Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-19
LORD scUILY DEAD.
Became Naturaized to Better Pro-
 mote His Interests.

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 Bloomington, III, Oct 1S.-"Lord" William Scully, known as the great est of American landlords, is dead. A cablegram to this effect was re- ceived yesterday by Ferdinand Trapp, his American agent. Scully died in London Wednesday.
 He was an Irish peer of the realm until 1900, when vast property in terests in this country prompted him to procure naturalization as an American citizen. He bought the John A. Logan residence in. Wash Iington, and made infrequent visits to ahe United States. during which fle made minute inspections that were feared by his hundreds of tenants. The farmers of Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois made hue and cry a quarter of a century ago when Scul- ly appeared as a purchaser ol broad tracts of land. He leaves fortune, mostly in lands, estimated at about $50, 100000. His latest deal was in last August, when he deeded to his wife, E. Angela Scully TOT $1, about 30. .000 acres of land in Logan county, Illinois, valued at $3,000.O00.
 Scully was the most conspicuous farm monopolist of alien birth in this country. He began his career as a landlord in Tipperary county, Ire- land, taking over properties on which the Scullys had had leaseholds for a century. In 1S49 he was tried at the Clonmel assizes for shooting two young men, sons of a tenant whom he was evicting, but was acquitted. In 1865 he was sentenced to twelve months Imprisonment for beating the wife of tenant and served out his time at hard labor in the Kill kenny county jail.
 He came to this country shortly after the close of the Mexican war. and before he was done with his farm purchases in the ensuing yearl he had acquired 46,00s acres in cen- tral Illinois. 60.000 acres in Nebras- ka, 50.000 in Kansas and 10000 in Missouri.
 Scully transplanted his ideals of Irish landlordism to American soil. He travelled the country on horse- back, scrutinizing his farms with a jealous eye. He carried away sam- pies of the soil in little paper bags, leading the tenants to believe that he must have at his home earth from every acre of land that he owned. These tenants were for the most part Swedes. Germans or Irish. Scully ruled them through agents who were instructed to be most particular about leases. The farmer who ap- piled for a lease had to be a practi- cal farmer. His stock must look we'll fed and the farm machinery spiek and span. Good reputation, sobriety and industry were demanded. They were permitted to lease farms at from s1.25 to s4 and acre and make their own Improvements.
 Scully bought land. but he never sold 1t. He was careful to see that new generation of farmers would be on hand to take the places of the old when the latter could not properly till his soil. Scully not infrequentIy put young men to work on his farms and later sent them to college at his own expense.
 William Scully was the son of Dem his ScuIly. prominent in the Irish emancipation cause and the first Irish student in 200 years to be sd- mitted to Trinity college. Cambridge. William ScuIly studied law In Dub lin office. Upon the passage of the Corn law in 1s4s. he began selling his estates in Ireland. but it was many years later before he trans ferred the bulk of his interests to this country.