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Show Tr est dent Lincoln's T Secretary and Historian John G. Nicholay, the author of ten-volume ten-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln and of other works on the great emancipator, died the other day in Washington, aged 69. He had lived in the national capital ever since 1860. With the death of John G. Nicolay there remains but one survivor of the great war president's official householdJohn house-holdJohn Hay, the present secretary more than ordinary powers, and in the stern school of those crucial times they developed unusual diplomatic and executive abilities. To how great a degree Mr. Nicolay's faithful services contributed to President Lincoln's success cannot be estimated, but it is certain that his work at the White House was the most important of his life. He also performed a valuable ham Lincoln," on which -h3 and Mr. Hay collaborated for twelve years. The work is the standard authority on all phases of Lincoln's public career. It tells the story of the historic epoch of which Lincoln was the central figure fig-ure with an accuracy and fullness that render it of permanent value and interest in-terest It should be accounted one of .the fortunate circumstances of American Ameri-can history that two such able writers and .political students as Nicolay and Hay were in such close relations with Lincoln and had begun collecting material ma-terial for a history of the man and his times almost from the beginning of his administration. It is gratifying that Mr. Nicolay, in spite of poor health, lived to reap a liberal reward of reputation and money for his services ser-vices as biographer and historian.-',, THE LATE JOHN G. NICOLAY. public service when he chose John Hay as his assistant, thus turning the talents of the young Illinois lawyer into the channel of national politics. The work for which Mr. Nicolay will be longest remembered, however, Is that of the ten-volume "Life of Abra- of state. All the members of Lincoln's "abinets and nearly all the men who gupported him in the senate and house are dead Mr. Nicolay and Mr. Hay bth'we young men when they wen to Washington as Lincoln s private secretaries In 1861. Both were men of |