Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-28
SHELBY A. CUIOM .
CLAIMED By DEATH
FORMER ILLINOIS SENATOR, ILL
ONE WEEK, PASSES AWAY IN
WASHINGTON.
HELD REMARKABLE RECORD
FOR CONTINUOUS SERVICE

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csntury-lntimats Friend Of Lincoln
Last Words Regret He Did Not Liv.
60 See Lincoln Memorial Completed.
Washington. Jan. 2S.-Former Sena.
COR Shelby N. Cullom, Of Illinois, died
here today after an illness of more
than q week. during which he hovered
between life and death. His last words
were a wish that he might have lived
to sec the completion of the memorial
to Abraham Lincoln, who was his per.
sonal friend.
Since his retirement from the senate
last March. Mr.. Cullom had been resi-
dent commissioners Of the commission
created to build the $4,000. 900 memorial
to Lincoln.
A little more than week ago he
was taken with grip. His advanced
age put his recovery beyond hope, but
his wonderful vitality postponed the
end. He had record of fifty years
OF continuous public service.
The former senator's last hours were
divided between periods Of uncon-
sciousness and short intervals when he
recognized those at his bedside. Altho
his wonderful vitality had sustained
life from hour to hour, it became ap-
parent today that the end was not far
Off.
Funeral arrangements had not been
made today but he probably will be
buried in Illinois.
Fifty years in National Life.
Shelby Moore Cullom's death ended
fifty years Of continuous public service
that had made him q figure In Ameri-
can national life and brought him into
official relations with every President
from Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow
Wilson. President Taft once said OF
him:
why. here's my old friend Uncle
Shelby: he comes nearer connecting
the present with the days Of Washing
ton than any ono else whom know.
AS 4 ploughboy driving his fathers
oxen over the fresh prairie Of Illinois
he had known and talked with SUR
vivors of the Revolution and on the
rugged foundations of q life begun in
pioneer rardships Of a family Of twelve
children had built career that took
him to the Illinois Legislature as q
member; speaker Of the Assembly. two
terms in the governors chair. service
in the National House Of Representa-
tives, and thirty consecutive years in
the United States Senate.
His nearest living contemporary
probably is Uncle Joe" Cannon, whose
senior he was some seven years by
birth and some three years in national
service.
Born When Jackson Ruled.
Andrew Jackson was president Of the
United States when Mr. Cullom was
born in 1929 down in the Elk Spring
valley of Kentucky. near the Cumber-
land where the Culloms OF Maryland
and the Coffeys Of North Carolina,
drifting westward with the tides Of i'm
migration that set in at the close OF
the revolution, founded their early
home.
During the year 1929" Mr.. Cullom
recently wrote to illustrate the epoch
in which he began life. "The crown OF
Great Britain descended from King
George w to King William ~; that,
reign passed away and I have lived
to see the long reign of Victoria come
and go: the reign Of King Edward
come and go and the accession Of King
George ". Charles v ruled in France,
Francis I in Austria, Frederick Will
liam III in Prussia, Nicholas I in Rus
sia, while Leo XII governed the papal
states, the Kingdom Of Italy not yet
having come into existence"
"Times and events in his own coun-
try were no less stirring and his part
in them was q marked one. Kentucky
was a slave state at his birth, the con-
troversy which was to hatch Into
great civil war was in the process OF
incubation, in fact the Culloms moved
TO Illinois to be In a free state and
Chicago then was q small village. The
elder Cullom was then friend OF Lin
coins. recommending the struggling
backwoods lawyer to prospective
clients. Young Cullom's first recollec-
tion of the future war president was
under such circumstances. Scrapping
together the rudiments of an educa-
tion gained by toiling over rough
primeval roads he became successfully
a student at Mount Morris Academy. a
country school teacher and lawyer.
being admitted to the bar at Spring
field in 1855.
City Attorney First Office.
When he became city attorney OF
Springfield he launched upon politi-
cal career. which for q record Of un-
broken service, is unchallenged as ex-
ceeding that OF any other American.
Among his first political experiences
was the novelty Of being elected and
defeated at the same election. He was
elected to the legislature and defeated
as an elector on the Fillmore ticket.
Then came the historic Lincoln and
Douglas debates and Cullom's inti-
mate association with Lincoln, whom
he followed into the ranks Of the re-
publican party. He presided over the
session OF the Illinois house at which
after Fort aSumpter had been fired up
on. Stephen A Douglas appeared and
made his dramatic plea for the preser-
walton Of the union. During the first
Of President Lincoln.s second term MI
Cullom came to the national house OF
representatives and began a work
which was practically interrupted only
when he served two terms as governor
OF lllinoiss Lincoln was assassinated
soon after sCullom catered Warrington
ne anA - young legislator vs. Z