Gilpin observer., 1901-03-07
DEATHS DOlNGS.

Joseph w. Taylor, prominent mining
lawyer of Denver, entered rest last
Thursday night at his home, 2l6l Grant
avenue, of nervous prostration. He was
born in Florida on February II, 1912,
and received his legal education under
Adlai Stevenson, former vice-president
of the United States. He served in the
5lst Illinois regiment He was Mason
under whose auspices the funeral oc-
CURED last Sunday He was a congenia'
gentleman and lawyer of marked
ability.
Hon. W. n. Byers, of Denver, has re-
ceived intelligence of the death of Ma
poleon J. Bond, pioneer of Colorado,
which event occurred at Ventura, Cali
fornia, Monday, March 4. He was born
in 1882 in Illinois, and came to Colorado
in 1861 and became one of the owners of
the Phillips lode in Park county. He
was chosen judge of the mining district.
and was prominent in the early history
of Colorado. Later he was in business
in Iowa, Montana and Idaho. He was
a great sufferer from partial paralysis.
He was an honorable and upright gen
tleman.
William NJ. Clark, first secretary of
state of Colorado, elected in 1876, died at
his home, No. 43S Broadway, Denver,
Sunday evening at o'clock. He was
native of Pennsylvania and of Quaker
parentage. He was Union soldier
during the civil var. He came to Colo
RADIO in 1864. He had worn silver plate
in his skull for 36 years, the result of an
injury received in runaway accident.
In 1876 he located in Georgetown, Clear
Creek county. He leaves a son and
daughter, both grown. He was men,
ber of George G. Meade Post, G. A. r.,
who conducted the funeral
William NJ. Evarts, former secretary
of state died at his home in New York
lest Thursday morning, at the age OF
SO years, Death was due to pneumonia.
He had been in feeble health for several
years. He was nominally the head OF
the law firm of Evarts, Choate & Bea-
man. He leaves wife and eight child
ren, four daughters and four sons, nam
ely: Allen, Sherman, Rev. DR.. Prescott
and MAXWELL Evearts, Miss Mary Ev-
arts, Mrs. Beaman, Mrs. Tweed, and
Mrs. Scuddcr.
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February G, 1918. He graduated at Yale,
where he was one of the founders of the
Yale Literary Magazine; studied in the
Harvard Law school, and was admitted
to the bar in New York; delegate to
the National Republican convention of
1860; was attorney general of the United
States from July ID, 1868, to March 3,
1899; received the degree of LII. d. from
Union college in 1857, from Yale in
1865 and from Harvard in 1870.
He was council for President johnson
on his trial upon his impeachment in
1868; was council for the United States
before the tribunal of arbitration on the
Alabama claims of Geneva, Switzerland,
in 1872; was council for Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher in the famous trial which took
place in 1874; was council for President
Hayes, in behalf of the Republican party,
before the electoral commission; was
secretary of state of the United States
from 1877 to 1881; was elected to the
United States senate from New York,
and took his seat March 4, 1883, His
term expired March 3, 1891, when he
was succeeded by David b. Hill.
Although an accomplished and ablc
speaker, he has published only few
occasional discourses and addresses,
among them an eulogy on Chief Justice
Chase Il centennial Grafton at Phiiadel-
phia and addresses at the unveiling of
the atatues of Webster and Seward and
the Bartholdi Statue Of Liberty.