Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-13


CYRUS W. FIELD.
quently during his illness. DR. Cotant
was at once summoned from Tarrytown |
but his servit IS were of no avail and in
less than three hours the aged financiei
was dead
At the time of his death there were
present at the bedside Mr. Fields three
brothers, David Dudley Field, the Rev.
Henry M. Field and Justice Stephen j.
Field; his daughter, Mrs. Isabella Jud-
son and her two sons, Cyrus Field Jud'
son and Frank Judson.
Mr.. Field had been suffering from
physical and mental exhaustion brought
on by the many troubles which have
overtaken him during the past year.
Funeral and Burial.
The funeral services will be held on
Thursday afternoon at the house. The
interment will be at Stockbridge, Mass,
on Friday.
Biographical.
Cyrus West Fields patent of nobility was
made eternal md irreversible on the 9th
of july 1866 when the dispatch was flashed
across the Atlantic and over both CONT
nents that the Atlantic cable was success
fully laid and in perfect working order
In the events which led to and followed
that dispatch lie his claims toimmortality
and no man can doubt that the claim will
be fully honored. His fame is forever Sc
cure. 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. Co
lumbus the discoverer, Washington the
deliverer and Lincoln the preserver are not
more certainly enshrined for all time than
the man who bound the continents to-
gether 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 COM
parison 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 con-
slider in their order the family, the man
and the work. The unusual course of max
ing the first prominent is justified in this
case because the family of the Fields holds
position of extraordinary and peculiar in
terest to Americans, and the annals of the
family are an important part of the history
of the man.
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 a high place on his own
merits. His father was Captain Timothy
Field, veteran of the revolution, and the
son, having graduated from Yale in 1902,
was ordained Congregational minister in
1904. For the ensuing forty-seven years he
labored increasingly, and besides his min
isterial duties wrote four historical wooks,
still quoted as authority in local affairs.
His four sons We're David Dudley the
famous jurist, born Feb 10, 1906 Stephen
johnson, now on the supreme bench of the
United States, born Nov. 4, 1916; Cyrus
West, born Nov. 80, 1919, in Stockbridge,
Mass, and Henry Martyr, clergyman and
editof>of the New York Evangelist, born
I April 3, 1922, and still spoken of by his ac-
quaintances as u very young appearing
man The four brothers held their last
social reunion on the 81 of December, $780,
! at the home of Cyrus in Gramercy park
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ton of his golden wedding On the pre-
ceding Sunday he had completed his seven
/ ty-frst year, and it was the testimony of
all who saw him that no man showed the
weight of years and labor less Heathful
activity and an even mind had indeed
given him green old age but an awful
change was close at hand.
He was accustomed to say in his pleas
! thnt fret
important event of his life-he had not
lived before that 1t was soon after reach
ing his twenty -first birthday, to-wit, on
Dec q 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 3, 1855,
and Cyrus William, born March 49, 1857
One of his two daughters married Mr. ID
A. Lindley, recently the business associate
of Edward Morse Field and sufferer from
events but too well known.
Mr. Field had, however, made a consd-
cradle start in life before his marriage for
at the age of fifteen, to wit, in 1884, he
went to New York, and with the assist
ance of his brother, David Dudley, secured
place in the great establishment of A. Il.
Stewart He worked there six years. and
did not particularly like it; so soon after
attaining his majority he began the manu-
facture of paper, and at the end of dozen
years had a large establishment, n com
Portable fortune and some leisure for
travel.
In 1858 he passed six months in travel in
South America. and about that time his
brother. 1t is said, suggested to him tnav
telegraphic line might be laid across tn
Atlantic ocean His imagination took fir
, at once His destiny was fixed, For tn
( next thirteen years the man was swallowe'
up in the work.
At this late day it would be idle to dis
cuss the question as TO who first suggested
an Atlantic telegraph line. II was in fac
suggested as soon as Professor Mors
: demonstrated, in 1874 that telegraphy wa
/ success, and il is an interesting fact tha
? as the first message in 1874 was, "Wha
hath God wrought y written by Miss Ar
> ME Ellsworth, daughter OF the commits
' sioner of patents so the first regular new
a over the latter was that peace had bee
concluded between Austria and Prussia