THE QUINCY DAILY WHIG
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1912
PAGE 2
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBBIE
GIBSON
SENATOR OF IDAHO DEAD
SENATOR WELDON HEYBURN DIED IN
WASHINGTON LAST EVENING
WAS PROMINENT SENATOR
DEATH
RESULT OF COMPLICATION OF DISEASES - WAS 60 YEARS OLD
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, - United States Senator Weldon Brinton
Heyburn of
Idaho died at his apartments here tonight after a lingering
illness. He
was 60 years old and had been in the senate nine years.
A complication of diseases, involving the heart and
kidneys, caused
death. He had not been well since last March when he
collapses after
delivering a speech in the senate on the arbitration
treaties. Several
weeks ago, apparently gaining strength after a serious
relapse, the
senator and Mrs. Heyburn made preparations for a trip west.
Another
relapse followed, however, since then the patient had been
growing
steadily weaker. Today the doctors thought he was slightly
improved, but
death came suddenly a few minutes before eight o'clock
tonight. No
arrangements have been made for the funeral, but the body
will be taken to
the old home of Senator Heyburn, in Birmingham, Pa., for
burial.
Senator Heyburn was born in Delaware, May
23, 1852, his parents being
John Brinton and Sarah Gilpin Heyburn, Quakers of English
descent. After
being admitted to the bar in 1876, he practiced law
continuously until he
entered the senate. He married Miss Gheretein Yeatman, who
survives him.
They had no children.
In 1883 the senator moved to
Shoshone, Idaho, which had been his home
ever since. He was a member of the Idaho constitutional
convention and as
republican national committeeman. January 13, 1903, he was
elected to the
senate and in January, 1909, was unanimously re-elected to
serve until
1915.
One of the staunchest of the regular
republicans and a man of strong
convictions, frankly and emphatically expressed on all
occasions, Senator
Heyburn had for many years been a conspicuous figure in the
senate. He was
mostly known, perhaps, for his unyielding bitterness toward
the south.
