The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-31
LONG-LlyED PEOPLE.
Features OF Classified Record of Ten Thou
sand C,nteIarians.


this city, writes Syracuse correspon
dent to The Nei0 York Tribune. is abou
to publish book entitled 1.-THE
Encyclopedia of Human Longevity
which is the result of thirty eigh
years of investigation on his part. The
book will contain an authentic record
of large number of people. men and
women, who have attained the age oil
100 years or more. The only excep.
ton to this is the case of a man who
died at the age of SO years and 1854
days, and whom Mr.. Perkins regards
as virtually centenarian. The book
will represent an immense amount OF
labor and research, and its author be-
lieves that it may be relied on as &C.
curate in every instance.
II have" said Mr.. Perkins, speaking
of his book, "more than 0,000 in
stances of people VINO have lived 100
wears and more. These names have
been gathered from every part of the
globe. This country leads in longevi-
ty, and Connecticut is at the front
among the United States. In that
state have gathered statistics IN re-
gard to more than 5000 persons who
were more than so years of age, and
of this number 20 were beyond the
century limit. As regards sex the
majority of these 10000 centenarians
were women. / account for this by
the fact, that they lead less irregular
lives than men. / have instances of
80 old maids who come up to my CEN
fury standard, and only y bachelors.
AS regards occupation find that sail
TO ha
longest lived. Among the professions
/ have the instances of 100 ministers
who lived to 100 years and more, while
i could find only 80 doctors, 10 law
yers, and 10 actors who came up to
the standard. | can find no case
Il mong my 10000 of a newspaper man
who has lived to be 100 years old.
Newspaper men do SO much brain
work that they die young"
Coming to special instances, Mr..
Perkins added: "Among the oldest
people in the United States were Flora
Thompson, negress of Nashua, N. c.,
who died at the age of $50 years; Betsy
Frautham, a native of Germany, who
died in Tennessee at the age of 154
years, and Sins, slave, who died in
Virginia, $50 years old. l have the
cases of ten persons who lived in safe
ty for one hundred years and then
burned to death. In Onondaga coun-
ty have the sketches of fifty centena-
rians. Among them is Rev. Daniel
Waldo, who died in 1864 at the age of
nearly 102 years. For more than
sixty years he was clergyman in the
Presbyterian church, and on the an
niyersary of his Tooth birthday he
preached sermon in the First Presby-
terrain church of Syracuse. The last
six pensioners of the Revolutionary
war were centenarians, and l have
their photographs. Then there was
John Weeks, of New London, Conn.,,
who married his tenth wife when he |
was LOG years of age and she only 16. |
He died at the age of ia. His gray |
hairs had fallen off and they were re-
newed by a 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 be-
fore the council of Constance, A. ID.
1414. that he was $50 years of age, and
that his father, whose age at the time
of his death was nearly 200, could re-
member the death of the first king of
Poland, A. d. 1925. Among the oddl-
ties to be found in my book will be the
OF man who died at the
age of 121 years. He had IA children,
grandchildren and great-grandchlld-
rem, and outlived them all. Then
there was Margaret MEDIEVAL, of Edin-
burgh, who died at the age of LOG.
She married and survived thirteen
husbands. John Rovin and his wife,
of Hungary, lived together as man
an wife for 14S years. He was 1874
and she 172 at the time they died, and
their youngest son was 116 years old
when his parents died.
There is the case of a man who
married sixteen times and had no
children. This case is offset by that
Of another centenarian who had forty
nine children. John Riva, an Ell
change broker of Italy, lived to the
age of 116 years, and had a child born
% HIM after he was 100 years old, Betz,
| Sioux squaw, who died little while
lgo, lived for more than 100 years. ,
She had been the wife in turn of an
lrmy officer, IN Indian chief, bor-
Ter cavalryman, and a Methodist
minister. William Ward, of Westehes- ,
er county, died IN 1878 at the age of J
O7. He was member of the Ward !
amily who were among the earliest :
ettlers in Westchester county, and :
he particulars of his life and death
we're given in the New York papers of ;
he time. His brother John was
magistrate, and attended court in
White Plains as late as 1873. William
Ward, member of this family, car :
led on business as a banker in 1883 at
70. 81 Broadway, New York. An
Their queer incident is that of CEN >
enarian who was married four times !;
nd had daughter by each wife. y
'hese daughters married, and each
f them had fourteen children. Then
here was a man who went over the :,
entury line and had twenty-five child =
en-. His first was a boy, and girls h
nd boys came after that in regular y
citation. There was a person known Il
5 Elizabeth Page, who lived in Lon y
on and died al fhe aUe Of 102 vearo -