The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-07-13
A REMARKABLB CAREER.
Hsis Place in History as the Father
of the Atlantic Gable.

akis Place in History as the Father
of the Atlantic Gable.
Cyrus West Fields patent of nobility
was made eternal and irreyersible on
Me eth of July, 1860, when the dis
patch was flashed across the Atlantic
and over both continents that the At
tantic cable was successfully laid and
In perfect working order. In the events
which led to and followed that dispatch
iis his claims to immortality, and no
man can doubt that the claim will be
fully honored. His fame is forever Sc
pure. The cloud that enveloped his
latter days will be dissipated. Any
srrors or alleged errors OF other parts OF
his life will be forgotten. But through
kll time the man who laid the Atlantic
Gable will hold high rank among the
great ones of history. Columbus the
aiscoyerer, Washington the deliverer
and Lincoln the preserver are not more
certainly enshrined for all time than
The mar who bound the continents to-
Rether by the wonderful mechanism of
instant thought transference.
His fame, too, is Of that most desira-
be kind which grows as centuries pass.
BE was indeed highly honored while
nAlh AUG w elJpy anu ApptSCiaLS Lilo Sb-
TEEN of his fellow men; but all the
donors paid the living man will seem
but small in comparison with the lasting
honors of the future.
David Dudley Field, clergyman, of
East Guilford, Conn, Is destined to pass
into history as the father of the "four
noted Fields" yet if he had never had a
son he would have held high place on
his own merits. His father was Cap
A.tx AL Iia.lI "a 4 4.
revolution, and the son, having grad
uated from Yale in 1909, was ordained q
Congregational minister in 1904. For
the ensuing forty y-seven years he labored
INCREASINGLY, and besides his ministerial
duties wrote four historical works, still
quoted as authority in local affairs.
His four sons were David Dudley, the
famous jurist, born Feb. 13, 1905, Ste
phen johnson, now on the supreme
bench of the United States, borp Nov.
4, 1916; 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 very young appearing man. The
four brothers held their last social re-
union on Dec. 3, 1890, at the home Of
Cyrus in Gramercy park, New York,
the occasion being the celebration of
the latter's golden wedding On the
preceding Sunday he had completed his
T1st year, and it was the testimony of
all who saw him that no man showed
the weight of years and labor less
dsalthful activity and an even mind
had indeed given him green old age,
but an awful change was close at hand.
lie was accustomed to sayin his pleas
ant way that his marriage was the first
Important event of his lfe-he had not
lived before that. 1t was soon after
reaching his 2lst birthday, to wit, on
Pee. ., 1s4o, that he married Miss Mary
lived together little over fifty years,
and Ind seven children, of whom the
younger two were Edward Morse born
July !, 1865, and Cyrus William, born
March 10, 1867. One of his two dnugh-
ters married Mr.. D. A. Lindley, recently
fhe business associate of Edward Morse
and sufferer from events but too well
EQpwn.
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