Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Tuesday, October 2, 1883), p 1:
[SENATOR HOSTUTLER'S DEATH.
A Brief Sketch of His Character and Career.
Correspondence of the Intelligencer:
LITTLETON, W. VA., September 30.—State Senator D. M. Hostutler died at six o'clock this morning, after an illness of about eight months. Senator Hostutler leaves a wife and three children.
Senator Hostutler was elected in 1882 from the Second Senatorial district, comprising the counties of Marshall, Wetzel and Marion, and succeeded Lewis Newman, of Marshall, Democrat. Mr. Hostutler was a hard working shoemaker, an earnest man and a consistent Christian gentleman. By his modest ways and kindly manners he gained the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Brought up under hardships he sympathized with mankind, and this was his great success. He was nominated by the Republicans for Senator, and by the strength of his character beat his Democratic opponent nearly one thousand votes. In private as well as public life he was quiet and unassuming, and whatever virtue he preached he practiced. His record during his term in the Senate is clear and untarnished; and his colleagues will regret to hear of the death of the modest gentleman whom all respected for his dignity and unobtrusive manners. May his successor be as worthy of this enconium[sic] as he is.]
Journal of the Senate of the State of West Virginia (1885), pp. 46-48:
[On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall):
Resolved, That with an earnest desire to pay due respect to the memory of the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler, the ordinary business of the Senate be now suspended in order to give his friends an opportunity to pay their tributes of respect to his many sterling qualities.
Whereupon,
Mr. Price, (of Marshall), delivered the following remarks:
MR, PRESIDENT: It was not my good fortune to have had a personal acquaintance with the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler. It gives me pleasure, however, to say that during the late political campaign I saw and conversed with very many of his neighbors and friends in all parts of the District that he represented, and they without one exception gave to me the assurance and bore testimony that he was an honest man in the strictest sense of that term; that his morality, his integrity and veracity could not be called in question; and especially in this particular he was a model man. I learned from them also that to his friends he was ever true, and to their claims upon him he always responded with a loyalty that knew no bounds nor counted the cost, and his general reputation as a citizen wherever and whenever I heard his name mentioned fully convinced me that he was loved and honored by his people because of his many good deeds and kindness of heart.
And offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep emotion the announcement of the death of the Hon. Daniel M. Hostutler, late a member of this Senate from the county of Wetzel;
Resolved, That by his death the State has lost a true representative, the community an honest man, and the country a spirited, worthy citizen;
Resolved, That this Senate tender to the family and relatives of the deceased its fullest sympathy of this sad event;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Clerk of the Senate to the family of the deceased.
Mr. Smith addressed the President of the Senate as follows:
MR. PRESIDENT: In regard to the resolution offered by the venerable Senator from Marshall, I desire to say a word in respect to the late Senator D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with the deceased was of short duration, but sufficient to impress me that he possessed in an eminent degree sterling qualities, which are characteristic of true and noble manhood which deserve and command the respect and admiration of our civilization. A more conscientious man I never knew. A patriot, a good soldier in the hour of his country's peril, an exemplary citizen, an honored Senator, whom to know was to esteem.
Let us trust that when he breathed his soul out here on earth ministering angels were waiting to conduct his disembodied spirit across the dark waters to the Heavenly Canaan and golden sunshine of one eternal morning.
Mr. Coburn[sic] said:
MR. PRESIDENT: I feel that I would prove recreant to my duty if I failed to express a word of respect for our deceased Senator, D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with him was very short, but in that short time I learned to respect and trust him. I always found him prompt and fearless in the discharge of every duty, and my opinion formed by that short acquaintance was that he was a good man.
Mr. Dawson said:
MR. PRESIDENT: While my acquaintance with Mr. Hostutler was, not of a long duration, it was of rather an intimate character. His seat was near mine and I had frequent occasion to consult with him about matters pending before the Senate. From the first he impressed me as a man of noble character, of pure motives, of sterling honesty, and as one having a high appreciation of the duties of his office. He was singularly conscientious. He was unusually careful that his vote on every question should be for the right. He was particular to keep informed of every detail of business before the Senate. He was a true friend of the laboring man, and was especially solicitous about legislation in his behalf. My esteem for him and appreciation of the nobility of his character increased with my acquaintance with him.
