The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-06

city and chatted with Susan 3. An
thony and others OF the leading mem
hers. with whom he had been friendly
for many years.
When he returned home he said
nothing of any feeling OF illness,
though he expressed himself as being
little exhausted from the climb up
the stairs leading from the street to
his house, which is on high terrace.
He sat down and chstted with bis wife
about the women 1t the convention.
Suddenly he gasped, clapped his
hands to his heart AMI fell back uncon-
scious. A Doctor was hastily sum-
moued and arrived within very few
moments, but all effort TO revive him
were hopeless from the first. Within
twenty minutes after the attack the
faint motion of the heart ceased entire
~, and the great ex slave statesman
was dead.
Mr.. Douglass leaves two sons and q
daughter, the children OF his first wife.
Hi secoud wife, who is q white woman,
survives him
I Frederick Douglass naver knew the
exact year of hIs birth, but thought 1t
was In 1917 His father was q white
He WAS burn at TucakOhOe on the
eastern coast of Maryland. He was
reared as a slave on the plantation OF
CulOnrI Edward Lloyd. At ten years
of age, Douglass was transferred 10 q
relative of his owner at Baltimore,
but when he was about fifteen his
owner took him back again, aud he
WAS put to ordinary field labor.
After Serving two or three masters,
l. a.. Il Il H. HG4d
to Washington and then to New
York, afterwaTd going to New Bed
ford, Mass, where he married col
ored woman aud took up his resi-
dence. In 1915 he went TO England
OH leciuriug tour, where GloO was
subscribed to- purchase his freedom.
In lS47 he established u weekly news
paper at Rochester, ". Y, called
Frede' k Douglass Paper.
la 1871 lie Was secretary to the Santo
DomiugO Commission aud was made
a Presidential ElectOr for the Scale Of
New York la 1872. He was appointed
UuIie.i States Marshal for the District
Of Columbia 10y President Hayes,
which position he held for several
years.
He was made Recorder Of Deeds for
the District of Columbia by President
Garfield, from which office he was re-
moved by President Cleveland In
1885.
He was appointed Minister to Hayti
by President Harrisou in 1889 He was
sent to Hayti I'm q United States maui
of-war, an . arrived ON the Sth of Octo-
Der, 1883, Just as that country Vas
emerging from one of the most excit-
ing revolutions IL had witnessed for
wears.
Mr.. Douglass wrote several books.
Among them are ga Narrative OF My
Experience in Slavery" aud my
fBOmdag- and My Freedom"
Douglass was q fOrcible and fluent
speaker, very formidable in debate
ami convincing In his arguments. The
most wonderful thing about the man
was his strength OF character and his
fxity of purpose.
The story of his second marriage IL
a romantic one. Miss Helen Pitts
whom he married, was New Eug-
land woman of middle age, clerk IL
the offi,'e of the Recorder OF the Dis
trict of COIum0ia when Mr.. Douglass
was appointed to that office. She wa
q member of q literary society Il
which he belonged. They wer
thrown much toget rer, and finall.
became engaged. Her relatives op
posed the union bitterly on account o
his colOr, but finally yielded to tn
force OF circum stances.