Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Death of Ex-Justice XVarcl dHunt, of the United States Supreme Court. [Washington special.] Hou. Ward Hunt, ex-Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died at his residence in Washington, on the 24th of March, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. About six years ago Mr. Hunt had a paralytic attack, which completely disabled him. Although Judge Hunt had attained the age of seventy, he had not been on the bench ten years, and could not retire on a pension. In 1882 Congress passed a special act granting him the usual pension if he would retire, and he retired’and to some extent regained his health, although he never fully recovered the use of his right side. He leaves a wife, who is much prostrated by the affliction. Justice Hunt was born in Utica June 14, 1810, and has always resided in his native place. He graduated at Union College in 1828, and, turning his attention to law, attended the law lectures of Judge Gould at Litchfield, Conn. .In 1865 he was elected a judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, which position he held until 1872, when he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He received fromUnion College and Rutgers College the degree of doctor of laws. ” 1

A. N. Kellogg. Ansel N. Kellogg, for many years a resident of Chicago, died, March 23, at Thomasville, Ga. He was President of the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company of Chicago. He had been an invalid for several years, and for a long tima had been unable to give his personal attention to the extensive business which he established. Mr. Kellogg,was born at Reading, Pa., March 20, 1832, and graduated with distinction at Columbia College. New York, in 1852. He was a son of Frederick Kellogg and the youngest of six children. He married Annie E. Barnes at Baraboo, Wis., Aug. 31, 185.). After leaving college he removed to Baraboo. Wis., where he purchased the Republic, which he published during the war, He was one of the pioneers of the ready-print industry. —— •'