Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-01-28
RUTHERFORD. B. HAYES DEAD
The Ex-President Died at II
O'Clock Last Night.
Paralysis OF the Heart, Due to a Cold, tho
Cause OF His Death.."l Know I'm
Going Where Lucy Is," His
Last Words.

FREMONT, o., Jan. 19.-EX-Prcsident
rutherford b. Hayes died at IL o'clock
Tueday night. Early in the evening an
inquiry elected the response that the
general had passed fairly well day
and was resting nicely this evening.
The change from better to worse was
rapid, and ut III o'clock the distin-
guished ex-president passed away.
The first intelligence OF this was re-
ceived when Webb G. Hayes came down
town and quietly announced that his
father had just died.
Ex-President Hayes left home last
Monday on trip to Columbus, Buffalo
and Cleveland At the last named
place he spent few days with his son,
Webb c. Hayes. During the last month
the ex-president had complained of one
or two slight attacks OF neuralgia Of
the heart, but as they soon passed
away he thought nothing of 1t. On
Saturday he experienced severe re-
currence of the malady, but being pre-
pared for his return home proceeded
on his journey accompanied by his son.
Word had been sent home by telegraph
of the condition of the general,
and he was met at the train
by his son, Rutherford B. Hayes
and DIR. +. 5. Hilbisch, the family ply
sfcian. with carriage. Entering the
carriage they were driven to the Hayes
mansion in Spiegle Grove, where all at
tention was given the stricken general
during the night. Sunday the Hayes
mansion was kept quiet and DR.. Hill
bisch spent most of the day in watch
ing at the bedside. The doctor stated
that the ex-president had been suffer
ing with a severe attack of heart neu-
ralgia or angina pectoris, which he had
received while at Cleveland; that
though he had rallied somewhat he
was not out of danger. Yesterday
there was apparently no change, and
the death of the ex-president when il
came was terrible surprise.
Rutherford Burchard Hayes was born in
Delaware. o, October 4, 1892. His father
died previous to his birth, leaving a widow
in easy circumstances, enabling her to
give her son an education at that time far
beyond the ordinary. He first attended a
common school. Early in life began %
study Latin and Greek under the tutelage
OF Judge Sherman French. He took a
course in the academy at Norwalk. o., and
In 1897 went to the Isaac Webb school, al
Middleton, to prepare for college. In
1888 he entered Kenyon college at Gam
bier, .. He graduated in 1872 and was
chosen to deliver the valedictory He
entered the law Office of Thomas
Sparrow at Columbus, and in lS4i
finished his studies in the law
school OF Harvard university. He was
admitted TO the bar in the same year and
established himself at Lower Sandusky--
now known as Frcmont-and formed a
partnership with Ralph Z. Buckland,
then congressman. In 1850 he esta ablished
himself in Cincinnati. In 1852 he married
Lucy Webb, daughter OF DIR. James Webb,
of Chiilicothe. In 1856 he refused the
nomination for common pleas Judge. In
1858 and 1850 he was city solicitor of Gin
cinnati. Hayes always voted with the
whig party and upon the birth of the re-
publican party allied himself with that
organization. At the first outbreak OF
the war he rendered his services and was
appointed major of the Twenty-third regi-
ment of Ohio infantry. He was later APP
pointed judge advocate Of the department
of Ohio. He was promoted to lieutenant
colonel and year later made colonel as a
reward for bravery.
To Mr. Hayes is largely due the credit
for routing Morgan's band and compell-
ing the surrender of that noted guerrilla.
In 1861 Colonel Hayes was sent to cut the
principal lines OF commu ication between
Richmond and the southwest. In the first
battle he again made himself conspicuous
hy his bravery. At the battle of Cedar
Greek his conduct attracted so much at
tention that General Crook, commanding,
stopped him on tho field of battle and
mad him brigadier general In 1855 he
was made major general.
At the close of the war General Hayes
returned TO civil life and took his seat in
congress. He was rec ec.ed in 1866. and
in 1867 he was nominated for governor OF
Ohio by the republicans, having for his
opponent Judge Allen G. Thurman. He
was elected an renominated and re e .ected
in 1863. In ls7l he was again nominated
for congress in spite of per-
scnal protests, but was defeated.
He declined the Office of United States as.
sistant treasurer under Grant. In 1876
he again accepted the candidacy for gov.
ernor, and after the most memorable
compaign in the history of the state was
elected. In March, 1876, the republican
state convention of Ohio resolved to pre-
sent his name to the national republican
convention, which was to meet in Cincin-
natl June IA following, as the states can
didate for the presidency. Hayes had 81
votes on the first ballot, 37S being neces.
sary to choice His strength steadily
grew until the seventh ballot, all the ele.
ments of antagonism to James G. Blaine,
who had been the leading candidate, cen.
tered upon Hayes and gave him the nom.
ination. Upon motion of Senator Frye IL
was made unanimous, and after a bitter
contest he was seated as president