Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-05-10
ANDREW SHU1tAN.
From His Associates on
The Chicago Journal,

All of these articles Othcer Mulcahy
took poss ession of.
The death of so estimable and high
~ respected a citizen, occurring as it
did in a cheap clearinghouse, is pecu-
liarly sad. How he came to be there
it is impossible to state, as no one could
be found who saw him Immediately be-
fore he went to the place. 1t IS sup
posed that Mr.. Shuman while on the
street felt the illness coming on and
that the idea seized him to find place
where he might rest Immediately The
sign Lodging" catching his eye, he
Immediately entered, without thinking,
possibly not knowing, what manner of
place he was going into.
His first words on entering the house
sustained this theory. Mrs. Wheeler
says that when Mr. Shuman came in
he said: Il am tired out and want a
rest; give me a room where can lie
down"
The deceased lived at Evanston and
since his retirement from active edi-
torial work had been living very
quietly.
Andrew Shuman was born in Ian
caster County, Pennsylvania, Nov. s,
1899, the son of Jacob and Margaret
Shuman. His father, a farmer in mod
crate circumstances, died when Andrew
was years old, at which time he was
adopted by an uncle, who treated him
in all respects as his own son. For
seven years, winter and summer, the
lad was kept at the district school, and
during that time made admirable prog
ress, and determined to be a literary
man. At the age of Ii he became an
apothecary's clerk, but only for a few
months. He next entered the Office of
the Lancaster Union and Sentinel as
an apprentice, working thus until 1916,
~ L.,
his employer, who became proprietor
of the Daily Advertiser there, at that
time the home organ of the Hon. VIM.
H. Seward. At the age of IS, while
still working in the office of the AdUer-
tiser, Andrew undertook to conduct a
small weekly paper, which he called
the A1tblu1lid1l, all the work of which
he did himself The enterprise. how
ever, proved Improbable, and was dis
continued in less than a year At 10
he became the partner of Thurlow w.
Brown in the publication of the CaUatga
CHIEF at Auburn.
He soon withdrew from this, how
ever, determined to have a mere com
plete education, and in 1850 entered
upon course of preparation for col
lege at an academic institute at Gin
ton, \. Y; and in 1851 entered Ham
ilton College at the same place, paying
his own expenses by working in print
ing Offices during vacations. While in
his junior year in college, however, he
was urged by political friends of Gov.
Seward to take the editorial manage
ment of the Syracuse DdihJ Journal.
and with some reluctance he accepted
the flattering offer in the autumn of
1852, and edited that paper with zeal
and ability for three years and half.
In 1896 he became assistant editor of
the Chicago EUenjllg Journal and in
1861, when Charles l.. Wilson, editor
and proprietor Of that paper, accepted
the position of Secretary of Legation
at London. Andrew Shuman became
its managing editor, a position which
he filled with ability for many years,
he only recently having retired from
the active editorial management Of
that paper.
Mr. Shuman contributed to the peri
"Ni'"i press MlOlt several successful
dramas, and delivered numerous adj.
dresses, lectures, etc. In 1865 he was
appointed by Governor Ogle,bv
member of the Board of Commissioners
Of the Illinois State Penitentiary nj
Joliet, a position which he filled with
ability aud efficiency, being Secretary
OF that body for four years. and was
elected a member Of the same Board ia
1870 for term OF sis years. bat re-
signed in 1871 iu order that he might
give his undivided time 90 journalistic
pursuits Ia 1876 he was nominated
by The Republican State Convention
Tor therosiiionot Lieutenant Governor
Of Illinois. and he Was elected In the
fail In politics he uas always "A AZ.
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