. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . , the bullet cutting the left coat sleeve of hisvictim, but inflicting no further injury. It hasbeen \ery truthfully said that this was the shotthat was heard around the world. Never beforein the history of the nation had anything occur-red which so nearly froze the blood of the peoplefor the moment as this awful deed. He wassmitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all hislife, at the summit of his power and hope. Foreighty days, all du
. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . , the bullet cutting the left coat sleeve of hisvictim, but inflicting no further injury. It hasbeen \ery truthfully said that this was the shotthat was heard around the world. Never beforein the history of the nation had anything occur-red which so nearly froze the blood of the peoplefor the moment as this awful deed. He wassmitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all hislife, at the summit of his power and hope. Foreighty days, all during the hot months of Julyand August, he lingered and suffered. He, how-ever, remained master of himself till the last, andby his magnificent bearing taught the countryand the world one of the noblest of human les-sons—how to live grandly in the very clutch ofdeath. Great in life, he was surpassingly greatin death. He passed serenely away September19, 1883, at Elberon, N. J., on the ver>- bank ofthe ocean, where he had been taken shortly be-fore. The world wept at his death, as it rarelyever had done on the death of anj- other greatand noble CHESTER A. ARTHUR. g HESTER A. ARTHUR, twenty-first Presi-dent of the United States, was born in Frank-lin County, Vt., on the 5th day of October,1S30, and was the eldest of a family of two sons:ind five daughters. His father was the Rev. Arthur, a Baptist clergyman, who emi-grated to this countrj from Countj Antrim, Ire-land, in his eighteenth year, and died in 1875, inNewtonville, near Albany, after a long and suc-cessful ministrj. Young Arthur was educated at Union College,Schenectady, where he excelled in all his his graduation he taught school in Ver-mont for two years, and at the expiration of thattime came to New York, with $500 in his pocket,and entered the office of ex-Judge E. D. Culveras a student. After being admitted to the Bar, heformed a partnership with his intimate friend androom-mate, H
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