Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Death of William H. Trescott. [ARTICLE]

Death of William H. Trescott.

Charleston, 8, C., May ft.—Hon. William Henry Trescott, for many years connected with the state department at Washington, died at Pendleton, S. €., Wednesday. At the opening of the war he was acting secretary of state of the United States under President Buchanan. He resigned and came south during the war, but since the war was charged with numerous important missions for the government, among them being that of plenipotentiary to China torevise irenties in 1880; special envoy to belligerents in Peru and Chili in 1881, and plenipotentiary with (Jen. Grant to Mexico in August, 1882.