Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-24
GEN. MURRAY VANDVER
!. ! DIES At THE AGE Of Il.
Long Prominent in Maryland Dem
ocratic Enthusiastically
IA Ill for Weeks.

Up6cdAI correspondence OF Inc Sraf.
BALTIMORE. May 24.-Gen. Murray
vandiver, chairman of the democratic
state central committee and treasurer
of Maryland during eight terms, died
at Las o'clock yesterday afternoon at
the cottage at Blue Ridge Summit
which he had taken for the summer in
the HOPE that a long stay in the noun
tains would restore his strength. The
end was expected, for he began sinking
q day or two after he rea ched the noun
tains Monday. May Is.
He had been critically i'll for weeks,
suffering from the liver trouble which
had afflicted him for some years and
from tuberculosis. which developed re-
Gently. The latter disease was the di-
rect cause of his death. The body will
be taken to the vandiver home in Havre
de Grace today. Arrangements have
not been made for the funeral as yet
but 1t probably will be held Friday
Member of "Old Guard"
With Gen. Vandivers death one more
Of the few remaining members of the
''old guard" in democratic politics in
Maryland drops out of the ranks, CO.
United States Senator Arthur P Cor
man. Stevenson Archer. Charles J. NJ.
Gwinn. John p Poe, Barnes Compton.
l. Victor Baughman. Buchanan Schley
l. Freeman Rasin, Thomas G. Hayes
Frank A. Furst j. F. c. Talbot Frank
Brown and John Walter Smith. About
the only ones left are Senator Smith
Mr. Furst, Col. Schley, Representative
Talbot and former Gov. Brown. who has
not been active in politics for number
of years.
OF that group of picturesque. vivid
characters none possessed more indi-
vidua1ity than Gen. Eandiver He was
the last word a mans man.. His
code and his creed were to live fully
and intensely and for and with his
fri6 ids.
OF course. such being his life and
character. he had enemies. But in the
latter years of his life many of those
! who had disliked him came to under
stand that there was malice in him
= came to understand that fighting
l:ard and mercilessly against those
." no opposed his coterie was not per-
sonal matter with Gen. Vandiver, bit
was matter of principle.
seventy-one Years Old.
Gen. Nandiver was seventy-one years
Old. He was born at Havre de Grace in
1a4o, had lived in that pretty town all
his life and had done much for it's i'm
provement. His home there was a
beautiful one. His father was the late
Robert B. Vandiver, the family having
come originally from Delaware. of
which state Gen. Vandiver's forbears
were among the earliest settlers. He
received his early educati ton in the
public schools of Hartford county. later
went to the Havre de Grace Academy
and then took a course in business
college at Poughkeepsie, N Y, being
graduated in 1854.
He was the author of the charter
which in 1873 incorporated Havfe de
GrSce.S.and served as mayor of the
town in1SS5 and 1886. In 1888 he be-
came secretary of the democratic state
central committee, in which Office he
continued until 1897. when he was
elected chairman. and. as stated, was
chairman when he died.
Gen. Nandfyer was d member of the
democratic national convention of 1892
which nominated Grover Cleveland for
the presfdency, and was a member of
each succeeding convention up to and
including that of. 1908.
government ever held By Gen. Nandiver
was that of internal revenue collector,
which he occupied for the four years
between 1893 and 1897. A little more
than two years after he retired from
the collectorship he became state
treasurer, and held that Office sixteen
years consecutively, serving under
four governors.