The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-11-18
. For the left ersonian Democrat.
DR.. Denton ard DR.. Rosa,

| My DfAR Co VERSE - Ask your mother who
these men were, and slie can tell you. Gone
both. 20 the silent place oi the dead; but they
| shall not be io'gotien. No utom, no shrub, no
| being N human form. cast INTO The great sea ui
| iii, shal be lost The hairs y! thy he ad are oil
numbered. No sparrow ialleih to the ground :
but ,he GleU Father takes mole Of it in eternity
in lie greut wolIo OF li'e that lies be yond moons
sum and s,crs nebula in The blue elher. ..
In 1912, IN ibe month OF April, the writer
| landed IL Fa,rport, from The Great Western, ~
com, nndeJ by Capt. Walker. long since dead
nnd gone 10 zero-gone to iorgeiiulness and si.
| ience. in the gray OF the dawn, he reached
| l'anesv,Ile, Oh ioo--a lone man, liking with u
| valise lie reached tho little hamlet Tour miles
| towards Chaidon. and, Icing weary, entered the
| forest o oak on the leiu MS you go south, made
bed u, leaves. a pillow ol his vaiIse, and slept
| soundiy When he awokc, the sun was up, u
| robin sang III th, young chestnut over his heud,
| and The peach had pu, out all her beauty aud
bloom. a horse and buggy passed and he rode
iour miles with The eafly traveller. liwas Dr.
Storm Rosa Thus began our friendship. Al
10 O'Clock. the traveller reached (.hlrdOn, and
ca Ned ioi break last al rude old mansion on the
light. as you go iu Shunway's Corners, 1t was
u hO ell Tn" landlords name was AveTy--a
brow man with quie, lace, pipe in his mouth
and silence on his lips. He has long since been
hered 20 his Ia hers. ..-a.t -. ..a .
My uext visi, 10 Painesville was in June. The
bind we've ont. ihe blossoms on The apple tree
and ,he peach were gone, but the living irut had
succecd ded to the fra', depn ring bloom Business
called me to a qnier INFUSION. painted white, and
seated in sand bank,On the south o the busi-
ness part OF the village. A man tall OF torn,
with sroy c, ,es, nxen hair und heavy irume, met
me al ,he door. lie was born i'll Schenectady Co
N. Y, OF German pnrenls; wns reared in quiet
home, aud read the me,iica art IN CocKsackie.
N Y In h's early munhood, he removed to Cen
ierviile. u eausa Co., Ohio. and, when iairly sci
tied. notfeu lhe deacOns and sex'ons Thai he wns
in town.a young physician, and they must en-
large their graveyard" This sally Of good ma
ru'e and kind heortcdness, which led HIM TO an.
ticipaie the jokes against the Now Doctor"
WINS ,he key TO his lite. The soul OF DR.. Storm
Rosa was ,ull oil sunshine, ~ OF truth full oi
mercy. tull OF love-a noble soul, that loved
truth fair dealing, and life OF toll Tor the a.
ficed. HIS spirit was like the May showers,
like The b; Slsoms oi, the Spring me like the An
iona lruil. We were neighbors and friends Tor
fil cen years. often together ut le bedside o the
sick, aud often meeting in Panesville, Cleveland
aud Cincinnati, as men bonnd by the Tie oi med.
ical mercy His ancestors came from Holland,
or other parts oi the old world, which had BECOME
| too full oi The race TO longer remain near each
other without crowdine on their nelglIbOrs. He,
like his iorelathers, emgraied still farther West.
In Centervie he married the daughter OF the
K,mball, brother Oi the Gen, kimOaa, OF that
place. Their family consisted ol Two children,
Lemuel and Mary, guess. but perhaps that is
not the name. The daughter ma rritd Major
Potter. Two daug hters young, strong and iu II
Of lite, used to see u, their grandather's, Lem,
ue, his only son, was irail boy, full OF life and
sunshine, and went 10 an early grave leaving
young wife and little daughter with his aged
lather in Painesvi'le. In"' E"
DIR, Rosa was educated an orthodor in his pro.
fesson but, al the age Of ioriy, he embraced the
medical iailh Of ihe great German, IIahnemun
He was u close medical student, and, lhoigh un.
pretending in his liie, he was, by far, the most
thoroughly read man in the various branches OF
his profession, thai | ever met in OHIO. h is soul
l.,. l..lI L.. 4
we never met without u general interchange OF
sto les and ad, eptures. His perception OF char
acler wa keen, and no ridiculous act il human
nature ever escaped his observation.
During sn intercourse oi fifteen years, | never
heard him mention with deep emotion but single
membsr OF the medical proe sson. This man
was Dr. Denton, o Churdon, Ohio. Where DR..
Denton was born or whence he came or who
gave him lite, never knew. When esetl led in
Chardon, the country was new, the inhabitants
poor, the soil forest, aud his profession thank.
less one. This man was slight in form, with ark
huIr beaming dark eyes and noble soul. Through
the forests over the hits, into Hambden, Clan.
don, Munson, Chester Kirkland and Puihesville,
he rode, by day and night. 10 wish The sick, com.
tort the dying, and collect a lew dollars lo sAppy
his needs and bless his chd'en When Tho
fierce breezes Of Lake Erie burst oven The field
and forest, Dr. ID nton, amid snow, and sieet,
ard howIiug winds, might be seen, mounted on
bay horse, iidlng towards the North. The mer.
chant, The farmer, The blacksmith. the toll worn
vagabond, might sleep, but this physician could
mol. Amid ,empesls and driving whirlwinds, he
rode was al the bedside OF The sick, me con
sumptive, and the fever.smiten wretch. His
| form was snail, but his soul was brave.
One night, when the tempests we.e out, and
the rain drove fierce ION the North this ma n
! Denton, on horseback, teined up TO the door of
DIR. Rosa. in Painesville He halloood at the
door, and DR., Rosa in his sleeping garb, rushed
OUT "Good evening, DIR. Rosa" said The rider.
Good eveaing, DR. DeniOn," said the kind Ger.
man. The wind was a tempest he rain fell in
torrents the Fall blasts of wind epl through the
village, horse and rider were drenched In the
water, a nd the shiverlng form of roor Denton was
dimv seen through the falling rain. Now,n
When death cuts the Ahread OF life, find some
| where an old tree or root; scoop out shallow
grsvei wrap ME in my night coat utter no