Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-12
A. [. GONZALES, s.,
NOTED EDITOR, DIES
Columbia, S. c., Author and
! Publisher Was Son Of
7 Cuban Patriot.
By tho Associated Press.

by tho Associated Press.
: COLUMBIA, S. c., July 12.--Am-
prose z. Gonzales. So, author, editor
lAnd publisher, died at his apartment
here yesterday. Mr.. Gonzales APP
peared In his usual heakh Saturday
night. but was seized with an attack
about 8 o'clock yesterday morning
and died before q. physician could
reach him.
! A. nurse, who was retained by Mr..
Gonzales following stroke of paraly-
Sis IL years ago, was called by the.
publisher at daybreak. She started
10 give him treatment, but his con-
6lition became so obviously worse that
she telephoned for physician. WIG
arrived in a short time, only to hnd
Mr. Gonzales dead.
. Notwithstanding his partial paraly-
sis. Dir. Gonzales, who was president
of the State Co., publishing the
morning newspaper here, and operat-
ing a book store and large printing
and publishing plant, had made 1t
his practice to go to his Office early
avery day and to supervise actively
1he various activities of the State
60. Saturday he was down as usual
And remained until 8o'clock at night.
Active as Author.
Mr.. Gonzales was never married
and kept bachelor quarters in. an
apartment house here. His brother,
William E. Gonzales, former ambas-
sador to Cuba and Peru, was notified.
! Although he was physically hAndi-
capped by the paralytic stroke he suf-
Tered several years ago, Mr.. Gonzales
never relaxed in his business activities
and enlarged his literary endeavorS. In
l1o H1<ae mil
books based upon life of the negroes
81 the South Carolina coastal country.
whose unusual dialect, .Gullah," was
mastered by the Columbia. publisher
during his youth on the coast. Among
His books We're 1.-THE Black Border"
sThe Captain" La Guerre, q Gascon
Of the Black Border and with
Aesop Along the Black Border" Be-
sides these. he was the author Of many
Short stories and articles.
"A son of the Cuban patriot, Gen.
Ambrosfo Jose Gonzales, who was
exiled following the first unsuccessful
cuban revolution against Spanish rule,
EIr. Gonzales was a member OF the
american Army in the war with Spain
IN 1898, that resulted in the liberation.
His mother was q member OF the fam.
Gus Elliott family Of the South Caro-
Ina coast.
! Another SON Of the Cuban patriot
had part in the fight for Cuban free
dom, Narcisso Gener Gonzales,
younger brother of Ambrose, who
served as a member of the Cuban
Army. This member of the family be-
came one of South Cardinals leading
Editors as the chief writer for the
State in the heated political days in
The late nineties and early years OF
this century. He was shot and killed on
the streets OF Columbia early in 1908
by James H. Tillman, a nephew OF
Senator B. r. Tillman.
As boys Ambrose and N. g. Con
sales faced the privations that all
South Carols q endured in the wake
81 the Civil War, BY the time no
WAS Is years of age, the former had
Become a telegraph operator, and he
worked at that trade for a number
Of years, part of the time in New
York. Both he and his brother
Served their newspaper apprentice
ship on the Charleston News and
Fourier. N. G. managed the Colum-
bia bureau in the Tillman political
days. while Ambrose was on the
road for the paper. The latter
about this time was in charge of the
state Department of Agriculture.
Early in 1891 they began publica-
ton Of the State in Columbia, and
for the remainder of their lives they
devoted their energies to this paper.
The elder brother. however. had va
Tioas other interests, including q
large farm and a model dairy, and
FOR a time he was interested in q
tourist hotel in Columbia.
: Funeral services will be held at 6
o'clock this evening at Trinity
Episcopal Church. Rev. Henry d.
Philips, DID,, rector of the church,
viii officiate. Burial will be in Elm
wood Cemetery beside the body of
dis brother.