Licking-Knox-Franklin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Lewis Cass GRANGER 1890
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San Francisco Newspaper clipping, California

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Monday May 26, 1890
Hon. L. c. GRANGER
Late register Land Office, Marysville

We have to record, with much regret that this gentleman died in Oroville, Butte 
County during the past week, full of years and honor, and well approved by all 
his friends and neighbors. He died in harness, being Register in the U.S. Land 
Office, in Marysville, Butte Co.
He was born the old of Puritan stock, in Granville, Ohio, in 1821 being the son 
of Ralph Granger and Hannah Spellman, Granger. He came to California in 1849. 
He has been a democrat all the while, a favorite in his party, and always well 
received, even by his opponents. He has filled many public places with honor to 
himself, and good service to the State.
A scholar, a tinker, a progressive reformer, be sent many words of pleasant 
approval to the political
Record, and has been our friend from the first to the last.
In the Irrigation Campaign he was the author of a bill in our legislature that 
marked him as a friend of the people, and an enemy of all assumption of vested 
rights, or special privileges. His bill placed the water of the state in the 
keeping of the people, to be disposed of with equal law for all.
In his last days he was preparing a book on the Science of Government, and we 
trust it may be so far complete as to be offered to the public.
He believed that in the Republic Politics should be a sort of Religion, and the 
idea of misleading, cheating, corrupting, or doing ought to impair the 
character, the integrity and security of the republic as a heinous sin against 
God, Liberty, our country and our people.
He never could have entered upon such a career as Stanford, Huntington and 
Company, have pursued, no not all for all the world. He believed in the long 
future of the soul, and refused to meet it loaded down with crime, done for a 
few dollars.
Peace to his ashes! The good must go, but only to greater honor. And the bad 
must follow, to whatever their deserts may merit. But it was the opinion of our 
friend Granger, that all the stocks and bonds in this great union are no price 
for a lost soul. Billions cannot compensate for the smile of God, once lost.
An Oroville exchange has some further particulars regarding the life of the 
late Judge Granger.
He was District Attorney of Los Angeles in 1851 and ran for Attorney General of 
the State in 1863. He was Governor Downey’s private Secretary. In the latter 
years of his life he was engaged in writing a book. He was a profound thinker 
and a scholar in every sense of the term.
Judge Granger practiced law for many years in Butte County. It has been said of 
him that he was to honest to get rich, that he would scruple at principle and 
would never do anything unless he knew it was just right. It can never be said 
of him that he willingly harmed anyone. 
The funeral cortege, which was a long one proceeded from the residence to the 
city cemetery, where the remains of Judge Granger are laid to rest.
William H Granger, of San Buena Ventura and only son of the late Judge Lewis 
Cass Granger, came up on last evening’s train to attend his deceased father’s  
funeral today. 


Additional Comments:
Hannah Spellman and Ralph Granger were early settlers to Granville, Licking 
County Ohio. Hannah's father Timothy Spellman was with the first group to 
settle in Grnaville in 1805 coming there from Granville Mass. Lewis attended 
college at Granville, and in Pa and also in Mt Vernon Ohio before removing to 
California with his brother Henry in tow, the two brothers set out for the west 
never to return to their homeland of Granville, Ohio. There is a photo of Lewis 
in the orginial newspaper clipping if anyone is interested I can send it to 
you. 

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