The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-14
DEATH OF MR.. CHISWELL.
Peaceful Close of a Useful Life.

The news of the death of Mr.. Lee
Chiswell, son of Captain Joseph n.
Chiswell, of Buckeystown District,
will be received with great sorrow by
his many friends in this county Mr..
Chiswell went west some years ago
and gained quite reputation. He
was an old Confederate, loyal Demo-
crat and had host OF friends all
through the west. The Lamar Demo
crat, of Missouri, of which he was one
of the editors, thus speaks of our la
mented FREUD:
Lee Chiswell, the lawyer, editor, the
devoted father and husband, the exem-
plary neighbor and citizen, is dead.
He was born in Frederick County,
Maryland, October 18th, 1S49, and died
in Lamar, Missouri, on May End, 1897.
He was the fourth son of family of
four boys and six girls He was raised
on a farm, educated in the public
schools, graduate of Frederick City
College, studied law and graduated at
Columbia Law School, Washington,
ID. u, and was admitted to the bar in
1869. He came to Lamar in March,
1870, where he engaged in the practice
OF his chosen profession. He was elect
ed prosecuting attorney for Barton
County at the general election in 1872
and filled that office for ten consecutive
years, his last term expiring January
LIST, 1883. At the Democratic County
Convention in 1882 he refused to be q
candidate FOR reelection, and with
drew his name from the convention,
against the protests of large number
of delegates who insisted in nominal
ting him against his own wishes. He
has been all his life active in politics,
and an uncomprOmising Democrat
For quarter of a century he has been
a familiar figure at county, judicial,
senatorial, congressional, state and
national Democratic conventions. For
the last q years he has never missed a
Democratic convention in Barton
County. He was editor of the Lamar
Democrat from 1883 up to the time of
his death, except short time in 1894,
while J. E. Rundell, of this city,
owned an interest in the paper. How
eyer, he has done no active work on
the paper since November, 1895, when
he had his first attack of paralysis
This attack was followed by another
in December, 1895, and the third one
occurred on May lst 1897, from which
he died at noon May End. He was
elected justice of the peace tor Lamar
township in the spring of 1895, and re-
elected in 1897. and held that office at
the time of his death, to the satisfac-
ton of everybody. He was member of
all the Masonic bodies, from that of the
Master Mason to Knight Templar. He
was also member of the A. o. u. W.,
and took great interest in the meetings
of these bodies. He was a member of
the Congregational Church, and when
able to do SO was regular attendant at
all services at the church.
1t has often been said of him that
the only enemy on earth he ever had
was himself. Heo was generous to a
fault, and no man ever appealed in
vain to him for charity. If he had but
crust of bread he would divide it
with any one in need. Though young
man at the thine of his death, his ac-
quaintance was very extensive, and no
man ever knew him but to love him.
1t may be truthfully said that he was
one of the most unselfish and self-sac-
rificing of men. He was always will
ing to forego his own ambitions to
further the interests of his friends.
In the very prime of life and vigor
of manhood, this big-hearted, whole
souled, genial, companiOnable man was
cut down by death, and there is no one
in this community who can fill his
place. The world is far better that he
should have lived even this long, and
the community unfortunate at his UNI
timely death. On Sunday afternoon
the Quivering lips and tear-bedimmed
eyes of the familiar faces on the street
told ia unuttered words the sad story
of his death.
The life of Lee Chiswell furnishes an
example of what generous and happy
disposition, by bright smiles, will do
in community to dispel gloom, with
the sunlight of good nature. If every
one who has been the recipient of that
smile so characteristic of his life, should
drop single tear in his grave, it would
be filled with the tears of this commu-
nity.
Ii everyone 10 WnOm ne mas done
kind act should speak single word in
commendation of his life and character,
it would constitute an eulogy greater,
nobler and more eloquent than the acts
and deeds of heroes commemorated by
monuments of stone and marble.
Let his unqualified generosity and
loving kindness live as it deserves to
live in the memory of the people of this
community, and if the great Judge who
judges the dead shall be as generous
towards his faults as he has always
been towards the faults of his friends
and neighbors, "His enfranchised spirit
to-day rests in the peaceful abode of
the blest. "-The Lamar No. DEM
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