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portant pending questions. At the
time of his departure he was looking |
forward to period Of rest and recre'
alton at his summer home, and fully |
expected to return to Washington in |
the fall fully recuperated in health
and strength. Although he appeared
considerably better than when he left
Washington for Europe, just following
his severe illness or last spring, yet it
was evident to his family and friends
that he was far from being well man.
The Dead Diplomat.
John Hay was born in Salem, Ind
Oct. s, 1888, of an old Scotch family
He was graduated from Brown uni
versity in 1858, and studied law at
Springfield, H., with Abraham Lin,
coln who was then neighbor, and
was admitted to the Illinois bar in
1861. He went to Washington with
President Lincoln as his assistant sec
rotary. Mr.. Hay was intensely loyal
to President Lincoln, and entered hear
tily into all the duties that the mar
tyred chief magistrate assigned to
him. In 1864 President Lincoln gave
him commission in the army, and he
was made a major and adjutant gen,
eral, serving at Hilton Head, and later
| in Florida, under Mr.. Lincoln's per-
| sonal direction. When he was mus.
| tered out of the military service, April
| %, 1867, he had won the brevet of
| lieutenant-colonel and colonel ''for
| faithful and meritorious services dur.
ing the war"
Having an ambition for diplomatic
him to Paris, but before he had depart.
ed the president was assassinated.
Mr.. Hays service under the diplomatic
branch of the government continued
for several years. He went to Paris,
as President Lincoln had planned he
should, as secretary of legation, learn.
ing to speak the French language flu.
emily before he resigned March 28
1867 to become secretary of the lega
/ ton at Vienna under Minister Motley
In June of 1869 he accompanied Min
lister Sickles to Madrid where he re
manned till the autumn of 1870.
Soon after his return to this country
Mr. Hay, who had already written
:, sufficiently to attract attention as a
litterateur embarked on journalistic
!, career, and on the invitation of Horace
Greeley he became an editorial write,
on the New York Tribune, then s
power in republican politics.
Eroy,, 1Q7e RI OOn no tooly -, o+;1,r
part in presidential campaigns. Wher
, Mr.. Mckinley was elected presiden
, he sent Mr.. Hay as ambassador tt
England, and especially during the
Spanish-American war he gave evi
dence at that eventful time of his con
u ception of the fundamentals of Amer
;, lean policy in international affairs.
/, Although Mr.. Hay secured the abro
grafton of the Clayton-B ulwer treaty
9 brought about the reference Of th
i most far-reaching question in the re
i cent Venezuela dispute-priority il
g payment for belligerent claimant
d to the international court of TIL
:. Hague, and arranged for the peaceabl
J. adjustment of the Alaska boundar
d question, he is known throughout tn
l. world principally for the breadth an
foresight OF his policy in Asia. MI
Hay came to the state. department i
September, 1898, at the close of tn
IS Spanish war
a Roosevelt in Grief.
n Oyster Bay, L. l., July 33.-Preside1
G Roosevelt sent the following messag
e to Mrs. Hay: Mrs. John Hay, LAX
q Sunapee: | cannot believe the dreat
o full news. Pray accept our deepes
Il sympathy in your terrible bereav
o ment. do not know what to say /
q express my sorrow
Theodore Roosevelt"