Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — GEN. MANDERSON DEAD [ARTICLE]

GEN. MANDERSON DEAD

Nebraska Man Passes Away on Atlantic Liner. His Health Had Been Failing for Some Time and European Trip Was for Possible Benefit. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 29. —General Charles M. Manderson of Omaha died on board the White Star liner Cedric shortly after leaving Liverpool, enroute to this country from Europe, where he has been spending the summer. ■ The news of his death was received here by cable. General Manderson has been in poor health for more than a year, and several months ago was taken to Vienna and other European cities for medical treatment. No relief was found and he started for home accompanied by his party. General Charles Manderson was United States senator from Nebraska, from 1883 to 1895 and was president pro tern of the senate in the FiftyFirst and Fifty-Second congresses. Since 1895 he had been general solicitor of the Burlington railroad system west from the Missouri river. He was bom in Philadelphia, Feb. 9, 1837. He was educated in the Philadelphia public schools. Removing to Canton, 0., in 1556, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and in 1860 was elected city solicitor. He raised a company of three months’ volunteers in 1861. was commissioned as captain in the Nineteenth Ohio infantry and when mustered out he enlisted for the war. He was attached to the army of the Cumberland and was colonel of his regiment in the battle of Shiloh. At the battle of Lovejoy’s Station, in Georgia, in 1865, he was so severely wounded that he had to resign his commission with the brevet of brigadier general. General Manderson was the author of “Twin Seven Shooters," published in 1902. He was president of-the American Bar association in .’.901 and 1902.