The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02
MAJOR z. II. PANGBORN DEAD.
Founder Of Jersey City "Evening Journai'
Only Man Who Ever whipped Dewey.

Major Zebina Kellogg Pangborn, the
founder Of the Jersey City Ereninp Journal
and one otthe men who helped to organize
the Republican party. died late on Friday
night at the home Of his only sister, Mrs
Lucy NJ. Hoar. at Hillburn. Rockland
county. n. Y. He had been i'll for six
months. Death was due to unmic
poisoning
He was born at Peacham, Vt. on July
81, 1879 He received his early cduca-
ton under the tuition of his father. who
was a physician, and in district schools.
He began teaci ing school at the age Of
a. He paid his way through the Uni
versity of Vermont with money lie earned
by teaching He graduated at the head
of his class in 1850. He was principal of
the academies at johnson and at St Adams.
He had as one of his pupils Admiral
George Dewey. the hero of Manila Bay,
who considered il his duty AZ one of the
big boys Of the school to thrash the mas
ter. The Major had been informed that
his predecessors had been driven out be-
cause they had been unable TO cope with
the big boys and he decided to prepare
10 make himself master of the situation.
He concealed several sticks and waited
for the attack. Ii came one day with an
announcement from Dewey that the teacher
would have to fight. The battle lasted
only few minutes, and the teacher was
the victor. Dewey and Pangborn were
warm friends ever after that.
Ma or Pdngborn studied law in the of'ice
Of Thcophilus Parsons after graduate q,
but he decided TO be a journalist. JOIN G..
SAKE secured for him his first work on the
Vermont Weekly Tribune at St. Adams
He also edited the first educational ma "a
zine. called The Teachers Voice, ever pub
lishod la Vermont. He moved To Worcester
Mass. in 1854, and was the editor of the
Worcester Daily Transcript for one year.
Then he became the editor of the Boston
Daily Atlas aud Bee, in which he aided the
anti-slayery movement.
When the Civil War broke out he volun-
teered and became a paymaster with the
rank Of Major. He served with Burnside,
Mcclellan, and others. He was one of
the original Clay Guards who volui teercd
10 protect Washington until the Federal
| troops arrived. During the war he was
| correspondent for the New York Tribune
| At its close he moved to Jersey City and
became the editor Of the Jersey City Times
now dcf,inct.
He founded the Jersey City Erening
Journal in 1897. remaining its editor-in-
| chief until Nov. 80, 1895 Although the
| city il strongly Democratic, Major Pang-
born made his r publican paper power
| in the community.
Major Pangborn was a delegate 10 the
! Republican convention which nominated
| John c. Fremont and was either deleg I"
or an alternate TO nearly every national
convention up To his retirement from active
| newspaper work. He was a candidate for
| Con gress in the Seventh New Jersey Dis
trict in 1898. but was defeated by the late
| William d. DAILY.
He was married twice. His first wife.
| Miss Harriet Wood. of Malone y. Y. died
! in 1875. His second wife, Miss Geor gianra
| l.. Walton. of Boston died on Sept. :. 1901.
He is survived 10y two sons, Frederic W.
and Harry l..
| Major Pangborn sold his home AT 35i
| Arlington avenue, jersey City, after goil &
| to Hillburn in the Ramapo Hills few weeks
| ago