Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-20


At Z o'clock last evening Congress
man Lorenzo Danford, of the Sixteenth
Congressional district of Ohio, passed
away at the home of his niece. Mrs.
John Sidebottom, five miles west OF ST.
Clairsville. Mr.. Danford had been in
declining health since undergoing Sc
we're attack of the grip more than a
year ago, but by indomitable exertion
was able to be present and attend to
his official duties at Washington dur
ing the last short session.
After the adjournment, on the 4th OF
March, Mr.. Danford visited eastern re-
sorts in the hope of recuperating, but
returned to ST. Clairsville early in
April. Subsequently he retired to the
Sidebottom homestead TO secure the
quiet and freedom from contact with
public affairs afforded by the country,
and where he remained until death
claimed him yesterday.
The congressman had not been con-
fined to his room up until week ago,
and his physician and the few close
friends who were permitted to visit
him did not think his condition one of
imminent danger, although chances for
recovery were considered hopeless.
Sunday night, however, the patient took
a sudden turn for the worse, since
which time he had been gradually
sinking. The immediate cause of death
was heart failure. resulting from
general breaking down of the entire
system.
In the death of Congressman Dan
ford is removed one of the most noted
practitioners in Eastern Ohio and a
figure who has been conspicuous in
Republican councils since the incep-
ton of the party. Since re-entering
public life in 1896 he has been twice
elected to represent the Sixteenth dis
trict in the national House of Repre-
sentatives, and would have been a
member of the Congress to assemble
next December. He was an orator of
the old school and his power and popu-
larity upon the hustings was unques-
toned During his recent service in
the House he Ras been chairman of
the committee on immigration and
labor and although laboring under the
disadvantage of an insidious illness,
claimed high rank among his colleagues
lCAiON his ItDONdl dI
this particular time will greatly COM
plicate political affairs in the district
over the river
Deceased leaves a widow, two sons
and one daughter, Miss Carrie Lee.
who, with true flial tenderness, re-
signed her duties in the fever-stricken
soldier camps of the south last fall to
wait upon her father William C.
Danford has for many years been in
the United States mail service on the
B. & o. railroad, and Thomas has been
private secretary to his father at WASH
ington.
Lorenzo Danford was born in Bel
mont county, Ohio, October IS, 1929;
lived on farm until manhood; re-
ceived common school education and
attended college at Waynesburg, Pa,
two years; was admitted to the bar at
st. Clairsville, Ohio, in September,
1854; was prosecuting attorney of Bel
mont county from 1857 to 1861, when
he resigned and went into the Union
army, in the Fifteenth Ohio infantry,
in April of that year, and served as
private, lieutenant and captain until
August, 1864; was a Republican mem
Der of the electoral college of Ohio in
1864, and in 1892, and in the latter
year was president of the college; was
a member of the Forty-third, Fourty-
fourth, Forty-fifth, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty
fifth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 21,690 votes, against 1852 votes
for H. H. McFadden, Free Silver Demo
crat