Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID), Wednesday, February 5, 1908 Page: 2

FORMER GOVERNOR DEAD

Devil's Lake, Ind., Feb. 4--E.S.D. Shortridge, former governor of North Dakota, died here today aged 78 years.

Grand Forks Daily Herald (Grand Forks, ND), Wednesday, February 5, 1908 Page: 1

DEATH CLAIMS N. D. PIONEER

Former Governor Shortridge Passed Away Yesterday Morning.

ELECTED GOVERNOR ON FUSION TICKET

Came to North Dakota Almost 25 Years Ago, Settling at Larimore.

With Members of Family at Bedside, Former Governor Shortridge Died at Home
in Devils Lake Yesterday Morning at 10:30--Death Due to Cancer--Deceased
Was 78 Years Old--An Excellent Career.

Herald Special Service.

Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 4.-Surrounded by the members of his family, former Governor E. C. D. Shortridge peacefully passed away at 10:45 this morning. Since Monday noon Mr. Shortridge had been unconscious. He has been failing rapidly since last Thursday, and his end from that time on was expected. One month ago he, accompanied by his daughter Juliette, went to Rochester, Minn., where he underwent an operation for cancer. After returning to the city, he seemed for a time generally relieved, but soon began to fail rapidly. The body will be taken to his early home, Macon, Mo., for interment. Funeral services will be held from the residence Thursday at 2 p. m., under the auspices of the Knights Templar, of which the deceased was a member. All of the governor's children who are living were present at the bedside when death came. His daughter, Mrs. David Stewart and son, of Spokane, Wash., who arrived in the city Sunday Morning, Miss Lila, who is engaged in teaching school at Park River, Juliette, of Albert Lea, Augustus of Jamestown, and Frances, who resides at home. Mr. Shortridge's cousins, Dr. and Mrs. Orr Sanders, of Grand Forks, arrived on the noon train.

Eli C. D. Shortridge was born in Cabell county, West Virginia, March 29, 1830, and therefore at the time of his death was 78 years of age. He was educated in the district school of the neighborhood and later at an academy at Par, Mo., to which locality he moved at an early date. He engaged in mining in that state, and twenty five years ago married Miss Anna Burton at Moberly, Mo. Soon afterwards he moved to Dakota, and took a prominent part in the strugges of the early pioneers. He settled at Larimore, where he helped to lay out the present townsite of that place. At one time he owned a large farm in Grand Forks county. In the campaign of 1892 he was persuaded to run for governor on the fusion ticket, he then holding a position as justice of the peace at Larimore. He never aspired to public office, but he made a personal canvass throughout the state, in the end defeating Andrew H. Burke, who was running for a second term on the republican ticket. At the expiration of his term of office, he was succeeded by Roger Allen, republican. Shortridge's gubernatorial administration was run entirely in the interests of the people.

His career since coming to North Dakota, twenty-seven years ago, has been consistent with a life of unbroken honesty and unswerving devotion to the better aspiration of life.

He was engaged in the grain commission business in Minneapolis after the close of his term as governor and later removed to Devils Lake, where he has since made his home.

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