New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-14
OBITUARY..
EX-SENATOR TITUS sHEARD.

Utica y. Y. April 13.-Ex-SenatOr Titus Snearo,
Of Little Falls. died suddenly this morning. De
had been i'll for about two months with neart
trouble but 1t was recently thought he was rnproV-
ing. This morning he was about to enter MS room
to shave himself when he paused an instant al
couscious Trorn that moment and breathed only a
few times before he died
Titus sheard was born in Bailey. Yorkshire Eng
land October T. 1871. His father was engaged IN .ne
manufacturing of wooens. and his son inherited hi
predictions for that occupation he cary %
came interested in the prospects which lay before
young men I'm America and with his sister emil
grated to this country in a sailing vessel IN sep
TENDER, 1856. While in Syracuse on his hrteenth
birthday he learned that some Of his FRIENDS whoi
ne had known in England were at MottSlHe'
twenty miles distant. The lad walked the as
lance. He found OF those friends put OIneIs
mad moved to Little Falls. He went 10 tnat WILLS
and found th6 m, and secured employment there az
Years and devoted his spare time to educating
himself. In the evenings he attended the village
night school, and was great reader OF DOORS anu
ira at the American Hotel. Richfeld Springs one
summer and attended school at that place he 2
was so studfOus that in few years he became a
teacher in country school But his AMBITION W S
foundation for his successful business career. He
continued Isness for few years, when he pur-
Oneida County. In 1872 he launched out into the
knit goods business. organizing the Little Fans
knitting MIL Company. He president ana
financial manager of the company for seven years
Chased the property now known as the Eagle Mills.
Mr. Sheard conducted it until 1883. when a stock
company assumed control. He retained a cOhtrOl-
ling interest and was elected president
Mr. Sheard's public career began IN hi When ne
was elected TO the State Assembly, and was made
CHI irnlan of the Committee Trade and Manu-
factures and placed the Canal Committee he
again Induced to for Assemblyman and was
elected AT Albany ne was induced TO enter the
race for the speakershiP. Mr. Sheards opponents
were Theodore Roosevelt, De Witt e. LittfeJonn
and George c.. Erwin. but he was VICTORIOUS
Speaker Sheard appointed the Roosevelt lnvesti-
eating committee. the report OF whose nnd Its
II suited in reform legislation for New-fOrk CITY
MT Sheard's name iS connected with the ten
hour labor law. . - -,
house OF the legislature that the people OF the
XVIII Senate District, embracing the countes
Of Herkimer OtsegO and Madison, called upon him
i'm 1889 TO represent them In the State Senate He
was elected by a majority OF over twenty-eight
hundred carrying all three counties he served as
a delegate to the Republican National Convention
in 1854 Ex-senator Sheard man OF varied
Intellectual and business capacities. with a keen
serse OF the duties Of citizen and natural apt-
tude for the study Of public questions. he trav-
eIled considerably this continent ana Europe,
and also visited Asia and Africa He was the
possessor of an excellent library rich In hstoricaI
works and books bearing upon economic quesfions
In 1863 he was married Helen NJ. Waite. Of Little
Falls. They had two daughters; Mr. Sheard was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 70
which he was a liberal contributor.