Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-01-02
IrnGE NORTON DEAD
o.ssEs PEACEFULLY AWAY AT Ills HOME.

.c Ian. 2.-As quietly and
 pa.,s as,s, as he had lived Judge A. B.
 s'aa laid him down to die Sunday
 0l'ga sr at his home on Ross avenue.
 0ln'pa aofnlly did his life fade into
 Y that his family thought him
 a'a t.kine a nap. There was 10
 i'. .onnareatly, no suffering, no an
 ', X " He died as gently as a child
 1s M is tiny arms and goes to rest
 ' is mothers breast.
 El. Dp n eause of Judge Norton's death
 lns sn attack of la grippe which he
 '.ractea s, last Tuesday while on a visit
 nnat .nst;n He complained little and in
 masnot thought serious. He laid
 z ,,non a couch to rest and died
 Ethin an hour.
 '. aas srsmarkable men who ever made
 shode in Texas. One of the most
 s4nresoue figures on the streets of
 l 'lss and the history of Texas. Judge
 @ .tan was known by thousands of
 1 nale here and elsewhere. And every
 " who knew him well rememb bered
 r;ndliness, his unfailing sympathy,
 h;q old heart which was always
 mo and his unfailing fund of quaint
 mar and r!dicue. His long hair and
 ,r;nc beard. both almost as white as ow made him a curious parsonage, len to st.angers.
 |Fsw people have lived i'll this world
 life of Anthony Banning Norton. otoiy knows how oli he was. He
 Bver told his years even to his wife or
 < sons. To all inqulrers he said his N was born away before the war.
 his heart was younger than the +ueration which had grown to man boi since Appomattox. As nearly as kn be judged by the data obtainable ] ige Norton was 80 years old. He <ss born at Mount Vernon, 0. His Sotber was Sarah Banning. a member I one of the oldest families in Mary Ed, His grandfather was well #own sea captain, and Judge Norton Reserved to the day of his death book Therein his grandfather had charged seorge Washington for 1G gallons of km. When a boy he went to Kenyon aliege. Among his fellow students Eere Rutherford B. Hayes, David Da- IS, Edwin NJ Stanton, Guy NJ. Bryan. 5enry Winter Davis, Stanley Mat hews. Generals MeDowrll, MeCook, 3rfin, Granger, Mason, Royal T. Wheeler, Judge James Denison and a bst of men who were elected to con- Jess Leaving college, where he Faduated with distinction, Judge Nor on read law with Messrs. McGiffen & low of Washington. Pa. and at Lan- hster, O., with Ewing Stanbery and |an Trump He was admitted to the Br in lS40 and practiced in the courts central Ohio.
 From boyhood he was an ardent Fhig and edited party papers at Ports louth Lancaster, Washington, Mount |ernon and Columbus, 0. He was flegate to every Whig national con- fntion from the time he became of ge til he removed to Texas several bars before the civil war. He was early always candidate for elector the Whig presidential ticket. In the bar ls44 occurred an incident which ls been told in hundred different lays since, Judge Norton was can bate for elector on the Whig ticket. asb J. McNulty, the Democratic cali pate for congress, afterward clerk of E national house of representatives, Fitted young Norton with the remark |at until his beard were grown he la better remain in Jericho" On the ppulse of the moment Judge Norton 'wed that he would never shave or lt his hair until Henry Clay was ected president, Though the nasty 'w |'' Of sensitive youth the pledge vas Salafully an1 religiously kept through the intervening years, Never has zOr toughed his face since then nor tssors clipped his hair.
 When the Republican party was anded Judge Norton joined the new ny and advocated it's principles up 'ae time of his death. He never Pss9q a national convention, he being ways a delegate.
 saage 'd Norton came to Texas about 4' and travelled around over the south s'eIn and southwestern portions of ! state visiting all the towns then in 4ssence. s Finally he settled in Austin V aooot 1850 commenced the publica- 'i of the lntelligencer. He was a reg q T cohtrl butor to magazines, periodi- 1' anu newspapers over the nom de aine Delhi Reporter. He wrote 7 history of the Texas Pressa which as .' published in 1886. He made hard 'n' agalnst the rule of the caucus in .aa9 .s 2 ana won it. This attracted Gen. VI ' houston to him and General Hous- z z aasclared Delhi broke the rule of s ; caucus in Texas
 sisl"t. sn .a9' ne was e'acted to the Texas s,s'a'nre ssa from the 10th district com sa veV : ol the counties of Henderson. sa 'a 1andt and Kaufman. He was sa ss .es,u'ng In Van Zandt. In 1859 he IT IT. is-elected, though tremendous ef- l,S na,' were made to beat hin.
 n s ra, the trying days Judge Nor T remained as hn La ,s.-- v,