Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-13
Stroke of Paralysis
 Kills Senator Knox
Had Returned From England
 Monday-Stricken While on Way to Dining Room.

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 on Way to Dining Room.
 Washington. Oct. 12.-Philander Chase Knox, senator from Pennsylvania and secretary of state under President Taft, died suddenly at 6.30 o'clock this evening at his home here. He was stricken with paralysis after descending the stairway on his way to the dining room for din ner and passed away fifteen minutes later without regaining consciousness.
 Mrs. Knox and the senator's secretary, W. F. Martin, were near the senator and | hurried to his aid. Dr. Samuel Adams was summoned Immediately, but he found l MT. Knox beyond medical aid.
 Senator Knox returned to Washington | only last Monday night from a trip to | Europe with Mrs. Knox and he attended i the sessions of the senate yesterday and | today. Leaving the chamber about l o'clock this afternoon, the senator took | an automobile ride through Potomac ! park and stopped on his way home to purchase tickets for a theatre perform | ance tonight. Reaching home, the sena- | tor went to his library where he re- | mained until summoned to dinner. President Harding, Chief Justice Taft, l Senator Lodge, Senator Penrose and | other friends and close associates of MT. | Knox were soon notified of the senator's 1 death. The news came shock to all | official Washington, for the senator through his services first as attorney gen. eral under Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and later as secretary of state under President Taft, had a wide circle
 of friends in an walks of public life. i Arrangements for the funeral will be made tomorrow after the arrival in | Washington of Senator Knox's sons. Reid | Knox of Valley Forge. Pa, and Hugh s.
 Knox of Stratford, Pa~ and his daughter,
 Mrs. James R. TindaH, of Valley Forge.
 A third son, PhiIander Chase Knox, Jr.,
 resides in Washington.
 The senate will meet tomorrow and ad- i journ out of respect to the late senator
 and with the house will name a commit
 tee to attend the funeral. Senator Knoxs
 home was in Pittsburgh, and he also had
 a summer home at Valley Forge. The
 place of interment has not yet been an-
 nounced.
 While at the senate today, Senator
 Knox apparently was in the best of
 health, although he had been somewhat
 overtaxed lately in connection with sen- ate work with reference to restoring the
 technical state of peace with Germany,
 Austria and Hungary.
 He was the author of the peace resolu- l tion bearing his name and one of the
 senate conferees in adjusting it with the Porter resolution. The resolution was
 passed at this session of congress and it
 was under it that President Harding ne-
 gotiated the pending treaties of peace
 with Germany, Austria and Hungary. 1 When congress took a recess late in | August. Senator Knox left for Europe 1 with SIrs. Knox for vacation and was l absent slightly more than three weeks. l He sought to reach Washington in time
 to vote on the Panama canal tolls repeal l b,It orri1r of+ had been taken. He told his associates that while he had been benefited by his . vacation he felt somewhat tired
 PhIlander c. Knox was attorney gen. l eral in the cabinets of Presidents Me l kinley and Roosevelt, secretary of state s in the cabinet of President Taft. and in
 the interim between those two offices and 3 l afterward was United States senator. Senator Knox was an active figure ir |. the fight in the senate in 1919 and 1926 t against the ratification of the peace . treaty of Versailles. Even when tht
 treaty was being drawn up he delivered e speeches in the senate and out of it 1T which he demanded that the league O : nations covenant should be separated = from the other part of the treaty H. = introduced a resolution to that effec
 which was adopted by the senate anC
 also presented resolution against thu | appointment of American representative
 on the reparations commission. He alst drafted one of the various resolutions
 submitted to the senate for adopting tn e treaty with reservations.
 l. Subsequently Senator Knox was tn t author of a resolution adopted by tn n senate in May. 1920, declaring peace witt '' Germany. This also was vetoed b, s, President Wilson
 l. Senator Knox first came into nationa l. prominence when in 1901 President Mo o Kinley appointed him as attorney gen L. eral. He retained that office unde
 President Roosevelt until 1904, when h q resigned to accept an appointment a .- United States senator from Pennsylva.li ,r to succeed the late Senator Quay. 1T MT. Knox was born at Brownsville, Pa y on May 6, 1853, and was named after n noted Episcopal bishop, Philander Chas,
 He was graduated from Mt Union co
 lege, Alliance, O., in 1872, admitted t
 the bar in 1875, appointed by Presider P, Grant as assistant United States attol
 ney for the western district of Pennsy e vania but resigned in 1877 and formed : law partnership with James H. Reed ur Y der the name of Knox & Reed, in whic ,n he is said to have enjoyed very lucrz o tive practice. Many stories are told to illustrate his skill as a lawyer which I U l afterward placed at the service of u y United States in his capacity as attorne Q general.
 '. His home is at Pittsburgh and he h: :. 5A a farm at Valley Forge, Pa He hs IT. |. been a trustee of Mt Union college ar IT. IT. a member of numerous clubs in Pitt ne burgh and New York. In 1876 he ma
 ried Lillie. daughter of Andrew D. Smi
 of Pittsburgh by whom he had oI
 daughter Eleanor, wife of J. R. Tindl ID and three sons, Reed Knox, Hugh
 Knox and Philander c. Knox Jr