In three obituaries, all stated A.M., wife Belle and son, Mortimer E. Dahlgren, were buried in the BEAUVOIR Cemetery, although not listed in their records, he lived in one of the cottages on the grounds of Beauvoir.
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Austin M Dahlgren in the Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Austin M Dahlgren
Marriage Date: 14 May 1885
Marriage Location: Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri
Marriage County: Lafayette
Spouse Name: Frances M Smith
***
Marriage records, Mississippi, Harrison County
Name: A.M. Dalgrin(sic)
Spouse: Belle D. Deslondes(sic)
Marriage date: 12 August 1901, book 13 page 197
by JP J.J. Herbert
***
Son of Charles Gustave Dahlgren and Mary Malvina Routh
***
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans LA
Wednesday July 11, 1906 page 10
Biloxi, Miss., July 10-
DAHLGREN DIES IN MERIDIAN ASYLUM
Man of Distinguished Ancestry and Many Parts,
Once a Leader on the Mississippi Coast,
Breaks Under the Strain of Attacking Troubles,
And Goes to His Grave Almost Friendless, Although He Aided Many.
Information was received this morning of the death of A.M. DAHLGREN at the Insane Asylum in Meridian. Mr. Dahlgren was sent to Meridian, on the 5th of this month, suffering from dementia, but the immediate cause of his death was Bright's disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time. His death occurred about 8 o'clock this morning, shortly after he had taken his breakfast, and was sudden and altogether unexpected.
This announcement will not cause much surprise to the people on the Gulf Coast, who have known of the downward path taken by Dahlgren. A few years ago his death would have been cause for profound sorrow in every one of the Gulf Coast cities and in many other parts of Mississippi. Today there are none to do him reverence, and those who do recall the past will express pity that such should have been the fate of a man whom the fates had destined for better things.
A descendant of one of the great kings of modern times, with an intervening ancestry that wrote its name upon the history of the United States and Europe, a man who had as his preceptor in his chosen profession the great JEFFERSON DAVIS, the only President of the Confederacy, when he began his battle of life, he had the world before him, and every hope of making it yield up its best to him. He began to climb the ladder of success, and was looked upon him as a leader. He had the qualities of leadership, had a brilliant mind well stored with useful information and was highly educated.
But there came a time when he met a political reverse through his adhesian to principle. He stood out almost alone in his State against an overwhelming sentiment of his people, and for the nonce his political sun was eclipsed. Then his inherent weakness asserted itself. He began to drink, and domestic complications set him on the road to ruin, and he never swerved from the path. Ever downward he went, and there were few who would reach out a hand to stay him. To those few he gave but a scornful smile and pitched headlong into his excess, which sapped his once vigorous physical and mentality until he was finally picked up and sent to the Asylum at Meridian.
AUSTIN MORTIMER DAHLGREN was born in Natchez, Miss., Oct. 3, 1856. He was a son of General CHARLES G. DAHLGREN, C.S.A., who was born in Philadelphia. An uncle was Admiral JOHN A. DAHLGREN, U.S.N., who invented the cannon that bears his name and which played such a conspicuous part in the Civil War. Another uncle on the Maternal side was COUNT de ROHAN, who fought in many European wars during the middle of the nineteenth century, and won honors from several countries. His grandfather was the Swedish Minister to the United States. He could prove lineal descent from GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, the great warrior King of Sweden, and the name of MORTIMER proved the connection of the family with the Swede earldom of Mortimer.
He passed a part of his youth in Natchez, and was educated at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, at Winchester, VA. Returning, he took up his home with his sister, Mrs. Sam A. Dorsey, at Beauvoir, which Mrs. Dorsey, on her death, bequeathed to JEFFERSON DAVIS, together with most other valuable property. While at Beauvoir young Dahlgren studied law under Mr. Davis, and the latter's brother, General Joseph R. Davis. He was admitted to the bar in 1878. For ten years he pursued the even test of his way, making many friends and building up good practice and thence in 1891 he was elected to the Mississippi Legislature. It was a memorable contest, because he opposed some of the strongest men in this district, and won by a handsome majority. He immediately assumed a prominent place in the legislative counsel, and his reputation as a speaker and clear thinker spread over the State.
