The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-21

the convention Of the women of the
United States now in progress in this
city, and chatted with Susan 3. An
thony and others Of the leading mem
bers, with whom he has been on in
innate terms for many years.
When he returned home, he said
nothing Of any feeling OF illness.
though he expressed himself as being
little exhausted from the climb up
the stairs leading from the street to
his house, which is on a high terrace.
he sat down and chatted with his
wife about the women at the conven-
tfor. Suddenly he gasped, claDDed his
hands TO his heart and fell back IN
conscious: a doctor was hastily sum-
moned and arrived within a very few
moments. but his efforts to revive him
were hopeless from the first. Within
twenty minutes after the attack, tbe
faint motion Of the heart ceased en-
tirely and the great e4-slaVe-states-
man was dead.
His Children,
Mft1Douglass leaves two sons and p
daughter. the children of his first wife
His second wife, who was a white
woman survives him. The story Of the
second marriage was q romantic one,
Miss Helen Pitts, who he married,
was q New England woman of middle
age, a clerk in the office of the re-
corder of deeds of the District of Col
unnbia when MIR. Douglas was appointed
to that Office. She was a member OF
literary society to which he belonged
They were thrown much together, and
HnaLly became engaged. Her relatives
opposed the union, bitterly, on account
Of his color. but finally yielded to
force of circumstances. Some of them
have for some time been living near
She Douglass home on Anaeosta
Heights.
His Mother n Slave.
ETuckahooe, Talbot county, Maryland
In February, 1871. His mother was 8
tnegro slave, and his father was 2
fWhite man. AT the age of ten years he
~was sent to Baltimore where he learned
ITO read and write. His owner later
Sallowed him to hire his own time fol
SO per week and he was employed in q
ship yard.
In September, 1893, he fed from Bal.
fimOre and made his way to New York
Thence he went to New Bedford
Mass. where he married and lived for
three or four years, supporting himself
10y day labor on the WlarVes and ir
changed his name 10 Douglass. H
had previously been called LLOYD, the
name of his old master. He was aidef
in IBIS efforts for education by
WflASZh Lloyd Garrison. In the sum.
IneINf 1871 he attended an anti-slaverS
ccHvention at Nantucket and made :
speech Which was SO well received thai
he was offered the agency of the Mas.
6achuaettS Anti-SlaVery society. Ir
this capacity he Travelled and lecture6
through the New England states fol-
-four years. Large audiences were at.
tr2cted by his graphic descriptions OF
slavery and his eloquent speeches.
At this time he published mis- f1rst
book entitled Narrative of Ny tx
perienee In Slavery
In 1876 he went to Europe and lee
tured on slavery TO enthusiastic audi
.enceg in nearly ali of the large towns
of Great Britain.
His Freedom Purchased.
In 1886 his friends in England raised
q purse of $3.50 TO purchase his freedom
He remained two years in Great
Britain and in 1s47 began at Rochester
Douglass Paper" whose title pva.
afterwards changed to THE Nortl
STAR
In 1856 he published MY Bondag,
and My Freedom
place in Virginia, He was supposed II
have been implicated in these and Gov.
,ernor Wise made requisition for his
arrest upon the governor of Michigan
in which state he then was. To avoid