St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-13

cier was dead. At the time of his
death there were present at the bed
side Mr.. Fields three brothers.
David Dudley Field, 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 had been suf-
fering from physical and mental ex-
haustlon brought Oh by the many
troubles which have overtaken him dur
ing the past year.
Arrangements have been almost COM
pleted for the funeral of Mr. Field,
which will take place at Stockbrdge on
Friday at p. M. There will be a sim
pie service, and those present will
include only the members of the Field
family and the most intimate relatives
and friends of the deceased.
David Dudley Field, clergyman OF East
Gulford, Conn. is destined to pass into his
tory as the father of the -four noted Fields -
yet if he had never had son he would have
held high place on his own merits. His
father was Capt. Timothy Field. veteran of
the Revolution, and the son, having grad
uated from Yale in 1902. was ordained
Congregational minister in 1904 For the
ensuing fortv-seven years he labored I'M
ceasingly. and besides his ministerial duties
wrote four historical works, still quoted as
His four sons were David Dudley, the
famous jurist, born Feb. ID, 1895; Stephen
Johnson, now on the supreme. bench of the
United States: born Nov. ~ 1876: Cyrus
Mass, and Henry Martyr, clergyman and
editor of the New York Evangelist. born
April B. 1922. and still spoken of by his &C
quaintances as very young appearing man.
union on the I'd of December, 1899, at the
home of Cyrus in Gramercy park, New York,
the occasion being the celebration of his
golden wedding. On the preceding Sunday
he had completed his seyenty-tirst 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 green old age,
but an awful change was close at hand.
He was accustomed to say in his pleasant
way that his marriage was the first impor-
tant event of his life-he had not lived be-
fore that. 1t was soon after reaching his
that he married Miss Mary Bryant Stone, of
Guilford, Conn. They lived together little
over fifty years. and had seven children of
whom the younger two were Edward Morse,
March Is. 1857. One of his two daughters
married d A. Lindley, recently the business
associate of Edward Morse Field, and suf-
fered from events but too well known.
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 assistance of his
brother David Dudley, secured place in the
great establishment of A. Il. Stewart. He
worked there six years. and did not particu-
larly like it: so soon after attaining his ma
jority he began the manufacture of paper,
and at the end of a dozen years had a large
establishment. a comfortable fortune and
some leisure for travel. In 1853 he passed six
months in travel in South America, and
about that time his brother. it is said, sug-
gested to him that Geographic line might
be laid across the Atlantic ocean, His
Imagination took fire at once. His destiny
was fixed. For the next thirteen years the
man was swallowed up in the work.
Cyrus West Fields patent of nobility was
made eternal and irreversible on the 27th of
July, 1866, when the dispatch was flashed
across the Atlantic and over both continents
that the Atlantic cable was successfully laid
and i'll 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 alleged 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
enshrined for all time than the man who
bound the continents together by the Won