Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-16

REFER Ass SOLDIER, POLITICAL
LEADER AND CAPITALIST.
New York, December 15.-Former
United States Senator Calvin S. Brice
died at 3:15 o'clock to-day at his resi-
derce in this city of pneumonia. He
contracted a severe cold one week ago
to-day.
On Friday last he took to his bed
and on Monday morning his physician
said that pneumonia had developed.
Everything known to medical science
was done to save him, but he grew
steadily worse.
At Mr. Brice's bedside when he died
were Mrs. Brice, Captain Stewart M.
Brice, John Francis Brice, Miss Helen
Brice and Miss Kate Brice. Another
son, w. K Brice, is ON his way home
from China.
Mr.. Brice was delirious for twenty
four hours before his death.
Calvin S. Brice was native of Ohio
and was born in 1916. He was the son
of a Presbyterian minister. Three
years before the civil war he entered
the Miami University but in 1861 he
enlisted in University company for
the war. He served in West Virginia
in the Eighty-sixth Ohio infantry. In
1868 he graduated from the University,
and after teaching school few months
he became captain of a company in the
Cne Hundred and Eighth Ohio and
served to the end of the war. He then
went to the Ann Arbor, Mich, Law
School and afterwards was admitted to
the bar in Cincinnati. He took an act
i've interest in politics, and in the
campaign of 1876 he was an electoral
candidate on the Tilden ticket and
again on the Cleveland ticket in 1898.
In 1888 he was delegate at large to
the Democratic national convention at
ST. Louis, where the Ohio delegation
committee. He was chairman of the
executive committee during the 1888
campaign, and on the death of VIM. H.
Barnum was elected chairman of the
Democratic national committee. In
the winter of 1890 Mr.. Brice was
elected United States Senator to sue
coed Henry B. Payne, and took his seat
March 4, 1891
In the Senate Mr.. Brice became a
prominent figure. He was soon made
member of the Democratic steering
committee and became also a member
of the committee on appropriations.
Mr.. Brice seldom spoke in the Senate,
but was close observer of everything
that was going on and was Away deep
in the counsels 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 which became world
wide Since his retirement from the
Senate he has been in Washington but
very little, occupying himself for the
most part with business affairs in New
York.
Until the Democratic party adopted
free silver as cardinal principle, Mr..
Brice was the leader in his party in
Ohio but after that he did not take an
octiuo MORT in no1itioc
The announcement of Mr.. Brice's
death caused great regret In the Sem
ate, as he was a favorite with nearly
all, possessing a fund of good humor,
q 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 interested in railway
enterprises, was rated a millionaire
and of late had been one Of the chief
members of a syndicate with large rail-
road and other concession in China.
He leaves a wife and several grown
children.
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