Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-30
SECRETARY GRESHAM.
PASSED FROMLIFE EARLY YESTER.
DAY MORNING.

PASSED FROMLIFE EARLY YESTER-
DAY MORNING.
Supposed to be Improved Until Last Satur-
day---And Alarming Change for the
Worse---Collapse in the Afternoon Fol
lowed by a Steady Until the
End Came---sketch of His Life and
Public Service.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Mr.
Gresham passed a comparatively
easy day until about 5 O'Clock
this afternoon. Then he collapsed
suddenly and his physician, DR..
Johnston, who has been con-
stantly in attendance throughout
the day, began to administer
hypodermic doses Of whiskey.
During the day the Secretary
lay in a stupor, which was the
foundation for the report that he
was .'resting easily" AS soon,
however, as the physicians real
lied that the end was approach
ing the heroic measures usual in
such cases were adopted. Not
withstanding their efforts the
patient sank rapidly. The ply
sicians IN attendance were Drs.
w. w, Johnston and Prentiss, OF
this city, the latter having been
called into the case within the
past few days. This evening DR..
Van RENSSELAER, was also called
in, and 1t was be who performed
the operation of injecting the
normal saline. At 10 o'clock to-
night the physicians acknowl-
edged that they considered the
case a hopeless one, but they
did not relax their efforts.
The secretary who had been
conscious during his entire i'll
ness, seems to have been more
concerned for his wife than for
himself. He realized this after
noon that the end was approach
ing, but his constant suggestion
made in feeble whipers to his
daughter: Lookout for your
mother, give her all your atten-
ton; don't worry about me-"
Secretary Gresham died at
lis o'clock. No death could be
more quiet, more calm, or more
peaceful. For two hours pre-
ceding dissolution there had been
no Indication either of a pulse OF
a heart beat. He lay during that
time with his head resting on the
arms Of his daughter, Mrs. An
drews, while his devoted wife
sat by his side, his hands cross
ing hers; his face SO turned that
his last conscious gaze rested
upon her. And so the minutes
dragged slowly on till the enc
came. He was conscious to the
last.
He suffered greatly during the
preceding forty-eight hours after
the pneumonia symptoms were
complicated with his other dis.
ease and was only temporarily
relieved by frequent hypodermit
injections. But as the end APP
preached the suffering disap
peared and he passed away a:
quietly as a tired child sinking
to slumber in the arm of it:
mother.
Arrangements for his funera
will be made after Mr.. Otto Ores
ham, son of the deceased, shall
arrive in Washington from Chi
cago this morning.
A SKETCH OF THE LATE SECRE
TARY.
Walter Quinlon Gresham wa
little more than IS years oil
when his record as soldiers
jurist and statesman wa
closed by death. He was es
sentially an Indianlan, though
of late years claiming residence
in Illinois. Born in Harrison
county, Ind, March II, 1882, an
receiving all his early education
and legal training in that State
he abandoned a prosperous lay
practice and a membership o.
the State Legislature in August
1861. to throw his whole energie
into the prosecution of the wa
for the defenfe of the Union. Hi
gallant and conspicuously adj
services in that capacity secure
for him the strong friendship c
Gen. Grant aud the respect Q
his Confederate opponents whic
was frequently manifested in al
ter life. He entered the servic
as lieutenant colonel of the 38 In
diana Volunteers, was brevette
brigadier general for gallantr
in the siege of Vicksburg an
retired as major general. 1t tn
Operations before Atlanta, Ga
while commanding a division i
Gen. Frank Blair's corps, he re
ceived wounds while charging
the head of his brigade Whic
put him IN the hospital for neal
Iy a year and to a conSiderabl
extent incapacitated him up t
the end of. his life. He wa
awarded a pension for this di'
ability, but after he became Sec
!, Rotary of State declined to rt
ceive it, although the constar
and intense suffering %resultin
from those injuries undoubtedl
augmented the physical al
ments which contributed to b.
| death.
After the war closed he VIZ
i brought forward prominently
| a political candidate. He ran fe
congress in the New Alban.
Ind, district in 1866 as a Repul