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ther's family to Bloomington, 111., and there lived the rest of his days. He was a man of high character, of strict morals and of unquestioned repute as a gentleman and a Christian. He bore through life and carried to his grave an unsullied name. He was much in public life, always an active and strenuous politician in the good sense of that term, and consequently often engaged in fierce political contests, and yet his bitterest adversaries never had the effrontery to accuse him of meanness, crookedness or per- fidy. In his early manhood he was happily wedded to a scion of one of the most noted families of Kentucky, with large and in- fluential connections, and herself a woman of high spirit not only, but of singular charm and loveliness. She was a great inspira- tion and help to him until her death a few months ago. As he was himself in broken health, he never rallied from the shock and sorrow of that separation. During recent months he has been a great sufferer and I am assured that he bore his sufferings with great fortitude and patience. Mr. Stevenson was what is called an uncommonly popular man, personally and socially. He had many political adversa- ries, but probably very few personal enemies. He was an out- and-out democrat, and lived in a congressional district which was overwhelmingly republican, and yet twice at least he was elected to congress by stiff majorities. Thousands of republicans voted for him on personal grounds. When he was candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Cleveland in 1892, Illinois for the only time in forty-eight years, went democratic, and it was attributed chiefly to the popularity of Stevenson.