all the stock. He was also a stockholder and director in the Woodward iron interests, in Alabama.

He was chosen a member of the House of Delegates, 1877, serving his county to the best of its interests. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a trustee for twenty-five years.

Mrs. Frank J. Hearne and William L. Hearne Jr., are expected to arrive in the city this morning, and the relatives living in Kansas City will arrive today in Mr. Nettleton's private car. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet complete, but it is probable that the interment will take place Saturday, in Greenwood Cemetery.

The trustees of the Tabernacle named by Mr. Hearne are: William H. Hearne, president; H. K. List, W. M. List, N. E. Whitaker, N. B. Scott, J. J. Jones, W. A. Wilson, Clement Smith, Rev. W. H. Cooke, G. W. Adams, J. N. Vance, and J. M. Bruhn. These gentlemen will continue the good work for him.

Mr. Hearne was brought up a staunch Democrat, but was always a conscientious protectionist, and when in the first Harrison campaign, he finally became convinced that the Democratic free trade policy was wrong, he actively engaged on behalf of the Republican party, with which he has ever since been identified. Intelligent, genial, progressive, he was a rarely useful man to the community, and his loss will long be felt.

When in Delaware in the spring of 1891, Mr. James Tyre, one of the Hearne family, was asking me about Wm. L. Hearne, and told me that when William L. was converted, when a young man at a Methodist meeting, he was thoroughly converted. No half way. He was possessed of more wealth than any of the Hearne family at that time, and had quite a sum of money loaned to a certain man at usurious interest. He went to this man and canceled the entire amount of usury, when William L.'s brother-in-law, Mr. Ross, who was a worldly man, told him he was silly to do such a thing. In a short time after that the man who had borrowed the money failed and become a bankrupt with nothing to pay, when Ross again "guyed" William L., but in less than a year the bankrupt had a generous friend, who unexpectedly came to his relief, and told him he would let him have sufficient money to pay off all his honest obligations, but not a dollar to any one of his usurious

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