The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-30
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WASHINGTON, D. C. March a.
Associate Justice Stanley Matthews,
OF the United States Supreme Court,
died at 1905 o'clock this morning.
The last change in the condition
of Justice Matthews occurred yester
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. In the
morning be had been feeling quite
comfortable and cheerful. At that
hour, however, the intense pain which
marked the periods Of decline recur
red and never left him until death
brought relief. Dr. William Johns
ton was summoned and finding his
patient suffering SO intensity admins
tered opiates, which towards morn
ing induced state of semi-conscious-
ness, in which he remained until the
end. Occasionally he would par
TALLY revive and recognize the loved
ones near him by glance or pres
sure of the hand, but relapse soon
followed. For a number of hours
previous to death he was practically
unconscious. In his last hours the
dying Justice was surrounded by
members Of his family who have
been with him througho out his illness.
Mrs. Matthews, his daughters, Miss
Matte and Miss Ega Matthews, and
bis son, Paul Matthews, and Mr.. G..
b. Matthews, his brother, of Cincin-
natl, who came to washington week
or ten days ago, DR.. Johnston and
the faithful colored servant who only
few days ago announced to callers
with great satisfaction that Justice
Matthews is ever 40 much better"
were also present.
JUDGE MATTHEW'S CAREER.
Judge Matthews was born in Gin
cinnati July 81, 1924. He was grad
uated at Kenyon College in 1910,
and began the practice Of law few
years later in Maury county, Ten
nessee. He returned to Cincinnati
soon after and became engaged in
anti-slavery movements, being in
1849 assistant editor Of the Cincin-
natl Herald, the first daily and anti
slavery newspaper in that city. He
became Judge of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, of Milton county, in 1851,
was State Senator in 1856, and in
lS5S-6l was United States Attorney
for the Southern District of Ohio
In March, 1861, he was commission
ed Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty
third Ohio regiment and served in
West Virginia, participating in the
battles Of Rich Mountain and Car
nifes Ferry. In October of the same
year he became Colonel of the Fifty
seventh Ohio regiment and in that
capacity commanded a brigade in
the Army of the Cumberland and
was engaged at Dobbs' Ferry,
Chickamaugua and Lookout Noun
tain. He resigned from the army
in 1868 to become Judge Of the Su-
perior Court of Cincinnati and was
Presidential elector on the Lincoln
and johnson ticket in 1854 and on
the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868.
In 1854 he was delegate from the
Presbytery of Cincinnati to the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church at Newark, N. j., and as one
of the Committee on Bills and Over
lures reported the resolutions that
were adopted by the assembly on the
subject of slavery. He was defeated
as a Republican candidate for Con-
gress in 1876, and was one of the
counsel before the Electoral Com
mission, opening the argument in
behalf of the Republican electors in
the Florida case, and making the
principal argument in the Oregon
case. In March, 1877, he was elect
ed United States Senator in place of
Hon John Sherman, who resigned,
and in 1881 was appointed an Asso-
ciate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court.