The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-17
SECRETARY FOLGER DEAD.
Sudden Close Of a Long Ilmess---
Sketch Of His Life.

Particulars of the sudden death of Secretary |
Foger at his home in Geneva, n. ", are |
given in dispatches from that place as fol |
lows: Secretary Folgcr died at his home here
at 4.5j o'clock r. NJ. His death was 50 sud
den that there was not time to summon his
children, and neither Of them was
here. The only persons present were Mrs.
Hart, of Auburn, his deceased wifcs sister;
Drs. Knapp aud Law, associate, of his family
physician, DR.. \. Il. Smith, and his colorcd
servant James DR.. Smith and Captain
= Lewis had left him My short time b'-
fore his death Dr. Henry Foster, Of the
Clifton Springs sanitarium, who had been hcrr
two or three times as consulting physician,
arrived on tn i;ij train anl was conveyed 10
the Fogcr mansion 10y Dr. Smith. Mrs Ernst.
Of Buffalo, the secrctarys sister, arrived bv
the same train, just rs thCs' three entered
the room the secretary brcathcd his last
and all was over Secretary 'olgcr'S two
daughters w're in the Adirunda,k~,
the elder being IN very feeble health
His son, Captain Charles W. Folgcr,
was at Alexandria, Va All had Lcen writ
ten 10 10 come To Geneva. The telegraph was
not IcsuHcd 10 carrier rs So sudden tcrmi-
nation Of the fathers mandy was not up-
pretended. The secretary returned 10 Geneva
ior the last time Wednesday evening, the
10Th ut He called his family physician next
morning.
The doctor gives the following diagnosis of
| the case. Great lcchcncss of the hearts ar-
| tion congestion Of the middle lobe of the
| right lung and capillary congestion Of the
| bronchial tubes; torpur of the liver; allm-
| minuuS discharge, showing n dis"s' of th'
| kidneys. The doctor was informed that the
secretary had had hcmorThagc of the lungs
/ three times Of late before his return home
the first while out yachting with friends at
New York ON which occasion hc discharged
about pint of blood.
Secretary Folgcr rode ont daily until and
including the 29th ult., since which time llo
kept his room, hut did not wholly abandon
official work lie continued to answer i'm
Iurtant letters and kilograms mp o. the day
before his death and seemed reluctant tO Civ,
up. Yet he was 10y no means IN co.,. un- q"
his critical condition and mtrustci tp hr
personal friend. Captain Lewis, final mo,
Sngcs to his children and other direction, of q
confidential nature
News of his death went like wildiir,
through Geneva. and before Il T.. NJ. hosts o
buildings were drapcd in mourning and th
fgrs about the village were at half mu,i
llund eds of kilograms poured IN to the hu
Icaycd relatives from all pGrtSuf the country
Among the first TO telegraph was lrc,idcu
Arthur. Every member Of the cabinet ais
sent words Of condolcnre.
Charles James Folgcr was born on Apri
III. lSlS, at Nantucket, Mass. He had liv,
at Geneva since he was fourteen years oIC
He was graduated Mt Hobart college in r.,
with the highest hOnOrS of his class. II
studied law, was admitted 10 the bar IN 49,
wa, a Justice of the peace in Geneva, an
was appointed in lSli "A judge Of the cou
: of common pleas in Ontario county. Il
was elected county Judge of Ontario count
in 1851.
He began his political life as a Silas Wrigl
' Democrat. In 1861 lie was elected To- q
t state Senate aS a Republican, and srrN,
/ eight years. being ono of the rrcugui',
n leaders of the party. In the constitution
/ convention Of Isl, he served ON the judicial
committee. He was n pronounced antus
. mist OF q IvcrnOr Fcnton. In the bitter liz
i'm the legislature of 1865 between Nunderb
:, and Gould he opposed the Efforts Of the n,
York Central road to get control Of the Er
: railroad.
- lie denounced Tweed vigorously and Il
- his est to defeat the Twcel measure in I
d legislature. lIo was warm friend OF Sci
" | tOrCOnkllng through WnuSH IlIl'l'' ll'
a appointed by President Grant III 1863 to
Il. Office of United States treasurer in the city
II New York. At the end of the year lc y
n, elected an associate Judge of the New y,
$ court of appeals, and, upon the death of Ct
Judge Church, in lsSo was designated
Governor Cornell To act as chief Judge.
was reelected for the term oI fourier Nc
by majority Of ij,3GS, rcsgnlng in Orioi
ii 1851, to take the post OF scalctaryoi the q"
,o ury.
" MIR. Folgers signal defeat as n caniid
for governor Of New York is fresh in
ne minds of the people, but it was a'compln
le by many assurances 10 him that the TAIL
" oi hIs uarty TO vote fer him was not
IL tended as condemnation of his pcrso
ne character or Of his action a'a public IN
'd PhvsiCally he was a large, robust man,
few men have accomp -h'd more work IL
IL. has been the result oi hi, busy life He
is n substantial but mprctcntiuu house
" Geneva, overlooking the lake, over viii h'
M of his daughters presided, He was "
over. his wife having died several years q
:. He leaves three children, one son and
nj daughters, all of whom are grown up.
Folger's eyes began to fail several years
and at times he has sulferedmuch with llu