David Meade Massie

HON. DAVID MEAD MASSIE. Grandson of the founder of Chillicothe, who was called to his final reward Saturday, after more than a year's illness.

D. M. MASSIE

LOSES FIGHT

FOR HIS LIFE

After Brave Struggle

For Over Year, End

Comes to Him Saturday

Afternoon.

After making a brave but losing fight against an enemy which he had not fully recognized, David Meade Massie, grandson of Nathaniel Massie, died at his home on West Water street, Saturday afternoon at four o'clock, but a few hundred feet from the house in which he was born, February 26th, 1859.

His illness, which was of a complicated character disclosed by a surgical operation two years ago at Baltimore to be malignant, was one which brought him intense pain and which slowly but certainly wasted him into a veritable shadow of the large man that all so well knew, and yet he did not complain. He bore his suffering bravely and fought on to the very end, even insisting upon giving his attention to the business of others, where he was really entitled to gain rest.

David Meade Massie was the son of Henry and Susan Burton (Thompson) Massie and a native of this city. He lived a portion of his early life in Highland county, but most of his years were spent in Chillicothe where he had built himself a place which brought him the esteem of all who knew him and the warm love of many. He was a student at the Ohio State University for a time but was graduated from Princeton University, being given his A. B. degree in 1880 and his master's degree some time later. In 1882 he was given the L. L. B. degree at the Cincinnati law school and was admitted to the Ohio bar the same year.

In his legal practice he was associated for some years with the late Judge B. F. Stone, but in the main his legal activities were conducted by himself and it was only in the past few years, since the death of the late Alexander Renick, when he was called upon to fill the presidency of First National bank and of the Valley Savings Bank and Trust Co., that he closed his law office and devoted himself entirely to banking.

He was appointed a commissioner to take testimony in Cuba under the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission in 1902 and made a most enviable for efficiency in that post. More recently he was one of a coterie called upon to untangle the skeins of the highly involved Columbus Street Rail, Light and Power Co. and it was largely due to his direction that that company was saved from being devoured by outside interests and for the prosecution of a successful suit to recover more than a million dollars.

Mr. Massie was elected state senator in this the Fifty-Sixth district in 1887-1889. He served as a trustee of the Ohio State University 1888, 1893, and 1900. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National convention from Ohio and for thirty years he was connected with the business regime of Scioto Gazette, retiring some two years ago. He has been a director of the First National bank for many years and died as its president, and he served as a director of the Valley Savings Bank and Trust Co. from its founding and died its president also. He was the secretary-treasurer of the Marcus-Boggs Estate Co. which has administered the estate of his friend for so many years following Mr. Boggs death.

Mr. Massie was a Presbyterian in his religious affiliation but was broad-minded enough to give each one the right to believe as his conscience directed him. And as evidence of this, one must point to his funeral being attended by his neighbor, Rev. F. K. Kresukamp, a Catholic priest, who this morning sent in the following tribute to his memory: In the death of Hon. D. M. Massie, the city of Chillicothe has sustained a distinct loss.