Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-07
EX-sEcRETARY ENDlcOTT DEAD.
one lime Member Of Clevcland's
Cabinet Dies SUDDENLY.

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Boston, May INC. Icnaicott, sec
of President Cleveland died Of pnsumol.
MIA at his home in this city yesterday,
aged 70 years.
Attic Mr. Enaieott.s system had beenI
some What erfeebled By an attack Of I
the grip, from Which he suffered last I
Winter, he had been apparently in good |
bodily health up to last Wednesdayl
when he took his customary drive.
shortly after he Was taken i'll and pneu-
monia developed, The disease reaching its
most acute form Saturday evening, at /
which time it was feared by the attend
ing. physician that the patient could not|
dive thru tfiesnigilt He rallied slightly.
however. but during Sunday his respr-
alton gradually grew weaker, and about
5so'elock he passed peacefully away
The funeral will be private and burial
Will be in Salem. Mr.. Iindicott's daugh-
ter. the wife of Joseph Chamberlain. the
English secretary of state for the colo
mics. was notified by cable
! William Growing shield Endicott was
| q lineal descendant Of the earliest Puri-
tan settlers. The founder Of the New
| England family was John Ilndicott. first
governor Of the colony OF Massachusetts,
Bay under the royal charter, and hold
| ing office until#the arrival of Governor
lJchn Winthrop in 1890. His father was
William Putnam lsndicott and his moth
| er Mary daughter Of Jacob Grownin-8
| Shield. President Jeffersor's secretary
of the navy from 1905 to \ 500.
| William G. Endicott was splendid
representative of what De Tocqueville
styled the untitled aristocracy" of the
| American republic. None of the old
Massachusetts had a morestain-
Hess record than the Endicotts, and none.
was prouder of its lineage His moth
er's family was a branch of the old
German Caspars. Immigrants who came
to America about the middle of the sew
lenteenth century and settled in Massa-
I.chusetts along With the pious Puritans
and the prayerful pilgrims.
4 William G. Endicott was born in sa-
lem, Mass, in 1927. He attended the Sa-5
| len schools. and graduated from Har-
vard College in the class of 1s47. He
married his cousin. Ellen, a daughterof
George Peabody, the philantnropist.
Judge Endicott studied at Harvard law
school and read law in the office of the.
! late Nathan J. Lord He WIS admitted.
to the bar about 1850. and ea,s years
| later formed a partnership with the late
| j. w. Perry and continued with him
until hi appointment by Governor
| Washburn to seat on the supreme
bench in 1873. This position he held un-
til 1889, when he resigned on account of
| his health. In 1882 he made an extended
| tour OF the continent. He was mem
Der Of the saiem common council In.
| 1852. 1853 and 1857, when he was elected
president of that board. He was city
solicitor from 1858 to 1868. He was a
member of the historical society and the.
board of overseers of Harvard College.
When he was rendered tn portfolio OF
secretary Of war by President Cleveland
the voice Of New England seconded the
choice. It was said that he was averse
to accepting the position, preferring the
attorney generalship, az he believed he
was better qualified to fill that place.
President Cleveland, however, persisted
In his original choice, and made him sec.