When Mr. CLEVELAND was elected President, in 1892, Dahlgren was appointed collector of the port of Biloxi, and served his term out. During the latter part of it he earned the extreme good will of the Cuban revolutionists, who were operating filibustering expeditions from the Southern coast. When these, as was supposed, finally resulted in bringing yellow fever to the Gulf Coast in 1897, and thence to New Orleans, he became the disbursing officer of the Government for the maintenance of the detention camp at Fontainebleau.
In the memorable campaign of 1894, Dahlgren was a firm believer in sound money, and fought against the free silver movement with all his force, but he could make no headway against the popular wave which over-whelmed his State.
His career after leaving office was on the descending scale. He was divorced from his first wife (Frances Mildred Smith), and married her cousin, a Miss Deslondes(Belle Hollingsworth Deslonde). He tried now and then to rehabilitate himself, bur finally gave it up and gave his passion for drink full swing.
The remains were taken to Biloxi last night, and this morning they will be interred in the burying ground at BEAUVOIR, where he spent the happy days of his youth and which is now the Soldiers' Home of Mississippi. There lie the remains of his father and mother.
He is survived by a brother, who resides in St Louis.
Submitted by Linda Ellis
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Austin M Dahlgren in the Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Austin M Dahlgren
Marriage Date: 14 May 1885
Marriage Location: Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri
Marriage County: Lafayette
Spouse Name: Frances M Smith
***
Marriage records, Mississippi, Harrison County
Name: A.M. Dalgrin(sic)
Spouse: Belle D. Deslondes(sic)
Marriage date: 12 August 1901, book 13 page 197
by JP J.J. Herbert
***
Son of Charles Gustave Dahlgren and Mary Malvina Routh
***
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans LA
Wednesday July 11, 1906 page 10
Biloxi, Miss., July 10-
DAHLGREN DIES IN MERIDIAN ASYLUM
Man of Distinguished Ancestry and Many Parts,
Once a Leader on the Mississippi Coast,
Breaks Under the Strain of Attacking Troubles,
And Goes to His Grave Almost Friendless, Although He Aided Many.
Information was received this morning of the death of A.M. DAHLGREN at the Insane Asylum in Meridian. Mr. Dahlgren was sent to Meridian, on the 5th of this month, suffering from dementia, but the immediate cause of his death was Bright's disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time. His death occurred about 8 o'clock this morning, shortly after he had taken his breakfast, and was sudden and altogether unexpected.
This announcement will not cause much surprise to the people on the Gulf Coast, who have known of the downward path taken by Dahlgren. A few years ago his death would have been cause for profound sorrow in every one of the Gulf Coast cities and in many other parts of Mississippi. Today there are none to do him reverence, and those who do recall the past will express pity that such should have been the fate of a man whom the fates had destined for better things.
A descendant of one of the great kings of modern times, with an intervening ancestry that wrote its name upon the history of the United States and Europe, a man who had as his preceptor in his chosen profession the great JEFFERSON DAVIS, the only President of the Confederacy, when he began his battle of life, he had the world before him, and every hope of making it yield up its best to him. He began to climb the ladder of success, and was looked upon him as a leader. He had the qualities of leadership, had a brilliant mind well stored with useful information and was highly educated.
But there came a time when he met a political reverse through his adhesian to principle. He stood out almost alone in his State against an overwhelming sentiment of his people, and for the nonce his political sun was eclipsed. Then his inherent weakness asserted itself. He began to drink, and domestic complications set him on the road to ruin, and he never swerved from the path. Ever downward he went, and there were few who would reach out a hand to stay him. To those few he gave but a scornful smile and pitched headlong into his excess, which sapped his once vigorous physical and mentality until he was finally picked up and sent to the Asylum at Meridian.
AUSTIN MORTIMER DAHLGREN was born in Natchez, Miss., Oct. 3, 1856. He was a son of General CHARLES G. DAHLGREN, C.S.A., who was born in Philadelphia. An uncle was Admiral JOHN A. DAHLGREN, U.S.N., who invented the cannon that bears his name and which played such a conspicuous part in the Civil War. Another uncle on the Maternal side was COUNT de ROHAN, who fought in many European wars during the middle of the nineteenth century, and won honors from several countries. His grandfather was the Swedish Minister to the United States. He could prove lineal descent from GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, the great warrior King of Sweden, and the name of MORTIMER proved the connection of the family with the Swede earldom of Mortimer.
