The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-02-07
DEATH CLAIMS
WOODROW WILSON
E~x.President Dies AZ Washington
Home Sunday. Simple Funeral
Held Next Sunday

"uobihStUh at IL 4. ~ kJunudy hhoIh tue
after more thar fifteen hours of un'
consciousness.
DR.. Grayson said that "his tired
heart stopped beating and there wat
no suffering"
Death has been m~omentarily ex,
pected since Thursday night. Hi:
heart failed to function and stopped
of utter fatigue.
As the spark of life went out Mrs
Wilson sat on the bedside strokine
his right hand. which, though pallid
and thin, had proved mightier than
the sword.
As the last flicker OF his pulse was
side of the dying man. and with tears
streaming from his eyes,, wrote the
last professional message concerning
the man whose health he had guard.
ed for the past fifteen years.
The statement issued by DIR. Gray.
son said: "Mr. Wilson died at Ills
o'clock. His heart action became
fsebler and feebler and the hearts
muscles were so fatigued that it re
fused to act any longer. The end
can, peacefully"
The remote cause of Mr.. Wilson's
death lies'in his Ill health which be-
gan more than four years ago. The
Illness then was caused by general
srterio sclerosis with digestive dis
t%urbspce which began the early part
OF last week. but did not reach an
acute stage until the early morning
hours Friday. February l..
As Mr.. Wilson passed out Of this
life thousands throughout the country
and even in Europe were offering up
PRAYERS for the repose of his soul.
The end was inevitable. Mr.. viii
son himself and all the world knew
II. and the great war president was
ready. He had been told previous TO
his last consciousness that the enI
was near and he said he was ready.
He met death calmly and unafraid.
Biographical
Woodrow Wilson, 2Sth president Of
the United States. was born at Staun-
ton. Va, on the 2Sth day of December
1856. and died at the city of Washing
ton, February ;, 1924. His father
was Rev. Joseph II. Wilson. and his
mother. Miss Jesse Woodrow. before
her marriage. Both were OF Scotch
Irish ancestry. He was graduated
from the university OF North Carolina
i'm 1874, with a degree of b. A, and
from Princeton in 1879, with a d.
gree Of NJ. A.. and in 1882 he was
given a degree OF Doctor of Law
from the University of Virginia. He
practiced law at Atlanta, Ga. from
1883 to 1885. He was a professor at
the Lake Forest. ILL.,, seminary in 1887
al Tulane I'm 1889, Johns Hopkins,
1892, Rutgers, 1902, University of
Pennsylvania in 1903, and also at
Brown College the same year. He
taught at Harvard in 1907, at Will
Jams, i'm 1908, and Dartmouth in 1909.
and at Yale. in 1910. He was also
professor OF history and political eco
nom at Bryn Mawr college from
1885 to 1888, and professor of politi'
cal economy at Wesleyan University
from 1888 to 1890. Professor of juris-
prudence and political economy at
Princeton. 1897 to 1910, and was elect
ed president of that institution on
August 1. 1902. and served in that ca
pacity until he resigned to become
governor of the state of New Jersey.
While governor of New Jersey he
was nominated by the democrats for
president of the United States, to
which Office he was elected on the 4th
day of November. 1912. He took the
oath of president of the United States
on March 4, 1913. and after having
served tour years as president was
reelected. defeating Charles Evans
Hughes, the republican nominee by a
very narrow margin, receiving 277
electoral votes against 254 for Hughes
the vote of California alone determin-
ing the election.
Il was during the Wilson admins
tration that the United States en-
tered the war and when the armistice
was signed. Mr.. Wilson made prepa-
rations to attend the Peace Confer
ence in France, and on December 4,
1918, he left the United States on
DOdIu Tie SHfp ptoiSS "ochihstoh' oo
head of the American Peace Commit
tee, arriving at Brest, December Is,
at Paris, December IL. He visited
England December 18th to 30th, and
went to Italy early in January follow
ing. In June he visited Belgium and
delivered many addresses and was
the recipient of many honSrs and de-
erees from various universities Of
the allied countries. He returned to
the United States, arriving In New
York on the Sth day Of July, 1919.
He was the author Of many books.
having devoted his life to political
studies and was an authority on his
torical and political subjects and his
books are all of note. His most fam
Gus books are his Life of George
Washington" published in 1896. and
''The History OF the American Peo-
ple," published ii 1902.
lie was twice married. His first wife
was Miss Ellen Louise Arson, Of Sa-
,annah Ga, who he married on the
2ith day of June, 1855. Mrs. Wilson