Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — LONG LIVE HIS NAME. [ARTICLE]

LONG LIVE HIS NAME.

James Russell Lowell Peacefully *j Passes Away. Brief .Sketeb of a Noble Life—His Career as a Writer and Diplomat—Otlier Deaths. James RuSsell Lowell died peacefully at> his home at Cambridge, Mass., on the 12th. Tie Raff been a sufferer for nearly a yeat . of a complication of diseases. Mr. Lowell 'j descended from a long line of men wb« ' have stood high in the annals of theii country for t\\;o centuries and a half. Ht was born in Cambridge P’eb. 22, 1818 Graduated from Harvard at 19 years or age and was the class poet. Opened a law office in Boston, soon leading the pro-* i session of law for that of letters. In 1841. \ lie issued a volume entitled “A Year’sLJfe.” Ilis volumes following this wer« frequent, each one adding to his reputation as a poet. Mr. Lowell spent 1351 and 1852 in travel in Europe, being for a considerable time In Italy. After his returi. in 1854 he deli vered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute in Bostou tolargt audiences on the subject of British poets. These lectures appear to have led to hisselection as successor to Mr. Longfellow in the chair of belles-lettres at Harvard 1 college, to which lie was appointed in. \ 1855. For the last fifty years the chair op \ dxrtleS’-fcttikS atqFarvard has had occupants—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. Mr. Longfeliow received his appointment in 183 S and filled the chair nineteen years.when Ins mantle foil upon Mr. Lowell, who performed the duties of his post in such a way as to reflect honor upon the office and tc train up hundreds of young men to a wise appreciation of the good, the true and the beautiful in letters. In 1857 Mr. Lowell beeffme the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, which a firm waj i about to start. To his good judgment and editorial sagacity it owed its first success, Mr. Lowell urged Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to support him by frequent contributions. It was then that Dr. Holmes began his brilliant series of “Autocrat” papers, ancl the venture became a,success. Mr. Lowpll held the position of editor until the end of 1882, when he became, editor of the North American Review. Prior to this time, Mr. Lowell became identified with the abolition movement. He was an 1 Abolitionist, not of the Garrison type, but more like his friend Charles Sunnier. Mr. Lowell entered into the movement w+th the characteristic energy of the Lowell blood, and proved that the fire of Hon. John Lowell was in his veins when he worked heart and soul against the slavey holding movement. In 1877 President Hayes appointed Mr Lowell Minister to Spain, and iu 1830 be was removed to the Court of St. James. Mr. Lowell was socially the ablest minister who has ever represented the United States at the English court. When he became minister to England he was a very popular man with his countrymen. Since his last return from Europe Mr. Lowell has resided with his daughter, Mrs. Burnett, wife of Congressman Burnett, ats Deerfoot farm, Occasionally he has spent a few days at his old home at “Elmwood,” but most of his time he was at Deerfoot farm. Mr. Lowell was married in 1844 to Miss Maria White, of Watertown, a lady who had written some beautiful little poems. Her death in 1853, which occurred at the same time as a birth in Mr. Longfellow’s family, gave rise to the senior poet’s beautiful lines “The Two Angcis.” In 1857 Mr. Lowell married Miss Frances Dunlop, nieee of ex-Governor Dunlop, of Maine. GEORGE JONES. George Jones, editor of tlie Now York Times, died at Poland Sping. Me., on the 12tli. The story of George Jones’s life is the story of the founding and building up of the New York Times. Although Mr. Jones had reached the age of forty when he joined Henry J. Raymond in establishing the Times, and had already made his way to success and a competence in other business enterprises, his earliest inclinations had brought him Into the field of New York journalism, and hlsire turn to it as the founder and publisher of the Times was but the fulfillment of his youthful ambitions, and from the day when the first copy of the Times was issued to the day of Ids death Mr. Jones has devoted to it, to the exclusion of all other interests and affairs, his undivided time and energies. His success has been the success of the journal ho has con trolled. His honorable career and repute are inseparably associated with the career and the standing of his newspaper.