The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-06
Governor of Massachusetts,
from 1906 to 1908 and
Ambassador to Russia
Ill WITH PNEUMONIA
ONLY FEW DAYS
Attained Distinction as Public
Speaker Through His Ability to Ad-
dress Audiences in Any One of Sew
era1 Languages.

BOSTON, April 6.-Curtis Guild, jr., |
governor of Massachusetts from 1906 |
to 1905, and former ambassador to
Russia, died early today. Death was
due to pneumonia, resulting from a
cold contracted last week. Mr. Guild |
became i'll Thursday night and pneu-
tnonia developed the next day. 1t was
his second attack of the disease
Preliminary arrangements were made
for the holding of the funeral in the
| Arlington street Unitarian church on
Friday at noon Rev. Paul Revere
| rockingham, the pastor. will officiate.
Among those who called to inquire
as to his condition yesterday was for,
mer President William II. Taft, under
whose administration in 1911 Mr. Guild
was sent as ambassador TO Russia.
/ Curtis Guild, IT,, was ambassador TO
Russia for two years during President
Taft 5 administration and was three
| times governor of Massachusetts lie
attained unusual distinction as a pub
lie speaker through his ability to adj
dress an audience with ease in any one
of several languages. His vigor anu
| tluency rs an orator in English, dis
played in many Republican campaigns,
led Col. Roosevelt to select him as a
speaking companion in his stumping
tour of the West in 1900. In 1909, at
the invitation Of the Swiss government
aud Geneva university, he delivered an
address In French at the 350th ami
versary Of the birth of John Calvin.
He represented the American Unitarian
, | association on this occasion and the
university awarded him the degree of
Doctor of Sacred Theology He had q
string of degrees from other universi-
ties.
Il President Taft, in 1910, designated
Mr. Guild as special ambassador to rep
resent the United States at the cen
rennial celebration of the independence
of Mexico, and at one of the func
tions in Mexico City he gave an ad
!, dress in Spanish While he was gov
> ernor he surprised some japanese Wis
itors to Massachusetts by saying a few
| words to them in their own tongue
and with a brief speech in Italian h,
welcomed the Duke of the Abruzzi.
Mr.. Guilds work as u writer begal
while he was at Harvard college, wher
l. for time he was an editor Of th
:; Crimson and in his senior year editet
n the Lampoon. On leaving college h
e entered the office of the Boston Com
e mercial Bulletin, weekly trade pape
u founded by his father, and his editor
' ial connection with the paper of whic
g he later became sole owner, continue
throughout his life.
u In the war with Spain, Mr.. Guild
le who at the time was Brigadier Genera
er in the Massachusetts militia, served o
thestaff of General Fitzhugh Let
Is with the rank of lieutenant colone
he and as inspector general of the Sex
enth Army Corps.
De Mr.. Guild, who was born in Bosto
Sc Feb. 2, 1860. served three terms as lieI
tenant governor before he was frs
chosen governor in 1905. At the r.
ID publican national convention in 100
rs he received rs votes for the yice-pres
!, iS Dental nomination.
III An incident of Mr.. Guild IS fir
J term as governor was the presentatio
j. of petition, signed by 10000 pc
u sons, for the pardon of Charles
ad Tucker. under sentence of death fl
or the murder of Miss Mabel Page
ie Weston. The trial of Tucker had bet
one of the most notable in Mass
- chusetts criminal history, and he b;
been convicted on circumstantial eJ
dence. Governor Guild made a tho
ough investigation of the case, graz
ING hearings to the petitioners and v
itino the scene of the murder. He
fused to grant the petition and Tuck
was executed.