St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-03
DEATH OF SEN. ANTHONY.
The Senior Member Of the United
States Senate.


idence, No. Benevolent street, at AS this
afternoon, aged SO years, five months one
day. He was in more than usual health
yesterday, having spent several hours in the
Journal office, and manifesting his usual
cheerful good spirits, when not oppressed by
pain and weakness, his chronic disease. He
passed comfortable night; and took break
fast about ten O'clock with good appetite.
Shortly afterwards he was observed growing
pale, and was attacked by uremic conyul-
sions from witch he did not recover, and
passed away at :45.
The funeral of Senator Anthony will take
place from the First Congregational church
in Providence on Saturday.
Henry Bower Anthony was born at Coventry,
r. J., on the LIST of April, 1915, Of Quaker par
entage. lie received a classical education and
graduated at Brown university, Providence, in
1898, with mind well stored with British and
classic lore, TO enter npon rugged era OF prac-
ticai lie. He had intended entering upon the
practice of law, but his health having been i'm
paired by his collegiate studies, he went to Sa-
VGnnah, Ga, where he passed q winter putchas-
ing cotton for the manufactures in which his re-
latives were interested. On his return he was
requested by Mr.. Knowles, who afterwards be-
came his father-in-law, and who was
one of the proprietors OF the Providence Jour-
mt, 10 temporarily fill the editorial chair of that
newspaper, which had been vacated by the death
OF the incumbent. The editorial profession gave
young Mr.. Anthony more enlarged and congenal
range OF thought than could be supplied by the
dry details of the law, and entering upon the
career OF Journalism he performed his part there
with remarkable success aud pecuniary profit.
Ills editorials, marked as they always have been
with proofs of the aElplest study, research and
=,
purity ana lucid cloquence. After the stirring
events Of what was kno VI in Rhode Island as
the ''Dorr war; the ability shown by dr. An
thony in leading the cause of ''law and order
was recognized by his election as
governor in 1919, and his reelection the follow
lng year. lie was then Wing, and when the
Republicans came into the ascendcncy in Rhode
Island (which had for some years been Demo-
cratic) he was elected to the United States SEN
ate, where he took his seat December 5, 1859.
ana o1 those who were theE members of that
body. not one is senator. He was sue
cessiyely reelected to the senate ia 1868, 1871,
1877 and 1888. In 1860, and again in 1871, he
was elected president of the senate pro tempore.
during his long term of senatorial service Gen.
Anthony maintained position which gained
him the respect, the confidence and the affection
of that body TO degree rarely enjoyed by
lis members. He never played the
denagogue the partisan and his
thourough acquaintance with the rules
of the senate and with the traditions of that
body made him authority Oh all disputed ques-
lions. Courteous and manly in his intercourse
with senators on both sides of the chamber, be
had 10 quarrels and had no scramble for spos
During the sad days OF congressional specula-
tons in railroad stocks, and in the Credit
Mober, he was above suspicion, and was never
even subjected to that ordeal OF public SANDER
which so many other public men have had to
pass through. AS chairman OF the committee
on public printing for twenty years he intro
duced several important reforms and corrected
many abuses. II is to his efforts that the public
is indebted for the present open award of paper
contracts. The Congressional Record
was established under his direction
and many typographical reforms were
Instituted by him, He was member of the ma
tlonai committee appointed to accompany the re-
mains OF President Lincoln to Illinois, and was
one of the senators designated by the senate to
attend the funeral of Gen. Scott in 1856. lie
was also delegate TO the Philadelphia ''Loyalist
convention" of 1865. Senator Anthony was mar
ried early in life TO Miss Knowles, of Providence
but she died few years afterward lie con
tnued to keep house in Providence, where he
dispensed generous Inequalities. Almost every
public man visiting the city was his guest and he
gave frequent dinner parties to his friends. Sen
ator Anthony was a historic figure
in the senate, having served longer
in continuous service then any other
senator except Thomas H. Benton. He W S
the sole survivors in that body of the senate OF
1S59-60 in which the last fierce battle of seces-
sion and slavery was brought before the appeal
to arms-the senate of Charles Sumner, Stephen
A. Douglas William H. Seward and Jefferson
Davis. He was selected by the Republican eau
>eps as president of the senate last winter, but
declined on account OF the precarious state of
his health