He passed a part of his youth in Natchez, and was educated at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, at Winchester, VA. Returning, he took up his home with his sister, Mrs. Sam A. Dorsey, at Beauvoir, which Mrs. Dorsey, on her death, bequeathed to JEFFERSON DAVIS, together with most other valuable property. While at Beauvoir young Dahlgren studied law under Mr. Davis, and the latter's brother, General Joseph R. Davis. He was admitted to the bar in 1878. For ten years he pursued the even test of his way, making many friends and building up good practice and thence in 1891 he was elected to the Mississippi Legislature. It was a memorable contest, because he opposed some of the strongest men in this district, and won by a handsome majority. He immediately assumed a prominent place in the legislative counsel, and his reputation as a speaker and clear thinker spread over the State.
When Mr. CLEVELAND was elected President, in 1892, Dahlgren was appointed collector of the port of Biloxi, and served his term out. During the latter part of it he earned the extreme good will of the Cuban revolutionists, who were operating filibustering expeditions from the Southern coast. When these, as was supposed, finally resulted in bringing yellow fever to the Gulf Coast in 1897, and thence to New Orleans, he became the disbursing officer of the Government for the maintenance of the detention camp at Fontainebleau.
In the memorable campaign of 1894, Dahlgren was a firm believer in sound money, and fought against the free silver movement with all his force, but he could make no headway against the popular wave which over-whelmed his State.
His career after leaving office was on the descending scale. He was divorced from his first wife (Frances Mildred Smith), and married her cousin, a Miss Deslondes(Belle Hollingsworth Deslonde). He tried now and then to rehabilitate himself, bur finally gave it up and gave his passion for drink full swing.
The remains were taken to Biloxi last night, and this morning they will be interred in the burying ground at BEAUVOIR, where he spent the happy days of his youth and which is now the Soldiers' Home of Mississippi. There lie the remains of his father and mother.
He is survived by a brother, who resides in St Louis.
Submitted by Linda Ellis
In three obituaries, all stated A.M., wife Belle and son, Mortimer E. Dahlgren, were buried in the BEAUVOIR Cemetery, although not listed in their records, he lived in one of the cottages on the grounds of Beauvoir.
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Austin M Dahlgren in the Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Austin M Dahlgren
Marriage Date: 14 May 1885
Marriage Location: Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri
Marriage County: Lafayette
Spouse Name: Frances M Smith
***
Marriage records, Mississippi, Harrison County
Name: A.M. Dalgrin(sic)
Spouse: Belle D. Deslondes(sic)
Marriage date: 12 August 1901, book 13 page 197
by JP J.J. Herbert
***
Son of Charles Gustave Dahlgren and Mary Malvina Routh
***
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans LA
Wednesday July 11, 1906 page 10
Biloxi, Miss., July 10-
DAHLGREN DIES IN MERIDIAN ASYLUM
Man of Distinguished Ancestry and Many Parts,
Once a Leader on the Mississippi Coast,
Breaks Under the Strain of Attacking Troubles,
And Goes to His Grave Almost Friendless, Although He Aided Many.
Information was received this morning of the death of A.M. DAHLGREN at the Insane Asylum in Meridian. Mr. Dahlgren was sent to Meridian, on the 5th of this month, suffering from dementia, but the immediate cause of his death was Bright's disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time. His death occurred about 8 o'clock this morning, shortly after he had taken his breakfast, and was sudden and altogether unexpected.
This announcement will not cause much surprise to the people on the Gulf Coast, who have known of the downward path taken by Dahlgren. A few years ago his death would have been cause for profound sorrow in every one of the Gulf Coast cities and in many other parts of Mississippi. Today there are none to do him reverence, and those who do recall the past will express pity that such should have been the fate of a man whom the fates had destined for better things.
A descendant of one of the great kings of modern times, with an intervening ancestry that wrote its name upon the history of the United States and Europe, a man who had as his preceptor in his chosen profession the great JEFFERSON DAVIS, the only President of the Confederacy, when he began his battle of life, he had the world before him, and every hope of making it yield up its best to him. He began to climb the ladder of success, and was looked upon him as a leader. He had the qualities of leadership, had a brilliant mind well stored with useful information and was highly educated.
