The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-15
DIR. J. .SwARDLAw PELHAM.
Died At Ashevine Last rriday-For
Many Years A Respected Citi-
zen of Newberry.

died at Ashevillc last Friday after
noon and was buried in Columbia
Sunday. He had many friends in
Newbery who will regre: to hear Of
his death.
The Herald and News publishes be-
low a notice from the Columbia State
and also from the Ashevillc Gazette
News.
! The remains of DR.. James Ward
law Pelham, whose death occurred at
the Clarence Barker Memorial hos
pital in Biltmore Friday evening,
were brought to this city last night
ON the train from Asheville for in
tcrmcnt in the family plot in Elm
wood cemetery this afternoon. The
body WAS accompanied by several
members of the family and repre-
Scntativcs of several of the tratcrnal
orders of AShcvillc. of which he was
Il prominent member.
The funeral services will be held
this afternoon at the First Prcsby-
terrain church. bein" conducted by the
raStor. the Rev. Samuel NJ. Smith.
Services will also be conducted at the
crave hy the Columbia cnmmandcry
No. ,. Knights Templar. Cyrenne
cummanlcrv of AShcvillc, of which
he was member. will be Represented
nj the funeral by Mr.. W. s. Cain and
A>hcvillc lodge. knights of Pythias,
sent a> an escort MesSrS. +. orc.
Fletcher and W. +. Stnney.
DR.. Pelham. although Il native Of
Columbia. has not resided here since
early life. The last l. Years of his
life were spent in Ashevillc. where
he was engaged in the drug business.
Several weeks az" he was seized with
disease IF the kidneys and was taken
to the hospital at Biltmore. where he
gradually grew worse until the end,
which came Friday afternoon at 7.45
o o'clock.
DR.. Pelham was born in Columbia,
November %, 1861. He was the
Youngest son of Prof. Charles p. Pei
ham and his wife, Jane Dunlap Pei
ham. The father Of DR.. Pelham was
for many years during the ante-bel-
lum days professor Of Latin and bel
les letters in the South Carolina col
lege and for years after the war was
editor and proprietor of the Daily
Southern Guardian Of this city. This
paper was the leading exponent of
States rights published at the capital
and always exerted potent influence
in the exposure and dethronement Of
radicalism in the State after the war
between the sections. Prof. Pelham
was later on, and until the time of his
death, the editor of the Columbia
Daily Register. He was one Of the
leaders in the struggle for white su-
premacy prior to and during the cam
paigns that led to the great red shirt
demonstrations of 1876.
DR.. Pelham attended the male aca-
deny in this city presided over by
Capt. Hugh S. Thompson until the
spring Of 1877, when he removed to
Newberry and engaged in the drug
business in the employ of his brother,
DR.. w. E. Pelham. He later attended
the Jefferson Medical college of Phila-
delphia, where he was graduated with
the degree Of NJ. D. in 1900. After
his graduation, he was appointed
house surgeon at the Blockley hos
pital in Philadelphia and held this
position for about year and a half
when he was stricken with blood
poisoning in the discharge of his sur
gical work. After desperate illness
of nearly two years he recovered but
was never able to resume the practice
of medicine. Since that time he has
conducted successful drug business
in Asheville, known as the Carolina
pharmacy.
He was a member Of the Asheville
lodge No. 106, Knights of Pythias,
the Blue Ridge lodge of Odd Fellows,
the Mount Herman lodge No. 1873, A.
F. NJ, the Asheville chapter No. 25,
Royal Arch Masons, the Cyrenne
commandery No. s, Knights Temp
lar, and of the Oasis Temple Of the
Mystic Shrine at Charlotte. He was
a staunch member of the Presbyterian
church at Newberry. . &.
He is survived by two brothers, DR..
| William f. Pelham, of Newberry, and
DR.. Samuel D. Pelham, of Asheville,
and by two sisters, Mrs. W. NJ. Wheel
er. of Greenville. and Mrs. Joseph II.
Sullivan, of Laurens. Messrs. John T.