Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-01-24
JUSTICE LAMAR DEAD
He Expired Suddenly Last
 Evening at Macon, Ga.
SEIZED WITH A CONFUSION.

Death Came to Him After a Long IlI-
 ness-He Had Gone South in Search
 of Health-Skerch of the Distinguished
 SOutherner's Life.
 MACON, Ga. Jan. 24.-The death of Justice Lamar here last evening was a terrible shock to the community. The death was sudden in the extreme, for, all though he has been ailing for some time, Justice Lamar appeared to be gradually gaining in health.
 He came from Washington to Macon about a month ago, and has been visiting at the residence of MT. w. H. Virgin, of Vineville, a suburb of Macon.
 Yesterday afternoon at about o'clock Justice Lamar took his overcoat, intend ing to go to the city, but was met at the door by a friend, pr. Llewellyn, with whom he returned to the sitting room. At that time and during the afternoon he was in good spirits, and at dinner at 6:30 in the evening he seemed to have good appetite.
 Dr. Llewellyn left the house about o'clock, and a few minutes later the Justice was seized with violent pains in the heart and died at the hour mentioned.
 Brights disease with angina pectoris was the direct cause of Judge Lamar's death and is given by the physician as being the chief complication in the case.
 The attack was very severe while it lasted and the physician, Dr. A. H. Parker, who had been in attendance, ar rived only a few minutes before death. At this time Justice Lamar was uncon- scious and beyond medical aid.
 Restoratives were at once administered but were entirely without avail. He died with his head on MT. Virgins hands and apparently without pain, the spasm having passed off at that time.
 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was born in Putnam county, Ga., Sept. l, 1926, and after his fathers death was taken to Oxford, Miss, where he received part of his education. He graduated at Emory college Georgia, in lS45; studied law in Macon, and was admitted to the bar in 1S47.
 In 1S49 he returned to Oxford, Miss, and for year held professorship in the University of Mississippi
 He resigned and resumed the practice of law in Covington, Ga. He was elected to the Legislature in 1858, and in 1854 again returned to Mississippi and settled on his plantation in Lafayette, being shortly afterward elected to Congress as Democrat.
 He served from 1857 until 1860, when he resigned to take a seat in the Seces- sion convention of his native State. He cast his fortunes with the Lost Cause.' and left the army with the rank of Colonel, after having shared in many en- agreements.
 He was again professor in the Univer- sity of Mississippi, and again took seat in the House of Representatives; was elected to the Senate March 5. 1877. March 5, 1885, President Cleveland ap' pointed him Secretary of the Interior, and afterward elevated him to a seat on the Supreme Bench.
 Mr. Lamar was perhaps as prominent 6 figure as any that has occupied a seat or the bench of that august body, but fol months back he has been almost too ill to take more than a perfunctory interest in the proceedings.
 His health has been failing for a long time and it was almost a defiance O. nature that he took his seat on the usual decision day-Monday. He left Wash | ington for the South about a month ago