Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-02-21
Was in Chicago Monday.

. In AnlCaXO MOnuay
Pierre Gray, son of the dead minister to
Mexico, said to a reporter ut I%ndianapo-
lis:
Father started to the City of Mexico
from Chicago Monday morning. He had
been in Washington a short time a week
or so before he left here to return to his
post of duty, and had caught cold, his
trip being in the coolest kind of weather.
But he took some medicine and when he
left he was in a fair state of health. He
wired us from Chicago, and the next day
we received a letter from him, but he did
not say that he was at all i'll. He went
over the Wabash road direct to Laredo,
Mex, without change of sleeper, going
through st. Louis. We heard nothing
more of him until a message said q porter
had found him unconscious at 2 O'Clock
IN the morning in his berth. l knew moth.
ing more of the circumstances"
Twice Governor of Indiana.
Isaac Pussy Gray was born in Chester
County, Pennsylvania. Oct. Is. 1923. His
parents removed to Ohio in 1886. Young
Gray received a common school educa-
ton and early entered on the study of the
law. His poverty. however. compelled
him to accept a clerkship in a general store
at New Madison. In 1865 he moved with
his family to Union City. Ind.
In 1862 he was appointed colonel of the
Fourth Indiana Cavalry by Gov. Morton
and organized the One Hundred and For
ty-seventh Infantry in 1864. In 1866 he
was the candidate for Congress in y
sition to George w. Julian, being defeat.
ed by 300 votes. Two years later he was
elected to the State Senate. where he
made himself famous as president of that
body BY locking the Democratic members
in and counting them to obtain the pass-
age OF a ratification of the fifteenth
amendment. He was offered the consul.
ship to st. Thomas in 1870. but declined
il.
Ills connection with the Democratic
party dates from 1871, when he failed to
get the nomination for Governor from
the hands of the Republican party. He
was a delegate-at-large to the Liberal Re
publican convention Of 1872 and was ap-
pointed by the convention member Of the.
National Committee for Indiana. His
name was before the Democratic State
convention in 1872 for Congressman.at-
large and in 1874 for Attorney General,
OUT was withdrawn both times at his re-
quest. The State convention Of 1875
nominated him by reclamation for Lieu
tenan Governor. to which Office he was
elected with "Bluejeans" Williams. whom
ne succeeded as Governor on the ~latter's.
death. In 1883 he received the compli-
hehtary nomination of the Democratic
minority for the United States Senator.
snip. In 1884 he was elected Governor
against william II. Calkins. receiy-
ing the nomination by a two-thirds vote.
OF the convention.
AFTER his last term as Governor ex-
pred he followed the practice Of his pro-
m ,ess,o a.; IN indianapolis in partnership
WIN mis- son, Pierre Gray, until he was
called to the Mexican mission hv pres;.
dent Cleveland two years ago. In 1850
ne married Miss Eliza Jaoue. Of Darke
Monnty, Ohio. They have two children
nvlng-Pierre, who is a lawyer in Indian.
ap1 sis and Bayard, who has been acting
as MS fathers private secretary in Mex