The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-25
WHEELING VA. FRIDA AY DEcEIBER 25 1891 3I-NUa
lI'lxl::.sENAron nERl:ElI,roRpa 81, DEAD. lIL:l d.
a Victim Of Pneumonin, Ono OF West
Ylrginin,s Most Noted Men Passcs Away,
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United statca Senator Frank Hereford
died yesterday atlis home III Monroe.
l Mr.. Horeforl had beenill but d short
timcand died Of pneumonia, resulting
from from IN an attack fthc,grip. Il
TX. United States Senator Hereford
was by nativity d yirginian, born in
tauquleer county, July 4, 1926. 1Yhile
ms public course In adult years has
been conservative, and secured him Re-
publican votes enougllto elect him to
tho United Statos,Scnatc yet he imbibed
something of tho spirit'of sthed we
celebrate, and iiasexhibitcd amanlyin.
dependence in all his actions, He grad.
uated from college In 1916, studied law,
Ipracticed n brief time, and removed
from the historic courtyard stateofhis
nativity 70 tho slopes OF tho Pacific, To-
eating IN California. luerehe was sne-
icesstul In practice and popularity, and
was elected district s6ttorneyoft Spcra-
imento county, filling tho position from
October, 1855, to October, 1857. Re.
turning east at the expiration OF his
term, ,ahe5 pitched his permanent tent
and homo in Union, Monroe county,
Virginia. Ho was soon on,the wavo OF
popular preferment, ], and was elected
upon the Democratic ticket as repro
sentative 70 the Forty.second Congress
from iron, tho Third West Virginia district,
receiving (including two counties not
foihcially counted, by reason OF their re-
turns not having been received.
lS,9S2 votes, against 7,lS0 for John.
u: Witcher the Republican can
didate. He was reelected to
the succeeding, 43d, Congress-
having as competitor, in August, John
sBrisben Walker, Republican, and in Oc.i
tober, John S. Swami, independent,
both from the populous county ofaKa,.
lnawha. For the third term he was re-
elected, to the 44thS Congress, by Il, 3,524
votes, against Z, ,745 for John S. i.Witcher,
the Republican. candle serving in,
all from March 4, 1871, to January 81,
ilSlI, twhenj having been elected BY the
ELegislatureat Wheelingas United States
senator, in place of Allen Taylor Gaper.l
ton, deceased, he took his scat in the
other wing OF the national capitol. He
served in tho senate with industry,
ability aud satisfactionlt to. his largo con-
istituency, until the expiration Of his
term, March 8, 1881. Since then, he has
been engaged mainly in financial and
other similar pursuits at Union. He
did not, Notwithstanding the more pro-
sfitable. and less exciting pursuits of bust
ness life, loso all interest Sin political
contests and campaigns. Without
Ineglecting the former, he found time and
!inclinationtolufge forward the claims Of
Democracy, IN local and state conyen. n
Itions. In the Presidential contest OF
ilSSS, he was IN clector,from West Vir-
Iginia, and cast h.s vote for Grover.
Cleveland. 3. s5silis.l S