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DEATHS DOINGS.


The Last Hours and Death of Charles
death of q. ii. Mccormick, Head of tho
Celebrated Harvester Firm.
NANTUCKET, MASS, May 70.
Charles O'Conor died at his home in
Nantucket yesterday at 1925 p. m.
When taken i'll, three weeks ago, he told
his physician that he did not care to live.
All he desired was that the medicine az
ford temporary relief. For the last five
days he had taken nothing but water and
medicine. Three minutes before his
death he reused up, opened his eyes and
put out his hand to the doctor and in
clear, strong voice exclaimed: "My Cod"
and then expired instantly without
apparent pain or struggle. O'Conor'S
written request was that his immediate
attendants should perform the last duties
superintendent by DR.. Roth He did not
wish any journeymen undertakers. The
family leave Nantucket with the remains
this morning en- route to New York to the
Fiftieth Street Cathedral, from whence
he will be inferred i'll the family vault,
according to his instructions.
HIS CAREER.
Charles O'Conor was born In New York
city in 1908, and was of a good Irish fam
lily. He received only common school
education, and was admitted to the bar
| in 1924. He soon rose to the highest en-
inence, but has never held an Office except
that OF District Attorney for fifteen
months. His greatest cases were the
Forest divorce case OS5D; the John
| Mason will case (l653); the Parish viii
case (lS62); the Lennon slave case
| Q856); the case of the slave Jack in 1850.
| He defended Jefferson Davis after
| the war, and represented Tilden's case
! before the Electoral Commission. In the
Greeley campaign, when the Democratic
! Convention at Baltimore accepted the
| Liberal Republican ticket, the straight
out Democrats assembled ut Baltimore
and nominated Charles O'CoGor as their
| standard-bearer for the Presidency. He
was twice offered position in the SUI
preme Court of the United States, was
| offered Il foreign mission bye Andrew
| johnson, and was frequently solicited to
become a candidate for the GoyernorShip
of New York but he invariably declined
all public houOrs.
CHICAGO. I'LL, May Il.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, the head of the
great Harvester Manufacturing Com
pany, and supposed to be one OF the richest
men in Chicago, died at his home in This
city yesterday morning, aged seventy
five years. lie had been an invalid for a
number of years.
Mr.. Mccormick was born in 1909 IN
Rockbridge County, Va. He was son
of Robert II. Mccormick, the farmer who
invented the original reaper In 1916, but
aiterward abandoned it, owing to its Inn
PROJECTIONS. Deceased brought the in
vention to a successful completion in
1891, when twenty-one years old. FoI
this invention, he was elected by the
French Institute as u member of tho
Academy of Science and received the
decoration of the Cross Legion of Honor
In politics he was Democrat, and nat
been prominent in his party as . plembel
of the National Committee He founded
and literally endowed the Theological
Seminary of the Northwest, conducted
under the auspices of the Presbyterian
Church, and also endowed profesSorshil
in the Washington and Union Theological
Colleges in Virginia.