Information is
received of the death of Governor Gurley. He was a native of Manchester,
Connecticut, born within a few miles of my home. He claimed to have imbibed his
political principles from me and my writings; was, while in Connecticut and for
some time after, an earnest reader of the Hartford Times, where many of
my writings appeared. Subsequently, when new issues arose, he has often told me
of the satisfaction he experienced when he found the Times and myself at
variance, and that his convictions on the Kansas difficulties and questions in
dispute in 1856 and 1860 corresponded with mine. He was here in Congress at the
commencement of this administration. Mr. Lincoln thought much of him, and
appointed him Governor of Arizona. He was making his preparations to proceed
and organize that Territory when death overtook him.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 408
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