Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — DEATH OF H. M. HOXIE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF H. M. HOXIE.

A Man Who, from a Hostler, Ci.me to Be a Power in the Railroad World. {Now York special. I ' ,V Mr. H. M. Hoxie died at his rooms in the Metropolitan Ojiera House in this city on Tue .'ay. The cause of his death was exhaustion consequent on an operation performed on him at Saratoga in!June last by removing stones fiom fils bladdir. He bad also suffered from kidueyralisease for the lad thirty-five years. Mrs. Hoxie and Capt. Haye* were with him tvhen fie expired. Shortly after the troubles on the AVabash system of railroad-) and the Southwestern roads last May Mr. Hoxie begun to complain of pains in bis loin*. Finally he became so much worse that he was compelled to give up his work and take a muchneeded rest. The trouble with the strikers worried him very much. He left St. Louis in the latter part of May and came East to Saratoga. After consultation with a phyy siciau fie concluded to have the operation performed which resulted in his death. After the operation Mr. Hoxie was relieved, and felt better for a time than he had tor ycnis. He Loped that by taking a rest he would regain his health entirely. Mr. Hoxie, in company with hia wife, took a trip to Montreal Aug. 2.5. From there they went to Quebec and the White Mountains. He came to New York Sept. 10, and took apartment* in the Broadway fiat* in the Metropolitan Opera House block. His physicians, Drs. Metcalfe and Ward, were called. He was still weak from the effects of the operation. Any excitement was deleter ous. He failed rapidly, but suffered little. Air. Hoxie’s youth was spent in Polk County, lowa. He < nine of a poor family, and his first occupation was mat of a hpsJer in a country hotel. There he becau.ei acquainted with many prominent men. At outbreak of the war he entered politics. In 18'54-5 he was chmrmaa of th * lowa Ilepublican State Committee nnd was a: tr rward appointed United States Marshal. After toe war he removed to Palestine, Texas, and become connected with ihe management of the International Bailroad, holding the positions of Superintendent and General Superintendent. Wbni-Mr. “Gould or'rani’ed the Waba*h system he chose Air. Hoxie for First Vice President, and his headquarters was established at St. Louis. Air. Hoxie was ThirLVice President of the Missouri Paci tic, and for several years General Alanager of the road. He was one of Air. Gould's most trusted lieutenants, and at the time of the recent Southwestern strike so greaves Gould’s confidence in him that when it was proposed to settle the strike by arbitrati-. n the matter was placed in Mr. Hoxie’s charge.