The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-10-14
The Late Gen. Neal Dow.
A Sketch of the Life of the Great Temperance
RefOrmer.
From the Portland Sunday Times.l

recognizing his children who We're gath
cred at his bedside. General Dow death
was due to the intirmites of his great age.
His vigorous body was worn out and his
strength had been gradually failing for
year or more, but until recently he had
been able to take his accustomed drives,
the last being when he drove out to Fall
mouth at the time of the railroad accident
there. Then these were given up and
finally, September 18th, he was oblig-
ed to take to his bed. His mind was
still clear, however, and only few days
ago he called for the paper and read
portion of it. His great weakness made
talking difficult, but the little he could
say and the gestures with which he made
his meaning palmer. made it clear that he
knew those about him and that he was
aware that the end was approaching.
Once he said that he was weary and was
eager for the moment of his release. Fri
day night he said to his nurse: This is
the end and it's all right" A another
time he referred 10 his funeral and men
toned the names Of several of the Port
land clergy whom he wished to be asked
to participate in the services. He also in
should be simple.
General Dow 5 death had been expected
at any time for a week OF more, and Sat
uIday forenoon it became evident that he
had sunk into state Of weakness from
which he could not rally. Early in the
afternoon he lost consciousness and an
hour later he passed away as peacefully as
a sleeping infant.
Had Neal Dow lived until the 10th of
next March, he would have been 81 years
of age. Ninety-four years is great age
for any man to attain, and it seems doubly
grea; for a man like Mr.. Dow, who was
vital active force in the community from
early manhood until his last years. In
1927, at the age of % years, here in the
city of his birth, he made his first tenn
perance speech before the members of the
old Deluge Engine company. Sixty-six
years later, on Munjoy Hill, under hot
July sun, be addressed a large out door
audience on the same subject, and with
vigor which seemed not at all impaired by
the weight of 90 years. In all the years
between these two events, Neal Dow has
been an active force III the business and
moral life Of this city and State, as well
as in the broader fields to which his in
fluence extended. The speech of July 80,
1898, ON Munjoy Hill, was not his last
public speech by any means, although it
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