It was with great regret and genuine sorrow that I heard of his denth, and had circumstances allowed it, I should have attended his funeral.
Men die as they live. The book will be like the preface. In the future of each of us shall each develop his controlling characteristics.
Daniel M. Hostutler though dead yet speaketh. The good he did lives after him, and we have reason for the hope that as the sun of his earthly life went down, and as the darkness of earth came upon him, there dawned on his spiritual eyes the eternal light of the Sun of Righteousness and the glad morning of everlasting day.
Mr. Floyd said:
MR. PRESIDENT: It was my good fortune to serve as a member of this body during the last session of the Legislature as an associate of the Hon. D. M. Hostutler, who lives among us and his friends now only in the pleasant recollections we have of his worth and congeniality. His body is placed to rest beneath the cold clay, there to sleep the sleep of eternal repose; but his spirit that was enshrined in its earthly home has by the wisdom, power and supreme good of the Great Goel of the Universe been taken to that home of eternal rest, there to render praise eternally to its creator.
We mourn his death. His departure from amongst us has left a void space that we all see and feel. But in our hearts he still lives, and his memory is. cherished. My acquaintance with our deceased brother was of but a short duration, having met him for the first time two years ago in this Senate chamber. With his private history and his private virtues I am unacquainted. His career as a member of this Senate is the only history I have of him. I always found him courteous, inspired by the sentiments of a true gentleman-with a heart in the proper place. On measures of public importance he was a true patriot, ignoring partizan principles for the advancement of the interest of his constituents and the benefit of the State at large. I most heartily unite in the tribute to the memory of our deceased brother, and extend to his friends my sincere sympathy for their deep bereavement of the loss of a noble man and a true friend.
Appropriate remarks were also made by Messrs. Price (President), Scott and Burgess upon the life, character and public services of the deceased.
The resolutions offered by Mr. Price (of Marshall) were then unanimously adopted.
Whereupon,
On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall), as a further tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate, at 4 :20 o'clock P.M., adjourned.]
Daniel Morgan Hostutler enrolled in Company G 17th Reg WV Inf Volunteers, 02/21/1865, Hanson Chriswell Capt of Co. Appointed Corporal 05/08/1865. Hon discharged at Wheeling 06/13/1865.Papers say "Born in Fayette Co., PA. 20 yrs of age, 5' 8" high, blue eyes, light hair". Appointment as Corp. at Bulltown WV by B.F. Latham, 1st Liet and Adjutant at headquarters of Reg.
Married Melissa Anderson, 07/25/1867, by Rev Henderson in Greene Co., PA. Elected State Senator 1880, State Capital at Wheeling. Contracted pneumonia and was in hospital, went back to duties at Senate to soon and suffered a relapse, which with complication of chronic trouble caused by exposure in army caused his death.
[SENATOR HOSTUTLER'S DEATH.
A Brief Sketch of His Character and Career.
Correspondence of the Intelligencer:
LITTLETON, W. VA., September 30.—State Senator D. M. Hostutler died at six o'clock this morning, after an illness of about eight months. Senator Hostutler leaves a wife and three children.
Senator Hostutler was elected in 1882 from the Second Senatorial district, comprising the counties of Marshall, Wetzel and Marion, and succeeded Lewis Newman, of Marshall, Democrat. Mr. Hostutler was a hard working shoemaker, an earnest man and a consistent Christian gentleman. By his modest ways and kindly manners he gained the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Brought up under hardships he sympathized with mankind, and this was his great success. He was nominated by the Republicans for Senator, and by the strength of his character beat his Democratic opponent nearly one thousand votes. In private as well as public life he was quiet and unassuming, and whatever virtue he preached he practiced. His record during his term in the Senate is clear and untarnished; and his colleagues will regret to hear of the death of the modest gentleman whom all respected for his dignity and unobtrusive manners. May his successor be as worthy of this enconium[sic] as he is.]
