Bismarck (ND) Tribune, May 28, 1895, p. 2. Hon. Walter Q. Gresham is dead. He was born at Cordyon, Indiana, March 17, 1833, and was therefore 62 years of age last March. He was a graduate of Bloomington university, studied law, and at the breaking out of the war in 1861 he enlisted in the Union army and served until 1865. At its close he was a brevet major general. After the war he settled at New Albany, Indiana, and resumed the practice of law. In 1883 he was appointed postmaster general by President Arthur and secretary of the treasury by President Hayes in 1881 (difficult to read, could be 1884), which office he resigned the same year to accept the appointment of United State circuit court judge of the seventh judicial circuit, which position he held until 1892 when he resigned to accept the position of secretary of state in President Cleveland's cabinet. Mr. Gresham had been a Republican up to the time of his appointment to a cabinet position by President Cleveland and, in 1888, was a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. As a judge, the decision that gave him most prominence was known as the "bucket brigade decision." The question under consideration was the order of payment by employers of a railroad company in the hands of a receiver. He decided that section hands who went out with their dinner pails and worked should be first paid and, in doing so, used the language that gave him prominence as a judge whose sympathies were with the laboring man. He said "pay the bucket brigade first." As secretary of state he has not been that pronounced success his admirers had hoped to see him. On the whole the foreign policy of the administration has been weak and vacillating. The brightest page of his history will ever be recorded as a soldier. Peace to his ashes.