Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-18
HoRATlo SEYMOUR DEAD.

HORATlO SEYMOUR DEAD.
The Death Roll swellsd By the Name q
Another Prominent Public Mana Career
I'm Political Life Dating Back TO 1S4l--A
Brief Biographical Sketch.
UTICA, N. T., Feb. l8.-Ex-Governoa
Seymour died at just one O'Clock last
night at the residence of his sister, Mrs.
Roscoe Conkling. He began to fail per-
ceptibly at four O'Clock. Shortly after
ward, owing to stimulants, he rallied q
| little, but soon relapsed into total un-
| consciousness. During his illness he
has had little if any physical suffering,
and yesterday was wholly without pain.
Mrs. Seymour, who is very i'll, sat with
| him during the afternoon. Most of the
| time the Governor rested peacefully, and
| his condition could only be distinguished
from natural sleep by the ashen pallor and
the labored breathing.
At half-past eight O'Clock he was sink
ing rapidly, his pulse could scarcely be
counted, and the respiration was more
and more difficult. He died without Q
struggle, and as peacefully as one falling
asleep. The immediate cause of his death
was cerebral effusion, the usual process
of death in old age. Those present when
he passed away were Mrs. Seymour and
her sister, Mrs. Nelson, of New Bruns-
wick, Nj; the Governors brother, John
F. Seymour, of Utica; his sisters, Mrs.
Lincklaen and Mrs. Conkling; DR.. W. e.
Ford and Judge Bulwer. AS yet no ar
rangements have been made for the fu-
neral.
The complication of physical ailments
which has finally resulted in Mr.. Sey-
mour's death, originated with his being
sunstruck while at work on the roads OF
his town as pathmaster, which Office he
used to say was the only one he ever
asked for. Mr.. Seymour suffered from
vertigo after the sunstroke, and never
entirely regained his former strength.
He declined to admit his infrmity
and when pressed to labor ON be-
half of Mr.. Tilden, he did so
beyond his strength and seriously weak
ened his system. His canvass for Han
cock in 1880, made against his physi-
clans orders, nearly completed the wreck
of his health, and closed his political la
bors. Mrs. Seymour's illness has of late
worried, the Ex-Governor, and FASTENED
his decline. He seemed aware of APP
preaching death for the past ten days,
but said nothing on the subject.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
HOratlO seymour was Dorm IN POmD0Y,
Onondaga County, N. Y, May 81, 1910. When
he was nine years of age his parents re-
moved to Utica He was educated at the
Partrdges Military School, Middletown,
Conn, studied law, and was admitted to the
upon him the settlement OF large estate,
and withdrew him from the practice of his
the military staff Of Governor Marcy. In
ls4l he was elected to the State Assembly as
a Democrat, was re elected three times, and
in vvaa 81 n IN
the Assembly, he was elected mayor OF
Utica for one year. In 1s4s he supported
was nominated by the Democrats for Gov
ernor, and was defeated by WASHINGTON
262 votes; but IN 1852 he was elected Cover
nor by plurality OF 22,596 votes over the
same eompetitor. 90. A prohibitory LIQUOR bill
the ground that it was Tnconstitusionai He
question entered largely into the canvass.
which was further complicated by the
Know Nothing issue and the anti slavery
Compromise. There were four can
didates for Governor, and Myron HI. Clark,
Of 900 votes over Governor sey-
mour In 1862 Mr. Seymour was again elect
ed Governor over General James s. Wads-
address on January l, 1868, he
said: "Under no circumstances can the divi.
every policy of Cancellation; we will guar
AHIcc tIlttu every IlSuV, every COnSlQeTdClUh
demanded by the Constitution and by that
fraternal regard which must prevail in
common country; but we can never volun-
earily consent to the breaking up of the
union of these States or the destruction Of
the Constitution" In 1884 he addressed
message to the Legislature advocating the
payment of the interest on the State bonds
N gold and the refusal of the Legislature
20 adopt this policy greatly deprecated
their value. In August he presided over the
Democratic National Convention at Chicago,
which nominated General Mcclellan for the
0re0id0ucv. He also presided the
7ention of 1858, held in New York. The lead
ng candidates for the nomination were Geo.
I Pend!eton. Andrew johnson, Thomas A.
and General w. s. Hancock. Gov
'rnor Seymour bad positively declined to
permit the use of his name a candidate;
,ut on the twenty second ballot the Ohio
delegation, to forestalI q thre ataned move
nent in favor of Salmon p. Chase, cast their
Wisconsin was reached In the call of States
very State changed its vote to Seymour,
Who was declared the unanim ous choice OF
convention. General Francis p. Blair. Jr.,
vas nominated for Vice President. At the
lection Seymour and Blair received 270S, 600
otes, against 3,013, 1sS votes for Grant and
,Olfax. Mr.. Seymour lived on an extensive
nd well cultivated farm in Deerfeld, near
Jtica- He was President in 1875 of the Ma
lonal Dairymen's ASS ociation, and has de-
yered many addresses before agricultural
ocetteS. He was also president of the
rison Association OF the United States.