Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — FACE OF A SUICIDE ON THE NEW $10 BILL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FACE OF A SUICIDE ON THE NEW $10 BILL.

Most persons are unaware that the portrait on the new $lO bill, known as the “buffalo bill” because of the rampant

figure of a bison in the center of it, is that of a man who committed suicide. It is a picture of Meriweuther Lewis, a famous explorer and once private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, who afterward made him Governor of Missouri Terri- ’ tory. In a fit of deep despondency he killed himself when 35 years old. No other instance

of the face of a suicide appearing on any of Uncle Sam’s printed money is known.

M. LEWIS.