The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-06-03
SENATOR M. S. QUAY.

clans, made public the first information
from direct source since the patients
condition became serious concerning
the exact nature of his ailment. The
immediate cause of death was exhaus-
tion due to inability to assimilate nour-
ishment. Chronic gastritis and inflam-
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. Bige1Ow and
George T. Oliver, of Pittsburg.
It was announced by the family that,
carrying out the senator's dying re-.
quest, there will be no ostentation in
connection with the funeral. This
'compels the refusal of a 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 Pos:
Alb, 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, 1883. His father was a
Presbyterian minister Young Quay
was graduated from Jefferson college
at the age of II years and Immediately
began the study of law in the Offices
of Penney & Sterrett. in Plttsburg 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 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 Pennsyl-
'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 CurtiE-Oameron fight for tho
United States senatorship.
In Politics.
Mr. Quay held successfully over
dozen ofhces, 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 q. notable one outside his
official public service. In all his career