Published in HOLMES COUNTY ADVERTISER
Bonifay, Florida
Saturday, October 8, 1910
(Transcribed by Mona Spears)

Death Claims N. B. Coward
   Many hearts were saddened on last Saturday afternoon when the sad intelligence was flashed over the wires of the death of ex-Governor and Senator-elect Napoleon B. Broward, who succumbed in a Jacksonville sanitarium at 12:30 o'clock while undergoing an operation for Gaul stone.
   Capt. Broward had been ill for about a week with an attack of Gaul stone and kidney complaints, but his condition was not considered very serious until Thursday night when physicians pronounced his illness of a very serious nature, and it was soon decided that an operation was the only chance of saving his life and it failed.  
   Few even in his home town in Jacksonville, realized that Napoleon Bonapart Broward, the man who had attained national fame solely through his own efforts, and who had risen from a cook on a steamboat to that of United States senator, was at the point of death.  All thought that he would overcome this illness, as he had all else in life, and when it became known that he passed to the Great Beyond, Jacksonville was shocked.  Citizens of all political affiliation, even to those who had opposed him so bitterly, regretted his death, for within a few months he would have realized the ambition for which he had striven for so many years, to represent the people of Florida in the halls of congress.
   The rise of Capt. N. B. Broward was almost meteoric.  But is was not the gift of brains of another that made him famous in his native state and throughout the country, but all that he attained was by his efforts alone.  He was ambitious.  No obstacle appeared too great for him to overcome, and in his death Florida loses her greatest citizen.