But there came a time when he met a political reverse through his adhesian to principle. He stood out almost alone in his State against an overwhelming sentiment of his people, and for the nonce his political sun was eclipsed. Then his inherent weakness asserted itself. He began to drink, and domestic complications set him on the road to ruin, and he never swerved from the path. Ever downward he went, and there were few who would reach out a hand to stay him. To those few he gave but a scornful smile and pitched headlong into his excess, which sapped his once vigorous physical and mentality until he was finally picked up and sent to the Asylum at Meridian.
AUSTIN MORTIMER DAHLGREN was born in Natchez, Miss., Oct. 3, 1856. He was a son of General CHARLES G. DAHLGREN, C.S.A., who was born in Philadelphia. An uncle was Admiral JOHN A. DAHLGREN, U.S.N., who invented the cannon that bears his name and which played such a conspicuous part in the Civil War. Another uncle on the Maternal side was COUNT de ROHAN, who fought in many European wars during the middle of the nineteenth century, and won honors from several countries. His grandfather was the Swedish Minister to the United States. He could prove lineal descent from GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, the great warrior King of Sweden, and the name of MORTIMER proved the connection of the family with the Swede earldom of Mortimer.
He passed a part of his youth in Natchez, and was educated at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, at Winchester, VA. Returning, he took up his home with his sister, Mrs. Sam A. Dorsey, at Beauvoir, which Mrs. Dorsey, on her death, bequeathed to JEFFERSON DAVIS, together with most other valuable property. While at Beauvoir young Dahlgren studied law under Mr. Davis, and the latter's brother, General Joseph R. Davis. He was admitted to the bar in 1878. For ten years he pursued the even test of his way, making many friends and building up good practice and thence in 1891 he was elected to the Mississippi Legislature. It was a memorable contest, because he opposed some of the strongest men in this district, and won by a handsome majority. He immediately assumed a prominent place in the legislative counsel, and his reputation as a speaker and clear thinker spread over the State.
When Mr. CLEVELAND was elected President, in 1892, Dahlgren was appointed collector of the port of Biloxi, and served his term out. During the latter part of it he earned the extreme good will of the Cuban revolutionists, who were operating filibustering expeditions from the Southern coast. When these, as was supposed, finally resulted in bringing yellow fever to the Gulf Coast in 1897, and thence to New Orleans, he became the disbursing officer of the Government for the maintenance of the detention camp at Fontainebleau.
In the memorable campaign of 1894, Dahlgren was a firm believer in sound money, and fought against the free silver movement with all his force, but he could make no headway against the popular wave which over-whelmed his State.
His career after leaving office was on the descending scale. He was divorced from his first wife (Frances Mildred Smith), and married her cousin, a Miss Deslondes(Belle Hollingsworth Deslonde). He tried now and then to rehabilitate himself, bur finally gave it up and gave his passion for drink full swing.
The remains were taken to Biloxi last night, and this morning they will be interred in the burying ground at BEAUVOIR, where he spent the happy days of his youth and which is now the Soldiers' Home of Mississippi. There lie the remains of his father and mother.
He is survived by a brother, who resides in St Louis.
Submitted by Linda Ellis
=========================================
Austin M Dahlgren in the Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Austin M Dahlgren
Marriage Date: 14 May 1885
Marriage Location: Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri
Marriage County: Lafayette
Spouse Name: Frances M Smith
***
Marriage records, Mississippi, Harrison County
Name: A.M. Dalgrin(sic)
Spouse: Belle D. Deslondes(sic)
Marriage date: 12 August 1901, book 13 page 197
by JP J.J. Herbert
***
Son of Charles Gustave Dahlgren and Mary Malvina Routh
***
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans LA
Wednesday July 11, 1906 page 10
Biloxi, Miss., July 10-
DAHLGREN DIES IN MERIDIAN ASYLUM
Man of Distinguished Ancestry and Many Parts,
Once a Leader on the Mississippi Coast,
Breaks Under the Strain of Attacking Troubles,
And Goes to His Grave Almost Friendless, Although He Aided Many.
