Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-14

Governor Austin had apparently been
i'll good health and was planning for
his usual Sc journ i'll California during
the winter season. Death followed a
surgical operation for an enlarged
gland, in Il hospital at Minneapolis,
MS1lr., on Tuesday the seventh day %
EorfnfhaC Last. The operation Was not
eossIdeEta criticasofo, but he rapidly
SUNK sNr soon died. His age was
sevettsqNlr.sears. ON Thursday pre-,
vioufS 20 his death, he was one of tie
honorary pail bcarNs-a the funeral of
MS :ri%sd T1fd as.o.tite I.x.-Governor
..AndlxH N3;ilr of Miny. For spany!
ydarAhc Stas.a ieadHg spirit in TiX'
affairs and sxas' 'esssntialy M
man, although BON . in -Cantcruofy,
'1 Hs S"s T. Of David aid. Eliza
beth oiese' sAustin; Iiis ''areilts
six years of age and located. first -
Mount Vernon apd later on 4 farm il
Belgrade i'll kennebes County, Wie"re
Horace grew to manhood. Hs. was
LitclfAd Liberal Institute. AS a
scholar he showed nl!rlled~;l!ility par
ticuIarIy il u,axaeml 0rs il which he
excellof He did eg'y axe kindly !. ~
not OK would n'$~rfdss the ti."e snd
exrsSse of q college cc~rse..
; ;ETf several ,%'s .he Was'prneSal ns
} t5Js.ade. dc li;e"ir HnS As "a INSTRUCTOR
80 discirl;narian ~N:L success.
E nu"l'" J j@r'p ri; e'Snr,> aw'' 7;
readssaw ~ l&sdhury '.AInrrin ana
Mescrtr. at NuAista SLY leading law
firm in this part of the state. Erad
bury, Il scholar ann HratoE, had been i'll
the United States Senate with Webster
clay aud Calhoun: ,nd Morrill, later
was for years Govetuor-9 of Maine
United states Senator and Secretary Of
the United STATES Treasury aud by his
marked ability s,cailred national
reputatioli,
The Spafk of ambition in young
Austin by his assnciation with these
eminent meS4 was famed to a flame.
He then and there determined to make
his mark and his subsequent career
shows how wei he succeeded. on COM
p!e;inG his iaw studies at Augusta he
i't.'i''I lli - Ill llIlli'tS lltt til-lttt'
did not agree with him ANA in 1856 at
the age II twenty-five years he went
Ia Minnesota and commenced the praC-
ticc of law ut ST. Paul. In 1873 having
become permanently established in
bus mess he came to Maine for Il part
ncr. and married Lena the only daugh-
ter Of Asa Morrill, a. Welt o-do citizen
of Manchester III kenneDec County
Lena had previously been under his
tuition rs a Scholar. He had not for
Cotton the charming little quaker girl
of his early acquaintance. In 1862 as
Captain in the United States Volunteer
Sibl"y campaign against the Indians on
the western plains. At the close Of the
war he was Immediately elected Judge
Of the sixth judicial district in Mimi.
and served in that capacity until he
was elected Governor of that State by
q plurality of 1000 votes over Mr.. Otis
the democratic candidate
Iii 1871 he was again elected Governor
by q ma iority over all competitors of
10000. showing clearly his increasing
hold on public patronage. On his re-
tircmtnt from that high office he was
called by President Grant to the
responsible position of third auditor of
the United States treasury. Z position
he hold during the administ ration OF
Bristow, Morrill, and Sherman. For
Severa. years after this he was in
charge of the land office at Fargo for
the Department of the Interior.