The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-04-10
EBEN S. DRAPER DEAD
AFT TER BRIEF ILLNESS
Was Stricken With PARALYSIS
Tuesday.
PROMINENT TEXTILE MAN.
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Succumbs to ParaIytic Stroke
i'm Greenville.

Greenvtlle, S. c., April 9.-Eben ).
Draper, former Governor OF Masea-
chusetts, died late today. Mr.. Draper
was stricken with ;aralvsis here
Tuesday. He was 65 ears ori and n
prominent manufacturer Of textile
machinery in New England.
The body of Mr. Draper will be
placed in special car which will be
attached to Southern Railway train
No. 38 tomorrow afternoon. The
funeral will be held Tuesday artc-
noon at Hopewell, Mass. The body
was embalmed by local undertak
ing establishment.
The condition Of Mr.. Draper was
serious from the time OF the attack
and large corps of physicians were
in attendance. The patients entire
left side was affected by the paralytic
stroke In addition to physicians
here and from Atlanta who were call
ed in on the case, two doctors from
Boston were summoned yesterday.
Mr.. Draper wI5 stricken in a local
hotel a few days after his arrival.
He was on his way home from a
trip to Florida and Cuba. AS soon
as his condition was noted by the
physicians, kilograms were sent to
members of his family in Massachu-
settles, summoning them to his bed
side. They arrived here today. The
dead man was prominent in botH he
industrial and political life of Massa-
chusetts. Previous to his election as
governor of Massachusetts in 1909.
/ he served as lieutenant governor
from 1906 to 1908. He was COVER
nor OF the state from 1909 to 1911.
Mr.. Draper was elected as a Repub-
hcan to both positions. In 1892,
he was chosen chairman of the Re
publican state committee OF Massa-
chuetts and in 1896 he was chair
man of the Republican state delega-
tion from Massachusetts at the par
q tvs national convention. He took a
prominent part in the deliberations
OF that convention and assisted in
obtaining the party's declaration in
favor of the gold standard on the
currency question
When the Spanish-American war
was declared in 1898, Mr.. Draper. as
president OF the Massachusetts Vol
unteer Aid Association, aided in
large part the raising OF 100000
which was used to fit out the hospital
ship Bay State.
For several years Mr Draper had
been prominently connected with the
Draper Company, manufacturers of
textile machinery. His home through
out his life was at Hopedale, Mass,
where he was born. His technical
training was obtained at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr.. Draper was not only connected
with the textile industry, but was in
terested in the Milford National
Bank and had connections with ari-
Gus civic and charitable institutions
The Charlotte Observer says OF
him:
General Draper was an uncle OF
Mr. Arthur j. Draper of this city
and was known to a number OF
Charlotte people, who esteemed hipl
highly and who had awaited with
concern the news from HIS bedside
since the first tidings that he had
been stricken. His Charlotte friends
speak in terms of eulogy Doth OF
his gifts of intellect that won ad.
miration and his qualities of char.
acter and personality that made him
distinctly a man who commanded
the confidence and loyalty Of his