Milford chronicle., 1895-05-31


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The death of Walter Quintil
Gresham, President Cleveland
Secretary of State, occurred at III
a. m. on Tuesday. Secretar,
Gresham had been sick for a montl
with acute plurisy and on Monday
evening, after a season of apparent
convalescence, he suffered a relapse
and died in a few hours, His deatl
was quiet, calm and peaceful. Fol-
two hours before he died there wa,
not the slightest indication of 8
heart beat. He died with his head
resting in the arms of his daughter
while his devoted wife sat by the
bedside, with his hands clasped in
hers, his head so turned that his
last glance of consciousness should
rest on her face.
When the war broke out Gresham
was the captain Of a military com.
pany in Corydon, Indiana, known
as the Spencer Rifles. He refused
are-election to the Legislature and
enlisted as a private in the Thirty
eighth Indiana Regiment. Almost
Immediately he was selected as the
Lieutenant-Colonel of thai regiment.
He saw his first service at Shiloh,
and later he took part IN the siege
of Cornith. Col Gresham met
Grant at Vicksburg, and after the
surrender Grant and Sherman
united in recommending him for a
Brigadier Generals commission,
which he received. While in com
mand of a division of Shermans
army at Leggett's Hill, before At
lanta, Gen. Gresham was shot in the
knee, a wound from which he never
fully recovered. When Gresham
was ready to go to the front again
the war was ended, and he was
brevetted Major-General and mus.
tered out of service. He resumed |
the practice of law at New Albany |
Ind. When Gen. Grant became |
President he offered Gen. Gresham
the Colleciorship of the Port OF
New Orleans, and subsequently the
District Attorneyship of Indiana.
Both of these offers were refused
Gen. Gresham twice ran for Con
yress, and was defeated by Michael
8. Kerr. He accepted President
Grants appointment as United
States District Judge for Indiana in
1869, and during the twelve years
hat he held that District Judgship
lot one ofhis decisions was reversed.
President Arthor called him from
he bench to become a member Of
lis Cabinet in 1883, and since that
line Mr.. Gresham has been a con
ipicuous and erratic figure in ma
ional politics. He took the port
olio in President Arthur's Cabinet
eft vacant by the death of Post
General Howe. Perhaps the
most noticeable incident of his ca
eer as Postmaster General was the
EXCLUSION of the Louisiana Lottery
company from the use of the mail.
Near the close of President Arthur's
erm, on the death Of Secretary Fol ;
.er, Mr.. Gresham was appointed
of the Treasury. Mr.. 5
Gresham, however, longed for re-
urn to the bench, and in the closing [
lays of the Arthur Administration 9
Ie was appointed Circuit Judge, to
ucceed Judge Drummond for the S
seventh Judicial district. This was
n appointment for life, and Judge {
iresham's friends believed when he t
ccepted it that he had hidden fare
7ell to politics. His most famous '
eeision was in the Wabash cases in i
1856. He then took control of the I
Dads in that system which were !
asst of the Mississippi River and [
laced them IN the hands of Judge a
,ooley as receiver. t
Judge Gresham and BENJAMIN L
we're rivals for the control G
f Indiana politics, and they have c
ever been friendly. Harrison's fol, 4
owing in Indiana has always been 4
tile stronger that Gresham's and 4
erhaps in this may be found a par o
al explanation of Mr.. Gresham s v
rratic political career. In 1884 il
lere was slight talk of Judge Ores p
am as the Republican Presidential e
andidate. Four years later he was "
onsidered more than possibility, C
ut the man who defeated him in the a
,nvass for United States Senator for C
adiana in 1880 came in ahead in the
ICE again. Judge Gresham had g
aved the way for revolving from the h
arty, at whose birth he had assisted q
lring the time that he was in Pres al
ent Arthur's Cabinet. One of his d
st acts as a member of that Adj tC
was a speech delivered k'
Wall street in which, although ni
Iaine, the Republican candidate for la
resident, was daily turning every
argument to account, I'll
maintained that there should be ca
vision of the tariff and a reduction pl
the surplus revenue. President nc
arrison had the opportunity of his fr'
litical career to heal an old sore chi
d disarm his enemies at home BY tn
Judge Gresham to the an
'preme bench, but he didn't do it. I'm
le feeling between the Harrison
IN and the Gresham men in In \
ina was for years a bitter one, and !
re was not as much surprise as vii
ght have been expected when 81,
dye Gresham announced his inten- fro,