Gen. Wm. W. Belknap (died 1891)

BELKNAP

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 2/23/2010 at 15:11:09

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, October 16, 1890.

Death of General Wm. W. Belknap-

Gen. Wm. W. Belknap, formerly a resident of Keokuk, was found dead in his room in Washington, D. C., Sunday morning, October 12th, 1890. Gen. Belknap served as Secretary of War under President Grant, and by reason of certain scandals attaching to his office, gained unenviable fame. His age was 61 years. The coroner’s inquest, held later, showed the immediate cause of his death, to be inflammation of the heart.