The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-16
AMBASSADOR RE D
DEAD At LONDON
RESIDENCE
representative to British Gov
ernment Passed Away Sunday
UNCONSCIOUS FOR HOURS
Death Was Due to Pulmonary Oede-
ma and End was
Peaceful.

London, Dec. 16.-Whitelaw Reid,
the American ambassador to Great
Britain since 1905, died at his Lon
don residence, Dorchester house,
soon after noon yesterday from pull
monary oedema. The end was quite
peaceful. Mrs. Reid and their daugh
ter, Mrs. John Hubert Ward, were at
the bedside. The ambassador had
been unconscious since 8 o'clock in
the morning and at intervals during
the previous "a hours he had been
slightly delirious as result of the
drugs administered to induce sleep.
Whitelaw Reid, editor and diplo-
mat was born near Xenia, o., Oct. u,
1887. Graduated at Miami university
in 1856, he entered into political and
newspaper life. He was not yet 20
years old when he took part in the
presidential campaign of 1856, speak
ing in behalf of Fremont and the re-
publican ticket. At this same period
he became editor of the Xenia News,
soon becoming more widely known
through his letters published in the
Cincinnati Gazette, over the sigma
ture, >"Agate."
During the Civil war he made repu
tation as a war correspondent, hay'
ing gone to the front as volunteer
aid-de-camp to Gen. Morris, serving
later on the staff of Gen. Rosecrans
in the West Virginia campaign OF
1861. Still later he was war cores
pondent with the army OF the Cum
berland and the army of the Potomac
being present at the battles of Shiloh
and Gettysburg
From 1863 to 1866 Mr.. Reid was Ii
brarian of Congress, and was also
the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, of which he
had become part owner. He was
called to New York in 1868 to be-
come assistant to Horace Greeley in
the editorship of the New York Tri-
bune, soon being advanced to the
position of managing editor. Mr.
Greeley, on becoming a candidate for
the presidency in 1872 placed in Mr..
Reds hands the entire control OF
the paper. After Mr.. Greeley's death
the same year. Mr.. Reid became
editor-in-chief and principal owner
of the Tribune
Mr. Reds entry into diplomacy
might have been made earlier than
ii was, had he so desired, as he de-
clined the post of minister to Ger
many, rendered to him by both Pres
idents Hayes and Garfield From
1889 to 1892 he was minister to
France. under appointed by Presi-
dent Harrison. In 1892 he was NOM
tnlx
with Harrison, and shared in the lat
ters defeat. President Mckinley APP
pointed him special ambassador to
attend Queen Victoria's Jubilee In
1897 he was member of the peace
commission for the negotiation of
peace between the United States and
Spain in 1898; and as special ambass
ador of the United States he attend
ed the coronation of King Edward
VII in 1902. His appointment to the
Court of st. James was next in order.
Mr. Reid received, in recognition
of his services as pubiicist and diplo-
mat, many tokens of honorable recog-
milton from social, literary and COM
mercial organizations, and was made
an honorary member OF the Chamber
of Commerce, a distinction confer
red on only Is other men in the his
tory of that body. The New York
Legislature elected him for life a re-
gent of the University of New York,
and in 1904 he was elected chancellor
OF the university. He received hon
orary degrees from his alma mater
and also from the University of the
City of New York, Dartmouth college
Princeton university. Yale, the Uni
versity of Cambridge, England. st.
Andrews, Scotland, and Oxford,
those from the British universities
being LII. d., from the two first nam
ed and ID. c. L. from oxford.
AS an author Mr.. Reds work be-
gan shortly after the close OF the
Civil war. which he discussed in a
work entitled. After the War;" pub
lished in 1868. His published works
include several devoted to interna-
tional relations. They include also
an address on How America Faced
Its Educational Problem" delivered
at Dundee, Scotland. on the occasion
Of his receiving the freedom of that
city in 1906.
Mr.. Reid married April 26, 1881,
J Elizabeth Mills, daughter of ID. o.
Mills of New York. Besides his wild
ow, he leaves a son and a daughter,
ogden Mills Reid. president of the
Tribune association. and Jean. wife
OF John Hubert Ward, equerryin-
i waiting IN Queen Alorandra