Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
THE OLDEST NHABIrANT,
A Few of Him Scattered Over
Various States.
NINETY YEARS A MINISTER
a Man who Voted for Thomas Jefrer-
son First and Grover CIeye-
land Last-Aneccotes OF
Centenarians.
A Grand Ola Man.

A Grand Ola Man.
There has just died near Spurlock-
vile, W. Va, says a dispatch to the
New York Herald, Thomas Eggleston,
nj the advanced age Of Ill years, ten
months and twenty-three days.
He was born in the neighborhood
where he died, and has not been more
than twenty-five miles from home in all
that time. He was a democrat OF the
old school. He cast his first vote for
Thomas Jefferson. He has continued
70 put in a ballot for every succeeding
democratic presidential candidate, in
GLIDING President Cleveland. Though
not a traveller, he was a great reader Of
political news, and knew the peculiar
circumstance of every campaign this
country has seen. UP to the last few
days OF his life he was in full possession
Of every faculty, except his hearing,
which in the last ten years had become
quite defective. Medicine his system
knew not of till six years ago, when, to
p%rotract his life a few more years, the
physicians advised In occasional dose.
His memory was a marvel, and no
greater treat was enjoyed by those who
knew him than to hear him relate in
cidents of a century ago with the fresh
ness displayed in a morning Herald.
Notes and other details were easy for
him, and it seemed q pleasure to him to
tell how and when and where certain
political events TRANSFERRED.
He had outlived all his children and
many OF his grandchildren. Five gen
erations look back to him as their
ancestor, and during his last days sew
eral hundred Of his kinsfolk were seer
at his bedside. One peculiar habit he had
vas always to take a long smoke from a
large pipe before retiring. He secuted
the idea that tobacco shortened life,
and pointed to himself as a living
refutation of tho falacy. 81 know not a
day" said he ''since l was sixteen years
old that / have been without my pipe. |
fully believe that my life of nearly a
century and u quarter has been pro-
longed BY it,"
just One Hundred.
A Williamsport (Pa.) special to the
Philadelphia Press says: On one of
the finest farms in Canton township,
Lycoming county, lives Adam Hart,
who will be 100 years old Friday. His
health is comparatively good for SO old
q person. He is undoubtedly the oldest
citizen of the state. He was born in
Northumberland county, this state. May
9, 1888, and continued to live there
until 1889, when he removed to the farm
where he now resides, a distance of
only six miles over the dividing line in
Lycoming chunty. He lives quietly,
surrounded by his children, grandchil-
lren and great grandchildren.
The celebration Of the centenary of
his life tomorrow will be a grand af-
fair, and thousands of people will pay
kheir respects to the old man. Mr..
Hart married Eleanor Pollock in 1919,
and husband and wife early in life con-
nected themselves with the P~resbyter-
IAN church at Warriors Run, and to
this day he is still a consistent member.
His wife died twenty years ago. Mr..
Harris mental faculties are sound and
he attends to the management of his
farm and his finances with the same
precision and clearsightedness that
marked his early days. His reminis-
cences of early times are interesting
and he takes great delight in %ecount-
ing the thrilling adventures of his
youth.
He was a member OF Captain William
McGuire's company which marched TO
BLACK Rock near Buffalo, in October,
H8l4, and is the only survivor Of the
Sixty-six men who composed that COM
Dany. he IL a.penSlOner OF Jne wal Oh
1sl2. he was eleven years OF age when
recollection of the event.
A Remarkable Man.
Prof. Laurens Perseus Hickok died
on April 6 in Amherst, Mass. Mr..
Hickok was born in Danbury, Conn,
December %, 1898. He graduated from
Union college in 1920, anddevoted him
self to theology. He was licensed to
preach in 1892, and was pastor success
sively at Newton. Kent and Litchfield.
In 1886 he was elected professor of
theology In the Western Reserve col
1ege, Ohio, and held the position for
eight years. He became professor in
the Auburn Theological seminary in
1874, and in 1852 removed to Schenec-
,tady, N. Y, to be professor of mental
and moral science and vice president of
Union college. He became full presi-