The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-26
CHESTER A. ARTHUR DEAD.
Sudden Death of the ex-President.

/ Suuucn DeHlH Oh the tA-I TCSiuCHts
New YORK, Nov. S.-Ex-President
! Chester A. Arthur died at five O'Clock
/ this morning, at his residence, No. 123
! Lexington avenue. He had been ailIng
| for some time from a complication of
/ diseases, principally kidney Affection
/ He had spent the summer at a watering
/ place. and it was supposed that this had
strengthed somewhat his enfeeb!ed con-
I stitutiOr, His death was unexpected, it
not being supposed outside of his house
| that he was in any immediate danger.
/ As soon as news Of she death was an
/ nOunced, many flags were placed AZ half
mast on public and private buildings.-
| a stroke of cerebral apOpleXy. sudden
| but not wholly unexpected by his physi-
/ clans, terminated Mr.. ATthur's life. The
stroke came in his sleep during Tuesday
night, and he did not rally thereafter
For hours before the end came he was
unconscious to his surrounding. His
son and daughter, his sister, his former
law partner, Sherman w. KLevals, and
his closest friend, Surrogate Rollins,
we're at his bedside.
The funeral will take place on Mon
day. at moe a. M, from the Church of
Heavenly Rest, on Fifth avenue, Rev.
DR.. Parker Morgan officiating. Mr..
Arthur was not a member of any church,
but his wife formerly attended that one.
The remains will be inferred in Alba
ny Rural Cemetery, in the family plot.
Chester a. Arthur was born in Frank
lin county. VT, October ), 1880. He
WRs the oldest of family of two sons
and five daughters. His father was the
Rev. DR., William Arthur, a Baptist
Clergyman, who cmigrated TO this
country from County Antrim, Ireland,
in his eighteenth year, and who was
man of more than ordinary ability. Ex-
| President Arthur was educated at Union
College, and was graduated in the class
Of 40. After leaving college, be taught
a country school for two years, in Yer
mont, ard then having by rigid economy
managed to save about $500, he started
for New York and entered the law Office
of ex Judge f. D. Culver as a student.
After being admitted to the bar, he
formed a partnership with his intimate
friend and room mate, Henry d. Gardi
ner, with the Intention Of practicing in
the West, and for three months they
roamed about the western states in the
search for an eligible place. In the
erd, however, they returned TO New
York, and hung up their shingles, enter
ing upon successful career from the
start Mr.. Arthur soon after married
the daughter of Lieutenant HerndOE, of
the United States navy, who was lost at
sea, and who went calmly down TO death
smoking a cigar. Mrs. ATthur.died
only few months previous to her hus-
bands nomination for Vice President
in 1880.
Previous to the commencement of the
wal Mr.. Arthur was Cor rceTned in sew
eTal nOJable cases growing out of slavery
in the south, the most important being
his successful defense of eight slaves,
who lad been brought to New York
prior to being brought to Texas. Mr.
Arthur secured their release by a writ
of habeas corpus on the ground that the
provisions of the fugitive slave law were
not in force in that State, and gained
his case both in the lower Court and in
the Supreme Court of the United States.
General Arthur was a delegate to the
convention at Saratoga that founded the
Republican party. Previous to the out
break of the war be was judge advocate
of the 2nd Brigade of the State Militia.
and Governor Edwin d. Morgan, soon
after his Inauguration. selected him to
fill the position of engineer in chief of
his staff. In 1861 he held the post of
Inspector General, and soon afterward
was advanced to that of QuaTteTmaster
General, which he held until the expira-
tion of Morgan's term of Office.
AT the expiration of Governor Nor
gau's term, General Arthur returned to
his law practice. Business of the most
lucrative character poured in upon him,
and the firm of Arthur Il Gardiner pros
peTed exceedingly. Much of their work
EaI il hr go, g.
and the drafting of important bills for
speedy legislation, and a great deal of
General Arthur'S time was spent in AL
bany and Washington. where his uniform
success won for him a national reputa-
ton. For a short time he held the
position of counsel to the board of tax
commissioners, at S10,00 per annum.-
Gradually he was drawn into the arena
of politics. He nominated, and by his
efforts elected, Hon. Thomas Murphy a
State Senator. When the latter resigned
the cole ctOrship of the port of New
York on November 20, 1871, President
Grant nominated General Arthur to the
vacant position, and four years late,
when his term expired, renominated
him. an honor that had never been
shown to any previous collector in the
history of the port. He was removed
by President Hayes on July II, 1873, in
spite of the fact that two special COM
mitteees made searching investigation
into his administration. and both repor-
ted themselves unable to find ANYTHING
upon which to base a charge against
him. In their pronunciamentos announ-
cling the change, both President HAYES
and Secretary Sherman bore official
witness to the purity of his acts while
In office. 1t was this act, and desire
to mollify the defeated third teImeIs,
that secured General Arthur the Repub-
lican nomination for Vice President at
the Chicago Convention in 1880, and the
success of the Garfield and Arthur ticket
in New York State was due to a great
extent to his great exertions.
In the factional quarreIs that followed
Immediately upon General Garfeld's
assumption of power, Vice President
Arthur naturally sided with Senator
Conkllng, and went to Albany to endeay-
or to secure his re election to the Senate.
IL was while he was yet in ALBANY that
Guiteau fired the fatal bullet that caused
President GaIfield's death, aud elevated
General n Tthur to the Presidency. The
highly infiamed state of public opinion
made President ATthuT's position one
OF unusual embarrassment, but with
great tact he surmounted all obstacles
and gave the country what at the expi-
ration of his term of Office was admitted
by members of all parties to have been
one of the best and most conservative
administrations in the history of the