Editing Henry George (section)

==Death and funeral==
George's first stroke occurred in 1890, after a global speaking tour concerning land rights and the relationship between rent and poverty. This stroke greatly weakened him, and he never truly recovered. Despite this, George tried to remain active in politics. Against the advice of his doctors, George campaigned for New York City mayor again in 1897, this time as an Independent Democrat, saying, "I will make the race if I die for it." The strain of the campaign precipitated a second stroke, leading to his death four days before the election.<ref>''Dictionary of American Biography,'' s. V. "George, Henry," 215.</ref><ref>Montgomery, ''American National Biography,'' s.v. "George, Henry," http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00261.html</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Henry George's Death Abroad. London Papers Publish Long Sketches and Comment on His Career |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE1D91330E333A25753C3A9669D94669ED7CF |quote=The newspapers today are devoting much attention to the death of Henry George, the candidate of the Jeffersonian Democracy for the office of Mayor of Greater New York, publishing long sketches of his career and philosophical and economical theories. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 30, 1897 |access-date=March 7, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1">New York Times October 30, 1897, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/10/30/105956699.pdf</ref>

An estimated 100,000 people visited [[Grand Central Palace]] during the day to see Henry George's face, with an estimated equal number<ref>{{cite book |last=Gabriel |first=Ralph |title=Course of American democratic thought |year=1946 |page=204}}</ref> crowding outside, unable to enter, and held back by police. After the Palace doors closed, the Reverend [[Lyman Abbott]], Father [[Edward McGlynn]], Rabbi [[Gustav Gottheil]], [[R. Heber Newton]] (Episcopalian), and [[John Sherwin Crosby]] delivered addresses.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yardley |first1=Edmund |title=Addresses at the funeral of Henry George, Sunday, October 31, 1897 |date=1905 |publisher=The Public publishing company |location=Chicago |hdl=2027/loc.ark:/13960/t39z9vd7k }}</ref>

Separate memorial services were held elsewhere. In Chicago, five thousand people lined up to hear memorial addresses by former Illinois governor [[John Peter Altgeld]] and [[John Lancaster Spalding]].<ref>University of Chicago. Office of the President. Harper, Judson and Burton Administrations. Records, [Box 37, Folder 3], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library</ref> [[William Lafayette Strong|Mayor Strong]] broke down and cried at a meeting, calling George a martyr.<ref name="nytimes1"/>

[[File:Henry George Funeral EM McKay.jpg|thumb|right|300px|George's funeral procession on Madison Avenue]]
''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that later in the evening, an organized funeral procession of about 2,000 people left from the Grand Central Palace and made its way through Manhattan to the [[Brooklyn Bridge]]. This procession was "all the way ... thronged on either side by crowds of silent watchers."

The procession then went on to [[Brooklyn]], where the crowd at [[Brooklyn Borough Hall|Brooklyn City Hall]] "was the densest ever seen there." There were "thousands on thousands" at City Hall who were so far back that they could not see the funeral procession pass. It was impossible to move on any of the nearby streets. ''The Times'' wrote, "Rarely has such an enormous crowd turned out in Brooklyn on any occasion," but that nonetheless, "[t]he slow tolling of the City Hall bell and the regular beating of drums were the only sounds that broke the stillness. ... Anything more impressive ... could not be imagined."<ref>{{cite news |title=The Funeral Procession |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/11/01/102544571.pdf |access-date=July 16, 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 1, 1897}}</ref> At Court Street, the casket was transferred to a hearse and taken to a private funeral at [[Fort Hamilton]].

Commentators disagreed on whether it was the largest funeral in New York history or the largest since the death of [[Abraham Lincoln]]. ''The New York Times'' reported, "Not even Lincoln had a more glorious death."<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |last1=Lepore |first1=Jill |title=Forget 9-9-9. Here's a Simple Plan: 1 |work=The New York Times |date=October 15, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/heres-the-guy-who-invented-populism.html |access-date=September 7, 2015}}</ref> Even the more conservative New York ''[[The Sun (New York)|Sun]]'' wrote that, "Since the Civil War, few announcements have been more startling than that of the sudden death of Henry George."<ref>''Henry George, Citizen of the World''. By Anna George de Mille. Edited by Don C. Shoemaker. With an Introduction by Agnes de Mille. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1950.{{ISBN?}}{{page needed|date=October 2021}}</ref> Flags were placed at half-staff, even at Tammany Hall, which cancelled its rally for the day.<ref name="nytimes1"/>

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Grave of Henry George (Green-Wood Cemetery) 01.JPG|The grave of Henry George, [[Green-Wood Cemetery]]
Artist depiction of funeral procession for Henry George.jpeg|Artist depiction of funeral procession
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