Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — HAZEN PINGREE DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAZEN PINGREE DEAD

EX-GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN EXPIRES IN LONDON. Receive* Death’* Summon* After Brief Illue**—Story of Remarkable Career in Bnsiness and Politic*—Labored for Many Reform* While in Office. Hazen S. Pingree, former Governor of Michigan, breathed his last in London, England, at 11:35 p. m. Tuesday. He was under the care of three physicians and two nurses, but the doctors

had admitted for the last day or two that the hope of his recovery was very slight. Dr. Mills left the dying man’s bedside hardly fifteen minutes before the final summons and promised soon to return. At that time Mr. Pingree was unconscious, as he had been for several hours.

Dr. Mills had not returned when the end came. The only person in the room at the time was Hazen S. Pingree, Jr., who had been constantly at his father’s bedside and had not removed his clothes for four days. At 11:30 he noticed an apparent change in his father’s condition and drawing closer soon observed that the heart had ceased to do its work. Death had come silently and without special warning. The once vigorous and aggressive American passed away peacefully and without a word to friend or foe. Upon the death of his father H. S. Pingree, Jr., cabled at once to his mother and uncle, who were about to sail from New York, not to do so. The body will be embalmed and sent to Detroit. Dr. Mills, in speaking of tho condition of his distinguished patient shortly before his death, said: “It seems too bad that the serious nature of his ailment was not discovered earlier. He ought never to have been allowed to travel on the continent. Mr. Pingree is receiving every care and is making a gallant fight, but the ulceration of the stomach is only one symptom of the complicated disease which it seems impossible to check.” Business and Political Career. Hazen S. Pingree was born at Denmark, Me., Aug. 30, 1840. He spent the first fourteen years of his life <m his father's farm. He then went to work in a cotton factory at Saco, Me. He afterward learned his trade as a shoe cutter at a factory in Hopkinton, Mass. When the Civil War broke out Mr. Pingree enlisted in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. *He served from Aug. 1, 1862, till August, 1805. During 1864 he was for five months a prisoner of war. After the war he went to Detroit. He worked at his trade in a shoe factory In that place until 1806, when, with H. Smith, he established a very small shoe factory of his own. The partnership was eminently successful and the factory developed into the largest shoe manufacturing business in the West. Mr. Pingree was Mayor of Detroit four times, serving in that capacity from 1889 to 1896. During the mayoralty he attained prominence by his successful project of securing vacant lots for the cultivation of potato patches for the poor, and also by his fights against street railway and other combinations. He compelled the Detroit street railways to reduce fares to 3 cents. He was elected Governor of Michigan in 1896 and was re-elected in 1898. At the end of his term he retired to private life.

HAZEN S. PINGREE