The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-18
BANCROFT IS DEAD.
ne Great Historian and States
man Suddenly Called.
MS SERVICES TO AMERICA.
:. ordered First Troops to Mexico and
the Seizure of California-His
valuable Diplomacy.

w.sHrSeroy CRY, Jan. 1.-THE com.
.rnity was greatly shocked this evening
: the news that George Bancroft, the
..rerabie historian, was dead. He had
len in apparently better health this year
snce his return from Newport than for
.sveral seasons past, so that death was
.ndden and unexpected to all save a few
;,,;mate friends who knew of the attack
sf;llness which carried him off.
hath occurred at $40 O'Clock this after
roon. The end was quiet and peaceful.
nd came after a period of unconscious
ass lasting about twenty-four hours.
snce his illness two years ago he had
never been so strong as before, but, as
mentioned above, had been feeling ex-
sremely well since his return to this city.
last week he caught cold. Notwithstand-
;,e this he continued to seek outdoor ex-
srr;se every day until Thursday, when he
tack to his bed as matter of precaution.
Ms whole illness was less than three DAYS.
Ne failed rapidly yesterday, and became
unconscious in the afternoon, in which
ate be remained until death. His son.
Jobn c. Bancroft, who, with his wife, kept
house for the historian, was with him in
The last moment. 1t was decided this even
ing to hold funeral services next Monday
morning in st. Johns Episcopal church.
Theinterment will take place at Worcester,
Mass, where Bancroft's wife was buried.
eeorrc Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass.
ofober 5, 1900. He was a son of the Rev. Aaron
bancroft He was prepared for college at Exc
r.. i. e. was graduated at Harvard in 1SI7, and
-. f-n<f Tr.<x -
rded for two years, be studied German litera.
srre uuder- Benecke; French and Italian fitera.
sure under Artaud and Bunsen: Arabic. He
New and Scripture Interpretation under Eich-
ky,: history under Plauck and Heeren; natural
history under Blumenbach, and the antiquities
nd literature Of Greece and Rome under Dis
In, with whom he took course of Greek phil
aophy.
II writing from Leipsic, August %, 1919, to
Nn Prescott, of Boston, Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell
remarks: sit was sad parting, too, from little
hncroft He is most Interesting youth, and
ko make one OF our great men,"
In $50 Bancroft was given the degree of Phi. d.
b the university OF Gottjngen. At this time
mslccsed history as his special branch, having
= one Of his reasons the desire TO see If the OBJ
wrvstion of masses of men in action would not
lad by the inductive method to the establish
nent Of the laws of morality as science. Re-
6hleiermacher, William Won Humboldt, Saw
my, Appenberg and Varnhagen Won Fuse, and
4 Jena be made the acquaintance of Goethe
he studied at Heidelberg with the historian
fhlosSer
In lS22, Bancroft returned to the United
states and accepted for one year the Office of
iutor Of Greek In Harvard. He delivered several
tmons, which produced favorable impress
son, but the love of literature proved the
stronger attachment. His first publication was
srolnme Of poems in 1923. In the same year, in
mnjunetion with DR.. Joseph g. Cogswell, he
opened the Round Hill school, at Northampton,
Mass; in 1874 he published translation of
Heeren's "Polities OF Ancient Greece" and 1876
40 Grafton In which he advocated universal
suffrage and the foundation of the state on the
power OF the whole people.
In 1880, without his knowledge, Mr.. Bancroft
vas elected TO the legislature, but refused to
take his seat, and the next year he declined a
nomination, though certain to have been elected,
or the state Senate. In 1884 he published the
hnt volume of his "History OF the United
states" and the following year he drafted an adj
dress to the people of Massachusetts, at the re-
guest OF the Young Mems Democratic conven-
Ton and In the same year he removed TO Spring
~, Mass, where he resided for three years
md completed the second volume of his history
10 ISIS Mr.. Bancroft was appointed by Van
buren, collector OF the port OF Boston. In ls44