River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-11-25

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ipated thar death would 50 soon ensue.
Tuesday morning he felt unusually strong
and free from all pain and he spoke off with
the eNhuberance of hope and courage
Tuesday evening a great change for the
worse was apparent his family We're sum
moEed and passed some hours at his bed
idle. DR. VIM. y Valentine and Surrogate
Rollins remaining with them. At midnight
he was resting quietly and and was left
alone for a few hours. during which time he
suffered the stroke of cerebral apoplexy, a
small blood vessel bursting in the brain,
producing paralysis of the RICH side. He
was motionless and specifies during We'd
nesday. and beyond the pressure of the
doctors hand and putting out his tongue,
partly, when asked to do 50, he gave no
other sign Of consciousness.
There was no great change before the end
came. life ebbed slowly away, the heart beats
were fewer and fainter, and without pain or
struggle, at five O'Clock, Thursday morning
lie entered upon the long, eternal sleep.
The funeral Of Mr.. Arthur is appointed to
take place at : - a. m. Monday, the 22nd
inst. from the church of Heavenly Rest, 9Th
Avenue 1t Rev. DR.. Parker Morgan ofiici-
atiug: the burial 10 be at the Albany Rural
Cemetery. in the Arthur family plot.
Ex President Arthurwas born at Fairfield,
Franklin County. Vermont. October ,, 1880,
/ oeIng ice eldest of seven children, two sons
and five daughters, Of Rev. VIM. Arthur ID.
| D.. Baptist clergyman. who came to the
| United States from Ballymena, Ireland, at
/ the age of eighteen years. be then being
/ graduate Of the University Of Belfast and
| especially versed in the knowledge of Latin
and the Greek classics. In log cabin, in
the northeast portion of Fairfield. the sub
/ iect of this sketch was born. his father being
/ the founder Of a Baptist church, whose ear
Z lest services were held in a barn.
But the pastor of that rustic church, with
/ his strong intellect scholarly attachments
and rare eloquencs rose To distinction in
/ the ministry and in the domain Of author
shin. and from $50 10 1868 was pastor of the
/ Calvary Baptist Church of New York city
+ where he was accounted one of the ablest
clergymen Of the metropolis He died near
/ Albany Oct y. $50 The mother of
/ future President, whose maiden name was
+ Nalvina Stone. was endowed with rich
I intellectually. and Gen. Arthur inherited
/ talents of the highest order.
/ Young Arthur began his preparation for
4 college at the age of twelve years at the
/ Academy at Greenwich. Washington county
1 y " and graduated at the Grammar school
/ at Schenectady He entered Union college
/ in 1915, when only Il years Of age. teaching
school during the winter months to earn
money to 90 ON With his education. He
I a - - frss, e He had
then determined % become lawyer, and
alternated the period Of his legal studies
with teaching. - that when admitted to the
/ bar in ls53. be had the capital Of 500, saved
/ by the stricted economy, with which to be
gin his business life.
The young lawyer soon reached position
Of prominence from appearing as chief
counsel in the celebrated Lennon slave
case. though associated with VIM. NJ.
Evarts, whereby the court of appeals set
led the right of slaves TO their freedom
when brought into the state of New York
by their masters. Into this case he threw
his inherited anti-slayery sentiments and
exhibited the force Of his legal ability. In
another case he won victory for human
rights tie suit of a young colOred woman
who unsolicited from the horse cars and was
awarded decree Of 500. His political
life began in 1876. and was contempora-
neous with the origin of the Republican
party. Recognizing his promise Gov. f ID.
Morgan had made him member of his
gubernatorial staff and the day after the
guns opened ON Sumter gave him command
Of the quartermasters department at New
York City.
In this position he exhibited marked bus
mess grasp valuable economy and infexi
bic integrity In ISL President Grant ap-
pointed him Collector of the Port of New
York. and Ia $50 he was reEominated 10y
the same President, AMI confirmed without
reference to a committee, a compliment
never given before except to ex-SenatoH
He vas the first collector ever reappointed
for a second term. and with scarce an ex-
ception the only one gho, for fifty years,
had held the Office for more than the term Of
four years IN ISIS lie was succeeded by
Gen. Merritt and returned to the practice of
his profession. He was natural organizer
OF men ard forces and had high prominence
in his party in Ne, York and in 1879 was at
the head Of the organization
In the national convention of 1850 he
supported Gen. Grant, and after the
nomination of Gen Garfield, was chosen
for vice President. By the tragic death Of
President Garfield he became President and
bore himself in that exalted station with an
ability and dignity which enhanced his
Iustrous fame. From the Presidential
Office he passed again to his law office, but
before be had time to pick up the scattered
threads Of his profession disease overlook
him. and his career was ended.
Nearly twenty-five years ago he married
the daughter OF the heroic captain w. l..
HerudOn Of the United States Navy, whose
death in January 1879 bereft him Of the
companionship of a brilliant woman, n
devoted wife and admirable mother. to
whose memory he was lovingly loyal Mrs
/ Arthur was born at fredericksburg
Virginia, and ON her mother'sside descended
from a Georgia family of excellence and
worth Their two children, a son, named
for his father is now twenty-five years of
age and engaged in the legal profession,
and Nj Nellie, the daughter, has passed
her fourteenth birthday To them falls the
heritage Of illusirioUs ancestry.
The news Of tie death Of ex-President
Arthur while il did nos greatly surprise the
/ country. called forth the most universal eX-
PRESSING Of respect and sympathy. Pres
ident Cleveland telecraphed that he would
attend ;he funeral accompanied by the Sec
retaries OF Stat5, Navy, Interior and the
Postmaster General 4 Committee of the
I Senate composed Of John Sherman, Geo. F.
: Edraunds. John A. logan. W. b. Allison,
/ NJ e. Butler James ID. Cameron, Warner
Miller. Geo. &. Vest. \. z. German, Joseph
r. Uawley and james X. Jones viii attend
Gov Hill issued a fitting proclamation and
other State Executive ordered flags at half
mast. Chester a Arthur, Jr., and Mrs
NcElroy were in receipt Of many kilograms
of regret aa1 sympathy.
Ia the Peaceful Grave.
The funeral ii ex- President Arthur AT New
York Monday morning. was majestic in its
simplicity There was NO display Of pomp
/ or ceremony. no military music or process
sion. but "a mighty throng OF silent. Sorrow-