The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-17
MR.. JAMES H. GHADBOURN
THIS PROMINENT GITIz N LAID To
R.ST YESTERDAY MORNING.
The Obsequies Took Place nj e
James Episcopal Church and the
Interment was Made at oaLdaIe
Cemetery-The Last of a Useful and
Honored Man.

HOnored Man.
The o~bsequies OF the Iamented Mr..
James H. Chadbourn, who passed away
Sunday morning at Isl O'Clock. as
noted in The Messenger on und
took place yesterday morning at IL
o'clock at St. James Episcopal church
The solemn service was conducted bv
the Rev. F. H. r. Horsield. assisted bv
the Right Rev. Bishop A. A. Watson.
and there was a very large
attesting the great esteem in which the
deceased was universally held in our
community. The members of the pro-
duce exchange attended in a body. and
out OF respect to his memory the rooms
of the exchange were draped in mourn
ing and closed during the funeral. The
public schools. in the interest of which
MIR. Chadbourn IabOred so z~eaIousIy for
thirty years, were closed, and the facul-
ties and representatives of all the
classes in the several schooIs attended
I1e wilmington Compress and Ware
Aeogse Company. of which Mr.. Chad
bohrn was a director. suspended opera
tlons at IFS mpre for the day, and
all the American shipping in port half
masted their colOrs, Mr.. Chadbournt
having been the oldest shipper in this
port
After the services at the church, the
remains were followed by a large con-
course to Oakdale cemetery where they
were laid to rest amid the sorrow of his
bereaved family and numerous friends.
The floral ributes were profuse and
handsome. many designs having been
sent by friends in this city and in other
cities In this and other states. Nota-
BILE among the flowers were handsome
designs sent by the employees OF the
C~hadbourn Lumber Company, Whining
ton Lodge, No. $50, b. p. O.. E. Will
mington Lodge, No. 359. L. o. o. F., and
the faculties and pupils of the High
school. the Union schoo and annex, the
Hemenway schools. and also by the
two colored schools, the Williston and
Peabody schools.
The p~allbeaTers were as follows: Hon.
orary, MeSsrs. Junius Davis, James
Sprunt, B.. G.. Worth. and r. j.. Jones,
active. Colonel w. r. Kenan, CaptainI
Henry Savage n Messrs. George W.
Kidder, John j. Blair. Donald MacRae,l
James F. Post, Samuel Northrop and
William Latimer.
When Mr.. Chadbourn was laid in theI
tomb yesterday there disappeared FROM
life one of W~ilmngtOn's most useful and
highly hOnOre citizens. He was not
only a great loss to his family but es-
pecially to the city and the publicI
schools in the interest of which he de-
voted SO many years of his life. OnI
Sunday when it became known that Mr.
Chadbourn was dead, it cast a gloom
over the entire city. Sincere sorrow
was expressed on all sides and it was
mentioned by hundreds what a %seriousI
blow it was for Wilmington have such
a man tO no called from the SDbpra OF
busy life. He was a faithful menu
Der of ST. James Episcopal church, and
there was no more devout, conscien-
tiOus Christian than the deceased. Hel
was 4 man of the most ~unbendlng IN
tegrity and honesty, was a prudent and
successful business man, and his pecu-l
liar characteristics were ~gentleness,
kindness and ch~aritableness. He was AM
active, successful business man and yeti
he had time to serve the people of h1sl
city in a great many respects. He was
truly a benefactOr, and his life has BEEN
a blessing to Wilmington indeed.
For more than thirty years Mr.. Chad-l
bourn has been officially and devotedlyI
interested in the public schools. AL
ways d wise counsellor, he has been OF
i~ncalculable usefulness in an ~education-
al way in this city. He was devoted tol
the cause and was Jealous and untlrlnSI
in his efforts to educate the children OF
w llIll1Sl Oh. IL Hill pCIOASo ANNA
credit for the fine public school SYSTEM
of Wilmington, and as chairman OF
school district No. 2, he has labored I'M
season and out of season in behaIf OF
the white and colOred school in that
district. He was not satisfied in merely
aiding in giving the children an oppor-I
tunity for a public school educat10nl
hut TO him belongs the credit of havinsl
secured for our children the benefits OF
higher education. For years he was the
agent of that great benefactor OF our
CITY. the late Mrs. Hemenway. and
through his efforts her executors decided
Tileston High school to h city of
Wilmington. If he had done nothing
else but this his life would have been
a blessing to this community. Only a
wear ago Mayor Waddell. on behalf OF
the city. and superintendent ]. j. Blair
and the school committees adopted res
olutions acknowledging the valued SER
vices of Mr.. Chadbourn IN securing
this excellent school building for Will
mington. Among other things the res
olutions they adopted. said:
THAT the recent gift to the city OF
the part of the trustees of the Hemen-
way estate of the property KNOWN as
the Tileston High School building ana
grounds. marks an epoch in his long
career OF usefulness. and the committee
To give public recognition of the fact
that it was largely through his endeaV-
ors and instrumentality that the trans
action was consummated n the deed
of gift confirmed. Tha4 this was ac-
compIished and made possible by rea-
son of his personal friendship for Mrs
~ugustu Hemenway and intimate &C
Q~uaintance with the different
of the trustees of her estate and their
~unbounded confidence in his Judgment,
their belief in his business integrity ana
sincerely of purpose. and also of the
knowledge they had of his personal in
terest in the enterprise from and be-
fore the time of it's establishment. as
shown from the buying of the lots from