Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-04

Horace B. Hathaway.

A1OkaC0 D. aat09WSy.
1t Is with deep sadness that we are called
upon to record the death of one Of the Journal
stan-who was suddenly cut of in the prime
OF his manhood with scarcely any warning.
Last Friday noon Mr. Horace Hathaway
who has been engaged for the past five years
In the Journal counting room and upon its
editorial staff, complained of slight indis-
position and left the Office for his home in
Hallowell. The following day brief note
was received from him saying that he had a
slight diphtheretic sore throat but would be
back in day OF two-but the time that
seemed so brief to him, before his return, was
destined to lengthen into eternity. His dis
ease rapidly assumed most malignant form
and Monday night, despite the efforts of
skilled physicians, he passed away.
Mr.. Hathaway was born in Hallowell June
18th, 1858. He was the son of Franklin and
Caroline B. Hathaway. Mr.. Hathaway fitted
for College at the Scientific Academy, and
graduated from that institution in 1875. The
funeral, which is strictly private, will be at
1890 Wednesday morning.
1t is impossible for those who have been
associated with Mr.. Hathaway in business
and who saw him last, apparently in the best
of spirits, TO become reconciled to his sudden
loss.
No more genial whole souled, man ever
lived than he, always pleasant, modest, and
industrious. He made no enemies and all
who come to know him loved him. His
sunny cheerful disposition, was contagious.
His fund of pleasantly was inexnaustible,
and he never seemed happier than when
doing something for the accommodation and
happiness of those about him.
In all his connection with the journal
none OF his co-workers can recall one un-
pleasant word, or one -ungentlemanly act
His goodness came from an inexhaustible
fCuntain-a hopeful christian nature and
broad culture. Never has deeper gloom
rested upon the hearts of his associates than
that which came with the news of his death.
1t will be hard indeed to become ac-
custolued to his absence.
Mr.. Hathaway was preeminently the scholar
of the establishment. There were probably
few young men of his age in Maine who
possessed broader and deeper culture. In
Bowdoin college his alma moter-he stood
second in mis- class, 80, and graduated with
high honors. The knotty questions that
called for thorough scholarship were
always subtoitted to him and it was
And yet there was no sfactation or pedantry
about him. The simplicity and thorough
unsehshness of his character made it i'm
possible for him to make any show of his
erudition, He never apparently thought of
himself-but was always mindful of others.
His love for children was a strong trait
in his character, and when the Journal pro-
prietors started the "Children's Column" in
the weekly he readily undertook, under the
non de plume of "Uncle Christopher" the
editorship of it. 1t was to him a labor Of
love, occupying many OF his evening hours.
and doubtless gave him quite as much pleas
ure as it did the little readers of the Journal
who came to know and love ''Uncle Chris
topher." 1t was his intention eventually to
enter the Episcopal ministry. His was Il
beautiful christian life, which wrought its in
huence by example upon those about him-a
spirit without guile.
There are times in the lives of us all when
language seems powerless to express our feel
ings and never more than when death has
taken from our midst one whom we knew and
loved in the every day associations of life.
Many who have served the Journal in years
gone by have passed to the other shore, but
none truer, kindlier purer than he.