Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — DEATH OF JUSTICE MATTHEWS. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF JUSTICE MATTHEWS.

Justice Stanley Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court, died at Washington on the 22d inst.. after a prolonged illness. Stahley Matthews was born in Cincinnati, July’2l, 1'824. He was graduated at Kenyon College in 1840, studied, lav an d was admitted to the bar, settling in Maury county, Tennessee. He shortly afterward returned to Cincinnati, early engaged in the antislavery movements, and in 1846 9 was an assistant editor of the Cincinnati Herald, the first daily anti-slavery newspaper in that city. He became Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county in 1851; was State Senator in 1855, and in 1858-61, was United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. In -May 1861,

he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, and served in West Virginia, participating in the battles of Rich Mountain and Carnifex Ferry, in October, 1861, he became Colonel of the Fiftyseventh Ohio Regiment, and in that capacity commanded a brigade in the Army of the Cumberland, and was engaged at Dobbs’s Ferry, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. He resigned from the army in 1863 to become Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and was a Presidential Elector on the Johnson and Lincoln ticket in 1864 and the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868. In 1864 he was a delegate from the JPresbytery of Cincinnati to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J., and as one of the Committee on Billsand Overtures reported the resolutions that were adopted by the assembly bn the subject of slavery. He was defeated as Republican candidate for Congress in 1876,7 and in the next year was one cf the counsel before the electoral commission, opening the argument in behalf of the Republican electors in the Florida case, and making the principal argument in the Oregon case. In March 1877 he was elected United States Senator in place of John Sherman, who had resigned, and served two years. In 1881 he was appointed Associate Justice of the United states Supreme Court, which position he has since held. In tbe United States Supreme Court immediately upon assembling the Chief Justice announced the death of Justice Matthews, and as a mark of respect to his memory the court adjourned till Tuesday. The immediate cause of death was exhaustion of the heart and congestion of the kidneys. The funeral of the late Justice Matthews was held at his residence Monday afternoon. The services were simple but impressive. There was'no address. President Harrison and members of Cabinet were in attendance, as were also members of the Supreme

Court and many Senators and members of the House. The body, which had been embalmed, lay in state in the parlor of the residence during the earlier part of the day and was viewed by friends of the deceased. Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices acted as honorary pall-bearers, while the active pall-bearsrs were, according to custom, selected from among the messengers employed at the. Supreme Court. At 3 o’ clock the remains were taken to the depot to be conveyed to Glendale, Judge Matthew’s country home, near Cincinnati. The funeral services were held there and the interment was made in Spring Grove Cemetery. Justices Gray, fßlatchford, Harlan and Lamar accompanied the remains to Cincinnati.