People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — A JURIST GONE. [ARTICLE]

A JURIST GONE.

Bo n>ewhat Unexpected Death at Macon, Ga., of Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of MisaU■lppt, Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of the United States—Brief Sketch •f His Life. Macon, Ga., Jan. 24.—Justice L, Q. C. Lamar, of the United States supreme court, died Monday night at 8:50 o’clock. He was stepping at the home of W. H. Virgin, his relative, and late in the afternoon took his overcoat and started out for a walk. He had scarcely left the house when he was met by a friend and returned to Mr. Virgin’s house, where he talked cheerfully for quite a time with his friends. Justice Lamar dined at 6:50 with the family and seemed to have a good appetite and to be in a cheerful mood. His friend, Dr. Llewllyn, whom he had met; left the house at 7:40 o’clock. A short time after this the justice was seized with violent pains and died in a very short time. The attack was severe while it lasted, and the physician, Dr. A. H. Parker, who had been in attendance, arrived only a few minutes before death. At this time Justice Lamar was unconscious and beyond medical aid. Restoratives were at once administered but were entirely without avail. He died with his head on Mr. Virgin’s hands and apparently without pain, the spasm having passed off at that time. Bright’s disease, with angina pectoris, was the direct cause of Judge Lamar’s death, and is given by the physicians as being the chief complication in the oase. Justice Lamar came to Macon about a month ago from Washington, where he was suffering from an illness, and his death was looked for almost momentarily. Since his arrival here he seemed to be gaining in strength and his health seemed much improved. His death was altogether unexpected in view of the fact that friends who had seen him and knew his condition thought he was on the sure road to recovery and would in a few weeks be able to resume his duties on the supreme bench. No arrangements have been made for the funeral. Washington, Jan. 24. —A cablegram received by Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court Monday evening announced the death of Associate Justice L. Q. C. Lamar at Macon, Ga., whither he had gone for the benefit oi his health. Senator Teller (Col.), who is a member of the judiciary committee, said Monday: “It is my opinion that if Judge Gresham doe, not go into Mr. Cleveland's cabinet he will before many months be on the supreme bench here. Blatchford and Field will retire soon on account of age. We will by special act doubtless retire Justice Lamar early in the next session of congress. Everybody knows that Justsco Lamar is incapacitated by ill-health. He has reached the age for retirement, but has not been in the service ten years as required by law. Lamar is old and poor, and we are going to pension him by retiring him by special act of congress. If Gresham is not in the cabinet he will, I suspect, take Lamar’s place.” Lucius Quintus Clncinuatus Lamar, associate justice of the United States supreme court, was born in Putnam county, Ga., September 17, 1825; received his early education in Oxford, Miss., and was graduated from Emory college, Georgia, in 18©; studied law in Macon under his uncle, Hon. Absolom H. Chapell, and was admitted to the bar in 1847; was adjunct professor of mathematics in the university of Mississippi for a time; entered upon the practice of law at Covington, Ga.; was elected to the legislature of that state in 1853; was elected a Member of congress in 1857 and served until 1860, when he'withdrew to take part in the secession convention of Mississippi; was colonel of ■ the Nineteenth Mississippi confederate infantry; participated in many engagements with the army of northern Virginia; was compelled to leave the service by ill health: was sent as a commissioner of the confederacy to Russia in 1863; at the close of the war in 1866 accepted the position of professor of political economy and social science w the university of Mississippi; the following year was transferred to the chair of constitutional and municipal law and governmental science; in 1872 was elected to congress and reelected in 1874; was elected to the United States senate and took his seat March 5,1877; was appointed secretary of the interior March 5, 1885, and filled the office until appointed, January 16,1888, to a position on the supreme bench to fill the vacancy caused b.v the death of Justice William B. Woods, of Georgia.