River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-02
SENATOR M. S. QUAY.


clans, made public the first information
from a direct source since the patients
condition became serious concerning
the exact nature of his ailment. The
immediate cause of death was exhaus-
ton due to inability to assimilate nour-
ishment. Chronic gastritis and inf1am-
nation of the stomach was the founda-
ton of the trouble.
The Funeral.
The funeral will be at two o'clock on
the afternoon of Tuesday, May 81, and
the remains will be inferred in the
family burial plot in Beaver cemetery.
The pallbearers selected are Senator
Penrose, former Attorney General John
P. Elkin, William Montgomery Allie
gheny, Pa; Col. Samuel Moody, general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines; United States Marshal S. P.
Stone, of Beaver; State Bank Examiner
J. r. Hurrah, Thomas S. Bigelow and
George T. Oliver, of Pittsburg.
1t was announced by the FANNY that,
carrying out the senator's dying re-
quest, there will be no ostentation in
connection with the funeral. This
compels the refusal of request by the
masons for masonic funeral. The
final arrangements made are that the
body shall remain in the senator's
bedroom, where he died, until Tuesday,
when it will be carried to the First
Presbyterian church, in charge of Post
473, G. A. R., of which Senator Quay
was a member, and lie in state from
nine a. m. until one p. m. The church
will then be cleared, and at two o'clock
the funeral services will be conducted
by Rev. J. S. Ramsey, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, assisted by
Rev. Appleton Bash, d. D., of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
The estate left by Senator Quay is
estimated at 100000. Of this amount
fully one-half is absolutely secured to
the widow. The disposition of the re-
mainder is not yet known.
His Career.
Matthew Stanley Quay was born in
Dillsburg, near Harrisburg, Pa, on
September 80, 1888. His father was a
L kludY
was graduated from Jefferson college
at the age of II years and Immediately
began the study of law in the offices
of Penney e Sterrett, in Pittsburg. His
health failing, he went south. After a
tour through the south, teaching school
and lecturing, he finally settled down
to the serious toll Of a student of law
under Judge James P. Sterrett, whom
later in life he had the pleasure of as
sisting to the bench of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania.
He went to the war in 1861 as first
lieutenant of the Eleventh PennsyI-
vania reserves. He later resigned from
the regiment, and had staff assign
ments. His entire war service lasted
less than five months, and most of that
time he was i'll with typhoid fever He
next became military secretary to Gov.
Curtin, and after he first went to the
Pennsylvania legislature in 1864 he
identified himself with the Curtin
wing of the republican party in the
state. In 1866 he became speaker of
the house, and resigned during the
great Curtin-Cameron fight for the
United States senatorship.
In Politics.
Mr.. Quay held successfully over a
dozen offices, becoming in turn lieuten-
ant of reserves, assistant state commits
sary general, lieutenant general of the
state, governors secretary, colonel of
the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth
Pennsylvania volunteers, state agent in
Washington; military secretary of
state, representative and state SEN
ator, twice secretary of the
commonwealth, recorder of Phil
adelphia, state treasurer and United
States senator His political rec
ord was a notable one outside his
official public service. In all his career
Quay had to fight for his political life.
Yet he acquired personal influence
and standing that made him a leader
In both state and national affairs. This
maker and unmaker of political for
tunes in Pennsylvania, he was leader
also in national conventions and of
parties and men for over 80 years. He
succeeded in electing several men to
governorship, but his greatest triumph
was achieved in the election of Benja-
min Harrison TO the presidency in 1888.
Quay, the political general, was often
bitterly denounced, but his genius was
acknowledged. He fought for results
and achieved them.