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Death Of Roscoe Conkling

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Day
19
Month
April
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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New York, April 18.- Roacoe Conkling died at the Iioffman House, New York, at 1-50 a m. At his bodside when death came were Mrs. Conkling, her dauhter, Hrs. Oakham, Judga Coxe and Dr. Anderton Mr Conkling passed;away without moving a limb. He looked as thouith peaoelully sleeping. Roscoe Conkling was bom in Albany, , y Uctober 30, 18'29. His father, Alfred Conkling, was a prominent man, a member ol the Seventeenth Congress, and at ona time Minister to Mexico. In 1846 Mr, Conkline entered the law office of bpencsr Kerman in Utica, in 1858 was mayor oí that city and in the same year he was elected a Representativo in the Thirty-sUtU Congress and was re-eleoted in 1860, 1864 and 1860 and In the latter years wa elected United States Senator and +„t Viio oat. in the Senate March 4, 1867, and was re-elected twice. In 1881 he resigned his seat, retired from politici), and resumed the active practice of the law. From the time Mr. Conklmg entered the House of Kepresentatives, during the war, to the close oL his Senatorial career, aftel twenty-five years of public lite, ha was a Í leader He leaves a wife, who was a sister of the late Horatio Seymour, and one dauhter. Albany. N. Y., April 18. -The premature announcement of Mr. ' Conkling's death at 819 o'clock last night was made in the Assembly soon after that time, whereupon the House passed resolutions expressing lts admiration and esteem for him, suggestinjr a joint memorial committee oï the House and Senate, and adjourned out of respect to his memory.

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