The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-16
HON. CALVIN s. BRICE DEAD
SUCCUMBED TO PNEUHONIA AFTER
 4 BRIEF ILLNESS.
A Prominent Figure in Democratic Party Until Free Silver Was Adopted ns Cardinal PrincipIc-Scrvcd Six Years as United States Senator-Large
 1y Interested in Railroads M embcr of Syndicate Having Large Concessions tn China.

New York, Dec. 15.-Hon. Calvin $. Brice died of pneumonia at 3:15 o'clock to-day at his residence in this city. 693 Fifth avenue. MT. Brce contracted a severe cold one week ago to-day. On Friday last he went down to his office, returning home in suffering condition. On Saturday last he took to his bed and grew steadily worse, until this af- tarnoon, when he died. At his bedside were his wife. two daughters and two sons, Captain Stewart M. Brice and John F. Brice, the latter student at Harvard university. Another son, Kirkpatrick Brice is now with Admiral Dewey at Manila The family physi- came.
 Washington, Dec. 15.-Calvin S. Brice was a native of Ohio, and was born at Denmark, September 17, 1S45 He was the son of a Presbyterian minister. Three years before the civil war he en- tered Miami university, but in 1861 he enlisted in university company for the war. He served in West Virginia in the Seth Ohio infantry. In 1863 he grad- uated from the state university and af- ter teaching school few months he became captain of a company in the 10Sth Ohio and served till 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 active 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 l 1884. In 1888 he was delegate at 1 large to the democratic national con- 1 vention at St. Louis, where the Ohio l delegation chose him as member of the national committee.
 1 He was chairman of the executive 1 committee during the 1888 campaign and the death of William H. Barnu1h
 was elected chairman of the democratic
 national committee. In the winter of 1890 MT. Brice was elected United States
 senator fro Ohio to succeed Henry B.
 Payne, and took his seat March {, 1891. In the senate MT. Brice became q prominent figure. He was soon made l member of the democratic steering
 committee and became also member l of the committee on appropriations. MT.
 Brice seldom spoke in the senate, but l he was close observer of everything l that was going on and was always deep | in the councils of the party He serv- | ed six years in the senate, being suc-
 ceeded by Joseph Foraker.
 l While in Washington he gave lavish
 entertainments Since his retirement
 from the senate he had been in Wash ington but very little, occupying hirn- self for the most part with business af- fairs in New York Until the democratic party adopted free silver as cardinal principle MT. Brice was the leader of his party in Ohio, but after that he did not take an active part in politics. The
 announcement of MT. Brices death
 caused deep regret in the senate as he was we'll liked by all He was admired
 for his business and political skill and for abounding good humor which never
 left him on any occasion. He was large-
 ly interested in railway enterprises.
 He was rated a millionaire and of late
 had been one of the chief members of a
 syndicate with large railroad and other
 concessions in China. He leaves a Wid-
 ow and several grown children
 At the time of his death he was the
 president of the Lake Erie and Western
 railroad; president of the Sault St.
 Marie Bridge company and president of
 the Cincinnati Northern company. He
 was liberal patron of the arts and a
 keen student of the sciences. Senator
 Brice's family was famous for it's law
 ish entertainments at Newport, as well