Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — FIRST DEATH OF THE SESSION. [ARTICLE]

FIRST DEATH OF THE SESSION.

Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, Falls Into the Sleep That Knows No Waking. The reaper of Death has begun work among the Congressmen early in the session, Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, of Kansas, is the first victim. His illness was of long standing, and is said to have been caused by overwork at the last session, in connection with the debates upon the tariff question, in which he took a very prominent and leading part. Mr. Haskell represented the Second district of Kansas, which includes the counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Labette, Linn, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson and Wyandotte. His home is at Lawrence. He was born at Springfield, vt., March 23, 1842, received a classical education at Eastbampton, Mass., and took a special course at Yale College; engaged in mercantile pursuits; removed to Kansas in 1855; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1872, ’75 and ’76, serving Hie last term as Speaker of the Hou&; was nominated for Governor by the Temperance party in 1874, and declined; was elected to the Forty-fifth and. Forty-sixth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.