The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-06-17
DR.. HALE, WRITER,
AND THE0L0G|AN
SUDDENLY DIES
AGED CHAPLAIN OF SENATE Elk.
PRES AT HOME IN R0XBURY,
MASS.
DEEP REGRET IS NATIONAL.
Author of "Man Without Country
and Leader in Many Re-
forms.
MUCH BELOVED IN WASHINGTON.

| BOSTON, Mass. June 10-Rev. Dr.
Edward Everett Hale. chaplain of the
United States Senate. died at his home
in Roxbury today.
| News of the death shocked Boston TO
an unusual degree because comparatively
few knew that he was i'll. y week ago
he was present at a celebration in honor
of the Goth birthday of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, his contemporary III many of the
reform movements with which both had
been identified for more than fifty
years. To his family it had been APP
parent for some time that DR.. Hale's
health was failing. A few days ago
heart weakness was noticed, and his
condition became alarming. His great
age, 81 years, initiated against him.
Yesterday, however, he was up and
about his apartment. In fact, he had
not been confined to his bed at any
stage of his illness. He retired at the
usual time last night, but his physician
had noted evidences that led him to
! warn the immediate members of the
family that the end was not far off. As
! the night passed DR.. Hale constantly
became weaker. until the end came,
! about ) o'clock this morning.
/ Grouped about DR.. Hales bedside
when he died were Mrs. Hale, his wife;
| Philip l.. Hale his son; Ellen, his daugh-
ter, and the family physician.
Sketch of His Life
Edward Everett Hale was born in Bos-
| ton, April 3, 1892. He was educated Mt
! the Boston Latin school and at Harvard
university, graduating from the last
named institution in 1889. After course
in theology he became pastor of the
] of hn Init,
where he remained ten years. Then for
torty-four years DR.. Hale was pastor
of the famous South Congregational
! Unitarian church of Boston. In 1900
he retired from active pulpit work, but
still retained a lively interest in church
affairs. In 1903 he was unanimously
/ chosen chaplain of the United States
! Senate.
| DIR. Hale refused to be called cler-
gyman. lie preferred to be designated
! only as ''Christian minister" He was
great lover of outdoor life and to this
he attributed i'll great part his splendid
health in his old age. Geology and bot
any were his favorite amusements for
years. His perennial love for children
and youth also helped to preserve him
from the ravages of old age.
] The title of Professor of American.
I ism 10 his generation has been aDtly
/ used in referring to DR.. Hale, and il
perhaps best describes his most con
| spicuous efforts. His entire career. his
hereditary influences and environment
! and his natural inclnations and chnira
of friends, all tended to make him a
patriotic American citizen, and fitted
him to do for the American public what
! he conceived his professor of America
| as doing III College-Showng men that
! there lis such a reality as American
thought, that there are certain principles
which belong to the American govern
ment. that there are certain feeling
which are experienced by none but an
American"
Or. Hale was conspicuous figure in
! all kinds of reform and rescue work,
| both in Boston, where he resided, and
in many other and distant cities. With
his flowing white hair and beard he was
familiar figure on the streets of the
| Hub where he was known and beloved
! by young and old in every class Of life,
from the poor who received help from
his hands, to the rich who cultivated him
and made fad out Of his many char
liable schemes.
Writer of Many Books
From the time he received his first
license to preach DR.. Hale was a con
! spicuous figure in all the most advanced
! forward movements in charity and edu-
cation. He was closely identified with
the spread of the chautauqua circles
| md was promoter of the chain of
Lend a Hand clubs, which now en-
| brace practically the entire country.
Aside from his work as a preacher ana
pastor, DR.. Hale, during the past quar-
| ter of a century, found time to estab-
| fish editorial connections with numerous
literary journals.
In addition he was the writer of many
/ books which were accepted as the stand
ards in their field He was perhaps best
| known to the general public as the au-
thor of that American classic, The Man
Without a Country" written in 1861
Other works from his pen were; Puritan
Politics in England and New England"
His Level Best and Other Stories, 4"
Back to Back I'm His Name" Our
New Crusade "Christmas Eve and
What is the American People| Ing
ham Papers" The Bible and Its Re
vision" "One Hundred Years." For.
unes Of Rachel" Life Of George Wash
! ington Studied Anew" Our Christmas
| in Palace" ''Crusoe in New York, 3"
My Friend, the Boss" and How They
Lived in Hampton" lie was also II
! frequent contributor to periodicals, and
had edited n series Of stories of the sea-
war. adventure and discovery.
AS seen on the street during his latter
| years DIR. Hale was Il study for an art
list. He was ii personality which of it
| self would attract attention anywhere
| Considerably more than Il feet tall his
| massive and exceedingly angular figure
lowered above the crowd in "A most com
handing way, erect in spite of his great
| age. His cheeks were deeply furrOwed,
his beard of nondescript hue was un-
| kempt and shaggy, while his hair fell in
long, unganly locks over his collar.
His kindly humor made him one Of the