Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-01
DEATH Of SENATOR QUAY
NOTED POLITICIAN OF PENNSYL.
vANlA PASSES AWAY.
He Had Been Sick More or Less for
the Last Year-He Was a Very
Hearty Eater and Smoked a Great
DeaI-His Was an Eventfui Life
Few Men so Prominent Politically.

Beaver, Pa.-Colonel Matthew STAN
ley Quay, senior senator from Penn
sylvania, died peacefully at 2:4S
o'clock Saturday afternoon, after an
illness which had been more or less
persistent for the last year, which
took a turn for the worse ten days
ago, and which the doctors diagnosed
as chronic gastritis. The funeral &C.
Cured at 2 o'clock of the afternoon on
Tuesday, May 81, and the remains in
tered in the family burial plot in Bea.
yer cemetery.
Senator Quay's illness was a recur-
renee of the trouble that beset him
during the latter part of 1900 and the
early days of January, 1901, when he
was undergoing the strain of a des-
perate fight for reelection to the SEN
ate.
Senator Quay, in health, was a great
eater, and his troubles of later years
dated from overdraft on his vital sys.
TEN, due to heavy eating, smoking and
the great nervous strain which he I'M
derwent.
Biography.
Matthew Stanley Quay, republican,
of Beaver, was born in Dillsburg, York
county, Pa, September 80, 1888; was
prepared at Beaver and Indiana acad.
envy for college; was graduated from
Jefferson college 1850; was admitted to
the bar in 1854; was elected prothono-
tary Of Beaver county in 1856 and re-
elected in 1859; was a lieutenant in
the Tenth Pennsylvania reserves; was
colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty
fourth Pennsylvania volunteers; was
lieutenant colonel and assistant COM
missary general; was state military
agent at Washington; was private Sec
rotary to the governor of Pennsylva-
mia; was major and chief of tarnspor-
tation and telegraphs; was military
secretary for the governor of Penn
sylvania 1S61-1865; was a member Of
the legislature 1865-1867; was secre-
tary Of the commonwealth 1872-187S;
was recorder of the city of Philadel-
phia and chairman of the republican
state committee 1878-1Y79 and 1902
1908; was secretary of the common
wealth 1S79-1SS2; was delegate at
large to the republican national con-
ventions Of 1872, 1876, 1880; was elect
ed state treasurer in 1885; was elected
a member Of the republican national
committee and chosen chairman there
of and ex-off1cio chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee when the commit
tee organized in July, 1888, and con-
Quoted the successful presidential cam
paign of that year; was a delegate to
the republican national convention of
1892; was chairman of the republican
state committee 1895-1S96; was a dele.
gate to the republican national con.
vention of 1896; was elected a member
Of the national committee and chosen
a member Of the executive committee
in 1896; was delegate to the repub.
lican national convention of 1900; was
elected a member of the republican
national committee of 1900; was elect
ed to the United States senate as a
republican to succeed John I. Mitchell
and took his seat March 4, 1887; was
reelected in 1893; in 1899 was defeat
ed for reelection by a deadlock ex-
listing throughout the session of the
legislature; was appointed United
States senator by the governor of
Pennsylvania to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the failure of the legislature to
elect, but the appointment was not
recognized by the senate; on the day
of his rejection by the senate he was
nominated to succeed himself BY the
republican state convention Of Penn.
sylvania, and was reelected United
States senator January S, 1901; took
his seat January II, 1901, and his
term of service would have expired
March 3, 1905.