Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-04-08


with William l. and were noted for their
remarkable fidelity and loyalty. The
family dates back to Sir Philip Pomeroy.
Mr.. Pomeroy was brought up by his I'M
Gle, Seth White, living near Elmira.
At an early age he was put to work on
a farm and in a blacksmith shop and Civ
en- the rudiments OF a common school
education.
At the age of II, with his earthly pos
sessions and a silk handkerchief, he
started on foot across the country TO
Corning, n Y There he went into the
office of the Corning Journal as an APP
prentice to the printing trade. He did
well and soon owned little paper. In
1854 he married Anna A. Wheeler of
Corning A year later he went to Ath-
ems. Pa. and started the Athens Ca
zette. He edited this paper for two
years, going West in 1857.
Located 'doricon, wis
He located in Horizon, Wis, and start
ed the Horizon Argus. This later Sc
cured him the appointment of deputy
United States marshal for Wisconsin.
He then entered directly into politics.
In 1853 he was offered the position of
city editor of the Milwaukee Daily. News
at SO a week, which was then cOnsid-
cred a princely salary. Inside Of six
months the circulation of the News had
more than doubled. He was on the pa
y
ton. d. c., to engage in newspaper and
political work. There through his devo-
ton to Stephen a. Douglas, and conse-
quent opposition to President Buchan,
an he lost his official position as deputy
marshal.
ing there with less than 81, purchasing
on credit a third interest i'll the La
Crosse Daily Democrat. When the Civil
War came on tie was for and with the
North and helped to raise three regl-
ments for the Northern army. His was
a Democratic paper of the most pro
nounced sort and was largely quoted
during the war. After the war he at
tackled the financial policy of the govern
ment and declared for the paying Of the
war debt in legal tender paper or green
back money. His paper soon had cir
culatiOn of over 100000. In 1860 he had
entered La Crosse without Il cent; in
1868 he was the largest taxpayer i'll the
county.
In 1868 he was induced to leave Wis
consin for New York to start a Demo
cratic paper. but he could not be induced
to favor any plan that looked to the
building up of the party in the East at
the expense or humiliation of the Dem
ocratic party III the West or South. He
soon found himself in a hot political con-
test with the Tweed combination, from
which he went out bankrupt but with
good reputation. In 1915 he removed
his paper to Chicago and there continued
its publica ton. In 1876 he was made
chairman of committee appointed at a
national convention held i'll Chicago
to organize voters into SO-called
greenback clubs. By March 1, 1880, he
had spent four years time and expended
$4,000. He organized more than 5000
clubs, comprising the voting force of
more than 100000 men. His health CIV
ing out he was obliged to give up the
educational effort III which he was en-
gagged and which work others proceeded
with, LAYING the foundation for the third
party movement in this country.
In 1880 he went to Colorado and
turned his attention to the law and to
the examination of the mineral resources
of that sta and the improvements OF and
the means for the transportation of pas
sengers and freight. He conceived the
idea of tunneling five miles through the
main range of the Rocky mountains at
point sixty miles west of Denver. Civ
ing up the paper he had started IN Den
yer under the name of the Great west,
he turned his entire attention to the
tunnel enterprise.
He is the author of several books, and
the originator and editor of monthly
magazine under the suggestive name of
"Pomeroy's Advanced Thought lie
was q great temperance man, not gwen
10 cOuIl1uS popularity ~AS'NA
wanted public office nor considered it
necessary, being in all respects a self
made man. In 1876 he was married to
Emma Idalia Stimson of Michigan, hav-
ing been divorced from his first wife.
He has three children.
New York, April 3.-[Special] Mr..
Pomeroy, who is seriously i'll at his
home at Blythebourne, said that the
doctors had given him up, but he thinks
he will pull through. II have" he said,
fooled the doctors for twenty five years,
and think l will do it again
He spoke of death freely. death is
only beautiful change. 1t will only
be an outbudding of a longer life, with
greater opportunities for work and for
knowledge. | view it just as young man
who comes from the country to the city
"a vaster field opens up before him.
Death is but the continuance of life