Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-29
F Former United States Senator
and Intimate Friend of Lin
coin Dies in Washington
After Brief Illness,
BODY TO BE TAKEN TO
ILLINOIS FOR BURIAL
Served in Legislature, as Gov
er0or and Congressman
and fol- 80 Years Was Dom
inant Figure in Senate,

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Washington jan -s Former scn-
.ator Shelby M Cmlom of Illinois died
here today after am Illness of moro
thau week. during which he ho,-
crej between lito ana death His lass
words We're wish that me might have
lived TO see the completion of the mn
tional memorial to Abraham Lincoln.
who HBs his intimate friend,
Since his retirement from the sem
ate last March. MT Cullom had been
resident commissioner of the commits
sion created hy congress TO build the
S2,o00000 memorial 90 Lincoln.
A little more than week ago ho
WAS takcn with grip Ills advanced
age put his recovery beyond hope,
but bis wonderful vitality postponed
the end from one sinking spell 10 au-
other Tie was N1 years old and hell
a record of fifty years continuous
public service
Tho former senator's last hours
We're divided between spells of un-
consciousness ana short Intervals in
which he recognized those at his bed
side Although his wonderful vitality
bad sustained NE from hour go hour
pr |thtif tfNffftaN AHh wa ~ hffAfAA NfANiN
he could take nn nourishment that the
en1 was not Gar off
Latte today ID was decided to have
in brief funeral service at tho cullom
home on Massachusetts avenue az 10
d clock tomorrow morning The booN
VIII lind final resting place at
Springfield llL. where the former
senator's first and second wives and
f nh hlN children urp NuFlaH
shelby Moore Cullums death ended
fifty ytara of continuous public ser
vice that made him % figure In Amer
lean national lfc and brought him
Into official relations with every pres
idcnt from Lincoln tO Woodrow VIII
SON President Taft once said OF him.
why here's my old friend Uncle
shelby, he comes nearer connecting
tho present with the DAYS of Washing.
ton than anyone else ! know
AS ploughboy driving his fathers
oxen over the prairie of Illinois he had
known and talked with the survivors
of the revolution and on the rugged
foundations of life begun ia pioneer
hariships OF family nf twelve child
ren had built curecr that took him
TO the Illinois Legislature as mem
: her. speaker OF the assembly, two
terms ln the governors chair. service
Z in the national house of representa-
4 tiYcs. aud thirty consecutive years 10
Ithn United States senate
tlls nearest living contemporary
probably is "tnclc joe Cannon
Whuse senior hc Was some seven years
hy birth and some three years in nd=
tional service
Andrew Jackson was president of
the United States when Mr.. Cullom
vns born m 1879 down in the Elk
Spring valley OF Kentucky, near the
( Cumberland where the Gulloma of
+ Maryland and the C0ffeYs Of North
Carolina, drifting westward with the
J tdra ef Immigration that set Ina ne the
close oft the revolution, founded their
early home
oDurine tho ycur of 1899" AIR Cui-
lem recently wrote IA Illustrate the
epoch Zoo which he began life, THE
crown of Great britain descended
from King George the Fourth TO King
William the Fourth that rcign passed
AWAY and ! have lived 20 see the ions
releu uf Victoria come and go, the
reign nr King Edward come and go
rud the accession of King George the
Fiuh Charles the Firth ruled IN
France, Francis in Austria, Frederick
William the Third in Prussia. Nleho-
l4H the First IN ilussa while Leo the
Twelfth governed the papul states.
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ar1 h,d moi #,rt o uopnfafion ~ "a
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