Connecticut western news., 1895-02-28
rRKDknIck DOUGLASS

been enjoying the best of health. During Wednesday afternoon hc attended tho con. vention of the women of the United States. now In progress i'm this city, and chattod with susan R. Anthony and others of the leading members, with whom he had bocn on intimate terms for many years.
 When he returned homo, he said nothing of any feeling of illness. though he ap. poarod to be a little exhausted from the climb mp the steep flights of steps leading from the street to the house which is on high terrace. He sat down and chnrted with hls wife about the women at the con. vention, telling of various things that had been said and done
 Suddenly bo gaspcd, clapped his hand Ca his hoart and foll back unconscious A doc tor was hastily summoned and arrived within very few moments hut his efforts to rcvivc Mir. Douglass were hopeless from the first
 Within 90 minutes after the attack the faint motion of tho heart ceased entirely, and the great ex-slave statesman was dead.
 Mir Douglass leaves two sons and daughter the children of his first wife His second wife. who is n white woman, survives him.
 Frederick Douglass was born near Eas ton. Talbot county Md. in February, 
 his father was n white man. At the nRe of 10 he was sent to Baltimore, where he learned to read and wrlto His master al. lowed him to hlre his own time for t3 week, md he wns employed In n Shipyard.
 In September, 1888, he fiod from Balu- more and made his way to Now York. Thence he wont to New Bedford Mass, whero he married and lived for two or thrce years. supporting himself by day la bor on the wharvcs and in various work shops While there he changed his name to Douglass He had previously been called Lloyd from the namc of his old master. He was aided in his efforts for self education hy William Lloyd Garrison.
 In the summer of is4l he attended an sntislavcry convention At Nantucket anu made n speech which was so we'll received that he was offered the agency of the Mas. sachusctts Antislavery. society. In this capacity he travelled and lccturcd through the New England states for four years. Large audiences were attracted by his graphic descriptions of slavery and his clo- qucnt appcals. At this timo he published his first book, entitled Narrative of My Experience In Slavery"
 His Political Career.
 After the abolition of slavery he dlscon- Unu6a lut IiAhilthtlhl VI HIS INltE 1hW applied himself to the preparation and de. livery of lyreum lccturs~ In September, 1870 he became editor of Ths New Nh, tional Era In Washington. This was after. ward continued by his sons Lewis and Frederick. In 1871 he wns appointed as. sistant sccrc'asy to the commission to San Domingo On hts rturn President Grant appointed him ono of the territorial coun. cil of the District of Columbia. In iS13 he was elected presidential elcctor at large for the state of New York and was ap. pointed to carry tho electoral vote of tho state to Washington. In 1876 he was ap. pointed United States marshal for the District of Columbia.
 Aftor this he became recorder of decds for tho District of Columbia, from which office he was removed by President Clcve. land in 1886. In tho autumn of that ycat he revisited England to inform tho fricnds whom he had made while n fugitive slayt of the progress of the African race in the United States After his return to the United States he was appointed minister to Haiti by President Harrison in issa. He was sent to HWti In United States man-of-wnr