The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-10-10

HON. A. G. CURTIN. KNEW IL WAS ou1y
question of hours and nerved them
selves to be resigned to the inevitable.
His wonderful vitality, however, pro-
longed the final dissolution until 5
o'clock Sunday morning, when he
breathed his last, surrounded only by
the immediate members of his family.
The direct cause of the governors
death was general breaking down OF
his nervous system. The funeral has
been set for Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
At the urgent solicitation of Gov.
Pattison, the family have consented to
funeral with military honors. Gov.
Beaver will have full charge and there
will be an escort of regiment of in
fantry, troop of cavalry ande battery
of artillery with the G. A. r., under
command of the brigade commander.
Gov. Pattison will attend with his staff.
Andrew Gregg Curtin was born at Bellefonte
April o. 1917 His father, Roland Curtin, who
came from Ireland and who built one OF the
first iron factories in Pennsylvania, married
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United States senator, congressman and secre-
tary of state Young Curtin began his school
life in private institutions in Bellefonte and
after a term Of school at Harrisburg he ended
his academic education at Milton. Curtin be-
gan the study Of law In Bellefonte with Will
liam w. Potter, who was afterwards con-
gressman, and finished with Judge Reed then
one Of the great attorneys Of the state, after
graduating from the law department Of Dickin-
son college at Carlisle. He was admitted to the
bar in his native place and began practicing in
1887 He at once took leading position in his
profession. AT the age Of % years he made
state reputation as an orator in the campaign
Of "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" He was an
ardent whig and in 1874 made q canvass OF the
state for Henry Clay.
From 1854 to 1860, when the republican party
was springing into life as result Of the agita-
tion of the slavery question, Mr.. Curtin took
leading position In the stirring events which
attended the birth Of the new party, and In 1850
was made its candidate for governor. The
election of Lincoln depended upon the two
doubtful states Pennsylvania and Indiana
Both Of them held their state elections In the
October preceding the November election and
1t was essential nationally that these states
should declare for the republican candidate TO
insure his election.
Simon Cameron, David Wilmot, Andrew g.
Curtin, Col. A. K Mcclure and Thaddeus Ste-
vens we're in the Pennsylvania delegation and
Curtin's efforts helped largely In the nomina-
tiol ak Lincoln. The friendship between the
mafty4ed president and the great war govern
or Of the Keystone state was OF the warmest
character from that time. Curtin was elected
governor by good majority, and was reelected
for second term, serving during the entire
war.
1t followed close upon his first inauguration as
chief executive OF the state when the first gun
Of the civil war was fired and he sprang to the
duty Of raising troops for the general govern
ment with an energy and spirit unequalled by
any other state executive. He encouraged en-
listments in every possible way and in an elo-
Quent war speech just after the fall Of Sumter
he kindled camp-fires upon almost every hearth
in Pennsylvania and called more men into
service than was asked for by the general gov
ernmont.
In 1868 he was a prominent candidate for nom
nation for vice president with Gen. Grant, but
was defeated Soon after the latter's election
Gov. Curtin was nominated and confirmed as
minister to Russia and spent nearly four years
at st. Petersburg.
He returned home in 1872 and took part in
the liberal republican movement which nomi-
mated Horace Greeley. He was prominently
spoken Of for the second place on that ticket
and was the choice of the Pennsylvani delega-
tion in the Greeley convention for president,
Through his connection with the liberal repub-
lican movement he was carried into the demo-
cratic party.
He was chosen by the democrats to represent
the Twentieth Pennsylvania district in the
Forty-seventh, Forty-etghth and Forty-ninth
sessions OF congress In recent years he has
been leading retired life in Bellefonte.