Journal of the Senate of the State of West Virginia (1885), pp. 46-48:
[On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall):
Resolved, That with an earnest desire to pay due respect to the memory of the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler, the ordinary business of the Senate be now suspended in order to give his friends an opportunity to pay their tributes of respect to his many sterling qualities.
Whereupon,
Mr. Price, (of Marshall), delivered the following remarks:
MR, PRESIDENT: It was not my good fortune to have had a personal acquaintance with the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler. It gives me pleasure, however, to say that during the late political campaign I saw and conversed with very many of his neighbors and friends in all parts of the District that he represented, and they without one exception gave to me the assurance and bore testimony that he was an honest man in the strictest sense of that term; that his morality, his integrity and veracity could not be called in question; and especially in this particular he was a model man. I learned from them also that to his friends he was ever true, and to their claims upon him he always responded with a loyalty that knew no bounds nor counted the cost, and his general reputation as a citizen wherever and whenever I heard his name mentioned fully convinced me that he was loved and honored by his people because of his many good deeds and kindness of heart.
And offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep emotion the announcement of the death of the Hon. Daniel M. Hostutler, late a member of this Senate from the county of Wetzel;
Resolved, That by his death the State has lost a true representative, the community an honest man, and the country a spirited, worthy citizen;
Resolved, That this Senate tender to the family and relatives of the deceased its fullest sympathy of this sad event;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Clerk of the Senate to the family of the deceased.
Mr. Smith addressed the President of the Senate as follows:
MR. PRESIDENT: In regard to the resolution offered by the venerable Senator from Marshall, I desire to say a word in respect to the late Senator D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with the deceased was of short duration, but sufficient to impress me that he possessed in an eminent degree sterling qualities, which are characteristic of true and noble manhood which deserve and command the respect and admiration of our civilization. A more conscientious man I never knew. A patriot, a good soldier in the hour of his country's peril, an exemplary citizen, an honored Senator, whom to know was to esteem.
Let us trust that when he breathed his soul out here on earth ministering angels were waiting to conduct his disembodied spirit across the dark waters to the Heavenly Canaan and golden sunshine of one eternal morning.
Mr. Coburn[sic] said:
MR. PRESIDENT: I feel that I would prove recreant to my duty if I failed to express a word of respect for our deceased Senator, D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with him was very short, but in that short time I learned to respect and trust him. I always found him prompt and fearless in the discharge of every duty, and my opinion formed by that short acquaintance was that he was a good man.
Mr. Dawson said:
MR. PRESIDENT: While my acquaintance with Mr. Hostutler was, not of a long duration, it was of rather an intimate character. His seat was near mine and I had frequent occasion to consult with him about matters pending before the Senate. From the first he impressed me as a man of noble character, of pure motives, of sterling honesty, and as one having a high appreciation of the duties of his office. He was singularly conscientious. He was unusually careful that his vote on every question should be for the right. He was particular to keep informed of every detail of business before the Senate. He was a true friend of the laboring man, and was especially solicitous about legislation in his behalf. My esteem for him and appreciation of the nobility of his character increased with my acquaintance with him.
It was with great regret and genuine sorrow that I heard of his denth, and had circumstances allowed it, I should have attended his funeral.
Men die as they live. The book will be like the preface. In the future of each of us shall each develop his controlling characteristics.
Daniel M. Hostutler though dead yet speaketh. The good he did lives after him, and we have reason for the hope that as the sun of his earthly life went down, and as the darkness of earth came upon him, there dawned on his spiritual eyes the eternal light of the Sun of Righteousness and the glad morning of everlasting day.
Mr. Floyd said:
MR. PRESIDENT: It was my good fortune to serve as a member of this body during the last session of the Legislature as an associate of the Hon. D. M. Hostutler, who lives among us and his friends now only in the pleasant recollections we have of his worth and congeniality. His body is placed to rest beneath the cold clay, there to sleep the sleep of eternal repose; but his spirit that was enshrined in its earthly home has by the wisdom, power and supreme good of the Great Goel of the Universe been taken to that home of eternal rest, there to render praise eternally to its creator.
