The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-01-04
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PRiNCE.-In this city, on Sunday, Dec.
81, 1871, after short but severe illness
of thirty-six hours, Harry Squire Prince,
third son of Sam'l q. and Alice c.
Prince, aged 9 years, | month, and -
days.
Leaves have their time to fall.
And flowers to fade at the north winds breath,
But thuu--thou hast all seasons for thine
own, Oh. Death
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EDW ARDS.-In Yankton, Dakota Terri
tory, at 3 o clock a. m, on Thursday,
Dee. l4th, 1871, Colonel Thomas A. II.
Edwards, aged % years, months, and
20 days,
The deceased was born inside the fort, at
Fort Wayne, Wayne county, Indiana, on
the 24th day of April, 4. d. 1906. Soon
after, his father who was an army Sur
geon, removed to Detroit, Mich, and when
the subject Of this notice was about six
years of age, he together with his father
and family became prisoners Of war, by the
surrender of Detroit by Gen Hull, to the
British, during the war of 1872. At the
age of ID, during the administration of
President Monroe, he entered the West
Point Military Academy, and within six
month. of the expiration of his cadetship
he was obliged to abandon the profession
he had chosen, owing to a serious optical
disease, which impaired his vision. lie
then returned to the home Of his parents i'll
Detroit. lie was commissioned Colonel
of militia by the Governor of Michigan, at
the age ofs25, and took an active part in
the Black Hawk war, during which he met,
for the first time, the late President Lin
coin, at Chicago, who also had joined the
volunteer forces then engaged in quoting
the Indian difficulties. The restoration of
peace found Col Edwards again at home
in Detroit. He was nephew Of Gen.
Lewis Cass, of Michigan and during that
gentleman's SUPPLEMENTARY of the Indian
Affairs in tha Nnrth,rne- oo+n1 &C his ~
yate secretary.
In the year 1890, Col. Edwards was mar
ried at Edwardsburg, Gas. county, Indiana,
a town which he had himself laid out and
which took its name from his. Subse-
quently, he removed to St. Joseph, and
still later to Kalamazoo, Mich. engaging
with good success in mercantile pursuits,
but eventually met with severe cmbarass-
mcnts caused by the insecurity andwortlles-
ness of the State currency, which came to
be known as wild cat money" Leaving
Michigan in 1874, he moved to Manitowoc,
Wisconsin. He became connected to some
extent in political matters, and held the
Office of Sheriff of the county for a number
of years. During his residence in Wiscon-
sin, he joined the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and became quite an active
and prominent member of that worthy
order.
He came to Dakota, settling at Iankton,
in the fall of 1867, having been preceded
to the territory by his eldest son, A. l.
Edwards, who is among the Oldest resi-
dents of the Territory.
Col. Edwards had been connected with
the Protestant Church for more than thirty
years, and it is coincidence worth men,
tioning that the rites which celebrated his
admission to that denomination were Per
formed by the Rev. DR.. Hoyt, who had
also conduced the solemn ceremony of his
funeral.
Col. Edwards was greatly broken in
health when he removed to Dakota, and
gradually declined under the encroach-
ments of chronic disease. In his prime
he was a portly man, and possessed of a
strong physical constitution. He had al
ways led an exemplary life, and was held
in high esteem in those communities where
his lot in life had been cast, possessing as
he did, the strictest integrity, and practic-
ing in daily life the virtues which most
adorn the Christian character. His pietv
was transformations and genuine, and dur
ing his brief residence here, he had host
of friends, who had learned to respect his
worth, and conhd, unreservedly in his in
tegrity. He leaves behind him . memory
which his family may be proud to cherish,
and bequeaths TO all a model of life which
we can emulate with profit Tankton
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WIpowERs seldom die of grief, however