The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-29
HENRY
GEORGE
DEHD.I
SUSTAINED A FATAL STROKE OF Apo
PLEXY THIS MORNING.
THE END OF A GREAT CAREER
MR.. GEORGE WAS TAKEN ILL AFTER AD-
DRESSING FOUR CAMPAIGN MEETINGS.
THE END WAS A PEACEFUL ONE.
Biographical Sketch of the Sailor Printer,
Editor and World Famous Thinker
Who Was Waging Battle as
Candidate For FIRST
Mayor of Greater
New York
Special to EVENING HERALD.

Special to EVENING HERALD.
NEW YORK. Oct 20.-Henry George. sailor
printer, editor, world famous thinker anc
one of the candidates for Mayor of Greater
New York, died this morning.
Mr. George retired last night in his sleep
ing apartments at the Union Square hote
after addressing several large meetings in hi.
campaign for the Mayorality At about three
o'clock this morning Mrs George, his wife
was awakened by the moaning of her hus-
band and found him in dying condition A
doctor was summoned and with Mrs. George
and her son, Henry George Jr., did all in
their power to save the dying man, but he
passed away at five o'clock. His last moments
were peaceful There was a smile upon his
face as he breathed his last Death was due
to apoplexy.
Atnoon to-day Mrs. George was somewhat
recovered from the shock she sustained
through the sudden death of her husband
aud to representative Of the American
Press Association said that Mr.. George re-
turned to the Union Square hotel after adj
dressing four meetings. After a light meal
they went to the second floor Of the hotel.
where Mr.. Georges campaign headquarters
were located. Mr.. George talked to
several parties in waiting there and
then retired to hiss sleeping apartments.
At about a. m. Mrs. George discovered
her husband S condition and gave an alarm.
Her son, Henry George, Jr., rushed into the
room without dressing He found his father
lying upon his back in bed breathing with
great difficulty. The entire hotel was
aroused and messengers were scattered in
every direction. Mr., George steadily grew
worse until the end and never rallied for q
moment. There were about a dozen friends
in addition to the family at the bedside when
he died.
The leaders of the George party held two
meetings this afternoon at 100 and 800
o'clock. The sentiment was divided between
Justice Gaynor, Richard George and Col. L.
N. Knox, as the nominee to be substituted
for Henry George. 1t is probable, however
that they will endorse Seth Low as their
candidate for Mayor.
Henry George was brain-made man. To
his own good head he owed the Worldwide
celebrity he enjoyed as a thinker. No man
could be less indebted for fame to extraneous
circumstances. He begun life poor, worked
hard and humbly with his hands for liveli-
hood through many years, worked as hard
for many more as newspaper reporter and
editorial writer, and emerged from obscurity
schools as the man he was without any aid
from and conquered the respectful attention
of serious men throughout the earth by sheer
force of his intellectual ability
Henry George was born in Philadelphia,
Pa, on September 2, 1880 After going to a.
little private school for children he was sent
to the public schools. Then he attended the
Protestant Episcopal Academy and was
colleague Of Bishop Potter. His father, r. S.
H. George, was an Episcopal book publisher,
and the son early acquired taste for read
ing in his store. The Episcopal Academy
did not please the boy, so he went to the
High school, where at thirteen was gradu-
ated at the head of the class. Leaving school
he went to work as an Office boy in a crockery
Importing house. When fourteen years old
he went to sea and worked his way around
the Horn to California as a sailor before the
mast in 1858. The Frazer river gold excite
ment was at its height, but before he could
get to the mines the boom had subsidized He
returned from Victoria, b. G to san Francisco
in the steerage. There he did what work he
could get as printer, and got job in rice
mill
Mr.. George evidently became settled i'm the
newspaper business in California and while
employed as cOmpositOr ON the San Fran
cisco Bulletin in 1865 did his first writing.
This led to his connection with the editorial
staff Of the Alta, California, Chronicle and
other newspapers. In 1869 he became ac-
quainted with John Russell Young, then
managing editor of the New York Tribune.
and accepted a commission as correspondent
in California for that paper. Later he was
typesetter ON several newspapers and
eventually became California agent for a
rival Of the Associated Press. In 1871 he
wrote pamphlet entitled Our Land and
Land Policy, National and State. In this be
set forth the idea which he always MAIN
tained-the idea that the value of land be-
longs to the whole community and that all re-
venues should be raised by taxes upon it
With two partners, both printers, he started
in 1872 theSan Francisco Evening Post the
first penny paper ON the Pacific coast. In
1879 Mr.. George completed his great book
Progress and Poverty" In 1850 Mr.. George
left California and reached New York which
has ever since been his home. In lssl-S3 he
wrote letters from Ireland and England to
the Irish World delivering addresses in the
principal cities and towns In 1881 am Eng
lish edition Of Progress and Poverty" was
issued After the election of 1856 when he
made his splendid run for Mayor Of New
York, Mr. George started his single-tax
paper The Standard with whose history aud
the McGlynn controversy the public is
familiar,
Mr.. Georges home at the time Of his death
was at Fort Hamilton, a superb of Brooklyn,
N. Y, and now forming part of Greater
New York. He lived amid his books, with
the wife Of his youth aud his children