The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-07
Was Attacked hI Fatal Sickness After He
Had Taken His Customary Drive.
WIFE AND SON WERE At HIS BEDSIDE.
News Of Demise Cablsd 10 Daughter. Mrs. Jss,ph
chamberlain Ssorslsy tf War During
FIRST Admins Iailoa Of Grover C eveand.

Boston, May 7.-Hon. William Crown
under President Cleveland's first ad-
ministration. died at his residence, 1863
Marlboro street yesterday afternoon OF
pneumonia, at the age of 73. Although
Mr.. Endicott's system had been some
what enfeebled by an attack OF the
grip from which he suffered last winter.
he had been in apparently good health
up to last Wednesday, when he took
his customary drive. Shortly after, he
was taken i'll and pneumonia developed,
the disease reaching rs most acute
form Saturday evening, at which time
IL was feared Dy DR.. Morton Prince, MS
attending physician, that the patent
could not 1--we through the night. He
rallied slightly, however, but during
Sunday his respiration gradually grew
weaker and about o'ciock he. passed
peacefully away.
With him at the end We're his wife and
his son, William G. Endcott, Jr.
The funeral arrangements have not
yet been determined, except that the
funeral will be private and that burial
will be in Salem. Mr.. Endicotts =
daughter, the wife OF Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain, the English secretary Of
state for the Colonies, was notified by
cable OF the sad event
Mr.. Endicott has resided in this city
for the past four years, having a sum
mer residence i'm Danvers. Mass. Pre-
vious TO that time his home was in
Salem, where he was born in 1926, and
where, in 1850, he married Ellen,
daughter of George Peabody, the WELL
known phIlanthropist.
William G.. Endicott was the son OF
William Putnam Endicott. and was
born in Salem, Nov. 10, 1896. He fitted
for college in the Salem Latin School
and graduated from Harvard in iS47.
He studied law with Nathaniel }. Lord.
then at the head of the Essex Bar
and brother of the late George Lord
being admitted TO the bar i'm 1850. ,Ehree
years later Mr.. Endicott formed law
partnership with Jarius w. Perry,
which continued until 1878. when Gov.
Washburn, a Republican, called him. a
Democrat. TO the supreme bench. which
position he held for IL years. signing
on account of ill-health. Justice Endi-
colt was considered one of the finest
scholars and most finished orators on
the bench. and his address on the death
of Mr.. Justice Wells was nothing short
of a classic. After resigning from the
bench. Judge Endicott Travelled in Eu-
rope. and in 1884 was the Democratic
candidate for governor. After the cleo
tion OF Cleveland to the presidency for
the first term, Judge Endicott was
called to the secretary of war port
folio, and the record he made there is
well known. He served in the Salem
common council in 1928 and 1877. be ng
president in the latter year. He was
city solicitor from 1858 To 1868 inclu-
sive during which time he prepared .
very able opinion on the Saiem Neck
lands. He was director OF the Naum-
keag mills and president OF the Pea
body Academy of Science. He married
Ellen, daughter OF the late Col. George
Peabody and had two children. Will
liam C. Endicott. Jr.. and Mary, wife OF
Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain of En-
gland. He was a man of genial, sunny
d 'sposition, always courteous and help
full to every one. high or low, rich or