Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-05-19
DEATH OF CARL SCHURz
Expired at His Home in New York
Monday Morning.
WAS A CONSPICUOUS FIGURE
Came to America as a Refugee, and
Rose to Eminence as a Soldier,
Stateman and Journalist

Stateman ana JOuTudlA5b
New York, May 14.-Carl Schurz,
soldier, statesman, journalist, diplo'
mat ard magazine writer, for half a
century conspicuous among the lead
ing figures of the United States, died
here at 4 :35 O'Clock this morning. He
had peer in failing health for several
weeks, ana during the last few DAYS
grew percetibly weaker. Sunday it
was believed that he could not long
survive, and during the night grew
suddenly worse, and failed to rally.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Carl Schurz was born in Liblar,
near Cologne. Prussia, March 2. 1929,
and received his education at the Uni
versity of Bonn. After a brief career
as editor of a liberal newspaper he en-
tered the revolutionary army as adlu-
tant, and took part in TIE defence OF
Rahstadt. On account of bis activity
as a revolutionist he was forced to
flee the country. In 1850 he re urned
secretly to Germany and effected the
escape of his old professor, Gottfried
Rinkel, from the fortress OF Spandau.
In the spring of 1851 he was in Paris,
acting as correspondent for German
journals, and he afterward spent a
year in teaching in London.
He came to the United States in
1862, resided three years in Pniladel-
phia, and then settled in WATERFOWL,
Wis. He took part in the presidential
campaign of 1856, and in the follow
ing year he was an unsuccessful can
didate for lieutenant governor of Wis
consin on the republican ticket. A
year or two later he removed TO Mil
waukee and began the practice of law.
In 1859 1860 he made a lecture tour
in New England. and aroused atten-
ton by a speech in Springfield, Mass
against the ideas and policy of Ste
phen A. Douglass. He was a men,
Der of the republican national conven-
tion of 1860 and took al active part in
pointed him minister to Spain, but at
the outbreak of the war he resigned
to enter tho army. He took part in
several notable engagements and rose
TO the rank OF major-general of vol.
nnteers.
At the close of the war he visited
the southern states as special commits
sioner appointed BY President john
son for the purpose of examining their
condition. The following year he al
the Washington correspondent of tire
New York Tribune. and in 1867 he re.
moved TO Detroit. where he founded
the Post. Shortly afterward he be-
came the editor of the Westliche Post
in St. Louis He was temporary
chairman of the republican national
convention in 1868, where he succeed
ed ia having a recommendation for a
general amnesty adopted as a plank Of
the party platform. In 1869 he was
chosen United States senator from Mis-
souri. He opposed some of the chief
measures of President Grants admin
istration, and in 1872 took part in the
organization of the liberal party, pre-
siding over the Cincinnati convention
that nominated Horace Greeley for the
presidency. He campaigned for Hayes
in 1916, aud after the election of Hayes
was appointed secretary Of the inter-
Tor. After the expiration Of the term
of President Hayes he became one of
the editors of the New York Evening
Post, giving up that place in 1884, In
the same year he left the republican
party and supported the campaign of
Grover Cleveland. In 1892 Mr..
Schurz joined the staff of Harper's
Weekly, with which he remained till
1898.
Mr.. SchurZ was one of the founders
and most actire workers of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform LEAGUE.
n 1865 he published a volume of his
speeches, and he was also the author
of "A Life OF Henry Clay" published
in.18S7. He retired from active life
several years age.