Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-28
S. NJ. CULL0M
DIED TODAY
FORMER UNITED STATES SENA-
TOR, LONG A FIGURE IN Ma
TIONAL LIFE. PASSES AWAY At
WASHINGTON.
so YEARS IN SERVICE
HE WAS BROUGHT INTO OFFICIAL
RELATION WITH EVERY PI;ESI-
DENT FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN
TO WOODROW WILSON.
rBy issociatod Press.)

Washington, ID. g.. Jan. 2s.-Former
Senator Shelby a. Cullom Of Illinois
died here today.
Shelby Moore Cullom's death ended 80
years If continuous public service that
had made him a figure in American ma
tional life and brought him into official
relation with every president from Abra
ham Lincoln 10 Woodrow Wilson. Prcsi
dent Taft once said of him:
why, here's my old friend Uncle
Shelby: he comes nearer connecting the
present with the days of Washington
than any one else whom | know"
As a p%loughhoy driving his fathers
oxen over the fresh p~rairieS of Illinois
he had known and talked with survivors
Of the Revolution and on the rugged
foundations Of u life begun in pioneer
hardships of a family of twelve children
had built n career that took him To the
Illinois legislature as a member: speak
er Of the assembly: two terms in the
Governors chair. service in the national
House of Representatives, aud thirty
consecutive years in the United States
Senate.
His nearest living contemporary prob
ably is Uncle Joe" Cannon. whose
senior he was some seven wears by birth
and some three years in national service.
Andrew Jackson was President of the
United States when Mr.. Cullom was
born in Is. down in the Elk Spring Val
ley Of Kentucky, near the Cumberland
where the Culloms Of Maryland and the
Coffcys Of North Carolina, drifting
westward with the tides of immigration
that set in at the close of the %l,cyolu.
ton founded their early home.
During the year 1S39." Mr.. Cullom
recently wrote 10 illustrate the epoch in
which he began life. the crown Of Great
Britain descended from King George Nv
10 King William ~; that reign passed
away aud | nave lived 10 see the long
reign Of Victoria come aud go: the reign
of King Edward come and 20 and the
accession of King George V. Charles V
ruled i'm France. Francis | in Austria,
Frederick William Ill in Prussia,
Nicholas ! in Russia while Leo NH gov
crncd the papal states. the kingdom Of
Italy not vet having come into existence.
The United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland had moi yet a population of
2i.OOO.0O0 all told. No man who had not
served his country in some capacity in
the Revolutionary war had been elevated
Ia the Presidency of the United States
and this was the ease until l>ii.r
Times and events in his own country
were no less stirring aud his part in
them was u marked one. Kentucky was
n slave state at his birth. the controversy
which was To hatch into "A great civil
war was IN process Of incubation. in
fact the Culioms moved "a Illinois "a hc
I'm "a free State and Chicago was then a
small village. The elder Cullom was
then a friend of lincoln's. recommending
the struggling backwoods lawyer 10
prospective clients. Young Cullom'S
first recollection of the future war Pres.
ident was under such circumstances.
Scrapping together the rudimcntS Of an
education gained bv telling over rough
primcyal roads h. became successfully 4
student at Mount Morris Academy. 4
country school teacher and i LAWYER. be-
ing admitted IL the bar al Springfield in
1856.