The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-07-14

three brothers, David Dudley Field, the
Rev. Henry NJ. Field and Justice
Stephen J. Field, his daughter, Mrs.
Isabella Judson, and her two sons, Cyrus
Field Judson and Frank Judson. Mr..
Field has been suffering from physical
and mental exhaustion brought on by
the many troubles which have overtaken
him during the past year.
The Dead Mans Career.
Cyrus West Fields patent Of nobility
was made eternal and irreversible on the
9th of July, 1865, when the dispatch
was flashed across the Atlantic and over
both continents that the Atlantic cable
was successfully laid and in perfect
working order. In the events which led
to and followed that dispatch lie his
claims to immortality, and no man can
doubt that the claim will be fully
honored. His fame is forever secure.
The cloud that enveloped his latter days
will be dissipated. Any errors or al
legged errors of other parts of his life
will be forgotten. But through all time
the man who laid the Atlantic cable will
hold high rank among the great ones of
history. Columbus the discoverer,
Washington the deliverer and Lincoln
the preserver are not more certainly en-
shrined for all time than the man who
bound the continents together by the
wonderful mechanism of instant thought
transference.
His fame. too, is of that most desirable
kind which grows as centuries pass. He
was indeed highly honored while still
able to enjoy and appreciate the esteem
of his fellow-men; but all the honors
paid the living man will seem but small
in comparison with the lasting hOnors
of the future. In narrating the events
of such life one is embarrassed by
mass of rich materials. 1t seems well,
therefore, to consider in their order the
family, the man and the work. The
unusual course Of making the first
prominent is justified in this case be-
cause the family of the Fields hold a po-
sition of extraordinary and peculiar
interest to Americans, and the annals
Of the family are an important part Of
the history Of the man.
Four Noted Fields.
David Dudley Field, clergyman, of
East Guilford, Conn, is destined to pass
into history as the father of the "fou r
noted Fields. yet if he had never had a
son he would have held high place on
his own merits. His father was Captain
Timothy Field, veteran of the Revo-
luton, and the son, having graduated
from Yale in 1902, was ordained Con-
gregational minister in 1904. For the
ensuing forty-seven years he labored un-
ceasingly, and besides his ministerial du-
ties wrote four historical works, still
quoted as authority in local affairs.
His four sons were David Dudley, the
famous jurist, born Feb. ID, 1905;
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bench of the United States, born Nov.
4, 1915; Cyrus West, born Nov. 80, 1919,
in Stockbridge, Mass, and Henry Mar
tyn, clergyman and editor of the New
York Evangelist, born April 8, 1929, and
still spoken Of by his acquaintances as a
very young appearing man. The four
brothers held their last social reunion
on the I'd of December, 1890, at the
home of Cyrus in Gramercy park, New
York, the occasion being the celebration
Of his golden wedding. On the preced-
ing Sunday he had completed his seven
ty-first year, and it was the testimony of
all who saw him that no, man showed
the weight of years and labors less
Healthful activity and an even mind
had indeed given him a green old age,
but an awful change was close at hand
First Important Event of His Life.
He was accustomed to say in his pleas
ant way that his marriage was the first
important event of his life-he had not
lived before that 1t was soon after
reaching his twenty-first birthday, to
wit, on Dec. 2, 1910, that he married
Miss Mary Bryan Stone, of Guilford,
{ Conn. They lived together a little over
fifty years, and had seven children, of
whom the younger two were Edward
Morse, born July A, 1855, and Cyrus
William, born March 10, 1857. One Of
his two daughters married Mr.. d. A.
Lindley, recently the business associate
of Edward Morse Field and sufferer
from events but too well known.
Mr.. Field had, however, made con-
siderable start in life before his mar.
riage. for at the age of IS, to wit, in
% assp,sses Ra %ses ta g. 42y 4Se Xqgk and with
Dudley, secured place in the great es,
adjustment of A, T. Stewart. He
worked there six years, and did not par.
ticularly like it; so soon after ATTAINING
his majority he began the manufacture
OF paper, and at the end of a dozen
years had large establishment, com.
Portable fortune and some leisure 10,
travel. In 1853 he passed six months ip
travel IN South America, and about that
time his brother, it is said, suggested Ia
him that telegraphic line might be
iRid across the Atlantic ocean. His inn
agination took fire at once. His des
tiny was fixed. For the next thirteen
years the man was swallowed up in the
work.
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