The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-12-08
OBITUARY..
Thomas Pollock.

OF w est Virginia. w A
death of Mr.. THOMAS POLLOCK, who died
at his residence on Wheeling Island at
. o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in the
eightieth year of his age. The deceas-
ed was taken sick-as was supposed
from O. common cold-about two weeks
ago. 1t al once settled in his throat,
occasioniDg serious external swelling
followed by inflammation of the respira-
tory organs, and gave him so much
pain in breathing that the aid OF the
surgeons knife had 10 be brought into
reouisitiou to bring relief. Enfeebled
by age, the strain upon his system was
more than he could endure, and from
the first he warned the members CT
his family, that this would prove his
last and final sickness. all the mem
bers OF bis family were notified by tele-
graph, the last one reaching his bed
side the evening before his death, 80
that he died in the midst OF his kind
red, surrounded by all the care that
affection could possibly bestow.
He had attained his eightieth year,
and would have completed four score
had he lived ill the llth Of next
month. He was bora near PhiladeI-
phia, in Chester county, Penn, ia
1874. His parents came from the
North of Ireland, and were Of Scotch
extraction. They removed from Chess
ter county, Penn, to Ohio county, this
State, in 1904, when Wheeling was an
insignificant village, and the subject Of
this sketch was but ten years OF age.
They came to the new and promising
West to seek their fortunes, for the
Ohio Valley then was what tie Pacific
coast and California are to US to-day.
They came overland, crossing the
mountains with a common team.
When they reached here, they found
so much sickness along the river bot
toms, that they concluded to locate
back on the hills, and the family set
tied on the old Waynesburg road, near
the Stone Meeting House, some seven
miles east OF Wheeling. Mr.. POLLOCK
subsequently established himself in
Wheeling, carrying on the tailoring
business, at which ne worked for come
yeara, early and late In this way he
acquired some capital, and joining his
fortunes with practical moulder8 and
foundrymen, he afterwards started a
founiry-he furnishing the capital and
the general business tact and they the
practical knowledge Of the business. In
this enterprise AMI some other branches
OF trade, in which lie subsequently EN-
barked, he acquired quite a competence
for those days, aod not being ambi'
tious to become rich, he retired from
active business, in 1884, and removed
10 O farm on the banks of the Ohio,
some thirty miles below Wheeling,
where he reared his family and where
he rem aimed Tor thirty years. His two
SONS, in 1863, purchased the lot on the
corner Of Market aRd Fourteenth
streets, in this city, and built the Pa
cifc Mills This led the father. who
had become too old to enjoy country
lie alone. as but one Of his children re-
manned at home, to purchase the place
on the Island where his family now re-
sides, removing there in 1854.
Mr.. POLLOCK was man Of iron will
and one so constituted that he would
take little or nothing on trust. lie
wanted to know the why and wherefore
OF everything and to be ready at all
times to give a reason for the
faith that he held lie was a
cordial hater OF all shams and
hypocrisies, and in his love Of the
poor and the oppressed and in his
concern for the progress o! his race,
he was surpassed by few OF his fellow
men. lie wac q great reader and in
dependent thinker, aud al the al
vanced publications of his day, no
matter now much they ran counter to
the popular convictions and preiadices,
were sure to find their way into bis
hands end to be carefully perused,
and impsrtslly judged. lie shrsnk
from no investigation and spared no ef-
fort to arrive at a knowledge OF the truth,
lie paid some attention to spiritualism
and though never accepting all the
theories held upon the subject by en-
thusiaSts, he WAS firm Deliver in o
future state OF existence and always
professed and felt profound regard
for the fundamental principles Of
the Christian religion. lie never be-
louged 10 any church, but he died in
full assurance OF blessed immortality.
In his domestic relations, ar. PoL-
LOCK was o most faithful and affection
ale husband, living in blisstul union
with the wife who survives him for
nearly fifty years. To his children he
was always sfectionste, an affection
that ripened into tenderness S. the
years advanced. lie leaves FIVE child
rem, two sons and three daughters, 10
mourn bis loss. He was in every sense
an honest mau-one without q stain
upon his name-one whose word was
always as good as his bond. His re-
mains are to lie inferred in Greenwood,
the funeral to take place this [ Monday
afternoon at , O'clock, from his late
residence, on the Island, at the corner
OF Zane and Front streets.