Connecticut western news., 1895-12-19

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 days of his old age in the elegant but quiet home of his son, Allen ". 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. tkxt won a nations admiration at monday. w
 Four Score Years of Activity.
 Allen 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 his latter 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 ac- counted rather as a representative of the east. His first political lessons were from the living Jefferson and Madison. He
 
 Jackson, outlived the II presiden who succeeded him and took the lcsding part in reconstructing the old party and i'm pressing its doctrines upon the third gen. eration.
 Allen G. Thurman was born in Lynch burg, Va, Nov. IS 1918. His father Rev. P. Thurman, and his mother, only daugh- | ter of Colonel Nathaniel Allen, father of | the late Governor Allen, removed to Chil- | licothe, O., in 1919, where young Thur 1 man was well educated, studying law | with his uncle, the late William Allen, l then United States senator. and subse- | quently with the late Noah H. Swayne of | the United States supreme bench. He | practiced 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 judgeship he took up his residence | permanently in Columbus Previously he | had been elected to congress. In 1862 he | was the Democratic candidate for govern or against ex President R. B. Hayes and was beaten by less than 8, 900. In 1868 he was elected United States senator over Clement l.. Vallandigham and reelected in 1874, serving 12 years in that body. Early in 1876 the name of Thurman be- came prominent in connection with the | pT0slQ6uCy, Uub u6 ulu uOb Rob bu6 uOiiil- 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 l to preside in the absence of Vice Presi- dent Wheeler. In 1850 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-
 ble family residence in Columbus, O.
 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 MT. Thona~ scott Gif.
 ford, native of Spain. of-snglish parents.