Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — DEATH OF HAMILTON FISH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF HAMILTON FISH.

Grant'* Secretary of State Passed Away at an Advanced Age. Ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish died at Garrison, N. Y., Thursday. Mr. Fish was born in 1808, and had a long and distinguished public caroer. Ho was first elected to Congress In 1841. In 181 Ghe was

the Whig candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, but was defeated. In 1847, Lieutenant Governor Gardiner having resigned, Mr. Fteh was again placed In nomination and elected by 30,000 majority. Subsequently he was elected Governor, and in 1851 United States'" Senator, In 1869 ho succeeded E. B. Washbumo as Secretary of State In Grant’s Cabinet, and through his instrumentality many important diplomatic questions were settled. Since his retirement from the State Department Mr. Fish has taken no part in public affairs. He was a man of great wealth. A’ey clone's truck'the town" of Lock port, La., Thursday, and left it a mass of ruins. Six persons were killed and a large number injured.

HAMILTON FISH.