The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-16
CALVIN S. BRICE.
He Dies in New York After
Brief Illness.

New York, Dec. 15.-Calvin S Brce
died of pneumonia, at 8.15 o'clock to-
day, at his residence in this city, No.
69S Fifth avenue.
Mr.. Brice contracted a severe cold
one week ago today. On Friday last
he went down to his office, returning
home in a suffering condition. On Sat-
urday last he took to his bed and grew
steadily worse until this afternoon,
when he died,
Calvin S. Brice was born at Denmark,
o., Sept II, 1S45. He was the son
Of a Presbyterian minister. Three
years before the civil war he entered
the Miami University, but in 1861 he en-
listed in university company for the
war, He served in West Virginia in the
Eighty-siXth Ohio infantry. In 1863
he graduated from the university, and
after teaching school a few months he
became captain of a company in the
One Hundred and Eighth Ohio and
served till the end of the war. He then
went to the Ann Arbor (Mich) Law
School, and was afterWard admitted to
the bar, in Cincinnati. He took an &C
tive interest in politics, and in the
campaign of 1876 he was an electoral
candidate on the Tlden ticket, and
again on the Cleveland ticket in 1884.
In 1883 he was a delegate at large to
the democratic convention at st. Louis,
where the Ohio delegation chose him
as a member of the national commit
tee. He was chairman of the execu-
tive committee during the 1888 cam
paign, and on the death of William
H. Barnum was elected chairman of
the democratic national committee. In
the winter of 1890 Mr.. Brice was elect
ed United States senator from Ohio, to
succeed Henry B. Payne, and took his
seat March 4, 1891. In the Senate Mr..
Brice became a prominent figure. He
was soon made a member of the demo-
cratic steering committee, and became
also a member of the committee on APP
preparations. Mr. Brice seldom spoke
in the Senate, but he was a close OBJ
server of everything that was going
on, and was always deep in the coun-
ellis of the party. Mr.. Brice served six
years in the Senate, being succeeded
by Joseph B. Foraker. In Washington
he occupied the Corcoran house, and
gave lavish entertainments. Since his
retirement from the Senate he had
been in Washington but very little,
occupying himself for the most part
with business affairs in New York.
u
silver as cardinal principle, Mr..
Brice was the leader in his party in
Ohio, but after that he did not take
an active part in POLITICS. The an
nouncement of Mr.. Brice's death caused
great regret in the Senate, as he was
a faVorite with nearly all, possessing
a fund of good humor, a good story
teller and universally popular with
senators on both sides of the chamber.
He was admired for his business and
political skill and for his Astounding
good humor which never left him on
any occasion. He was largely inter
ested In railway enterprises, was rated
a millionaire and of late had been one
of the chief members of a syndicate
with large railroad and other conces-
sions in China. He leaves a wife and
several grown children.
AT the time Of his death he was the
president of the Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company, president of Sault
ste Marie Bridge Company and presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Northern Rail-
way. He was a director in many other
companies, and member of many So
cial organizations. He was a liberal
patron of the arts and a keen student
of the sciences.
Senator Brice's family was famous
for its lavish entertainments at New
port as well as at Washington.