Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1918 — DEATH CLAIMS VETERAN EDITOR [ARTICLE]

DEATH CLAIMS VETERAN EDITOR

WAS ONE OF THE OLDESJ EDITORS IN STATE, IF NOT THE NATION. James Woods McEwen died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. A. Bostwick, in this city Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock. • „ Seven years ago the veteran editor on account of failing (health was forced to give up a’long career spent in the newspaper business. He was horn in Lewistown, Penn., ■on December 10, 1831, and when seventeen years of age he learned the printer’s trade. From that time until Nov. 1, 1911, sixty-three years, he was an active newspaper man and during the most of this time he was the editor of four pdpers, all bearing the name Democrat, for he was a staunch believer in the policies and principles of that-party. He was first connected with the True Democrat, of Lewistown, Pa-

in 1856 he became editor of the Clinton Democrat, Clinton, Pa.; in 1859 he took change of the White County Democrat in Monticello, and eighteen years later he came to Rensselaer, and until his retirement in 1911 was owner and editor of the Democratic Sentinel. . His was a remarkable career and he had known personally many of the great statesmen of 'his time. He knew Henry Clay and was a great friend and admirer of Senator David Turpie. He was a very interesting man with whom to talk, as he knew much of the personal element in the history of his time. He spent a considerable time in Washington, D. C., while a young man, and was very familiar with' the leading statesmen of that time. He was married September 18, 1855, to Miss Sarah J. Jenner, of his native town, Lewistown, Pa. They were the parents of four, children, but one of whom survives, Mrs. L. A. Bostwick, of this city. ’ The mother, Mrs. McEwen, died October 8, 1913. Fora number of years before ’her death she and. her iusband had been in very poor health. The tender care and loving devotion shown by their daughter, Mrs. Boatwick, was remarkable. For a number of years the father had 'begn, on account of the condition of his mind and the state of his health due to old age, very helpless. He required constant attention. No mother was ever more -devoted to a child than Mrs. Bostwick has been to her parents. Early ip life Mr. McEwen united with the Presbyterian church and was a faithful member of that organization, being an elder pf the church here at the time of his death. Besides his daughter the deceased -is survived by a brother, Stewart McEwen, of California; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Belford, of Denver, Colo., and Miss Elizabeth McEwen, of Lewistown, Pa. Funeral services wiH be rigid at the late home Saturday afternoon at 2:3<0 o’clock, and interment will be in Weston cemetery.