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Daily Eastern Argus
Wednesday, 25 October 1882

         
         Death of Hon. WASHINGTON LONG.
                       Houlton, Oct. 21
                       
         To the Editor of the Argus
         
         Your correspondent is pained to announce the
       death of Hon. WASHINGTON LONG. (already reported
       by telegraph) which occurred at Fort Fairfield
       this morning.
         MR. LONG was sick only a few days and hence
       his sudden death is a shock to his many friends.
       I am informed that he died of lung fever.
         The past season he has erected a fine block of
       two stores on the ground floor, a large hall, one
       of the largest and best in the state, on the second
       floor, and a smaller hall, designed for the Odd
       Fellows, on the third. This building is now nearly
       finished, and it is sad indeed to think he who had
       expended so much time and money in erecting an edi-
       fice which will be so much more useful to his fel-
       low citizens and ornamental to the village in which
       he had so long resided than it would have been valu-
       able to him, had he lived, should have been thus
       called home before the building which he has erected
       more for the benefit of his fellow-townsmen than 
       himself was completed.
         MR. LONG lived a long and useful life. He was for
       many years Collector of Customs at Eastport, Me.
       In 1880 he represented the Fort Fairfield district
       in the legislature.
         MR. LONG was a gentleman whose honesty and inte-
       grity were unquestionable, he died possessed of
       the confidence of all who knew him. In politics
       he was formerly a Whig, but was one of the first
       to join the Republican party in this state. Dur-
       ing the past few years, however, he has acted and
       voted with the Democratic party.
         He leaves but a few relatives, I believe, among
       whom is Gov. JOHN D. LONG, of Massachusetts, who
       is his nephew.
         MR. LONG was a kind, genial and intelligent gentle-
       man, and will be greatly missed by all who knew him,
       and particularly by the citizens of his adopted
       town, Fort Fairfield.
         He lived to reach the three score years and ten
       allotted to man, and as he was so well and favor-
       ably known throughout the state, and so highly
       esteemed by all who knew him, it may most truth-
       fully and justly be said of him that he "died full
       of years and honors."
       
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