Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-08
HAMILTON FISH.

l The Career of a Statesman Who l Reached Ripe old Age-The State Department Building Flag at Wash. fngton at aIf.uast-Secrerary oi State Under Grant.
 | GARRISON, N. Y, Sept. 7.-The Hon.
 Hamilton Fish, eighty five, ex secretary of
 state, died at his country residence here this morning.
 Mir. Fish died of heart failure at o'clock | this morning. His death was e severe
 shock to every one, ss until within a few hours of the cad event he was in his usual
 health and in the best of spirits. At the time of his death there were with him his
 two sons, Hamilton Fish, jr., and Stuy-
 vesant Fish, and his daughter, Mrs. A. j..
 Benjamin. MT. Fish left his city home at
 231 East Seventeenth street in the early
 part of the summer and has spent the en-
 tire season at Glenn Clyffe with Mrs. Ben
 jamin, and had intended returning to New
 York the latter part of this month. Mir. Fish leaves 8 family of six children, his
 wife having died in 1889. The funeral will be held in Glenn Clyffe on Sunday
 "AohAHVioNp ocpb- t~xNcNs OI tuc death of ex..Secretary Hamilton Fish was received at the state department with pro- found regret.
 Shortly after the department had been informed of MT. Fish's death an order was issued directing that the flag on the de- psrtment building be displayed at half mast until after the funeral. This simple ceremony will be the only outward ob servance here, and 1t marks the first result of the enactment by last congress that de- partmsnts of the government shall not be closed nor draped in morning on the de- cease of ex-csbinet officers
 Hamilton Flsh was the con of Colonel Nicholas Fish, the intimate friend of Al exsnder Hamilton, and the supervisor of revenue under Washington, and of she who was Miss Stuyvesant, descendant of the Dutch colonial governor of New Ann sterdsm.
 Hamilton Fish was born in New York city August 3. 1908. He graduated at Co., lumbis in 1927, became a lawyer. and was elected to. congress ss 6 wing in 1Si2. He ran for lieutenant governor of New York In 1S48 and was defeated, because of the anti renters. His successful competitor having resigned to go onto the bench, Mir. Fish was elected to succeed him. In 1S4S he was elected governor of New York over John A. Dix by 36, 900 majority. In 1851 he was elected United States senator in place of Daniel s. Dickinson. He opposed the repeal of the Missouri compromise. and acted with the newly formed republican party to the close of his term.
 When his senatorial term expired MT. Fish went to Europe, but returned in time to take an active part for Lincoln during the campaign of 1860. He served with Bishop Ames QS62, on the commission to visit Richmond prison and ameliorste the condition of the Union soldiers confined there. He was active in the Grant cam psign of 1868, and was appointed by Pres ident Grant secretary of state, serving dur ing Grants two terms, or until succeeded under President Hayes by Mir. Evsrts in March, 1873 While secretary of state, MT. Fish introduced @ system of examinations to teet applicants for clerkships, and served as one of the commissioners which nego- tiated with England the treaty of Wash ington (signed May s, 1S7l), under which treaty the tribunal at Geneva settled the Alabama claims. From this tribunal Mir. Fish secured the accept ance of the doctrine relieving the United States from all claims for indirect damages for Fenian raids or Cuban ilibustering ex- petitions. Ar. Fish also negotiated the settlement of the north western boundary question. which gave the United States the island of San Juan. In November, 1873, he negotiated with Admiral Pslo, Spanish minister at Washington, the set clement of "the Virginius question"
 Since the days of the Grant administrs- tion ex Secretary Fish has led quiet life, although occupying position of great so- cial eminence. He was for many years president of the New York Historical soci- ety, and also served as president general of the New York society of the Cincinnati.