The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-30
VENERABLE
VIRG|N|AN
Is D DEAD'
John WARWICK DANIEL
ANSWERED FINAL
ROLL CALL
FOR FORTY YEARS
PUBLIC OFFICIAL
Brief Life Story Of a Man
Whose Life Was Useful
| TO State
(By Associated Press.J

Lynchburg. va, June 3O-John w.
Laniel, senior senator from Virginia,
died at the Lynchburg sanatorium al
1o:25 o'clock Wednesday: His ieath
was due to recurrence Of paralysis.
The immediate cause of his death was
cerebral hemmorrhage.
The statesmans illness began with
a slight attack of apoplexy In Phila.
delphia last October, this keeping
him from his seat at the opening or
congress last December. Only once
s.nce then had he appeared before an
audience and that was for an infor
NAL talk in January
The end came last night almost
without struggle. Dissolution was
very rapid, for when the failure oi
heart action began, 1t progressed with
great rapidity and within five min
utes the patient was dead.
The city fire alarm was sounded Tor
half an hour at intervals OF thirty
seconds. notifying the city of the
statesman's death.
The funeral will be held here Fri
day.
Was oldest Democratic Senator
Washington. June 3U-The death ol
Senator John Warwick Deniel remov
es the oldest OF the Democratic sen
ators In point OF service. OF the en-
tire list he was the only one who
could be said to belong to the OLE
egime. And, as he was the Oldest II
service, he wa one OF the most con
spicuous in popular favor.
For the past few years he had re
! nained much in the background. Ill
; nealth had not been good and hl
growing years seemed to tell ON hin
He was not heard often in the senat
, and his recent efforts were not hi
best But previous to this period h
: spoke frequently and held high repi
/ tation as an ortaor. In those earle
i. days his speeches were the signal 10
! the giving OF large audiences, and D
Q many as an orator he ranked vii
i. Voorhees,, ingalls,, Wolcott and Yes
}. He was a strong advocate OF free u
4 yer coinage and took prominent pa
l. in the debates connected with tn
i silver legislation of the nineties.
), Son OF A Great Jur'st
+ Senator Daniel was the only son
William Daniel, Jr., who for veal
was member of the Virginia
IRENE court. His mother was sara
n Ann warwick. He was born in Lyme
4 burg. september 8. 1912 and that pla,
' has ever since been his nome. .
November "a, 1869. he married Jul
Elizabeth Murrell, daughter of Dr.
e II. Murrell of this city. who, WI
four children survives.
Served With "Stonewall.'
His education was received
+ Lynchburg schools and his law couf
Is Vas taken after the civil war at z
n University of Virginia. He practic
:. has profession with his father
- Lyncbburg until the elder Dame
~ death in 1878.
be Entering the Confederate army
al second lieutenant OF the "StoneW
be brigade in May, 1861, he was woui
eG in the first battle OF Manass'
ne After being wounded he was promot
IS 10 major and chief of staff OF Gen
ne 4. Jubal A. Early, serving until Ct
g pied in the Wilderness, May 8, lS
IN II was said by eye witnesses that
ps ios Daniel was wounded almost iml
W. ", diately after he had rescued Gene
Gu u. Lee from a perilous position.
Senator Daniels Long Service
'"' Senator Daniel commenced MS
!, fetal career IN 1863, and since u
~ time has served in both leglslat
-. houses of his state and the UNI
aso as states. having spent almost tive
oa o.r years as senator In the earlier o
~ of Virginia reconstruction he was
su feated for governor by William
lar hone.