New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-25
OBITUARY..
HENRY STAFFORD LITTLE.

Trenton. y. J.. April 24.-Henry Stafford Little.
trustee of Princeton University formerly president
Of the New-Jersey Senate and for many years ono
of the foremost Democratic leaders Of the State
died early this morning. at the age of eighty-one
years He was taken i'll with pneumonia last Thurs
day afternoon. and sank steadily until the end lie
died in the apartments of the Trenton house whlch
he had occupied for thirty-fve years, there being
present at the time his sister, Mrs. Margaret Il.
Terhune. of Freehold, and his nephew. John Ter
hume. Mr. Titles body will be taken TO Matawan
tomorrow and the funeral will be held at oclock
Wednesday. The honorary pallbearers are ex-
President Cleveland. President Woodrow Wilson or
Princeton University, United States Senator'S John
Kean and John f. Dryden ex-United States Sena-
James Smith, jr.. ex-Secretary of State Henry
c. Kelsey. ex-Supreme Court Clerk b. +. Lee
Clerk in Chancery Edward c. Stokes. Justice Ben
nett Van Syckel Vice-Chancellor H. c. Pitney and
Thomas r. Wooley. of Long Branch.
Professor Andrew F. West, Of Princeton, came
here this afternoon express on behalf OF the
university faculty sympathy with Mr. Littles rela-
tives. He announced that ex-President Cleveland
President Wilson OF the university, and others OF
the faculty and trustees would attend the funeral
A special train will be for their accommodation
Henry Stafford Little was born at Middleton
Point now Matawan). Monmouth County. In 1873.
He was graduated from Princeton in the class OF
1874. and admitted 10 the bar in 1SiS He be
came active in politics early in NE, ana soon rose
the rank of a State leader. being one among n
few men VINO admittedly CohtToll'u tho soIi'T -
ing the days that it was put down as safely IN me
IN 1856 and delegate to the convention IN
New-York when Horauo Seymour received the
Democratic nomination for President. lie was
elected the State Senate in 1854 and was Il mem
Der Of that body until 1871, being president IN 1873
and 1863. He clerk I'm chancery FOR ten years;
being appointed by Governor Randolph In 1911 ana
by Governor Bedle in 1876.
In politics : in other things. Mr.. Little was al
ways aggressive lie caused sensation IN state
politics in 1897 by writing an open letter charging
United States Senator John X. Mcpherson with
betraying his party by participating IN con
spiracy defeat the return OF his colleague !. +;
Randolph. to the Senate. and to elect IN his stead
General William J. Sewell. Republican whatever
may have been the merits Of the charges; they re-
suited in break in the party. and Mr.. Little ne
came involved in protracted controversy. IN
which he never receded from his position. nut
publicly and privately continued his attacks upon
Senator Mcpherson
Mr. Little the first president of the New
York and Long Branch Railroad Company. ana II
mainly through his efforts that the road was
built He was made receiver Of the Central Kali
road Of New-Jersey when II went into insolvency
He was a man OF considerable wealth. and Is said
10 have left estate worth between $4,000 and
81 O00 COO Within two years he had given two dornl
tories Princeton. known as Little Halls. ana had
endowed the chair in political history, now "c-
cupied by Grover Cleveland. lie was "A close per
sonal and political friend Of the exFresideut
whom he regarded s the logical candidate 81 the
party this year HIS gifts to Princeton aggregated
about $4,000. He had been a trustee or tho uni
versity for several years He WAS 2 ha'hel"r. MS
sister. three nephews and nice" being ms only