Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-14
CONGRESSMAN D|AGLEYDEAD
Weakened by Long and Very Severe
Illness, He Succumbed,

| lIlH6SS, DC OucCunU6u,
AFTER HE HAD APPARENTLY BE-
| GUN TO RALLY AND HOPE
THAT HE MIGHT RECOVER HAD
BEEN HELD OUT TO HIS FAM
ILY-A LONG, USEFUL AND
HONORABLE CAREER AS A PUB
Lie SERVANT-RESPEC AS
AN HONEST MAN BY HIS OP-
PONENTS-A CHARACTER THAT
WAS PURE AND NOBLE A
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
Washington, January 13.-Hon. Nell
son Dingley, of Maine, leader of the
Republican side on the floor of the
House Of Representatives and repre-
senting the Second Congressional dis
trict of Maine in that body, died here
| tonight at half-past ten of heart fail
ure, resulting from extreme weakness
| due to double pneumonia. He was I'M
| conscious during most of the day, and
| death came quietly without conscious
ness being regained. There were
| present at the bedside Mrs Dingley,
Miss Edith Dingley, Messrs. E. N. and
A. H. Dingley, sons of the deceased,
Mr.. James G. Hooe, an intimate friend
| of the family, DR.. Deale, one of the
physicians who has been attending
him throughout his illness, and the
two nurses. To within few hours be-
fore his death the family firmly be-
| lieved, as they have throughout his i'll
ness, that Mr.. Dingley would recover,
and it was only when it became ap-
parent that he was dying that they
! gathered at his bedside.
| While the past few days have given
great hope of recovery, the progress of
the disease had made the patient dan
gerously weak and had seriously af
fected his heart. Late last night and
again this morning, Mr.. Dingley had a
bad sinking spell, from which he
slightly rallied. There were further
evidences of heart failure as the day
progressed, and the strongest stimuli
ents were administered, but without eff
feet. He failed perceptibly during the
afternoon and as night came hope was
abandoned. Mrs. Dingley is very much
Frustrated by her husbands death, and
is now under the care of physician.
| There were many genuine and heart
felt expressions of sympathy when it
| became known that the Maine Con-
gresham was dead. All during his
| illness which he struggled against so
vigorously there has been constant in
| quiries at the hotel at which he re-
sided as to his condition. The Hamil-
ton House, whc-S Mr.. Dingley resided,
has been the resort for a number OF
| years for most of the Congressional
contingent from Maine, and it was here
that Mr. Dingley spet all of the past
sixteen years of his life when his Con-
! gressional duties called him to Wash
| ington. He occupied rooms on the sec
| ond floor, and had with him his wife
and daughter, the sons being here but
little.
The funeral will be conducted at the
House of Representative on Monday
next. The body will be taken to the
House at 10 o'clock and there lie in
state until noon, when services will be
conducted in the presence of the House
and Senate.
At APO in the afternoon the funeral
party will leave over the Pennsyl-
vania railroad for Lewiston, Me. ar
irving there at 2 o'clock Tuesday after
noon. Further services will be held at
the family residence in Lewiston on
| Wednesday The interment will be in
that city. The services in the House
of Representatives probably will be
conducted by Rev. S. VI. Newman, pas
tor of the First Congregational church,
which Mr.. Dingley was accustomed to
| attend while residing in Washington
| Nelson Dingley, Jr., Governor of
Maine 1S74-75, and a member of Con-
gress from the Second congressional
district of Maine since 1881, was born
in Durham, Androscoggin county, Me,
in his grandfather Lambert's farm
house on the banks of the Androscog-
gin river, February Is, 1892. son OF Mel
son and Jane UamberD Dingley.
At II he taught winter school in
the town of China, IA miles from home,
and he continued TO teach winters
while fitting for college. Entering
Waterville College (now Colby Uni
versity), in 1851, he remained there a
year and a half and then beacme a
| student at Dartmouth College, from
which institution he graduated in 1855.
After leaving college Mr.. Dingley stud
led law in 1866, with Merrill & FEES
sender, of Auburn, " Y, and in the
latter year he was admitted TO the bar.
Instead OF entering upon the practice
of law he decided to become journal
list, for which profession he always
manifested decided taste In Sep
TENDER. 1856. he purchased the Lewis