Information was received this morning of the death of A.M. DAHLGREN at the Insane Asylum in Meridian. Mr. Dahlgren was sent to Meridian, on the 5th of this month, suffering from dementia, but the immediate cause of his death was Bright's disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time. His death occurred about 8 o'clock this morning, shortly after he had taken his breakfast, and was sudden and altogether unexpected.
This announcement will not cause much surprise to the people on the Gulf Coast, who have known of the downward path taken by Dahlgren. A few years ago his death would have been cause for profound sorrow in every one of the Gulf Coast cities and in many other parts of Mississippi. Today there are none to do him reverence, and those who do recall the past will express pity that such should have been the fate of a man whom the fates had destined for better things.
A descendant of one of the great kings of modern times, with an intervening ancestry that wrote its name upon the history of the United States and Europe, a man who had as his preceptor in his chosen profession the great JEFFERSON DAVIS, the only President of the Confederacy, when he began his battle of life, he had the world before him, and every hope of making it yield up its best to him. He began to climb the ladder of success, and was looked upon him as a leader. He had the qualities of leadership, had a brilliant mind well stored with useful information and was highly educated.
But there came a time when he met a political reverse through his adhesian to principle. He stood out almost alone in his State against an overwhelming sentiment of his people, and for the nonce his political sun was eclipsed. Then his inherent weakness asserted itself. He began to drink, and domestic complications set him on the road to ruin, and he never swerved from the path. Ever downward he went, and there were few who would reach out a hand to stay him. To those few he gave but a scornful smile and pitched headlong into his excess, which sapped his once vigorous physical and mentality until he was finally picked up and sent to the Asylum at Meridian.
AUSTIN MORTIMER DAHLGREN was born in Natchez, Miss., Oct. 3, 1856. He was a son of General CHARLES G. DAHLGREN, C.S.A., who was born in Philadelphia. An uncle was Admiral JOHN A. DAHLGREN, U.S.N., who invented the cannon that bears his name and which played such a conspicuous part in the Civil War. Another uncle on the Maternal side was COUNT de ROHAN, who fought in many European wars during the middle of the nineteenth century, and won honors from several countries. His grandfather was the Swedish Minister to the United States. He could prove lineal descent from GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, the great warrior King of Sweden, and the name of MORTIMER proved the connection of the family with the Swede earldom of Mortimer.
He passed a part of his youth in Natchez, and was educated at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, at Winchester, VA. Returning, he took up his home with his sister, Mrs. Sam A. Dorsey, at Beauvoir, which Mrs. Dorsey, on her death, bequeathed to JEFFERSON DAVIS, together with most other valuable property. While at Beauvoir young Dahlgren studied law under Mr. Davis, and the latter's brother, General Joseph R. Davis. He was admitted to the bar in 1878. For ten years he pursued the even test of his way, making many friends and building up good practice and thence in 1891 he was elected to the Mississippi Legislature. It was a memorable contest, because he opposed some of the strongest men in this district, and won by a handsome majority. He immediately assumed a prominent place in the legislative counsel, and his reputation as a speaker and clear thinker spread over the State.
When Mr. CLEVELAND was elected President, in 1892, Dahlgren was appointed collector of the port of Biloxi, and served his term out. During the latter part of it he earned the extreme good will of the Cuban revolutionists, who were operating filibustering expeditions from the Southern coast. When these, as was supposed, finally resulted in bringing yellow fever to the Gulf Coast in 1897, and thence to New Orleans, he became the disbursing officer of the Government for the maintenance of the detention camp at Fontainebleau.
In the memorable campaign of 1894, Dahlgren was a firm believer in sound money, and fought against the free silver movement with all his force, but he could make no headway against the popular wave which over-whelmed his State.
His career after leaving office was on the descending scale. He was divorced from his first wife (Frances Mildred Smith), and married her cousin, a Miss Deslondes(Belle Hollingsworth Deslonde). He tried now and then to rehabilitate himself, bur finally gave it up and gave his passion for drink full swing.
The remains were taken to Biloxi last night, and this morning they will be interred in the burying ground at BEAUVOIR, where he spent the happy days of his youth and which is now the Soldiers' Home of Mississippi. There lie the remains of his father and mother.
He is survived by a brother, who resides in St Louis.
Submitted by Linda Ellis
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