The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-03
GEN. ALBERT PIKE DEAD.
HE WAS THE HEAD OF TIE SCOT
TISH RITE MASONs.

His Two Sons and Daughter at His
Bedside When the End Came-The
Home Of the Supreme Council of the
Order the Scene of His Death.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-Gen. Albert Pike,
grand commander Of the Scottish Rite
Masonry of southern jurisdiction and chief
Of the royal order Of Scotland for this
country, died at s o'clock tonight, at the
home of the supreme council Of the order,
where he had lived for several years.
He was conscious to the last,
and the end was, to all appearances,
painless. His two grown sons and daughter
were at the bedside when he died. The
cause of his death was paralysis of the
organs of the throat, which had prevented
him from taking food or drink since March
81 His death had been expected some time,
but the splendid physique of the dead man
delayed the end until this evening. The
arrangements for the funeral will be made
by the Scottish Rite body Of this city.
GEN. Pixies SUCCESSOR.
1t is said that Gen. Pike appointed Josiah
b. Drummond of Maine as his successor as
the head OF the Royal Order Of Scotland, and
it is probable that his successor in the Scot
fish Rite will ss either Surgeon General J.
M. Brown of the navy, Thomas h. Caswell
of California, or Thomas NJ. Dudley OF Ken
lucky. Gen. Pike was well known to all
persons interested in freemssonry, having
held the highest offices In the order, and
written many works in regard to 1t.
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
He was born in Boston, Mass, in 1909,
and entered Harvard in 1926, but did not
graduate, leaving college to become princi-
pal of the Newburyport grammar school.
He set out in March, 1881, for the as yet
only partially explored west, and after a
long, tiresome journey arrived at st. Louis
in August. Joining q party under Capt.
Charles Bent, he started in caravan for
Santa Fe, which he reached after many
hardships. which were increased by the loss
of his horse. so tina. he was compelled to
walk more than 500 miles.
ON ANOTHER EXPEDITION.
He was clerk in Santa Fe short time
and then went of on another expedition
into the Staked Plains. The party was
without food and water part Of the time,
and Gen. Pike, with four companions,
finally reach Fort Smith, Ark. Here he de-
voted himself TO school-teaching and news
paper work, being for two years the owner
and editor Of The arkansas Advocate.
BNext he became lawyer, in which pro-
fession he gained considerable reputation in
his literary labors altogether. In 1889
Hymns to the Gods" which he had CON-
posed in New England, was published and
added considerably to his growing reputa-
ton.
HIS ARMY RECORD.
He served as a subordinate officer in an
Arkansas regiment during the Mexican
war, and when the civil war broke out
negotiated treaties of alliance between the
confederacy and several Indian tribes, some
members OF which he organized into sol
diers and carried them into the battles of
Pea Ridge and Elk Horn. serving himself
with the rank of brigadier general
After the war be was editor
of the Memphis Appeal until 1865,
when be sold his interest in the paper and
removed to this city. where he practiced the
profession Of the law until 1880, when he
retired from active work. His literary
labors included, besides publications con-
corning freemssonry and court reports,
number OF prose and poetic
sketches. Gen. Pike first entered the
Masonic order at Little Rock, Ark,
and rose through the various degrees to the
highest standing and rank in the order. In
person he was a magnificent specimen of
manhood, two or three inches over six feet
in hight broad shouldered, and with fine,
large head aud intelligent face. His long,
waving, white hair and beard gave him a
patriarchal appearance.