Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — SENATOR FOR TEARS DIED IN COLORADO [ARTICLE]

SENATOR FOR TEARS DIED IN COLORADO

Henry M. Tetter, Former Secretary of the Interior, Died at Age of 83 Tears.

Denver, Feb. 23.—Henry M. Teller, former secretary of the interior, for more than thirty years United States senator from Colorado, died here early today. Mr. Teller, who was 83 years old, had been 111 for two years and his death was not unexpected. eHart trouble and the, infirmities of aga caused death. The distinction of having been elected six separate times -to the U. S. senate was held by Teller,, “the grand old man of Colorado.” At the time hp retired from public life, in 1909, he had represented the ■state in the senate thirty of the thirty-three years Colorado n . had been a state Teller was horn at Granger, Allegheny county, New York, May 23, 1830, and was educated in the common schools of New York and Alfred, university. After several years of teaching, he studied law and began practicing at Binghamton, N. Y. Heeding the call of the great west, the young lawyer moved to Illinois, where he-" practiced until 1861. In that year he again changed his place of residence, settling at Central City, Co., then a struggling mining camp. For eighteen years he practice dlaw, and, together with Moses Hallett and others, helped to lay the foundation for the mining law code which governs Colorado today. --