News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-01-18

LATE CONGRESSMAN DIyGLEY.
was near, and from that time till 1880,
when it quietly came, they We're simply
waiting for it. The sturdy vitality which
had kept death at q distance had gone,
and even the stimulus of fever had de-
parted, and there was no remedy that
would prolOng life.
1t was not generally known that Mr..
Dingley was worse, and public men who
had heard OF the unfavorable change in
the afternoon had hoped that Mr.. Ding
ley might rally, as he had done repeat
eddy before, so that those who We're up
at II o'clock, when the sad news was
circulated by telephone and messenger,
were shocked by it.
President Mckinley had not retired,
for the guests of the diplomatic dinner
had just left the White House, and he
was profoundly impressed by the deaf
of his old friend, and sent his messages
of sympathy and coincidence at once. A
few other public men, chiefly in the
Hamilton house and it's neighborhood,
FASTENED to do the same.
Speaker Reed, Senator Hale and Rer
resentatiVes BOutel.e and Burleigh were
v cry much affected, and FASTENED to give
expression of their feelings to Mr.. Ding
loy's family. Senator Frye, who lives at
the Hamilton, had gone to bed with
heavy cold, and was asleep when Mr.
Dingley died
Mr. Dingley was taken with a cold
Thursday, Dec 90. He left the capitol
early and remained in his apartments
during the evening. The next day the
cold developed into a hacking cough.
tfIis physician, DR.. Henry B. Deale was
sent for, and he diagnosed the attack as
a severe case of grip and Immediately
went heroically to work to ward off
pneumonia, but it developed Saturday,
the 31st
The lesion of the lungs developed
steadily until last Friday, the 9th, when
a change for the worse set in. Then his
two sons, 1fessrs. z. N. and II. A. Ding
ley, whose home is in kalamazoo, Mich,
We're telegraphed for. They arrived the
following night to find their father at
the pointof death. He was unconscious
and did not recognize them before he
died.
Last Wednesday DR.. Deale saw q
change for the better, and informed the
family that Mr.. Dingley would probably
recover. One lung cleared, but the other
filed. The patient, however, held his
own until $3.50 Friday morning, when
he suffered an attack of heart failure.
Although Drs. Deale and Hyatt set dill
gently to work to save their patient, he
never rallied and sank gradually until
his death.
The week previous TO his death Mr..
Dingley was to have delivered a speech
before the Brooklyn IN. W Academy of
Science on the revenue of the govern
ment His speech was already prepared,
and at his request the date of delivery
was postponed. He was thinking about
that speech frequently during his last
days.
Nelson Dingley. governor of Maine,
1S74-5. and members of congress from the
Second congressional district of Maine
since 1881, was born in Durham, Me, in
his grandfather's farmhouse, Feb. Is,
1882. son of Nelson and Jane (Lambert)
Dingley. The year following his birth
his parents moved to Parkman, where
they lived on a farm for a short time,
and then took charge of the village
tavern with which a store was con-
nected In 1888 the family removed to
Unity, and then in 1854 to Auburn. At17
he taught a winter school in the town of
China, and he continued to teach win
ters while fitting for college, In 1850, at
the age Of 49, he entered Waterville
academy, and there completed his prep
aration for college. Entering Waterville
college (now Colby university in 1851, he
remained there a year and half and
then became a student at Dartmouth
college, from which institution he grad
uated in 1855, with high rank as ascholar,
debater and writer.
After leaving college Mr.. Dingley
studied law in 1866 at Auburn, to which
city his parents had removed while he
was in college, and in the latter year he