Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-03-30
Chief JUSTICE WAITE DEAD.
HE EXPIRES SUDDENLY AT HIS
WASHINGTON HOME.
Great Surprise and Regret at His
Demise.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March %, 1888. Chief
Justice Waite died at 6:10 o'clock. The Judge
had been in very fair health until within
few days. He attended the reception given
on Saturday evening last to the visiting au-
tho:s by the wife of Senator Hearst of Cali
fornia. He there caught cold, and on
Monday he would not have attended
the session of the supreme court but for
the fact that the decision was to be given in
the telephone case. He was then feeling too
ill to read his opinion, and 1t was consequent
ly read by Justice Blatchford. For the last
two days he had remained at his home, and
had had the attention of nurse, and every
care was taken by the members OF his family,
consisting now only OF his son and daughter.
Mrs. w ate went 10 southern California q
month ago. He went TO bed at the usual
hour last night The physicians regarded
his cold as q slight attack Of pneumonia, but
it was not thought necessary to watch him
closely during the night. About 6 o'clock
this morning, the nurse went into his room
and found him lying upon one side and feel
ing unable to change his position in the bel,
S he seemed desirous of doing. The nurse
attempted to assist him, and soon noticed
that he seemed to be rapidly sinking into a
condition of helplessness. The son and
daughter were hastily summoned, but before
they came in the room the chief justice was
dead. His heart simply stopped beating, and
he was gone
Morrison Remick Waite was born in
Lyme, CT, Nov. 20, 1916, and traced his
lineage directly back to England, and to
Thomas Wayte, who was a member of par
lament, and as such signed the death war
rant of Charles ii. Soon after the restora-
hat FaYR flNr
Waite who was born in Sudbury, Mass,
settled in Lyme, CT, in 1879, and one of his
sons, named Marvin, an elector in the
first presidential election, and cast his vote
for George Washington. Henry Watson
Waite, the father of the subject of this
SKETCH WAS lawyer of eminence, who prior
to 1852 served in both branches Of the Con-
necticut legis ature and in the supreme court
of errors of Connecticut. In the year named,
he was appointed chief justice, and held the
position five years, until reaching the
constitutional limit Of service, 20 years,
he retired to private life and died in 1869 at
the age of 81 years Morrison Remick Waite
gradual d from Yale in 1884, with a class
that included William Evarts, Edwards
Pierrepont and Prof. Benjamin SilIiman, Jr.
He studied law in his fathers office, and
later with Samuel NJ. Young at Maumee
City, O., with whom, in 1889, on being ad-
mitted to the bar, be formed a partnership.
About ten years later this firm removed to
Toledo, o., and established a successful busi-
ness Mr.. Waite took a leading place among
the lawyers Of his section, and it was there
that President Grant fund him in 1874
when casting about for q successor to Chief
Justice Chase.
The following official notice of the death of
Chief Justice Waite has been issued by the
department Of state:
To the people of the United Statcs The
painful duty devoves upon the president to
announce the death of Morrison R. Waite,
chief justice Of the United States, which ex-
alted position oGv he ~ had filed airGag gNGahffAI
ness to his country. In testimony of respect
to the memory of tho honored dead, it is or
dered that the executive offices in Washing
ton be closed on the day of the funeral and
be drureI in mourning for 30 days, and that
the national flag be displayed at hair mast
on the buildings and on all the national yes
sells on the day Of the funeral
By the president.
T. F. RAYtRn. Sncretnrv of State.