Show friderici DOUGLASS stricken with heart disease in his homo HE HAD NO premonition began tafe as a slave ran ean away purchased freedom became an orator editor and louder ro jo mantle ZIar ringo to it 1 new mew england white woman left nn an estate worth over death of bodurko cockrans cockrane Coc krans wito wife washington D C feb 20 d F frederick fredereck re d e rick reck douglass Dou class tile the noted m t ln 0 orator r a and diplomat died a few minutes before 7 to lo at his rest dence nt it anacostia An acosta a suburb of this city of heart failure ills death was entirely unexpected as lie ho had been enjoying the best of health dui ing the af afternoon lie he attended the convention of the women of the united states now in rr progress ogress in tills this city and chatted with susan 13 anthony and others of the leading members with whom lie he has been on intimate terms for many years when he returned tied hame he said nothing of any feeling of illness though he be expressed himself as being a little ex I 1 r I 1 40 ar Z ae w s A ia tra j VV K aw b f ltv t t it A 1 s e e op e W k L kaw k eis aw f 4 n il ny 1 11 3 ar I 1 kg Y 4 1 ar T q k k I 1 4 aw 3 4 6 T N I 1 y oo 00 t P r r 0 k V 0 4 I 1 1 1 I 1 74 JJ i ik 4 Z 3 1 A P ria W if i az 1771 raj 4 A 1 4 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 az 1 1 t I 1 1 I 1 1 t 1 r I 1 11 I 1 11 3 11 1 I 1 4 iffa I 1 alj r 5 lioa W 1 K 11 1 I R 4 J V py T M 4 d I 1 I 1 1 q A V W I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 X ap 1 I 1 I 1 IV V I 1 fuederick derick douglass hausted haunted from t the he climb lip the stairs leading from the to hla his house which Is on oil a high terrace ile he sat down and chatted with ills wife about the women at the convention suddenly y lie he rasped gasped flapped clap fed his big hands to ills his heart and left fell back unconscious A doctor was hastily summoned and a rived within a few moments but tile the lef efforts forts to relve him were hopeless from the first within twenty minutes after lite attack the faint motion of the die healt ceased entirely and the great ex slave statesman was dead HIS ROMANTIC ANTIC MARRIAGE mr do Dob leaves tw two 0 so sons ns E and nd it a daughter the children of his first wife his becony wife who was a t white woman weman T survives him the of the marriage was vias a I 1 torna one tte helen ivitts whom lie he married aried was a new anzland angland woman of mida middle ago age it a clrk clerk in the office of the re ile borde vorde of deeds of tile the DI of columbia iben sir mr douglass was appointed ap pointel to that ce she was wai a member of a literary society to which tie lie belonged they were thrown aruch together end and finally became enraged engaged her iela natives datives da tives opposed the union bitterly on account 0 of f his color but finally yielded to force orca of circumstances some of 0 them have tor for some time been living near the home on anacostia An acosta ta heights freedl Fre frederick erl c k driski dougliss iss was born in ili talbott county maryland in pait uary 1817 ills mother waa a negro slave and tile his father wa waa ft white hite man at the age of ct 10 I 1 lie lev was sent seat to baltimore where he learned to real anti and write ills owner later allowed him to hire his own time tor for 83 3 per abek and he was employed in a ship yard FLED FRO FROM f SLAVERY in september lie he fled front from bal almora and made ills his way to new yol toi k thence he went to new bedford mass whore where lie he married avid and lived tor for three or four years supporting himself by day labor on the hie wharves and in various workshops ork shops while there lie he changed ills his name to douglasb Dou Klaps lie ho had provi previously been called lloyd the iho name of hll big old master hoaas lie was aided in his efforts tor for self education by william lloyd garrison in the summer of 1841 1941 he attended an an antislavery anti l slavery convention at nantucket and made a speech which was so bell received that lie he va was 5 0 offered f the agency of tho the iauco Iau ao u se tta antislavery anti slavery society in tills this ca capacity he traveled and lectured through the new ril england giand states tor for tour four yeats large lais lai s audiences were att attracted meted br hla his graphia of slavery anil and hla his speeches at this time line he published hla his alist book entitled Nar atles of I 1 ay my iy experience per peri ence lAnce in slavery in 1941 ole went wenc to 10 europe and lectured on oil slavery to ca tius lastic audiences in ili nearly III all of if the large tawni of 0 great creat britain BOUGHT HIS rREE rR nEDOM DOM in ili IS 1814 IH ills his friends in ili If nerland raised p purse of taco to purchase him freedom ila ho remained in great britain unit in began begaii at rochester N Y the publication of frederick Douglas ss ll ia ajer per chos title was afterwards changed to the north star jn in 1355 lie published shed my aly bondage and my bly fr freedom s adoni in the jolin john brown riots tool took place in virginia ITT II 11 was waa supposed to I 1 have been implicated in these ond nd i made for his all arrest upon the governor Gov einor of michigan in which stale scale he be then was to avold avoid difficulty mr douglass went to england where he vernal ned for six or earnt months lie he anen returned to rochester and continued the publican 1 lion ion ot of his happl when the elie civil war 1 gari in he be arrid upon l lincoln the ihn employment or of colored trul e and th tb of a proclamation of emancipation in when wh ji it was wai at list decided to lo employ such troops he gove esq go ve ills his as sit tanca in most man for such reg ments especially espee lilly the fifty fourth an and d fafty fifth after the abolition of slavery lie he asco discontinued tho the bubli publication antion of his paper and applied himself to 10 the and delivery of urn lectures in september Septem lier 1870 lie he became editor of tile ahe now national im in ripton ehli was waa afterwards afterward a con continued by his sons lewis and F frederick r ederle k in 1371 tie ole was appointed secretary t to the commatee comal ace to sao san rio r io manfro on his president grant appointed him one of 0 the territorial council tor for the district of 0 colorado Co lorido in wa ho he was waa elected presidential elec elea tor at larze larse for tho state of new york slid and was IN appointed to carry tho the electoral vote of tive ine state to lo anva washington hington in he was wai wa i appointed united states marchal for or the of 0 columbia aft after tills lit lie became recorder of 0 deeds tor for the district of columbia fro from in which ile he was waa removed by 1 resident president cleveland in in ili the autumn ot of that year bip hi revisited viso lt ed england En Bland to inform the friends blends w whom m te he had made whilo while a 8 fugitive american rican wave of llie elie pr ottress of the Amp american raci race rac i in the united states diplomatic after his return to the united states h he L was appointed Mi nitter to by president harrlson harrigan in 1889 lie he was pent to in n a un united tei states man of war lie ile in hayti on the ath of october just its as that country haq wa emerging from one of the most exciting revolutions it had wit nesi for years yearb alie tile government existing upon his arrival was simply provisional and even the new president took ills office thero there was waa some delay in the arrival and presentation of his credentials these circum stances gave rise in the united states I 1 to 0 persistent lumir ru mir that the ilay hay t ion government rad fiad refused to receive ceide sir mr lon laa on account of ills his color thy thoy wore were devi denied lerl however and mr douglass was waa firefly warmly received the Ilay tien ministry try wat was the last position in the tha gift 0 ot the united states held by mr douglass in hayti mails made an all appropriation of money for ohp th columbian exposition aud appointed mr douglass Doug laai the senior of her two commissioners to tile tha ex po Biton since the close cloi o of the fair mr douglass Dou glasa has lived quietly in Wash larton wit holit eng a g I 1 n 9 11 in i any special busl nem ills his wealth la Is variously estimated at from to |