The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-07
IN lNEnORIiH.

I4f ii l. NUM- Ill
The death of Hon. T. C. 0lmsted, which
occurred at Manitowoc, Tuesday the 10Th
of February last, removed from our midst
! almost the last survivor of circle OF young
men who, upwards Of twenty years ago,
gave tone and character to society, politics,
/ and in some sense, the morality of our Ccun
ty seat. Born in Howard, Stuben Co,
February 23d, 1888, be had barely reached
his majority when, in 1886, he left his east
ern home OF comfort and cast his let IN the
then small but aspiring village OF Mantle
/ voc. This was at the time when Judge
Lee, Charles Walker, afterwards Judge)
| George Glover. the Nanvalkenbergs and
| others were just entering upon the stage OF
public affairs, and shaping public events,
which have culmiuated in the handsome,
enterprising and prosperous city Of to-day.
| Atonce the deceased was accorded warm
welcome by those tho had preceded him,
/ and he went to work with intelligence,
| hope, and an honest courage which has
rarely been more strikirgly displayed, but
alas with also disposition TO excess in
social and eonviyial pleasures, which at last
has obscured at its setting, : career which
bat for this one weakness, promised to be
the brightest and most successful. The
deceased was married TO Miss Lizzie Cole,
of kenosha, when he had reached the age
Of twenty-four years, and though she glad
dened his heart with her presence here but
short time, having died dpring his first
years service in the rebellion, she lived long
enough TO show him to be most devoted
and affcctionate husband. His friends who
witnessed his untiring love and care for his
young and dying wife, and afterwards His
loving and fiIial minis trations to his aged
mother during her last lingering sickness,
saw but additional proofs of tie almost
perfected character he would have built
had he developed more application and
Welded less to the demands of conviviahty. |
He was appointed Clerk of the Circuit |
Court for Manitowoc County, to ell a va
cancy, and was afterwards elected to one |
and We believe two, terms of the sane Office. |
His career in the service, as one of the |
regimental officers of what he always
styled "the bloody twenty-seyenth" was IN
the highest degree creditable, and we believe
no one N the service enjoyed the entire
confidence and esteem of the private soldier
or of the officers below him in rank to a
greater extent than did he. Frye years ago
he was elected County Judge of thl. county
which position he has filled with unswerY-
ing honesty for the four years ending JanuI
arg lst, 1878.
Seven or eight years ago, in company
with II. l.. Bollmeyer he became proprie-
tor of the Manit0woc Pilot, and after the
offce was destroyed by fire and his partner
upon whom he relied principally to conduct
the paper had left him in the lurch, he
found it necessary to depend upon himself,
and did take sole control. Had he been
permitted choice in the matter be would
hardly have entered the editorial service
nothing in his previous life indicating any
aspiration or taste for journalistic honOrs;
but having been forced into the service he
developed qualities as writer unknown to
himself. He lacked however the relish for
plcdding labor and continuous study with
out which in this day it is impossible to be-
come eminent as newspaper writer.
The writer of this became acquainted
with deceased on his first trip to Two |
Rivers in 1856, and during all the succeed |
ing years has recipl coated q warm unbroken
friendship.
In laying this little tribute on his grave |
we have attempted no concealment of his
weaknesses-we will not call them faults
for well we know the rough honesty and
blunt candcr that would chide such an at
tempt, were our friend to appear and speak
his own wishes in the matter. His ftful
life is ended, but in many a home circle
particularly among the more lowly, will the
memory of his kindness rendered without
osten tation, induce the remark we heard
from laboring man the other day, "No
better hearted man ever lived"
FRIED.