New-York tribune., 1905-07-24
DANIEL S. LAMONT DEAD.
Passes Ascay at Country Home IN
Dutchess County.

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! Scott Lamont, Secretary of War during the
| second administration of President Cleveland,
died suddenly his home at Millbrook,
Dutchess County, tonight at 915 o'clock.
Heart failure was the cause of death.
Colonel and Mrs. Lamont out driving
this afternoon and Colonel Lamont appeared
10 be enjoying the best of health. After din
ncr he complained of feeling i'll. and DIR.
Stewart, of New-York who is a guest at the
| house, Immediately rushed his aid The
physician diagnosed the case as an attack of
heart failure, and in spite of heroic treatment,
Mr.. Lamont passed away inside of half an hour.
At his deathbed We're Mrs. Lamont and his
two daughters-Frances and Bessie. Several
guests at the Lamont home were also present
when the end came.
Nothing but the bare announcement OF the
colonels death was made public by the family
last night, in a brief message to The Associated
Press
1t was understood, however. that the death
was unexpected. although Colonel Lamont had
been in feeble health, and the members of his
immediate family were gathered at Altamont
the Lamont country home in MilIbrook In
telligence of the approaching death of Colonel
Lamont was sent earlier in the evening TO
DR.. Joseph D. Bryant. of No. 81 West 4Sth-st.,
New-York City.
DR.. Bryant had, however, been called out of
town for the night and could not be reached by
Mrs. Bryant, who later received a second mes
sage announcing the death. No particulars of
the attack which Immediately preceded the end
were received at DR.. Bryant's home.
Daniel Scott Lamont, Secretary of War in
President Cleveland's second administration,
born of Scotch-Irish parents. in Cortland
country merchant Mr.. Lamont went first to
the country schools. He was graduated from
Union College in 1872. For time he a
clerk behind the counter of his fathers store
but he did not take kindly to such work. He
was still in his teens when he went into po-
litical life Edgar K. Apgar. one of Governor
Tflden's trusted lieutenants, being his spon-
sor. At nineteen he made deputy clerk
at Albany. He held this place for two years
At twenty he delegate TO the. celebrated
State convention at Rochester which followed
the attack of Governor Tilden on the Tweed
ring. In that noted convention. where the
Tweed unseated after a fight of two
days, young Lamont attracted the attention of
Tilden by voting every roll call with the
Democratic leader
Mr.. Tilden inquired about the 'boy politician"
and, after cordial meeting they became life
long friends So close this friendship that
II was said no man in the country was closer to
Mr.. Tiden than young Lamont This friendship
was strengthened during the memorable Presi-
Dental campaign and contest of 1876 and 1877.
Mr.. Tilden gradually brought Mr. Lamont for
ward when an opportunity afforded When the
latter was twenty-one years old he ran for
Clerk of Cortland County but was defeated by
his Republican opponent
Mr.. Lamont ran for Assembly the following
year. but again defeated Later Mr.. Tilden
had him appointed deputy clerk of Cortland
County. and after a few years he made
Chief Clerk of the State Department under John
Bigelow. His intimacy with Mr. Tilden still
distinguished him. and he found himself one of
the young whom the Governor called about
him for assistance in making up his organiza-
ton of the party in the State Others of that
bodyguard were David B. HILL the late Edgar
K. Apgar. Charles S. Fairchd, William A
Beach, Horatio Seymour. jr.. and William E.
Smith The counties from which these young
men hailed were all close together, in the mid
die of the State. and each one was a neighbor
OF mother
In the formation of what came TO be called
the Tilden machine Mr. Lamont was active and
he bore no small part in securing the nomination
and election of such men as the government
favored.
Mr. Lamont was secretary of the State com
mittee during the State campaign of 1879. Mr.
Tilden being the director of the campaign 1t
was then that the latter loose from the old
politicians of the State and MADE a direct appeal
TO the people to sustain him in his warfare on
the corrupt rings that had fastened on the gov
ernment. Mr. Lamont continued to be active i'm
the movements I'm 1876 which led TO the nomina-
tion Of Tilden for President and in the campaign
which followed. He busted himself in all the
campaigns that followed up to the year when he
W.
dent Cleveland.
Mr. Cleveland, when he was elected Governor.
sent for Lamont and spent some time with him
in consultation about his inaugural address He
made the young politician his military secretary.
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