Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-20

any disease, but to the gradual waning
of the physical forces incident to his ad-
vanced years. Since his retirement from
active life he had peacefully passed the
ebbing Nays Of his old age in the elegant
but quiet home of his son, Allen W. Thur
man, where his children and grandchil.
dren cheered him with their company and
watched over his feeble footsteps with
loving care. The sunset of his long and
useful but sometimes stormy life was
pleasant and peaceful. The last rays of
sunlight found the same sturdy spirit
there that won a nations admiration at
MONDAY.
Four Score Years of Activity.
Alien G. Thurman's four score years of
life covered almost the entire progress of
the nation from childhood to complete
maturity. In his Virginia boyhood the
Alleghanies were the western limits of
anything that could be called an advanced
civilization, but Columbus, o., the home
of hislatter years, is far east of the CEN
ter Of population.
When he emigrated to Ohio, it was on
the border of the far west When he en-
tered the United States senate, he was ao-
counted rather as a representative of the
east. His first political lessons were from
lub llNlnB JtltIhOl anu hluulbbLs i1b
witnessed the phenomenal growth Of
jackson, outlived the II presidents who
succeeded him and took the leading part
in reconstruoting the old party and i'm
pressing its doctrines upon the third gen
Grafton.
Allen G. Thurman was born in Lynch
burg, Va. Nov. 13, 1913. His father, Rev.
p. Thurman and his mother, only daugh-
ter of Colonel Nathaniel Allen, father of
the late Governor Allen, removed to Chill
lioothe O., in 1919, where young Thur
man was well educated, studying law
with his uncle the late William Allen
then United States senator and subse-
quently with the late Noah Fl. Swayne of
the United States supreme bench. He
praoticed law from 1885 to 1851, when he
was elected judge of the supreme court,
being chief justice from 1854 to 1856,
when his term expired During his su-
preme iudgeship he took up his residence
permanently in Columbus Previously he
had been elected to congress. In 1867 he
was the Democratic candidate for govern
or against "a President r. B. Hayes and
was beaten by less than 8, 900. In 1858 he
was elected United States senator over
| Clement L. Vallandigham and re- elected
in 1874, serving ~ years in that body.
Edfly IN 1870 Inb name OF thurman De-
came prominent in connection with the
presidency, hut he did not get the nomi-
nation. The next winter in the senate he
took strong ground in favor of the cleo
tOral commission, and the issue of that
method Of settling the dispute as to the
presidency caused him an apparent loss
of popularity for time. In the senate
however, he was easily first. and when his
party obtained majority he was chosen
/ to preside in the absence of Vice Presi-
| dent Wheeler. In 1880 he received the
vote of Ohio and some votes from other
states in the Democratic convention to
nominate for the presidency, and in 1884
he again received some votes. In 1888 he
was the nominee for the vice presidency
on the ticket with Cleveland, which failed
/ of election.
OF Judge Thurman's children, Allen
married Miss Webb OF Baltimore, and
their four children are the life of the dou-
BILE family residence in Columbus, o.
1 One daughter of the judge is the wife Of
Ex-Governor Mccormick OF Arizona, and
/ they live at Jamaica n. Y. The younger
| daughter married Lieutenant W. S.
Cowles Of the navy, but was divorced from
him and married Mr.. Thomas Scott Gif-
ford, native of Spain, of English parents.