Death Of Capt. E. B. Ward

From the Detroit Free Treas. Captain E. B. Ward died snddenly in this city on Saturdny of apoplexy. No similar oalatnity that has occurred in Detroit in many years occasionod so profound a sensation as this sudduu and unlooked for death. The details of tho sad event are briefly told. He left home at the oorner of Fort and Nmotuonth stroets about half-past 9 o'clock Snturday morning in company with his son Charles. During the early hours of the morniug he had boen engaged in writing an article on tho currenoy, the copy of which he directed Charles to deliver to the printer. He spent half or three-quarters „ ■ _ er __i „ _. „ oí an nour ín nis ornee, wnen a suumiuu carne for him to appear as witness in the diamond drill suit on trial in the Superior Court. He put on bis overshoes, coat and muffler and started for the court room. He walked along briskly until he reached E. K. Koberts' banking office on the west side of Griswold Street, a few feet from Jefferson avenue. At that point he was seen to stop, throw up his arms violently and siuk to the ground. E. W. King and two or three other gerí lemen who saw him f all ran up and iTiquired if he was hurt ? Beceiving uo reply, Mr. King looked at him more ol ose) y and diacovered that his face was black and swollen. Mr. King exclaimed, " he is dying," and with thu help of some of the bystanders iinmediately carried him to Mr. Roberts' office and laid him on a lounge. Dr. D. O. Farrand, who chanced to be at hand, was called in, but the dying man was past all hope of human help. He breathed fitfully a few times and there was noticed an occasional muscular movement, but within three minutes from the time he was carried into the office he was dead. HI8 CAKEER. Eber Broek Ward was born near the site of the Broek monument in Lincoln County, Ontario, December 25th, 1811. He was therefore sixty-three yearg of age on last Christmas- an event whioh he celebrated with the greatest enjoyment and in the best of health. His birth in Canada ooourred during a teuiporary sojourn there of his father's family, they having gone thither froui Rutland County, 'Vermont, to escape the threatened ravages of the last war with Great Britain. Imruediately after the war the family return ed to Vermont. In 1817 several families, among them Mr. Ward's, determined to go West. Kentucky was fixed upon as the place whither they would go, and they set out on the then tedious journey. Mrs. Ward, the mother of Eber, died en route at Waterford, Pennsylvania. This event disarranged the eider Ward's plans, and when he reaohed Conneaut, Ohio, he abandoned the purpose of going to Kentucky. Eber Ward flrst carne to Detroit, in 1821, when he was less than ten years of age. A full record of his busy and eventfiil life would fill volumes. His interests at Wyandotte, Ludington, Silver Islet, Chicago, Milwaukee, the new plate gla8s works in Missouri, and his real estáte and vessel property in Detroit were all more or lees under his personal supervisión, though of course the details were conimitteü to tna care 01 men whom his sagacity had pronipted him to seleot for the hundreds of subordínate executive positions. It is impossible with the figures at hand to correct ly estímate his wealth, but it is said that $5,000,000 would not be too large an estimate. His investments in Silver Islet are considerably over $1,000,000. The milis at . Ludington cost $500,000. He has $1,000,000 in the Chicago rolling mili $500,000 at Wyandotte, $500,000 in noating property, and perhaps $2,000,000 in real estáte, to say nothing of the glass works venture which is now, although just started, in excellent shape, and with very flattering prospecta for the future. Capt. Ward leaves seven children - Henry, Elizabeth, Milton D., Charles H., Mary, Eber B. Jr., and Clara, the two last named being five and two years old, respectively. They are the children by his second marriage, all the others being grown to men's and women's estáte.