The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-28
CULL0u
CALLED
BY DEATH
Death Ended Fifty Years Of
Continuous Service
+ for Public
WAS FRIEND RTE OF LINCOLN
Last Wish Was He Wanted
to See Completion of
Lincoln Memorial

Washington, Jan. 2S.-Former Unit
ed States Sen. Shelby NJ. Cullom Of
Illinois, died today. His last words
were a wish that he might have lived
to see the completion Of the national
memorial to Abraham Lincoln, his
personal friend, He was unconscious
several hours before the end.
Culloms last hours were divided
between spells Of consciousness at
short Intervals in which he recognized
those at his bedside. The funeral ar
ran don t3 W eyS no. completed bpt
>he PROB be burits *
the tomb Of abraham Lincoln and
other prominent men
Shelby, Moore Cullom's death ended
fifty years Of continuous public serv-
ice that had made him a figure in
American national life and brought
him into official relations with every
president from Abraham Lincoln to
Woodrow Wilson. President Taft once
said to him: "@."
"Why, here's my old friend Uncle
Shelby; he comes nearer connecting
the present with the days of Washing
ton than any one else whom Itlnow.'
AS a ploughboy driving his fathers
oxen oRer the fresh prairie of Illinois
ne lau hlloWn dilu tdlheu Will SUI
vivors and on the rugger foundations
of a life begun in pioneer hardships of
a family of twelve children and built
d career that took him to the Illinois
| legislature as a member, speaker OF
| the assembly, two terms in the gov
| ernors chair, service in the national
house Of representatives, 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 Of some three years in national
service.
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
! Cumberland where the Culloms OF
! Maryland and the Coffeys of NORTH
Carolina, drifting westward with the
tides Of immigration that set in al
the close Of the Revolution, founded
4 their early home. ..
i During the year 1929" Mr.. Cullon
i recently wrote to illustrate the epocf
in which he began life, "The crown
of Great Britain descended from Kint
4 George the Fourth to King William
I the Fourth; that reign passed ava.
ana J. nave llVSQ TO see Tie iOLS .ISiSI
Iof Victoria come and go; the reign o
} King Edward come and go and tht
accession of King George the Fifth
Charles the Fifth ruled in France
, Francis the First in Austria, Frederick
h William the Third In Prussia, NicholaI
the First in Russia, while Leo tn
Twelfth governed the papal states, tn
Kingdom Of Italy not yet having com
Into existence. The United Kingdom
iof Great Britain and Ireland had no
Iyet population Of 24,000,0O0 all told
No man who had not served hi
country in some capacity in tn
Revolutionary war had been elevate
to the presidency Of the United State
and this was the case until 1S43."
Times and events in his own coun
4 try were no less stirring and his par
! in them was a marked one. Ken
!. lucky was a slave state at his bir tt
the controversy which was to hate
into great civil war was in the pro
!, cess IF incubation. in fact the Cullom
!, moved to Illinois to be in a free stat
: and Chicago then was a small yillag
The elder Cullom was then friend {
: Lincoln's, recommending the strug
o Cling backwOods lawyer to prospectiv
clients. Young Cullonn's first recollec
= tion of the future war president wa
Q under such circumstances. Scrappin
S together the rudiments of an educa
4 ton gained by toiilng over rough pr
il meval roads he became successivel