Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-07
LONG-LIVED PEOPLE.
A CLASSIFIED RECORD OF TEN
THOUSAND cENTENARiANs.
The Result OF Thirty-eighs YsaFs Of Pa
esnt Observation-Disclosures and
Occupation-A Number Of spe-
ciai Instances-Qussr Cases


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A ncwsdealer Of this city is abou. to
publish book entitled @The Encyclope.
dis of Human Longevity" 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 or more The
only exception to this is the case Of man
who died al the age Of 80 years and 1854
days. and whom the author regards a.
virtually q centenarisn The book will
represent an immense amount Of labor
and research. and It's author believes that
1t may beTelied on a. accurate in every
instance
Il have, said the author, speaking Of
his books. more than 10. 900 instances of
people who have lived 100 years and
more These names have been gathered
from every part of the globe This coun-
try leads in longevity. and Connecticut is
at the front among the United States In
that state have gathered statistics in
regard to more than 5000 people who
were more than 60 years Of age, and of
this number twenty were beyond the cen
tury limit As regards sex, the majority
Of these 10. 600 centensrians were women.
/ account for this by the fact that they
lead less irregular lives than men. have
instances Of fifty old maids who come up 70
my century standard. cad only twelve
bachelors As regards occupation. / find
that sailors. soldiers. and farmers are the
longest lived Among the professions l
have the instances of 100 ministers who
lived to 100 years and more, while I
could find only thirty doctors, ten law
yers and ten actors who came up to the
standard can find no case among my
10000 OF q newspaper man who has lived
TO he 100 years old Newspaper men do
80 much brain work that they die young /"
Coming to special instances SAmopg
the Oldest people in the United states
were Flora Thompson, q negress of
Nashua, N. G., who died at thea of $50
years; Betsy Frautham. a native Of Ger
many. who died In Tennessee at the age
Of 154 years. and Sims, slave who died
In Virginia, $50 years old. have the
cases of ten persons who lived in safety
for 100 years and were then burned to
death. In Onondaga county I have the
sketches Of fifty centenarians Among
them il Rev. Daniel Waldo. who died In
1854 al the age Of nearly lO2 years. For
man In the Presbyterian church, and on
ehO VI 1Vttu blfQdD u6
preached sermon in the First Presby.
terian church of Syracuse The last six
pensioners of the revolutionary war were
centenarians. and / have their photo.
graphs Then there was John Weeks, of
New London, Conn, who married his
tenth wife when he was 106 years of age,
and she only l6. He died at the age of
ia. His gray hairs had fallen OH and
they were renewed 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 q
pint Of wine
Nicholas Schathcowski of Posen, was
another old fellow. He deposed on oath
before the council of Constance, A ID.
14l4, that he was $50 years of age. and
that his father. whose age at the time of
bis death was nearly 200. could remember
the death Of the first king Of Poland, A.
ID. 1925. Among the oddities to be found
in my book viii be the photograph of a
man who died at the age of Iii years.
He had IA children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. and outlived
them all Then there was Margaret Nc
Dowsl, Of Edinburgh. who died at the age
Of LOO. She married and survived thirteen
husbands John Rovin and his wife of
Hungary, lived together as man and wife
for 14S years He was 1854 and she 172
u the time they died, and their youngest
son was 1l6 years old when his parents
died
There Is the case of q man who mar
ried sixteen times and had no children.
This case Is offset by that of another cen
tenarian who had forty-nine children
John hva. an exehange-broker. of Italy,
lived to the age Of liz years. and had q
child born to him after he was 100 years
Did Betz, Sioux squaw. who died
listle while ago, lived for more than 100
years She had been the wife In turn of
IA army officer. an Indian chief, border
cavalry man and Q Methodist minister.
W illiam Ward Of Westchester county,
lied in 177S at the age Of I0z He was q
of the Ward family who were
among the earliest settlers in Westchester
county. and the particulars of his life |
md death were given in the New York |
papers of the time
Another queer incident Is that of Q
who was married four times |
md had daughter by each wife These |
daughters married. and each of them had |
fourteen children. Then there was a |
man who went over the century line and |
had twenty-five children His first was
/ boy, and girls and boys came after that |
n regular rotation There was a person
Known as Elizabeth Page. who lived in |
London and died at the age Of 10S years
After death, it was discovered that the |
woman WAS a man