Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-28
THIRD EDITION. AND TIE END CAME AT 1il5 Secretary Gresham Retained Con-
 sciouSnesS to the Last. PAIN CEASED ITS TORTURE And Peace Soothod the wracksd Frame. Sketch of Brilliant Soldier, States
 man and JuT:st.
PAIN CEASED ITS TORTURE

Washington, Hay 29.-Ss crstary G es- ham died at lis o'clock. No death could be more quiet, f1cre calm or n:ora peaceful
 For two hours preceding diss iltion there had been no indication of either a pulse or heart beat. He lay during that time with his head resting on the arms of his daughter, Mrs. Andrews while his devoted wife sat by his sile, his hands crossing hers his head so turned that his last conscious gaze should rest upon her. And so the minutes dragged slowly on till the end came He was conscious to the last.
 He suffered greatly during the prec d. ing forty-eight hours, after tie phci~ monic symptoms were complicated with his other diseases. and was only tempo rarily relieved by frequent hypodetIlic injections. But as the end approached the suffering disappeared and h. paSss'i away quietly as tired ch!li sinking to slumber in the arms of it's mother.
 Arrangements for his funeral Will be made after Mir. Otto Gresham. son of the deceased, shall arrive in Washington this morning from Chicago.
 Biographical.
 Walter Quinton Gresham was httle more than 65 years old when his record as a soldier jurist and statesman was 
 Indianan, though of late years claiming residence in Illinois. Born in Harrison county, Indiana, March IT, 1852, and re- ceiving all his early education and legal training in that state, he abandoned a prosperous law practice and member ship in the state legislature in August, 1861 to throw his whole energies into the prosecution of the var for the defense ot the union His gallant and conspicu- ously able services in that capacity se- cured for him the strong friendship of General Grant and the respect of his Confederate opponents, which was free ly manifested in after life.
 He entered the service as colonel of the Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, was breveted brigadier- general for gal lantry in the siege of VickSburg and re- tired as major-general In the opera tions before Atlanta, Ga, while com manding a division in Gen. Frank Blairs corps, he received wounds while charging at the head of his brigade which put him in the hospital for nearly year and to considerable extent ln- capacitated him up to the end of his life. He was awarded pension for this disa- bility but after he became secretary of state declined to receive it, although the constant and intense suffering resulting from those injuries undoubtedly aug mented the physical ailments which con- tributed to his death.
 After the war closed he was brought forward prominently a political can- didate. He ran for congress ill the New Albany Ind district in 1866, as a re- publican and was defeated. Then he was appointed financial agent of his state in New York City, and while hold ing this position was selected by Presi- dent Grant for appointment as United States district judge in his native state. In 1880, when one of the customary changes in the complexion of the Indiana legislature made it possible to elect republican to succeed Mir Joseph E. Me Donald tD theY United States senate, Judge Gresham and Benjamin Harrison were the leading candidates for the posi- ton and MT. Harrison secured the cleo tion.
 After the death of President Garfield in 1882 Judge Gresham was rendered the po- Sition of postmaster general in President Arthurs reorganized cabinet and re- signed his district judgeship to accept it. When Secretary Folger died in 1884, after his overwhelming defeat as candidate for governor of New York by Grover Cleveland MT. Gresham was trans ferred to the treasury portfolio thus va cated The duties of cabinet officer and the exacting requirements involved in the disposal of the patronage of one of the greatest executive departments of the government were not to his taste, and at his request President Arthur nominated him after barely three months service as secretary of the treasury to the position of circuit judge for the Seventh Judicial circuit, which embraces the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
 He retained his position until at MT. Clevelands urgent personal request, he Joined MT. Cleveland's second cabinet as secretary of state.
 But in the meantime varying political movements had brought his name for ward as a candidate for the presidency. In an interlude in the convention at