We mourn his death. His departure from amongst us has left a void space that we all see and feel. But in our hearts he still lives, and his memory is. cherished. My acquaintance with our deceased brother was of but a short duration, having met him for the first time two years ago in this Senate chamber. With his private history and his private virtues I am unacquainted. His career as a member of this Senate is the only history I have of him. I always found him courteous, inspired by the sentiments of a true gentleman-with a heart in the proper place. On measures of public importance he was a true patriot, ignoring partizan principles for the advancement of the interest of his constituents and the benefit of the State at large. I most heartily unite in the tribute to the memory of our deceased brother, and extend to his friends my sincere sympathy for their deep bereavement of the loss of a noble man and a true friend.
Appropriate remarks were also made by Messrs. Price (President), Scott and Burgess upon the life, character and public services of the deceased.
The resolutions offered by Mr. Price (of Marshall) were then unanimously adopted.
Whereupon,
On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall), as a further tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate, at 4 :20 o'clock P.M., adjourned.]
Daniel Morgan Hostutler enrolled in Company G 17th Reg WV Inf Volunteers, 02/21/1865, Hanson Chriswell Capt of Co. Appointed Corporal 05/08/1865. Hon discharged at Wheeling 06/13/1865.Papers say "Born in Fayette Co., PA. 20 yrs of age, 5' 8" high, blue eyes, light hair". Appointment as Corp. at Bulltown WV by B.F. Latham, 1st Liet and Adjutant at headquarters of Reg.
Married Melissa Anderson, 07/25/1867, by Rev Henderson in Greene Co., PA. Elected State Senator 1880, State Capital at Wheeling. Contracted pneumonia and was in hospital, went back to duties at Senate to soon and suffered a relapse, which with complication of chronic trouble caused by exposure in army caused his death.
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Tuesday, October 2, 1883), p 1:
[SENATOR HOSTUTLER'S DEATH.
A Brief Sketch of His Character and Career.
Correspondence of the Intelligencer:
LITTLETON, W. VA., September 30.—State Senator D. M. Hostutler died at six o'clock this morning, after an illness of about eight months. Senator Hostutler leaves a wife and three children.
Senator Hostutler was elected in 1882 from the Second Senatorial district, comprising the counties of Marshall, Wetzel and Marion, and succeeded Lewis Newman, of Marshall, Democrat. Mr. Hostutler was a hard working shoemaker, an earnest man and a consistent Christian gentleman. By his modest ways and kindly manners he gained the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Brought up under hardships he sympathized with mankind, and this was his great success. He was nominated by the Republicans for Senator, and by the strength of his character beat his Democratic opponent nearly one thousand votes. In private as well as public life he was quiet and unassuming, and whatever virtue he preached he practiced. His record during his term in the Senate is clear and untarnished; and his colleagues will regret to hear of the death of the modest gentleman whom all respected for his dignity and unobtrusive manners. May his successor be as worthy of this enconium[sic] as he is.]
Journal of the Senate of the State of West Virginia (1885), pp. 46-48:
[On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall):
Resolved, That with an earnest desire to pay due respect to the memory of the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler, the ordinary business of the Senate be now suspended in order to give his friends an opportunity to pay their tributes of respect to his many sterling qualities.
Whereupon,
Mr. Price, (of Marshall), delivered the following remarks:
MR, PRESIDENT: It was not my good fortune to have had a personal acquaintance with the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler. It gives me pleasure, however, to say that during the late political campaign I saw and conversed with very many of his neighbors and friends in all parts of the District that he represented, and they without one exception gave to me the assurance and bore testimony that he was an honest man in the strictest sense of that term; that his morality, his integrity and veracity could not be called in question; and especially in this particular he was a model man. I learned from them also that to his friends he was ever true, and to their claims upon him he always responded with a loyalty that knew no bounds nor counted the cost, and his general reputation as a citizen wherever and whenever I heard his name mentioned fully convinced me that he was loved and honored by his people because of his many good deeds and kindness of heart.
And offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep emotion the announcement of the death of the Hon. Daniel M. Hostutler, late a member of this Senate from the county of Wetzel;
Resolved, That by his death the State has lost a true representative, the community an honest man, and the country a spirited, worthy citizen;
Resolved, That this Senate tender to the family and relatives of the deceased its fullest sympathy of this sad event;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Clerk of the Senate to the family of the deceased.
Mr. Smith addressed the President of the Senate as follows:
MR. PRESIDENT: In regard to the resolution offered by the venerable Senator from Marshall, I desire to say a word in respect to the late Senator D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with the deceased was of short duration, but sufficient to impress me that he possessed in an eminent degree sterling qualities, which are characteristic of true and noble manhood which deserve and command the respect and admiration of our civilization. A more conscientious man I never knew. A patriot, a good soldier in the hour of his country's peril, an exemplary citizen, an honored Senator, whom to know was to esteem.
Let us trust that when he breathed his soul out here on earth ministering angels were waiting to conduct his disembodied spirit across the dark waters to the Heavenly Canaan and golden sunshine of one eternal morning.
Mr. Coburn[sic] said:
MR. PRESIDENT: I feel that I would prove recreant to my duty if I failed to express a word of respect for our deceased Senator, D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with him was very short, but in that short time I learned to respect and trust him. I always found him prompt and fearless in the discharge of every duty, and my opinion formed by that short acquaintance was that he was a good man.
Mr. Dawson said:
MR. PRESIDENT: While my acquaintance with Mr. Hostutler was, not of a long duration, it was of rather an intimate character. His seat was near mine and I had frequent occasion to consult with him about matters pending before the Senate. From the first he impressed me as a man of noble character, of pure motives, of sterling honesty, and as one having a high appreciation of the duties of his office. He was singularly conscientious. He was unusually careful that his vote on every question should be for the right. He was particular to keep informed of every detail of business before the Senate. He was a true friend of the laboring man, and was especially solicitous about legislation in his behalf. My esteem for him and appreciation of the nobility of his character increased with my acquaintance with him.
It was with great regret and genuine sorrow that I heard of his denth, and had circumstances allowed it, I should have attended his funeral.
Men die as they live. The book will be like the preface. In the future of each of us shall each develop his controlling characteristics.
Daniel M. Hostutler though dead yet speaketh. The good he did lives after him, and we have reason for the hope that as the sun of his earthly life went down, and as the darkness of earth came upon him, there dawned on his spiritual eyes the eternal light of the Sun of Righteousness and the glad morning of everlasting day.
Mr. Floyd said:
MR. PRESIDENT: It was my good fortune to serve as a member of this body during the last session of the Legislature as an associate of the Hon. D. M. Hostutler, who lives among us and his friends now only in the pleasant recollections we have of his worth and congeniality. His body is placed to rest beneath the cold clay, there to sleep the sleep of eternal repose; but his spirit that was enshrined in its earthly home has by the wisdom, power and supreme good of the Great Goel of the Universe been taken to that home of eternal rest, there to render praise eternally to its creator.
We mourn his death. His departure from amongst us has left a void space that we all see and feel. But in our hearts he still lives, and his memory is. cherished. My acquaintance with our deceased brother was of but a short duration, having met him for the first time two years ago in this Senate chamber. With his private history and his private virtues I am unacquainted. His career as a member of this Senate is the only history I have of him. I always found him courteous, inspired by the sentiments of a true gentleman-with a heart in the proper place. On measures of public importance he was a true patriot, ignoring partizan principles for the advancement of the interest of his constituents and the benefit of the State at large. I most heartily unite in the tribute to the memory of our deceased brother, and extend to his friends my sincere sympathy for their deep bereavement of the loss of a noble man and a true friend.
Appropriate remarks were also made by Messrs. Price (President), Scott and Burgess upon the life, character and public services of the deceased.
