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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last hours of Hon. S. A. Douglas. (search)
il, and his unwilling physician pronounced him beyond hope. Their only duty left was the mournful one of easing his dying hours. He gradually failed, seemingly without pain, until eleven minutes past nine, when the lamp of life was extinguished without a sigh or struggle. His devoted and loving wife remained with him to the last moment, solacing him as best she could, buried under the weight of the deep affliction. Madison Cutts, his brother-in-law; Miss Young, of the Tremont House; B. G. Caulfield, and Dr. Hay, were also present. His death was peaceful and tranquil as the melting away of a summer cloud at evening, and the mourning watchers were alone with all that was earthly of Stephen A. Douglas. The Chicago Post says: Judge Douglas returned home quite unwell, and called his medical attendant on Thursday, May 2. His primary attack was acute rheumatism, which rapidly assumed a typhoid character, and continued from the first very unyielding. After some ten or twe