Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-13
DEATH OF sEWALL.
Bryan's Former Running Mate q
Victim of Apoplexy.
He Was Born 65 Years Ago and Became
the Head of the Largest Fleet OF
Vessels in the wOrId-His POI
iicicaI Career.

Bath, Me, Sept. 6.-Hon. Arthur
Sewall died at $50 a. IN. Wednesday
at his summer home, Small Point,
about II miles from this city of apo
p1exy. the stroke having been sus-
tanned last Sunday. He was ca years
of age. Mr.. SewaH had got been in
good health for some time, although
he was not considered to be seriously
i'll. He had been advised by his phy-
stefan to rest as early as last June,
and he attended the democratic ma
tional convention in July against the
advice of his doctor. He appeared
to have suffered no i'll effects from
the journey, however, and was pass
ing the summer quietly at Small
Point when the fatal stroke seized
him.
Came from IliustriOus Family.
Arthur Sewan was born at Bath Me-,
November 25, 1885. He came from a fam
ly illuStrious on both sides of the water.
The first Sewan to arrive in the United
States settled in New York in 1874. Dunn
mes Sewan, the great-grandfather of Ar
thur Sewall, removed to Bath in 1852. He
purchased the large tract of land which
forms the SewaH estate and on which
stands the big shipyard of Arthur Sew
all & Co. The firm was established in 1879
sci owned by it was the Diana, a small
trader. From this beginning the house
was developed to its present proportions
the owner of a huge fleet of the largest
sailing merchantmen af1oat. In the "a
years of its existence the firm has built
and owned over 100 vessels, trading in
nearly every port in the world. William
D. Sewall was succeeded in 1854 by his
sons under the firm name of E. & A.
Sewal1, shipbuilders and commission
merchants. Later it became Arthur Sew
all Co., Mr.. Sewan taking into the
firm his son William and his nephew,
Samuel S. Sewall.
Mr.. SewaH was president of the Maine
Central railroad from 1884 to 1898, is pres
ident of the Bath national bank, and is an
officer or director in nearly every cor
poration in Bath.
He became active in politics in 1888,
when he was elected democratic national
committeeman. The nomination for vice
president in 1895 came to him as a sur
prise. He was a delegate to the conven-
ton and left the hall before the balloting
commenced. While on board an Illinois
Central train bound for downtown he
overheard a man who had caught the
train as it was leaving Sixty-third street
tell another passenger that Arthur Sew
all had just been nominated for vice pres
ident. He had never met Bryan, and
upon his arrival at his hotel was taken
over to the Clifton house and introduced
to the head of the ticket.
Mr.. Sewan was married in 1859 to Miss
Emma D. Croaker, of Bath. He has two
sons, Harold NJ. and William. Harold M.
Sewall left the party of his father in 1890
and joined the republican party, giving as
his reason the failure of the democratic
administrations. He was minister to Sa-
moa and to Hawaii under President Har-
rison and was appointed special commits
sioner to Hawaii by President Mckinley
in 1898, and is prominent in republican pol
itics in Maine. Arthur SeWall's fortune
is estimated at S., 600 600.