DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
In our cablegrams it is announced that Mr Chester Allan Arthur; who was President of the United States from Sept. 19th, 1881, to March .4th, 1885, is dead. The following brief account ot his life is extracted from, Men'of the Time : " Arthur, Chester, Allan, twenty-first President of the United; States, was born in Iranklin County, Vermont, Octob.-r sth, 1830. His father was a.Scotch mat), and pastor of Baptist Churches m Vermont and New York. After his graduation as B.A. from Union Collage,. Mr Arthur studied law, and began to:pr>«ctice (1850) in New York Guy, 1 when, he h;>s since resided. Crigiaally a Whig, he joined the Republican party, on its formation, and soon becihue a prominent leader in New York., At the outbreak of the civil,,war he was entrusted b> Gov, Morgan.with the arming ayd subsisting ,of the troops raised, in. New 0 York, and was successively made Engineer-iu-Chief, Inspector-General, and (JuaiterruatWrGeneral, equipping and sending to the fields sixty-eight regiments .of infantry, Bii battalions, and teu batteries in me space of four moutlis. ,In 1871 he was appointed Collector of the Port of New Yorlr, which position he retained until 1878, whan he was removed by President tiayes. When the dissensions arost in the Republican parly, Mv Arthur placed himself on what is known as tue 'Std watt'side. At the National Convention in Chicago in 1880 the .Aiili-tet.il wait wing was successful in preventing the nomination of General Grant to the Presidency, and in securing that of Mr Garfield. Mr Arthur was then notni nated as Vice-President, in order that both wings of the party might be represented on the ticket.* Jhe republicans were successful in the ensuing election, and the assassination of fresident Garfield, within six months of his inauguration, by Charles J. Guiteau, raised Mr Arthur to the Presidency, Sep-ember 19fch, 1881." Mr Arthur was succeeded by President Citsvslaud ou ill arch <Lli, 18^6,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1516, 23 November 1886, Page 1
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320DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR. Temuka Leader, Issue 1516, 23 November 1886, Page 1
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