The resolutions offered by Mr. Price (of Marshall) were then unanimously adopted.
Whereupon,
On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall), as a further tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate, at 4 :20 o'clock P.M., adjourned.]
Daniel Morgan Hostutler enrolled in Company G 17th Reg WV Inf Volunteers, 02/21/1865, Hanson Chriswell Capt of Co. Appointed Corporal 05/08/1865. Hon discharged at Wheeling 06/13/1865.Papers say "Born in Fayette Co., PA. 20 yrs of age, 5' 8" high, blue eyes, light hair". Appointment as Corp. at Bulltown WV by B.F. Latham, 1st Liet and Adjutant at headquarters of Reg.
Married Melissa Anderson, 07/25/1867, by Rev Henderson in Greene Co., PA. Elected State Senator 1880, State Capital at Wheeling. Contracted pneumonia and was in hospital, went back to duties at Senate to soon and suffered a relapse, which with complication of chronic trouble caused by exposure in army caused his death.
[SENATOR HOSTUTLER'S DEATH.
A Brief Sketch of His Character and Career.
Correspondence of the Intelligencer:
LITTLETON, W. VA., September 30.—State Senator D. M. Hostutler died at six o'clock this morning, after an illness of about eight months. Senator Hostutler leaves a wife and three children.
Senator Hostutler was elected in 1882 from the Second Senatorial district, comprising the counties of Marshall, Wetzel and Marion, and succeeded Lewis Newman, of Marshall, Democrat. Mr. Hostutler was a hard working shoemaker, an earnest man and a consistent Christian gentleman. By his modest ways and kindly manners he gained the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Brought up under hardships he sympathized with mankind, and this was his great success. He was nominated by the Republicans for Senator, and by the strength of his character beat his Democratic opponent nearly one thousand votes. In private as well as public life he was quiet and unassuming, and whatever virtue he preached he practiced. His record during his term in the Senate is clear and untarnished; and his colleagues will regret to hear of the death of the modest gentleman whom all respected for his dignity and unobtrusive manners. May his successor be as worthy of this enconium[sic] as he is.]
Journal of the Senate of the State of West Virginia (1885), pp. 46-48:
[On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall):
Resolved, That with an earnest desire to pay due respect to the memory of the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler, the ordinary business of the Senate be now suspended in order to give his friends an opportunity to pay their tributes of respect to his many sterling qualities.
Whereupon,
Mr. Price, (of Marshall), delivered the following remarks:
MR, PRESIDENT: It was not my good fortune to have had a personal acquaintance with the late Senator Daniel M. Hostutler. It gives me pleasure, however, to say that during the late political campaign I saw and conversed with very many of his neighbors and friends in all parts of the District that he represented, and they without one exception gave to me the assurance and bore testimony that he was an honest man in the strictest sense of that term; that his morality, his integrity and veracity could not be called in question; and especially in this particular he was a model man. I learned from them also that to his friends he was ever true, and to their claims upon him he always responded with a loyalty that knew no bounds nor counted the cost, and his general reputation as a citizen wherever and whenever I heard his name mentioned fully convinced me that he was loved and honored by his people because of his many good deeds and kindness of heart.
And offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep emotion the announcement of the death of the Hon. Daniel M. Hostutler, late a member of this Senate from the county of Wetzel;
Resolved, That by his death the State has lost a true representative, the community an honest man, and the country a spirited, worthy citizen;
Resolved, That this Senate tender to the family and relatives of the deceased its fullest sympathy of this sad event;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Clerk of the Senate to the family of the deceased.
Mr. Smith addressed the President of the Senate as follows:
MR. PRESIDENT: In regard to the resolution offered by the venerable Senator from Marshall, I desire to say a word in respect to the late Senator D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with the deceased was of short duration, but sufficient to impress me that he possessed in an eminent degree sterling qualities, which are characteristic of true and noble manhood which deserve and command the respect and admiration of our civilization. A more conscientious man I never knew. A patriot, a good soldier in the hour of his country's peril, an exemplary citizen, an honored Senator, whom to know was to esteem.
