Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-08
LONG-LiVED PEOPLE.
A CLASSIFIED RECORD OF TEn
THOUSAND C5NTENk7lAVS.
The Result OF Thirty. eight Years OF Pa
tient Invesligation-Longsy and
OctupatioD-A Number OF Spe-
cial Instances-Queer Cases.


Isyracrse Cor Ncw Yor; Trib@nal
A newsletter Of this city is about "a
publish book entitled The fncyclope
dia Of Human Ungeyity." which is the
result of thirty eight years of investiga
ton on his part The book will contain
an authentic record of large number Of
people, men and women, who have at
tanned the age Of 100 years OF more. Tn,
only exception 10 this is the case of a mar
who died AZ the age Of 90 years and 3d.
days. and whom the author regards q.
virtually ccntenarian. The book will
represent an immense amount OF labor
and research, and its author believes that
il may lie relied on us accurate ia every
instance.
have, said the author, syeaIing OF
his books, more than 10. 900 Instances OF
people WHO have lived 100 wears and
more These names have been gathered
from every part Of the globe This coun
try leads in longevity. and Connecticut il
al the front among the Uited States. In
that state | have gathered statistics in
regard 10 more than 5000 people who
were more than 20 years of aye, and OF
this number twenty were beyond the cen.
fury limit As regards sex, the majority
OF these 10000 centeuarians were women.
l account for this by the fact that they
lead less irregular lives than men. | have
instances Of tifty old maids who come up to
my century standard, and only twelve
bachelors As regards occupation, | find
that sailors, soldiers, and farmers are the
longest lived. Among the professions |
have the instances of 100 ministers who
lived TO LOO years and more, while l
could find only thirty doctors, ten law.
yers and ten actors who came up to the
standard | can find no case among my
100000 newspaper man who has lived
70 be 100 years Old Newspaper men do
so much brain work hat they die young. I"
Coming to special instances Among
the Oldest people in the [ nited tates
were flora Thompson, negress OF
Nashua \. c., WHO died at the aye of $50
years; Betsy rau ham, native of Ger
many, who died in Tennessee at the age
of l54 years, and sims a slave who died
In Virginia, lsO years old have the
cases Of ten persons who lived in safety
for 100 years aud were then burned TO
death. In Onondaga county | have the
sketches of fifty centenarians. Among
them is Rev. Daniel Waldo. who died in
1864 at the age Of nearly 102 years. For
@acAN 1Nhio ht W - u
man in the Presbyterian church, and ON
the anniversary of his Tooth birthday he
preached a sermon in the irst Presby,
terian church of Syracuse Tile last six
pensioners of the revolutionary war were
centenariaDs, and | have their photo.
graphs. Then there was John Weeks, of
New London. Conn, who married his
tenth wife when be was 106 years of age
and she only IL. He died at the age of
ia. Ills gray hairs had fallen oil aud
they were renewed by dark growth Of
hair. Several new teeth had also made
their appearance, and few hours before
his death he ate three pounds Of pork. two
or three pounds Of bread, and drank a
pint Of wine.
Nicholas Schathcowski Of Posen, was
another old fellow. He deposed on oath
before the council of Constance. A. ID.
l4l4, that he was $50 years of nge, and
that his father whose age at the time of
his death was nearly 200. could remember
the death Of the first king of Poland. A.
ID. 1O.5t Among the oddities to be found
in my book will be the photograph of a
man who died at the age of years
He had ia children, grandchildren
and eat-grandchildren and outliyed
them all Then there was Margaret Nc.
DOwal, Of Edinburgh, who died ut the age
Of l0i She married and survived thirteen
husbands 3. ohm Rovin and his wife. of
Hungary, lived together as man and wife
for las years lie was 1874 and she liz
nj the time they died. aud their youngest
son was llG years old when his parents
died
= ~There is tue case Of man who mar
RED sixteen times and had no children.
This case is offset by that of another cen
tenarian who had iorty-nine children.
John hiya, an exchange broker, Of Italy,
lived 10 the age Of ms years. and had a
child born 10 him after he was 100 years
old PetE, Sioux squaw. who died
little while ago. lived for more than 100
years she had been the vie IN turn of
an army o Ger. an Indian chief. a border
cavalr, man and q Methodist minister
William Ward. of Westchestcr county,
died in liz at the age OF 10 lie was a
member Of the Ward family who were
among the earliest sett ers in Westchesier
county, and the particulars Of his life
and death were given in the New York
papers Of the time
Another queer incident is that OF a
oentenaria1 who was married four times
and had a daughter by each wife These
daughters married aud each of them had
fourteen children. Then there was q
man who went over the century line and
had twenty-five children. His first was
boy. and girs and Toys came dfler that
in regular rotation. There was Ierson
known as Elizabeth Page. who lived in
London and died Rt The age of l0S years
After death, ii WAS discovered that the
supposed woman was a mas.