St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-21

climb up the stairs leading from tho
street to the house, which is on a
high terrace He sat down and
chatted with his wife about the
women at the convention, telling
Of various things that had been said
and done. Suddenly he gasped,
clapped his hand to his heart and
fell back, unconscious. A doctor
was hastily summoned and arrived
within a very few moments, but his
efforts to revive Mr.. Douglass were
hopeless from the first Within
| twenty minutes after the attack, the
faint motion of the heart ceased en-
tirely, and the great ex-slave states
man was dead
Mr. Douglass leaves two sons and q
| daughter, the children of his first wife.
His second wife. who was a white
woman, survives him. The story of
| the second marriage was a romantis
one. Miss Helen Pitts, whom he mar
ried, was New England woman of
middle age, a clerk in the office of the
recorder Of deeds of the District OF
Columbia, when Mr.. Douglass was ap-
ber of literary society to which ihe.
belonged. They were thrown much to-
gether, and finally became engaged
Her relatives opposed the union bit
terly on account of his color, but finally
yielded to force of circumstances. Some
of them have for some time been liv-
ing near the Douglass home on Ana
costa Heights.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
was born in Tuckahooe, Talbot county,
Maryland, in February, 1917. His moth
er was a negro slave and his father
was white man. At the age of ten
years he was sent to Baltimore, where
he learned to read and write. His
owner later allowed him to hire his
own time for SO per week, and he was
employed in a ship yard.
In September, 1898, he fed from Balti-
more and made his way to New York.
Hence he went to New Bedford, Mass,
where he married and lived for two or
three years, supporting himself by day
labor on the wharves and in various
workshops. While there he changed
his name to Douglass. He had pre-
viously been called Lloyds the name of
his old master He was aided in his
efforts for self-education by William
Lloyd Garrison. In the summer of 1871
he attended an anti-slavery convention
at Nantucket, and made a speech,
which was so well received that he was
offered the agency of the Massachu-
setts Anti-Slavery society. In this
capacity he Travelled and lectured
throughout the New England states for
four years. Large audiences were at
tracted by his graphic description of
slavery and his eloquent speeches. At
this time he published his first book
entitled, Narrative of My Experience
in Slavery"
In 1S45 he went to Europe and lee
tured on slavery to enthusiastic au-
diences in nearly all of the large towns
of Great Britain.
In 1916 his friends in England raised
a purse of $3.50 to purchase his free
dom in due form of law. He remained
two years in Great Britain, and in 1S47
began at Rochester. N. Y, the publi-
cation of Frederick Douglass Pa
per-" whose title was afterward
changed to "The North Star" In 1855
he published "My Bondage and My
Freedom In 1859 the John Brown
riots took place in Virginia. He was
supposed to be implicated in these
and Gov. Wise made reuuisition for
his arrest upon the governor of Michi-
gan, in which state he then was. To
avoid difficulty Mr.. Douglass went to
England, where he remained for six