New-York tribune., 1886-08-05
SKETCH OF T'ILDEN'S LIFE.
HIS LONG AND DIVERSIFIED CAREER.
STRIKING FIGURE IN RECENT POLITICAL hi'-
ToRY-A LEADER LOST BY HIS DEATH.
Samnel Jnnes Tldcn railroad LAWYER, stOck

samuel Jones lltucn, TdllTOdu id")'i' "''
speculator millionaire. politician, statesman p",9
leader and Presidential candicate-onr OF the most I'll"
cnlAr and interesting figures in recent p"itlc"i "
toiy-wa5 born in New Lebanon, COLUMBIA county ;
N.Y. March 15 lslI, making the length o. I'VE no n''
reached seventy years lie came OF go"h o 0'No"
sto,k Three % his ancestors, Nathaniel ana TWO JOHNS
two centuries ago. successfully occupied tho H"Soi
chair ia the city Tenterlen. Kent England. Inc
family had been holders Of small manOrs 10 heht irom
before the time of the Norman Conquest Nath'he' ~"
den was Of hine Puritans who sailed hom heht 'cr
America in the ship Ann in 1854. and was enc OF tho
commits soncTs to locate tho town of scitnate N"'S'
Joseph ms younger brother was one OF the cohNGne's
OF ne Mayfowor Nathari was connected by marriage
with the families OF Governor wnsow aud Governor
Bradford. The serond generation OF Tlen' Settles" III
Lebanon Conn, participating in the ColoniA wars an"
whom John Tlcn. grandfather of the subject OF this
SKETCH removed to Columbia County, y. u IN i''o'
the name of Tho settlement Canaan. was changed to
| New. Lcb lnon Samucl JoLcs. maternal eranhIhher
of Nr. TIL after whom he was Dainai had "Ieauy
! move 1 there In l770.
Columbia County has been somewhat prominent III rue
political Attain. Of the 1t has produced PreS
dent Of tlc United states. who also Vceiro'cht'
Martin Van Buren,. and Presidential candidate s''mnel
T. rden and he's been largely Represented rot only III
the prucIal offices aud judseshp, OF the SAFE nut III
IT, Cabinets OF Presidents and IN Congress The roll ol
III uci.Acd wycr, whom II has sent oit Is onS one
Al the time sAmlel j. ridrn was growing up TO inau-
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TN Van Burrn thea tho Democratic loader IN New-fork
vino wa. elected Nictrre-laent the same ticket win
/ Jackson when young rillen eighteen years old'
! lived AZ KnlrrAo,k. twenty miles from Lebanon
SPRING, whi,h hd then become tne faYOrtc summer
resort Of the Democratic politicians OF the state Here
u-sd william l.. Marcy II - wright H1rlah
C. Flagc and Edwin Cros,wcll. lltor OF Ihr AiIoy r
gps. Ellm m ZEN, Sanncrs father was ther ultimate
friend and ponrcnt. ~ he was also f Michael
Hoffman, the iyins.tpns and other cains poliic'ns
o. that day. He man of strons traits and @ hos
! piiaiity noeL In this way lilien was thrown
when only bog intO close assOcdto. with tho leading
spirits o hi, party the state, ttcn comIo'inS th'
famous Albany Regency" which tor many yrar7 doni-
mated the politics Of NcwYork. whi,h was dcbat'be
! erouud then - now. and cXertel marked inii"nco
/ uron National annlrs rhc Albany Regency has been
defined as an hone ring Tho pcroI Of It's ascend
uc, VA. one OF great interest tno politics OF New
York. c-l eciy such men ~ rnuro" Weel, NlIIlan
/ II. seward. Muard Fillmore. Francis Granger nhi
others the master spirits Of tho opposition IL was
/ IN ASSOCIATION with tho men nrstnanei that filien
ainod hi, early political education, and tho Influence of
surroundings not oniy III the beat o his
mind but of lis political characeIstos IN later
NE.
In the fa OF 1882. he abput to crter college,
bcrg eighteen yeas Od Jlcssou- men oraple contest
for r,-elrcilol tso place Tho result ia Ncw loiE de
pended upon success o. q coalition between Anti
M.,oas AMI tAc N.ii,na Republicans. tr,nr, Granger
aud William H. Marcy were respectively the Coalition
ald Drmocg chuddatc- louul rh!cn .cc"r to-
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ancc This shown 10 Ais father. VINO tooh 10 Mr.
Van Barren then : candidate ;or Woo -rTr,ilrn The
latter u rc,'cl VITA it tn' he nal 10 signed Oy
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Treasury. Tn. tlc..a.r PROVOKED yoluiuiuous AMI
arruoupu. 90 .ci-.inn thrbts inut tuc country. Mr.
10 len Was -l STUDENT ami ony twenty tnrce year,
ODD. bot his article, u,ub is.rd IN me tNuy lrj"sl
.r .ln, the rraf,n,oi tIc Government O. currency,
finance AMI ira aii his spcccr, On the same toic..
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