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Gov. Ashley Dying

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
February
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Last night's Detroit Evening News contains the following dispatch from Toledo: Ex-President James M. Ashley, of the Ann Arbor road, which is now in the hands of a receiver, is lying at the Monticello, an apartment boarding house erected last summer by his son. A general breaking down,together with, or possibly caused by, the great financial losses by the family during the recent panic, is reported as the cause of his serious illness. It is now given out that he can not last many days. Gov. Ashley has been among the more prominent men of Ohio for many years, having served in the militia, prior to the war, and later having been appointed as governor of Arizona, whence he was removed by President Grant. He was prominent in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, having tlius re ceived at times the title of "Impeachraen't Ashley." He has been for years a striking figure in Toledo, where his family reside, and where it was supposed he had accumulated a large fortune. His eldest son married, it will be remembered, a daughter of W. R. Burt, of Saginaw. The Jatter is now the receiver of the road.' Gov.Ashley was an intímate friend of the late D. R. Locke, the "Petroleum V. Nasby," of journalistic fame, and delivered a touching address at the funeral of his friend.