The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-21
FRED DOUGLASS is DEAD
The Noted Orator Expired Very Sud-
denly Last Night
LONG AND EvENTFUL LIFE
He Held important Public offices.
Did Much to Emancipate
His Race and Was Uni
versalIy Respected.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Frederick Doug
las, the noted freed man and orator,
dropped dead at his home IN Anacosta
this evening.
His death was entirely unexpected, as
he had been enjoying the best of health.
During the afternoon he attended the con-
vention of the women now in progress,
and chatted with Susan b. Anthony and
other leading members. When he re-
turned home he said nothing of any feel
ing of illness, though he expressed himself
as being n little exhausted from the climb
upstairs leading from the street. He sat
down and chatted with his wife about tho
women at the convention. Suddenly
he gasped, clapped his his hands to
his heart and fell back unconscious.
A doctor was hastily summoned and
arrived within very few moments, but
efforts to revive him were hopeless from
the first. Within 20 minutes of the attack
the beating of the heart ceased entirely
and the great ex-slave and statesman
was dead. Douglass leaves two sons and
daughter, the children of his first wife.
His second wife, who is a white woman,
survives him.
Frederick Douglas, orator, was born in
Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot county,
Mary land, in February, 1917. His mother
was a negro slave and his father n white
man. He was n slave on the plantation
of Col. Edward Lloyd until at the age of
10 he was sent to Baltimore to live with n
relative of his master. He learned to
read and write from one of his master s
relatives, to whom he was lent when about
0 years of age. His master allowed him
later to hire his own time for SO week,
and he was employed in a ship yard, and, &,
in accordance with resolution long en-
tertained, he fed from Baltimore and
from slavery, Sept. 3, 1888.
He made his way TO New York and
thence to New Bedford. Mass, where he
married and lived for two or three years,
supporting himself by day labor on tho
wharves and in various workshops. While
there he changed his name from Lloyd to
Douglass. He was aided in his efforts for
self education by William Lloyd Garrison.
In the summer of 1871 he attended an
anti-slavery convention at Nantucket, and
made speech, which was so we'll re-
ceived that he was offered the agency of
the Massachusetts Anti-Savery society.
In this capacity he travelled and lectured
through the New England states for four
years. Large audiences were attracted by
his graphic description OF slavery and his
eloquent appeals.
In 1845 he went to Europe and lectured
Oh slavery to enthusiastic audiences in
nearly all tho large towns of England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In 1876 his
friends in England contributed $3.50 to
have him manumitted in due form of law.
He remained two years in Great Britain,
and in 1917 began, at Rochester, n. Y,
the publication of Erederick Douglass
h
North Star, n weekly Journal, which he
continued for some years.
His supposed implication in the John
Brown raid of 1859 led Governor Wise of
Virginia to make n requisition for his ar
rest upon the governor of Michigan, where
he then was, and in consequenc of this
Mr.. Douglass went to England and re-
mained six or eight months. he then re-
turned to Rochester and continued the
publication of his paper.
When the civil war began in 1861 ho
urged upon President Lincoln the employ
ment of colored troops and the procla-
nation of emancipation. In 1868, when
permission was given to employ such
troops, he assisted in enlisting mon to fill
the regiments, especially the 5ith and
55th Massachusetts. After the abolition
he discontinued his paper and applied
himself to the preparation and delivery of
lectures before lyceums. In September.
1870, he became editor of the NeU National
Era in Washington, which was continued
by his sons, Lewis and Frederick.
In 1871 he was appointed assistant Sec
retary TO the commission TO Santo Do
mingo, and on his return President Grant
appointeu q him one of the territorial coun-
sci OF the District of Columbia. In 1872 he
was elected presidential elector at large
for the state of New York and was APP
pointed to carry the electoral vote of the
state to Washington.
In 1876 he was appointed United States
marshal for tho District of Columbia.
which office he retained until 1881, after
which he became recorder of deeds in
the district. from which Office he was
removed by President Cleveland in 1886.
In the autumn of 1856 he revisited Eng
land TO inform tho friends he had made as
q fugitive slave of tho progress of the AT.
rican race in the United States. with the
intention of spending the winter on the
continent and the following summer IN
the United Kingdom.
THAI CABLE.