The sun., 1900-10-22
AUTHOR WARNER DEAD
Suddenly Expires In Cottage In
Hartford.
HAD BEEN I'LL SOME TIME
Suffered From a severe Attack of
Pneumonia. which brought ON
PnraIysis-sketch of His
Literary Career.

Hartford, Oct. 81. = Charles Dudley
Warner, the eminent author and lecturer,
died very suddenly Saturday afternoon
under peculiar circumstances in the home
OF Mrs. Robert Smith, colored woman
living on Windsor street, in the lower
part of the city. 1t is not known just
what time he died, and he is supposed to
have been dead for quite while before
the authorities were notified.
Mr.. Warmers health had been poor for
some time past, and recently he had a
slight shock of paralysis which slightly
distigured his face. The medical exam
iner who visited his remains said that
death was due to heart failure and that
he had been dead an hour and half pre-
vious to the time he viewed the body.
The woman in whose house Mr.. War
ner's death occurred said that he had
known her for a number of years and had
given her books and befriended her. He
was passing her house and feeling faint,
went in for glass of water. He had
been there but a few moments when he
expired in the chair he sat in.
Although the death occurred, according
to the medical examiners theory, about
3:20 in the afternoon, the authorities
| were llbt lbtIilth liHLIl -. anu lDbtllS tlSt
in the neighborhood appeared to know
anything about it until after that time.
| Friends of Mi Warner say that the
woman has been an amoner of Mr.. War
ner's and that she had been a beneficiary
Of his charity for several years.
Charles Dudley Warner was born on
Sept. l.. 1920. in Plainfield, Mass,
whore during his childhood he read chief
| ~ Biblical commentaries and biographies
Of gentlemen Of austerc life, the only
reading matter almost that was ready to
| his hand. His father, who was Il man of
New England culture. died when Charles
was > years old, and the boys guardian
designed him for Il clerk and put him to
| work in due season in drug store and
later in postotlicc. The young man
was educated, however, ut Hamilton col
| lcge, being graduated in 1851, after which
he went to Missouri with party of sur
veyors for his health, returning to the
east and taking his degree in the law de-
partment of the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1856. In the same year he
joined the newly organized Republican
party.
He practiced law in Chicago for few
years and then came east again to take a
place on the Hartford Press, becoming
later when that paper was absorbed by
The Courant one of the coeditors of the
latter with his friend General Joseph r
Hawley. For many years he was active
on The Courant, but had not been lately
although one of the chief owners of the
paper, the policy of which he largely
directed.
Mr.. Warner had written editorial arti
clcs for The Courant for some years with
out attracting attention, when he pub
lished as special stories in the paper Il SO
ries of sketches of some of his expert
ences in gardening which became evcntu
ally the book "AIy Summer In a Gar
den," with which readers are familiar
The sketches attracted attention and il
1870 were published in book form lmdeI
their present :itle, with an introduction
by Henry Ward Reecher. and sprang i'm
mcdiateiy into favor. MIR. Warner sal,
cmphatienlly that they were no bette
than plenty of wotl; he had done III Al
editorial way, blit the people took then
mp, and Charles Dudley Warner becam
, IN author although continuing his news
! paper work for Sonn time.
.tt ono tmc He was an editor ~ ITar
pcrs Magazine and while therc wrote
SAAttS W. tldif'iN ftiittlilHlltS - ~ III ll
south Hnd wcst ana III MeNieo. lic inter
, estpd himself ii social science and Wa
prominent in work for prison Iefotaa nh
the education IF Tie negro. lie had "a
+. years bcgn Interested in the Nationa
Prison association. had frequently rea
i papers at its conventions and held the ot
! fec Of vice president Of the association
/ He travelled extensively in Europe an
!. wrote letters which were widely reat
. He also lectured often at the various co
:. lcges and universities. Yale gave hin
/ the A. NJ. degree in 1872 and Dartmout
II in 1854.
It After "My Summer in a Garden Nj
It Warner published 'Sauntcrings," rem
I niscent of his travels; Backlog Studies,
+ partly collection of magazine papers
: which he extols the influences Of the fir,
r side circle and touches upon social topic
It in humorous way: "Baddeck and Ths
II Sort of Thing" "My Winter on I'll
If Nile" washington Irving" and "Rount
about Papers" among other things. II
also published in collaboration with San
uel t. Clemens in 1873 "The Glide
n, Age In 1883 he published "On Hors
= back and in 1895 THE Golden House
~ the material for which lie gathered
G. New York. His latest literary work W;
la the editing of the Library of Univers
Sc Literature"
4 Snnitarium For Manila.
-. I f1.t