The St. Johns herald., 1895-06-06
Secretary Gresham
 Dead.

Secretary Ot State waiter Q Gresham died at Washington, Tues day morning at 1 :15 o'clock, after a long illness. The following we copy from Tuesday morning Dem ocrat:
 WalterQ. Gresham was an Illinois man, and one of the most promin- eat for years in that state. At one time he was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the presidency, and he then stood fair chance to get the nomination at the hands oi the Republican national convention. Not long after that his views chang ed greatly On some question of na- tienal importance, and while he was never considered q thorough Demo- crat oy rank and file of the Demo- cratic party, and though selection by President Cleveland to the first position in the cabinet excited se- we're criticism his work has been such as to endear him alike to Dem ocrats and Republicans. He was q practicing lawyer before his ele- vation to the first place in the cabi- net, and left lucrative field in Chicago when he went to Wash ington.
 Walter Quintin Gresham was a soldier, judge and stateman, pro minent and distinguished as each. He rose to the rank of major gen eral of volunteers during the rebel lion.
 Of English stock. his parents moved to Virginia and later to Harrison cnunty, Indiana, where he was born on St. Patrick's day. 1882. In 1884 his father, while sheriff was murdered by a noted desperado whom he had gone to arrest. He grew up with but two or three winters schooling until 16 years of age. By dint of hard work and the assistance of his Il year. aid brother he succeeded in enter ing the seminary at Corydon. Two years there and one at BloOminton university completed his schooling. He then took up law. Gov. Norton appointed him lie utcnant colonel of the Thirty eight Indiana volun- teers, but before he saw active ser vice he was appointed colonel Of the Fifty. third Indiana volunteers. In 1861 Mr, Gresham rrgement was ordered to join General Grant, In 1863 he was appointed briga- dicr general on recommendation of Grant and Sherman, and was placed in command of the Natchez division. The following spring he was placed in command Of divi- sion of the Seventeenth crops of Tennessee, which took part in the campaign against Atlanta. At Leggett's hill, before Atlanta, he was struck by sharpshooter's bullet just below the knee He never recovered the full use of the limb.
 When war was over Mr. Gresham returned to his profession at AL bany, Ind. In 1866 he was defeat- for congress, as his district was De- mocratIc. When Grant became president he appointed Mir. Gres- ham Unsted States district judge for Indiana, which position he held fourteen years.
 When Postmaster General Howe died in April, 1883. Mir. Gresham was rendered this cabinet position by telegraph and he accepted IT,. Near the close of the Arthur term, on the death of Secretary Folger, he was appointed secretary of the treasury, a position he had until October, 1884. president Arthur, who had taken him from the bench, had the satisfaction of restoring him to the bench at the close of his service, by appointing him to suc- ceed Judge Drummond.
 In 1888 Judge Gresham was q
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