Let us trust that when he breathed his soul out here on earth ministering angels were waiting to conduct his disembodied spirit across the dark waters to the Heavenly Canaan and golden sunshine of one eternal morning.
Mr. Coburn[sic] said:
MR. PRESIDENT: I feel that I would prove recreant to my duty if I failed to express a word of respect for our deceased Senator, D. M. Hostutler. My acquaintance with him was very short, but in that short time I learned to respect and trust him. I always found him prompt and fearless in the discharge of every duty, and my opinion formed by that short acquaintance was that he was a good man.
Mr. Dawson said:
MR. PRESIDENT: While my acquaintance with Mr. Hostutler was, not of a long duration, it was of rather an intimate character. His seat was near mine and I had frequent occasion to consult with him about matters pending before the Senate. From the first he impressed me as a man of noble character, of pure motives, of sterling honesty, and as one having a high appreciation of the duties of his office. He was singularly conscientious. He was unusually careful that his vote on every question should be for the right. He was particular to keep informed of every detail of business before the Senate. He was a true friend of the laboring man, and was especially solicitous about legislation in his behalf. My esteem for him and appreciation of the nobility of his character increased with my acquaintance with him.
It was with great regret and genuine sorrow that I heard of his denth, and had circumstances allowed it, I should have attended his funeral.
Men die as they live. The book will be like the preface. In the future of each of us shall each develop his controlling characteristics.
Daniel M. Hostutler though dead yet speaketh. The good he did lives after him, and we have reason for the hope that as the sun of his earthly life went down, and as the darkness of earth came upon him, there dawned on his spiritual eyes the eternal light of the Sun of Righteousness and the glad morning of everlasting day.
Mr. Floyd said:
MR. PRESIDENT: It was my good fortune to serve as a member of this body during the last session of the Legislature as an associate of the Hon. D. M. Hostutler, who lives among us and his friends now only in the pleasant recollections we have of his worth and congeniality. His body is placed to rest beneath the cold clay, there to sleep the sleep of eternal repose; but his spirit that was enshrined in its earthly home has by the wisdom, power and supreme good of the Great Goel of the Universe been taken to that home of eternal rest, there to render praise eternally to its creator.
We mourn his death. His departure from amongst us has left a void space that we all see and feel. But in our hearts he still lives, and his memory is. cherished. My acquaintance with our deceased brother was of but a short duration, having met him for the first time two years ago in this Senate chamber. With his private history and his private virtues I am unacquainted. His career as a member of this Senate is the only history I have of him. I always found him courteous, inspired by the sentiments of a true gentleman-with a heart in the proper place. On measures of public importance he was a true patriot, ignoring partizan principles for the advancement of the interest of his constituents and the benefit of the State at large. I most heartily unite in the tribute to the memory of our deceased brother, and extend to his friends my sincere sympathy for their deep bereavement of the loss of a noble man and a true friend.
Appropriate remarks were also made by Messrs. Price (President), Scott and Burgess upon the life, character and public services of the deceased.
The resolutions offered by Mr. Price (of Marshall) were then unanimously adopted.
Whereupon,
On motion of Mr. Price (of Marshall), as a further tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate, at 4 :20 o'clock P.M., adjourned.]
Daniel Morgan Hostutler enrolled in Company G 17th Reg WV Inf Volunteers, 02/21/1865, Hanson Chriswell Capt of Co. Appointed Corporal 05/08/1865. Hon discharged at Wheeling 06/13/1865.Papers say "Born in Fayette Co., PA. 20 yrs of age, 5' 8" high, blue eyes, light hair". Appointment as Corp. at Bulltown WV by B.F. Latham, 1st Liet and Adjutant at headquarters of Reg.
Married Melissa Anderson, 07/25/1867, by Rev Henderson in Greene Co., PA. Elected State Senator 1880, State Capital at Wheeling. Contracted pneumonia and was in hospital, went back to duties at Senate to soon and suffered a relapse, which with complication of chronic trouble caused by exposure in army caused his death.
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