The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-17
BUTTERW0RTH'S DEATH BED.
ILLNESS OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
PATENTS PROVES FATAL.


Life's Pickering spark Goes out az
ThomnsviIIe at 3s15 in the After
noon-His Demise Due to Brfghts
Disease-The Members of His Inn
mediate Family at His Bedsides
Turn for the Worse I'm His Illness
Comes Unexpectedly.
| Thomasville, Ga. Jan. 16.-Hon. Ben.
Butterworth, who has been sick in this
city some weeks, took a sudden turn for
the worse this morning, and died at 3:15
o'clock this afternoon. His body will be
sent to Washington tomorrow. The
trouble which carried him off was Bright's .,
disease.
The end was peaceful, and when II came
his wife and children were at his bed
side.
He came here TO recuperate from an at
tack of pneumonia, and recovered rapidly
till two weeks ago, when he suffered from
uremic convulsions. From that relapse
he never recovered.
Washington, Jan. l6.-Mr. Butterworth
was a representative In Congress of the
First Ohio district including the city OF
Cincinanti, including the Forty-ffth, For
ty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fif-
tieth and Fifty-frst congresses. From
then until appointed to the position he
occupied at his death he devoted most OF
his time to the practice of law, especially
patent law, in this city.
In Washington no less than in his native
state, Mr.. Butterworth enjoyed a wide
acquaintance and great popularity, and
the news of his death, while by no means
unexpected, will cause general sorrow here.
No public man probably had a larger circle
of personal friends at the capital. He con-
tracted his fatal illness while on the stump
In the late Ohio campaign
No information has been received as to-
the time and place OF the funeral.
Cincinnati, o., Jan. 16.-Benjamin Butt
terworth was what is known as ''blrth-
right Quaker" Those who knew him best
during his busy career are unanimous In
saying of him, His daily life was as ex-
emplary of the tenents OF that good old
faith as that of any public official could
be-"
He was born in Warren county, Oct %.
1887, was a member of the State Senate of
Ohio from Warren and Butler counties iu
1s73-74 was elected from the First Ohio
district to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh.
Forty-ninth and Ffftieth Congresses, ana
was reelected to the Flfty-hrst Congress
as a Republican.
Ben" Butterworth. as he has always
been known. spent his earlier years around
ana about Mainevlle and Fosters Cross
ing-the latter a little station on the Lit
tie Miami Railroad. His father was Will
liam Butterworth, his mother a Linton, q
family noted throughout the entire line for
their keenness of intellect. powers OF per-
ception and strength in speech and de-
bate. Both parents were of Quaker AM
cestry
Maj Butterworth's keen intellect and
remarkable powers of perception were in
herited from his mother. Butterworth's
first acquaintance with law was made i'm
the office OF Durbin Ward, then law
practitioner in Cincinnati. During tho
war he attained the rank OF major In an
Ohio regiment He was commissioner OF
patents iirat during the administration oe
Presidents Garfield and Arthur, and his
record made then and subsequently had
great weight with President Mckinley in
selecting him for that position
He was made secretary of the Worlds
fair protest early IN the inception OF thar
great enterprise at Chicago, during the
early 90s, and worked along in that ca
pacty with honor 10 himself and profit to
the company until its close.
A wife and four children survive tho
dead statesman. His wife was Miss Mary
Schuyler of Pennsylvania. The children
are Mrs. Howe of Washington ID. G.. u
widow; william, who married Miss Dere
of Moline, ILL.,. young Ben, who was in
jtred in college game early in life ana
Frank. whose prowess as a foot ball coacls
and fullback IS almost international.
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