Governor Frederic T. Greenbalge died shortly after midnight last night of Bright's disease at his home in Lowell. He had been sick about a week.

Governor Greenhalge was born in Clitheroe, in the county of Lancaster, England, July 19, 1842. His father came to this country with his family in 1854 and settled in Lowell.

The son Frederic, then in his 13th year, there began his education. In school he was a faithful student. He gave early promise of ability as an orator and was active in school life as an editor and publisher of the "High School Union." He finished the ordinary four years' course of study in the high school in three years.

He entered Harvard with the class of 1863. During his sophomore year he became a member of the Institute of 1770. He was actively interested in debating and at the end of his sophomore year he was appointed orator and Stevens poet of the Institute of 1770.

At his father's death he was obliged to leave college. He taught school and engaged in various other occupations, but finally settled upon the law as his profession. He studied law under the firm of Brown and Alger, in Boston, but gave up his studies in 1863 to accept a position in the Commissary Department at Newburn, N. C. While there he was seized with malarial fever, and returned to Lowell. He was admitted to the bar in 1865.

He met with early success in the practice of law and began his political career in 1868 as a member of the Common Council of Lowell. He occupied several minor offices in Lowell and was elected Mayor of Lowell in 1880-81. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, in 1885 was a member of the legislature and in the same year was elected to Congress from the eighth district. He was denominated in 1892 but was defeated.

In the fall of 1893 he was elected governor of Massachusetts with a plurality of 40,000 votes. A year later he was re-elected by a much larger plurality. Again last fall he received the unanimous nomination and election.

The oldest of the Governor's three children, Frederic B. Greenhalge, is at present a member of the class of '98.