Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-12-22
krica's Greatest Living Jour-
nslist Passes Away Suddenly
In Florida Early
Thursday
IEy Associated PrcssJ

Icniy Watterson, one of the
1ln,ry's best known journalists.
b. i,rmer owner and publisher
the Louisville Courier Journal
cd AT a local hotel at SIS this
noruiug.
| Vol. Nattcrson death was un-
1 .pccted. though it had been
iuvNn iOT some days that nc wa-
u. The veteran publisher had
c.u here about six weeks a was
1 custom on his annual trips tc
.-ila. tle has for years been
ending the winter largely
urt Myers. 1t was his intcn
.a to so TO that place when III
ai,tion improved sufficiently I,
a.e the "trip.
.is wife. son and daughter
-rc al his bedside when he died.
k.LAattcrson'> \ death was due to
~ failure. Superinduccd by
0Igo>tion OF the lungs Thirty
ID uutcs before his death he call
.cj hi, wife into the room and
\ Inferred with her. His son and
ughtcr were summoned. Who
! i Death was peaceful. Colonel
lttcr>on having lap>ed into
neon -CiouSueSS again a few min
as before his death.
DC WAS among the last >urViv-
IN members OF the old school OF
| aI-uali>w and was known atfec-
1 ruatcly u friends a "Mar>e
! cury. H> contracted a slight
.cu.I TUESDAY and while seated
Iiu % chair yesterday soon after
breakfast suffered an acute bron-
,h'al attack and was ordered L
Icd by his physician. His condi-
s-.a grew worse during the day
and night and he died early today
Thus. "Aiarsc Henry passed
- lat beautiful shore" where
II October he wrote his com
q. .'c- 81 the Confederate army, |
he WAS sure The bonnie blue flag
H,,d lc flying At the lore. bands !
,uld br playing 'Dixie' on pa
a.lc and pretty girls would be
r;butiug the 'Cha;tanooga
bci' to groups oi ragged. red
ri angels who have not Tor
often the rebel yell"
-.Ihc Chattanooga Rebel wa
y paper he published during tn.
80 war.
Ills body viii be placed in =;
au', here ill spring when ii vii.
,c taken 10 louisville Tor burial
'lir~. Nattcrson l. irail ano
Thought 1t inadvisable to return
.ro.th ,lufine the winter.
Iiourv Nattcrson was one o.
..ac 'a~t ol The old time personal
journalists. More thah half al
t,uturv nj, cd toriais. with their
-iilJtat. original and phrase-ma-
l9ie composition. attracted wide
attention. They were comment
rt on and copied by the press OF
tL, nation. Besides hs power inI
utolding public opinion through
lbs editorials. Natterson's infiu
,ucc =, credited with having Shap
80 Tic platform OF the Demo
, stic party in more than one
i~:deutial campaign.
II was perhaps through an as
cJcut that Henry Natterson
ur,ucd Journalism. Early in life
Ic cvinccd unusual musical talen.
and his parents encouraged it. y
i-;shap that crushed his left
thumb. leaving that member stiff,
cau>ed the musical education to
lc abandoned. a the piano WAS
his favoritc instrument.
\ natural bent for writing de-
vclQped bu teven in this Mr.. Wat
tcrson was seriously handicapped
"a an i9ness in infancy had al
iccted his vision. His first Jour
nalistic experience was gained on
- Washington, ID. G, newspaper
musical and dramatic critic.
Ills father, Harvey NJ Waiter
son, for twenty wears preceding
the outbreak of the war between
the States, was representative
in Congress from Tennessee Ii
was during this time that Henry
Matterson laid the foundations
Tor an elaborate knowledge OF
national affairs. he spending
much OF his time associating with
party leaders OF that time and in
close contact with the operation
90 the government.
Watterson's course in letters
and journalism in the national
capital was interrupted just as he
attained his majority by the ont
break OF war With his father,