The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-01-28
DEATH Fl NALL !
RELEASES AGED
EX-SENATOR
CULLOM
Passing of Picturesque States
man Ends Fifty Years of
Continuous Public Service
Started as Plough-Boy.
DIES WITH GREATEST
WISH UNFULFILLED
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Washington. Jan. 2s Former sem
ator shelby NJ Cullen Of Illinois
died here today after an Illness Of
more than week. during which he
hovered EetU cen mfo and death His
last words were wish that he might
have lived To- see the completion OF
the national memorial To A1ruhnln
Lincoln. who was his personal mend.
Since his retirement from the gen
ate last March, Mir. C'uliom had been
resident commissioner of the com
mission created by congress to build
sthe $4,000 Geo momor,ai to Lincoln.
A little more than week ago he
was taken with grip Ills advanced
age put his recovery beyond hope
but his wonderful vitality postponed
the end from one sinking spcu to an
ether lie was 50 srars old and
had a record of fifty yeas u con-
,inu, us public tcrvlc--.
The former senatcr's las, houra
were divided between spells of mn
consciousness aud shor, intervals m
which he recognized those al his bed
side. Although hts wonderrlf ~
tality bad sustained iifc from hour
10 hour, II became apparent early
today when he could take re- pour-
ishmcnt that the end was not far off
Funeral arrangements had not
been made today but he probably
wilt be buried IN Illinois
Later today Il was decided ~ have
brief funeral service M the Cullom
home on Massachusetts avenue at 10
80 ha
the body 20 Springfield III. where
the former senator's first and second
wives and an his children are buried
shelby Moore Culloms death ended
fifty years Of continuous public sesv-
ice that had made him a figure IN
American natinna, life and Druught
him info ofnclsl relntions With cvery
president from Abraham Lincoln %
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 or Wash
ington than anyone else whom {
know"
As a piouehboy driving his fathers
oxen over the fresh prairie Of illi-
nois he had known and talked with
the rugged foundations Of lie be.
gun in pioneer hardships OF "A famly
Of twelve children had built career
that took him 60 the Illinois lcgisla-
ture as member: speaker of thc Hs-
sembiy. Two terms In the governnr' =
chair, service In the national nIusc of
representatives. ana thirty conseci-
tive years In the United states scn-
ate.
> His nearest living contemporary
probably is Uncle Joe" Cannon,
. whose senior he was some seven
years hy birth and some three years
In national service
Andrew Jackson was president 81
the United States when Mr Curun
was born In 1899 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 tn
tides of immigration that set in a.
: the ciose of the Revolution. founded
their early home
|, During the year 1879" Mr. Cul.
lom recently wrote to illustrate the
! epoch in which he hogan life "th'
crown OF Great Britain descended
from King George the Fourth 6,
q i<ing William the Fourth, that reigr
d passed awas and / have lived to ~.
q the long reign of Victoria come an,
b go. the reign OF King Edward com'
and SO and the accession of KIN
e George the Finn Charles the FIN
r ruled In France. Francis the First IL
4 Austria. Frederick William the ThirS
o In Prussia. Nicholas the First IN Rus
s.a. while Leo the Twelfth governed
e the paral states the Kingdom OF ltall
/ not yet having come into existence
\ The United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and ireland had not yet q population
Of gt.O0O. 600 all told No man wh'
had not served his country in SONS
: capacity In the Revolutionary Wal
had been elevated 60 the presidency
!. Of the United states. and this was th'
case until lStf.
Times and events Ia his own coun
!, try were no iess stirring. and his par
In them was marked one. Ken
lucky was slave state az his birth
the controversy which was TO hatcl
into great civil war was In tn
process of Incubation; In fact th
= Culloms moved TO Illinois TO he In
:, free state and Chicago was then
y small village. The elder Cullom wa
2 then friend of Lincoin's recon-
n mending the struggling baokwood
lawyer 10 prospective clients. YOunl
culioma first recollection of the IA
ture war president was under suCl
= circumstances scraping together th
. rudlments Of an education gained b
x toliing over rough primeyal roads, b
became succeasively student a
a . M.rrIa nAuAnfaan .
x school teacher and a lawyer. bein
q admitted Ia the bar al Springfield d
9 1855.