The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-10-10
DEATH OF Two NOTED MEN.
ANDREW G. CURTIN.
Pennsylvania's War Governor Passes
Peacefully Away.

At Bellefonte, Pa, Andrew Gregg Curtin:
the most famous of all the war governors,
whose services to his country In the capacity
of chief executive Of Pennsylvania during the
war of the rebellion were most conspicuous,
brenthcd his last ut o'clock SUNDAY morn
ing, after lingering illness. Inc ina'auy
which ended his distinguished career was
founded In nervous arrangements, brought
on Ivy mental strain in connection with ms
business interests. and complicated ny
the inilrmities of old apte. He was ~ years
old on the 22d Of last April. iall on the
lee last winter involved troubles from
which he never entirely recovered, anu
during the extreme heat OF last summer
chroric stomach troubles were aggrngatch ny
the weather All this helped to hasten the
end, although his final sickness confined MN
90 bed only four days prior 10 ms ueath'
Three physicians have been IN constant a'-
tendance. Dr. George f. Hairs Is ms soh-lh-
law. and he has been associated with Doctors
Fairlamb aud Dobhins in assiduous attend
ance upon him. During the twelve hours
preceding his death the patient was uncon-
sious. and the great change came 80 quickly
and peacefully that only the suspension ol
respiration aud the stilling OF MS heart
marked the difference between the sleep oi
life and death. The members OF his Immediate
family were all beside the deathbed wheh no
passed away.
Andrew Gregg Curtin was born In the town
in which he died, April 22. 1918, i've years
before tho Missouri slavery agitation arose
which ended in the war with which his name
l. so memorably linked. Seventeen years be-
fore his birth his father, Roland curtin, came
20 Bellefonte from Ireland and began the
manufacture OF iron. his furnace being one OF
the first built In Pennsylvania. Unlike most
of the Irish immigrants OF thnt time, NO
oh m wealth
tion. lie married the daughter OF Andrew
Gregg, also Of Irish parentage, who was
member Of Congress- United States Senator,
and Secretary of State for Pennsylvania aud
an unsuccessful candidate for governor.
Young Andrew was given good educatlon
finishing at the Milton Academy and Dickin-
son College lie studied law with William
W, Porter and with Judge Reed while attend
ing the law department of Dlckinson,nnd be-
gan practcng at Bellefonte In 1887. lie soon
won prominence. especially as Jury lawyer
and in criminal cases. but but his natural
tastes and gifts and the influence OF his ma
ternal grandfather pressed him into politics.
When only 25 he made n State reputation a
stump speaker for "Gippecanoe and lyief
toe" and in lsi5 he led the campaign speak
ing in Pennsylvania for Henry Clay.
As governor Of the state he was active In
raising and equipping troops, and the splen-
did organization of the Pennsylvania reserves
was owing to his exertions. He was indeiati-
gable in his ministrations for the comfort OF
pennsylvania's soldiers in the field, on the
march, in the camp or in ;he hospital No
personal service in this behalf was too exact
ing for him to render, and again and again
his presence inspired our soldiery, aud his
sympathy cheered the wives and children OF
the absent and the widows and orphans OF
those who never returned. To him, above all
others. the state Is indebted to the establish
ment Of the Soldiers Orphan school, and the
country owes to him the splendid example OF
Pennsylyanias care for the children OF her
soldier dead. And his native state was hon
ored by his appointment as minister plenipo-
tentinry to one of the great powers OF Europe
and he was eminently successful in establish
ing and maintaing the most cordial relations
OF Russia's great empire With our Republic.