Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . truthfully said that this was the shot that was heard round the world Neverbefore in the history of the Nation had anything occurred which so nearly froze the blood of the peop;for the moment, as this awful deed. He was smitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his life, andwas at the summit of his power and hojje. For eightydays, all during the hot
Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . truthfully said that this was the shot that was heard round the world Neverbefore in the history of the Nation had anything occurred which so nearly froze the blood of the peop;for the moment, as this awful deed. He was smitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his life, andwas at the summit of his power and hojje. For eightydays, all during the hot months of July and August,he lingered and suffered. He, however, remainedmaster of himself till the last, and by his magnificentbearing was teaching the country and the world thenoblest of human lessons—how to live grandly in thevery clutch of death. Great in life, he was surpass-ingly great in death. He passed serenely away , 1883, at Elberon, N. J , on the very bank of theocean, where he had been taken shortly previous. Theworld wept at his death, as it never had done on thedeath of any other man who had ever lived upon murderer was duly tried, found guilty and exe-cuted, in one year after he committ-^d the foul deed.
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