The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
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JUDGE BLACK DEAD.
Death OF Judge Jere s.. Black of
Pennsy!vapta, Who Passed Away
With n PRAYER on His L1ns

Death OF Judge Jere s.. Black of
Pennsylvapia, Who Passed Away
With = Prayer on His Lips,
:: York, .Ps,, Special Telegram, Aug. 1e. -
Brockie is in mourning. Judge Black, the
the central figure of Brockie, lies cold in
death.< His death was peaceful and calm,
and his eventful life went out beautiful as
the setting Of 4 summer sun upon the cloud
less sky. His death was courageous one,
and in hope of blessed immorta lity. At
2:l5 o'clock he breathed his last. Kissing
his wife goodbye, he turned over on his
side, and with a smile playing upon his lips
he passed away. His two sons, Chauncey
F. and Henry, his daughter, Mrs. Hornsby,
and bis son-in.law, Mr.. Hornsey, and A. F.
Farquhar: were present when
the Vital spark aed... Shortly before death
had laid bis icy hands Upon him, he spoke
with. confidence of the future, saying to his
son Cha uncy he had no fear OF crossing the
dark river when his Heavenly Father
awaited him on the other shore, ending,
y would that I vers al comfortable about
what Leave behind in the world" When
his beloved wife knelt by his bedside com.
forting him with her sympathy and love,
he gave utterance to the folio wing impree.
sive prayer: "Oh, thou M ost beloved and
mereiful heavenly Eelhest, ifon whom T
he'd thy being, and in whom I have ever
trusted, if it be thy will, grant that nv suf-
fering end and that I be called home to
thee. And oh bless and comfort thou my
Mary"
The judges illness only dates from Mon
day last, and finn the first approach Of the
fatal and painful disease:Ae was perfe5tly re-
signed, feeling thht it would terminate fatal
1y. After hiu csbe became critical, and it was
found necessary to resort to q surgical oper-
alton, he observed that the docto}s were j.,
council, and asked itsimrcrt. Ihey told
him of: the intesEeG operation, and that
they haG asked the consent of the family.
GOOD humoredly and with mis- accustomed
Wit, he remarked:
You have reckoned without your host. l
an the victim and the only one to be CON-
suited. I will not submit. can hold out
until Drs. ,AttEE and Garnett can be st,ra-
moned III consultation.
Agreeably to the judges desire ths drc.
tors we're brought and he ctnkBhted to the
oterAtioh. 1t was successfully performed,
but blood poisoning followed, which was
the immediate cause of his death. ALI
through his sickness, although suffering in
tense agony, he WIS cheerful, and his great
A1Au kdFS SC[1o III I1S4uCllb SClItL1l1dtlOlS OF
witty ttterahces, and at times he repeated
selections from bib faHorite authors, .Bry-
ants Thanatopsi is and the words OF Lady
Macneth, In his dying moments tie ;iurist
lost none of his force OF character, his geni-
allty and brightness of disposition, and his
flow oflanguage, when not under the influ-
encei of opiates. Judge Black suffered
greatly during his illness, but his last mo-
meats were without acu.e pain, and
he passed quietly away, retaining con-
sciousness within few minutes of his
death.
jeremiah Sullivan Black was born in
Somerset county, Pa. Jan. 10, 1910. His
ancestors came from the north of Ireland
Pa, the houe of the statesman, early in
the seventeenth century. His father, Henry
Black, being farmer, Jerry, as he was
familiarly called, passed his early years
upon the virgin fields of the clearing
among the glades, and his love of rural
life remained with him through all his days.
It also fixed his religious faith and turned
him to the Camprellite church, which he
Joined at the age OF twenty eight. He re-
ceived his first mind training in the schools
about his own home, but he COM
emy in Fayette county. he lad an I'M
mense legal prac ice from the first and in
1855 he h3arried Miss Mary Forward, his
p-eceptor's daughter, who survives him.
In 1912 Gov. Porter appointed him Judge
of Common Pleas. He was made chief
Justice of the supreme court of the State in
1851. by drawing the short term of three
years. after having been chosen upon the
ticket with Lewis, Groson, Lowery, and
Coulter, under the new constitutional pro-
vision, making the judges elective. In
1854 he was reelected to the supreme
bench by large majority. Afterwards
he became Attorney General of the United
States under Mr.. Buchanan. Judge Blacks
loyalty during those trying months is un.
questionable. The late member of that
cabinet, furnished in January, 1877, writ.
en- tribute to Judge Blacks unswerving
loyalty during that period and Judge HoIl
apother of his cabinet colleagues, has said
No man could have been more ardent OF
earnest III his attachment 10 the union o,
more persistept in urging, those things cal
c1lated to save it from the designs of the
southern men than Judge Black"
AS lawyer he was considered one of th'
greatest III the country. Two years age
| he published vigorous defense of th'
Christian religion II the North America,
Review against the onslaughts of Robert G
| lngersoll.