Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
DR.. HALE, WRITER.
AND THEOLOGlAN
SUDDENLY DIES
AGED CHAPLAIN OF SENATE Elk
PIRES AT HOME IN ROXBURY,
MASS.
DEEP REGRET Is NATIONAL,
Author of MAN Without a 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. \ week ago
he was present at a celebration in homer
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 hin..
Yesterday, how, ever, 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 mat the end was not far off. AS
the hight passed DR.. Hale constantly
became weaker, until the end came,
about O'Clock this morning.
Grouped about DR. Hale's 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 ! ! Bos-
ton, April 3, 1922. He was educated at
the Boston Latin school and at Harvard
university, graduating from the last
named institution in 1889. After a course
IN theology he became pastor of the
Church of the Unity at Worcester,
where he remained ten years. Then for
forty-four years DR.. Hale was pastor
OF the famous South Congregational
1Onltarlan) church of Boston. In 1900
ne retired from active pulpit work, but
still retained lively interest in church
affairs. In 1903 he was unanimously
chosen chaplain of the United States
Senate.
Dr.. Hale refused to be called a cler-
gY;nan. lie preferred to be designated
only as "Christian minister" He was
great lover of outdoor life and TO this
he attributed III great part his splendid
health in his old age. Geology and hot
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
ism to his generation has been aptly
used III referring to DR.. Hale. and #
perhaps best describes his most con
spicuous efforts. His entire career his
hereditary influences and environment
and his natural incinations and choice
OF friends, all tended to make him a
patriotic American citizen, and fitted
him to do for the American public whar
he conceived his professor of America"
as doing in college-showing men that
there is such a reality as American
thought, that there are certain principles
which belong to the American govern
ment, that there are certain feelings
which are experienced by none but an
American"
DR.. Hale was a 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,
his hands. to the rich who cultivated him
and made a 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
and was a promoter of the chain of
Lend 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
nrds in their field He was perhaps best
known tO tho Oanara1 1,ub1ic bo ,,,
thor of that American classic, The Man
Without a Country" written in 1851
Other works from his pen were: Puritan
Politics in England and New England"
His Level Best, and Other Stories"
Back to Back, In His Name" Our
Christmas Day" Ups and Downs"
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 a Palace "Crusoe, in New York"
Lived in Hampton" S' He D was in9T also neS =
frequent contributor to periodicals, and
had edited a series of stories of the sea,
war. adventure and discovery.
As seen on the street during his latter
years DR.. Hale was a study for an art
list. He was a personality which of it
otlL NouiI dIAId act dtleIilIOl any W ueI6
Considerably more than feet tall. his
massive and exceedingly angular figure
lowered above the crowd in 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, ungainly locks over his collar.
His kindly humor made him one of the
most popular after-dinner speakers in
the country. His voice was deep and
muff1ed, vet penetrating far beyond that
Of many a younger orator.