The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-06
DEATH OF SENATOR DAWES
ONE OF THE OLDEST GRADUATES
OF YALE

Passes Away In PIttsfieid-Had Been
III Three MOnths-He was Eighty
six Years Old and Succeeded Charles
Sumner In the Senate in 1875.
Pittsfeld, Mass, Feb. 5.-The death
occurred here at Sis o'clock this morn
ing of Henry Laurens Dawes, for many
years United States senator from Mas
sachusetts. He was eighty-six years of
age.
Mr.. Dawes had been in failing health
since Christmas night, when he con-
tracted. a severe cold while driving.
The cold developed into the grip, which
Undermined his system, already weak
ened by the weight of years. Since last
Sunday night he had been in an uncon-
scious condition, the physicians recog-
nizing from the first that death was in
evitable. They expected the end early
in the week, but the ex-senator's rug
ged constitution enabled him to survive
until this morning. Sunday night when
his daughter, Miss Anna, left him he
babe her good night. These were the
last words uttered by the aged patient.
He had suffered no pain and it was
found unnecessary to administer OPT
ates.
Two of Senator Dawes three children
are attorneys, Henry L. Dawes being a
member of legal firm here, while
&c of
Burlington and Quincy railroad in Chi
cago. Miss Anna Dawes was well
known in Washington during her faith
er's sojourn at the capital. She also
was identified with Indian affairs dur
ing her fathers term of office as chair
man of the Indian commission.
When President Roosevelt visited
Pittsfeld last fall he called upon the
veteran statesman. 1t was while re-
turning from the visit to the Dawes
house that the serious trolley accident
occurred in which the president figured.
The death of Henry l.. Dawes re-
moves one of the oldest graduates of
Yale university from the sprere of hu-
man affairs. He was member of the
class of 49, of which the following six
persons survive: DR.. David F. Atwa-
ter, Springfield, Mass; Rev. DR.. Enoch
F. Burr, Lyme, Conn; DR.. Augustus
G. Eliot, Hamburg, Germany; Angus
tus R. MacDonough, New York city;
James C. Putnam, Buffalo, and Profess
sor Hamilton l.. Smith, Yonkers, N. Y.
1t is now sixty-four years since this
class left Yale and all of the six have
reached the ripe old age of at least
eighty-three years. Other we'll known
members of the class, now deceased,
were Eli Whitney, Robkins Battell,
John S. Beach, David L. Daggett, Gov
ernor w. P. Hall, Missouri; Judge Hem
ry L. Jackson, formerly minister to
Mexico; James Osborn Putnam, ex-
minister to Belgium; Professor Charles
J. Stille of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and ]. d. Whitney.
Senator Dawes was born in Cum
mington, Mass, October 80, 1916, and
was, therefore, eighty-six years of age.
After his graduation from Yale he
taught school in Massachusetts and la
ter entered upon a career of journal
ism. He edited the Greenfield Gazette
and the Adams Transcript and studied
for the bar, being admitted in 1912. He
was in the Massachusetts legislature
from 1S48 to 1850. In 1857 he was elect
ed to congress. In 1875 he succeeded
Charles Sumner in the senate, from
which he retired eight years ago. He
has been chairman of the committee on
ways and means, has served on the
committee on public buildings, and he
inaugurated the movement by which
the Washington monument was erect
ed. He was the author of many tariff
measures. The entire system of Indian
education is due to legislation created
ny Mr.. Dawes. One of his most impor-
tant works was the Establishment of a
weather bulletin in 1859.