarmed, and |
the shafts OF calumny fell harmless
at his feet.
Mr.. Maynard was born at West
borough, Massachusetts,, on the Both |
day of August, 1914, and had he
lived would have been sixty-eight |
years old next August. He received |
his early education at a high school
taught by Rev. DIR. Dana, and was
subsequently at Milbury Academy. |
He graduated at Amherst College, |
in August, 1888, and removed to
Knoxville the following October,
where he studied law with the late
Judge Alexander. At the same |
time he was employed by the
of the East Tennessee Uni
verslty, now University of Tennes-
see, rs a tutor, and afterwards be-
came Professor of Mathematics. He |
served the University six years, and |
there are many men of more or less
all over the country |
who still remember him as one of
the ablest men who have ever en-
gagged in the honorable profession of |
teaching.
After his connection with the |
University ceased, he entered active
ly into the practice of the law, and
was successful from the beginning, |
taking rank in a remarkably short |
time with the ablest members of
what was then one of the ablest bars
in the State or in the country. AT
the outset he was poor. 1t was
then the custom of lawyers to prac-
tice in several counties, and they
rode from one town to another on
He was not able to own |
a horse, but went on foot to the
courts, until, through the kindness
of friend, he was supplied with
one. His associates, and the coun-
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