The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-10-21
SUDDEN Death
FOR D0LLIVER
Insurgent Leader Succumbs
While Being Examined.
Was Apparently Better Of Pre-
vious Attack Which Caus-
ed His Death.

Fit. Dodge, Iowa, Dot. 17.-Unit I'd
States Senator Jonathan Prentiss DOL
liver died of dilatation of the heart
caused by an attack of acute indf-
gestlon. at his residence at 1880
o'clock Saturday night while being
rubbed by an osteopath physician.
Senator Delivers Sudden demise
was wholly unexpected by his rela-
tNes and close friends, who thought
he had almost entirely recovered from
the attack of indigestion which he
had been suffering for week.
Senator Dolliver had been up all
day. and had made a trip from his
residence down town. He told several
Of the men whom he met that he be-
lieved ne had completely recovered
from the indisposition which follow
ed his trip through Wisconsin on a
speech-making tour for Senator La
Toilette.
The osteopath physician was using
an Instrument to listen to the Sem
ator's heart action. The physician un-
expectedly discovered that hs was no
longer hearing the heart bsats. He
at first thought his instrument was
faulty. An examination revealed that
his patient was dead.
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver was born
near Kingwcod, Preston county, Vir-
ginia, February 6. 1858 of old New
England stock. His father was a
clergyman and an abolition agitator,
who was submitted to much annoyance
during the Civil War when the portiCn
of the State in which he lived was
separated from Virginia and erected
into loyal commonwealth.
The youth of "Prcnt' Dolliver was
one of considerable hardship but in
response to his appeal for an educa-
ton his parents aided him in his
course at the University OF West Vir-
ginia from which he was graduated
in 1S75,after working during the sum-
mer and at odd times to help defray
his expenses.
He was then only seventeen and at
eighteen he secured his first position
as a school teacher in Victor Center.
ILL., The salary was small the duties
exacting; but in his leisure he stud
led law, and was admitted to the bar
of West virginia in 1878.
The future Senator and premier in
surgent was as much an enthusiast
over poiiticts as his profession. Two
years before his admission to the
bar he beat" his way TO Cincinnati
most OF the distance on foot, to be a
spectator OF the National Republican
Convention which met in that city
and nominated Rutherford B. Hays
for the Presidency, although young
Dolliver cheered so Justify for the late
James G. Blaine that he strained his
voice.
Deliver made ardent Hays speeches
in the campaign, and years afterward
recalled that In fervor and extrava-
gance they surpassed anything he ever
heard On the halls of either house of
Congress. He said that Samuel ].
Tilden would be denied entrance to
the Land of Eternal Happiness after
death, and would also be exclud ed
from Satan's realm, because 1t was
not the desire of the Price of Dark
ness to be ousted to make way for a
Democratic headquarters.
A few years later. In company with
his elder brother. Robert, Dolliver
emigrated to Iowa. The brothers had
about $50 when they arrived at FIT.
Dodge. where they opened law offic
1t was a struggle at first. but in
time clients came. while waiting for
the tide of fortune to turn Doliiyer
worked for time as roadlnender for
so cents a day, but when hope was
about abandoned he was nominated
and elected Corporation Counsel of
the village at salary of $3.50 year.
The position enabled him to gain
practice and establish himself as a
professional and political factor dn his
State.
In 1883 he was elected to Congress
and was five times NEGLECTED serving
from 1859 to 1901. rendering the ma
tiopal administration many valuable