Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-14
GENERAL FREmeNr DEAD,

Peritonitis-Sketch of His Remarks.
 hle Career.
 NEW YoAK, July 13.-John 0. Fremont died this afternoon at his residence, No. 49 West Twenty-fifth street of peritonitis.
 Dr. Mar in attended the patient but was unable to afford relief. The general was ont on Friday in apparently good health. His son, who lives at Sing Sing, was notified of his fathers illness but was unable to reach New York before death occurred.
 General Fremont died at the residence of his adopted daughter Nina, wife of Colonel Porter. His illnees dates from last Tuesday, when the thermometer reached 100 degrees. He took trip to Seabright, and felt the ef- fects of the heat and the exertion. On Fri day chill ensued, and inflammation of the bowels rapidly developed.
 John Charles Fremont was born in Savan- nah, Ga., January 21, 1913. His father, ,who was a Frenchmau, had settled in Norfolk, Va, married Anne Beverly Whiting, avir. ginia lady and supported himself by teaching his native language. After his death, which took place in 1918, his widow removed with her three infant children to Charleston s. .. John Charles entered the junior class of Charleston college in 1928, and for some time stood high, especially in mathematics; but his inattention and frequent absences caused his expulsion. He then employed himself as private teacher in mathematics. and at the same time taught an evening school. He became teacher of mathematics on the sloop- of-war "Natchez" in 1883, and after a cruise of two years returned, and was given his de- gree by the college that expelled him. He then paesed vigorous examination at Balti. more for professorship in the United States navy, and was appointed to the frigate "In- dependence" but declined and became assis- tant engineer under Captain William G. Williams of the United States typographical corps, on surveys for a projected railroad be. twesn Charleston and Cincinnati, aiding par ticularly in the mountain passes of North Carolina and Tennessee. This work was suspended in 1887, and Fremont accompanied Captain Williams in @ reconnaissance of the mountains, Cherokee county, in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, made rapidly in the depths of winter, in anticipation of hostilities with the Indians.
 On July 2, 1888, while engaged with Jean Nicolas Nicollet in exploring, under govern ment authority, the country between the Missouri and the northern frontier, he was commissioned by President Van Buren as second lieutenant of typographical engineers. He went to Washington in 1840 to prepare his report, and while there met Jessie, dauRh ter of Thomas H. Benton, then senator from Missouri. An engagement was formed. but, ss the lady was only fifteen years of age, her parents objected to the match, and suddenly, probably through the influence of Colonel Benton, the young officer received an order to make an examination of the river Des Moines on the western frontier. The survey was made rapidly, and after his return from this duty the lovers were secretly married, October 19, 1641. In 1S42 Fremont was in- structed by the war department to take charge of an expedition for the exploration of the Rocky Mountains, particularly the South pass. He left Washington on May 2, and in four months had carefully examined the South pass and explored the Wind River mountains, ascending their highest point, since kuo 1n as Fremont's peak l3, ,570 feet) His report of the expedition was laid before congress in the winter of 1S42-43, and att tracted much attention both at home and abroad. Immediately afterward, Fremont de- termined to explore the unknown region be- tween the Rocky mountains and the Pacific, and set out in May, 1S43, with thirty-nine men. On September 6, after travelling over 1,700 miles, he came in sight of Great Salt lake. His investigation corrected many vague l and erroneous ideas about this region, of which no accurate account had ever been given, and had great influence in promoting Il tue beLslenoub OL Otdu auu tue IdCluO etdlts. It was his report of this expedition that gave | to the Mormons their first idea of Utah as 6 place of residence. After leaving Great Salt lake he explored the upper tributaries of the Columbia, descended the valley of that river to Fort Vancouver, near its mouth, and on November 10 set out on his return. His route lay through an almost unknown region
 leading from the Lower Columbia to thu Upper Colorado, and was crossed by high and rugged mountain chains. Deep snov soon forced him to descend into the grea | basin, and he presently found himself in the depth of winter, in des | sert, with the prospect of death (, | his whole party from cold and hunger. B, astronomical observation he found that h, was in the latitude of the Bay of San Fran cisco; but between him and the valleys o California was a snow-clad range of noun | tains, which the Indians declared no mar could oross and over which no reward coult | induce them to attempt to guide him. Ere mont undertook the passage without guide
 and accomplished 1t in forty days, reaching | Sutter's Fort, on the Sacramento, early iI
 March, with his men reduced almost to skel
 etons and with only tbirty-three out of sixty
 seven horses and mules remaining. Resumiu,
 his journey on March 24, he crossed the Sierrl | Nevada through gap, and after another visi | to Great Salt lake returned to Kansas througl
 the south pass In July, 1844, having been ab sent fourteen months. The reports Of thi expedition occupied in the preparation th,
 remainder of 1S44. Fremont was given thu | double brevet of first lieutenant and captain
 in January, 1s45, at the instance of Genera
 Scott, and in the spring of that year he se
 out on third expedition to explore the grea
 basin and the maritime region of Oregon au,
 California. After spending the summer ii
 exploring the watershed between the Pscid
 and the Mississippi, he encsmped in Octobe
 on the shore of the Great Salt lake, and sfte
 crossing the Sierra Nevada with a few men
 in the dead of winter, to obtain supplies, lief
 his party in the valley of the Sau Joaquin
 while he went to Monterey, then the capita
 of California, to obtain from the Mexican au
 thorities permission to proceed with his ex
 ploration.
 In the first national republican conveu
 tion which met June IT, 1856, he receive
 the republican nomination for president, bu
 was defeated by Buchanan. He carried th
 six New England states and New York
 Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin.
 Soon after the beginning of the oivil wa
 he was made major general of the Unite
 States army. In 1861 his headquarters wer ! In St. Louis, and placed Cairo in seourit
 by demonstration of 1. 900 trseps.
 Since 1884 General Fremont has take little part in public affairs. He was at on time governor of Arizona and has writte several works on his travels. His explorI . tions gained for him the name of "Pail finder"
 Mrs. Fremont became nearly ss famo' as her husband and father by her brillia ' writings. Mrs. Fremont is at present Los Apgeles, Cal, with her daughter Eliz
 both. A son. Frank P. Fremont, is at Flo