The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-21
oHIo's GOVERNOR DEAD
'0hn NJ. Pattison suooumbs to Briobts
D'sease-Death Was
Unexpected.

noiilatl, O., June 2O.-John NJ
ra.tlson, governor of Ohio died 80
disease at 400 o,c,oc,- ros
sar aas AFTERNOON at his home in Mil
AI.eeh miles east Of this city. On
d peautlful hillside near his home bis
Douy VIII be laid to rest on Thursday
ai'eihoon at 2 o'clock after services
III the Methodist church.
one week ago the governor was c,r-
iieu INTO his home, from which ha had
- I'VE months before to his inaug-
~ !, atio.l as chief executive of the stare
on a bed of pain. pei'
LIS ueath came suddenly and was
even by his physicians and
larniS. Early Sunday evening the gov
LtuoI suffered considerable acute main
= dater he sank into a ouiet siean
AZ III O'Clock DR.. Belt made his ns,1ai
ahoillli!s visit and found his patient in
d olnatos state. The governor neveI
i"eu' ana death came peacefully.
d;oa une soVefnor's bedside when he
Ga, we're MIS-. Pattison and his two
udusnters' Misses Alethia and Ernes-
ti11e Pattison, n the nurses.
mat the death of the governor 1,-,s
eAtireiy unexpected is shown by the
iact that IN a contest over the renui.
Slllon OF Ellsworth Liverpool in the
courts IN this city both the governors
pnss!c!ahs appeared to testify that his
tohultlon was such that he was able
~ transact official business. His pri-
.ate secretary, L. B. Houck, also tes-
;iilea 10 MS good condition, explain
ing that he had recently gone oua,
much business with him,
although there has haap 20, .,a..
an expressed fear that Governor Pat
,lsoh would not be able to return tc
ms oflce at Columbus. the cheerful
statements from his sick room tended
10 create a belief that any fatal out
come OF his prolonged sickness would
be long deferred.
: John M: Pattison, boy soldier, lawyer,
stdle legislator, member Of congress
ana governor of Ohio, was born in Cyer.
mont county, o., June IS, 1S47. He en-
llsled as a volunteer in the United
states army when but Is years old in
1914 n entered college Immediately
AFTER being umustered out, graduating
aI the ONO Wesleyan university, Della
ware, o., with the class Of 1869, hay
ing peen a college mate of United States
senate James B.. Foraker. He was ad-
ln1tted to the bar in 1872 and elected to
the lower house of the Ohio legislature
IN 1919. From 1874 to 1876 he was the
attorney for tine committee of safety at
Cincinnati. He became a member Of
the Ohio senate in 1880, and was elected
TO the Fifty-secOnd congress-.
For the past fifteen years he had been
president of the Union Central Life In
5urance company. He was a democrat,
and n of the leaders in the state SEN
ate in support of legislation for a more
stringent observance Of the Sabbath.
Ills position on this point was well
known when he was given the demo-
cratic nomination for governor one year
ago, n it was because of this that
the A~nti-Saloon league gave him its
support.
Andrew Lintner Harris, lieutenant
governor, who under the constitution
becomes governor during the balance
of the term for which Pattison was
elected, is a republican. He was born
In Butler county, O., November II, 1885.
He graduated at Miami university at
Oxford, O., with the class of 1860, and
the following year entered the union
army and was mustered out as a briga-
der general by brevet. He was elected
lieutenant governor both times that
William Mckinley was chosen gov
M
Eaton, O., June 19.-The oath Of Of
fee was administered to Acting Gov
ernor Andrew L. Harris here last night
by Judge Fisher, of the common pleas
bench.