The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
DEATH OF JOHN HIsE.

DEATH OF JOHN HIsE.
We announce, with profound sor
row, the death, at Los Angeles, Cali,
fornia, at = o'clock yesterday morning,
of JOHN HIsE, late Surveyor General
OF Arizona.
Mr.. Hise was native Of Harris
burg, Pa, where he was born on Jan
uary Sth, 1916, and was therefore few
months Of "a years of age.
In 1882 he entered the German print
ing Office of Jacob Baab at Harrisburg
and learned the trade. A year after
his apprenticeship he went west, work
ing some months at his trade at Del
phi, Ind, and afterwards at Column
bus, Ohio, until the spring Of 1910,
when he came to Ottawa, Illinois, and
soon afterwards, in company with
Geo. +. Weaver, started the OTTAWA
FREE TRADER.
In lS47 he severed his connection
with the FREE TRADER and moved
upon a farm in the town OF Rutland,
three miles northeast of Ottawa, pur-
suing the occupation of tiller of the
soil until about 1867, when he sold his
farm and soon afterward moved to
Chicago. There he opened a real es-
tate Office, and also, in connection
with his sons, became for while
some what largely engaged in the COM
mission business, until, in about
1883, his sons meantime having opened
business in Arizona, he joined them
in that territory, remaining there I'M
til last July, when he moved to Los
Angeles, California.
Mr.. Hiso was a man Of more than
ordinary ability, holding various i'm
portant offices in his day and attain
ing considerable prominence in the
politics of this state. In 1850 he was
elected from this county to the state
legislature, in which, during that i'm
portanJ session which chartered both
the Rock Island and the Illinois Rail
roads, he held quite prominent posi-
ton. He was also, for number of
years IA member of the Board of Super
visors Of this county, during several
terms having been chairman of the
the board, and always being one Of
its leading and most influential mem
bers. After removing to Chicago, in
1874 he was sent to the legislature
from Cook county, and was recognized
as the head of the Democratic wing
of the delegation.
In 1876 he was nominated for the
Office of Auditor Of State, and came
within few thousand votes of an
election, running far ahead of Tilden
and the rest of the ticket. Suisse
quently, under the mayoralty Of Car
ter Harrison, he was appointed Cash
Ter OF the City Water Department, a
position involving heavy responsible
ties, but the duties of which he dis
charged with marked ability and tidel-
ity, until he resigned to join his sons
in Arizona.
The last Office he held was that of
Surveyor General of Arizona, to which
he was appointed by President Cleve-
land in Dec. 1885. He entered upon
its duties In robust health and high
spirit, but the office is located in Tue
son, than which perhaps no locality in
the U. S. has more trying climate,
and that, coupled with its laborious
and eXacting duties, soon undermined
his health, so that, when last summer
his successor was appointed, he ac-
cepted his release gladly, and FASTENED
to the more genial climate Of Los An
geles, California, in the hope, by rest
and recreation, to recover his health.
But his constitution was broken past
repair, and oscillating between hope
and fear, better one day and worse
the next, he finally passed away,
camly and peacefully, IS stated above.