The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-11
STANTON,S MEMORY.
To Be Signally Honorcd BY People Of
HIS Native Town.

HIS Nbtlke AVWUs
Stubenville. O., April 11.-Signal
honor in the perpetuation of the men,
ory of Edwin NJ. Stanton, the great
War Secretary. will be the unwilling
of the Andrews portrait of Stanton at
Steubenville next Saturday, April IA,
the date of the firing en- Fort Sumpter.
Stanton was born in Steubenville, as
was the artist, Eliphalet F. Andrews,
of Washington City. Andrews desire
to paint the real Stanton as he knew
him in flesh and blood and present the
portrait to the Jefferson County Bar
association was accepted with evident
pleasure, and the bar association will
: in turn present It to the county. The
portrait is to be hung in the Common
Pleas court room, which was the scene
of many of Stanton's legal triumphs
over half a century ago.
Stanton's memory is kept alive only
by bronze tablet on an old-time
house on Market street. where he was
born, December 10. 1874 This tablet,
properly Inscribed, was erected in
1897. the year of the Jefferson county
centennial, and General Daniel E.
Sickles delivered the Grafton.
Here was born Edwin NJ. who at
IL years was clerk in the book
store of James Turnbull. Three years
later he entered Kenyon college. He
left college in 1888 aud clerked for a
time in Columbus, but returned to
Steubenville and took up the practice
OF law with his guardian, Colonel Dan
iel L. Collier. He was highly success
full in his practice of the law in East
ern Ohio counties, in the Panhandle
counties of West Virginia and at Pitts
burg. Practically he was democrat
but in spite Of that fact Lincoln. who
had seen him practice law under cir
cumstances that commanded his ad-
miration, appointed him Secretary of
War. On Lincoln's death he was re-
quested to remain in Office by Presi-
dent johnson. They did not agree,
and Johnson requested his resignation
Stanton refused to resign before
congress met. The president issued an
order suspending him and appointing
General Grant, which action the Sen
ate would not sustain. The president
next appointed General Thomas, but
Stanton refused to yield the Office. On
failure to impeach the president Stan
ton resigned. His last visit to Steu-
benville was on December 20, 1869,
when he addressed a large public
meeting In favor of General Grant
for the presidency. On December %,
1869, he was nominated by President
Grant to be an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. His nomination was
confirmed at once blythe Senate, but
he died December "a, 1869, before his
commission was made out
The picture, which is true to life
and dnN1QrnH hv thu kfck t1 r. r. L.
greatest effort, intimately represents
Stanton, erect, facing the trial table,
his left hand resting upon his hip
while the other rests lightly on the
trial table. At the end of the table
Is a law book showing usage and
near the book sheet of manuscript.
The coat he wears Is the tight fitting
frock coat of those days. The very
sight of the picture recalls the man to
the older people who knew him.
Edwin M. Stanton was born in a
two-story brick house, that still sits
back from the street at SIG Market
street A portion of the old building
Is still standing. Stanton's ancestors,
who were Quakers. migrated from
Rhode Island to North Carolina about
the middle of the eighteenth century.
HIS grandmother was descendant of
Thomas Macy, the earliest white set
tier OF Nantucket, who as result of
Giving shelter to pursued Quaker
was made the subject of fine poem
by John Greenleaf Whittier. Soon
after the death of Stanton's grand
father, at Beaufort. N. c.. the widow
with her children and a body of
Quakers unable to remain where slay-
cry existed came North and settlad