Obituary of Att. Gen. Augustus H. Garland, Pulaski Co, Ar

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Obituary: Washington, Jan. 27 - Brief funeral services over the remains of the
late Attorney General, Augustus Hill Garland, will be held at the Colonial Hotel
tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o’clock, Rev. Father Lee of St. Matthews Catholic
Church, conducting them. Then the remains will be taken to the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for a train leaving for Little Rock at 3:45pm. The honorary
pallbearers will be Justice Harland, Justice McKenna, Attorney General Griggs,
J. H. McKenney, Clerk of the United States Supreme Count; Senator J. K. Jones
and Senator Berry, of Arkansas; Senator Arthur P. Gorman, Rep. T. C. McRae, Rep.
W. T. Terry, Jeremiah M. Wilson, Walter D. Davidge. The active pall bearers will
be H. J. May, former law partner of Mr. Garland; Rep. Hugh Dinsmore, James Marr
and William Stansbury, of the Supreme Court; R. W. Hobson, Holmes Conrad, Major
Frank Strong and Colonel Robert A. Howard. Rufus Garland, a son, and Mr. J. K.
Jones, Jr., will accompany the remains to Arkansas. Another son, Mr. Sanders
Garland, being unable to go because of a recent severe illness. The train
scheduled in Little Rock by 8 o’clock Monday morning. The body will lie in state
and the final services will be in charge of a committee of the Arkansas
legislature. Interment will be in Mt. Holly Cemetery. Atlanta Constitution, Jan.
28, 1899. Born Jun. 11, 1832 - Bio: 1th Arkansas Governor, US Senator,
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Served as Governor of Arkansas from 1874 to
1877. Elected as a Senator from Arkansas to the United States Senate, serving
from 1877 until he resigned in 1885 to accept the appointment of United States
Attorney General in the cabinet of President Grover Cleveland. He served in that
capacity from 1885 until 1889.

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