The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-24
Sudden Death,

Our community was startled on sunday Iore-
noon by the announcement of the sudden death,
at 10 o'clock that day, at his home in East Otta-
wa, of George II. N. Cushman, son Of the late
VIM. II. w. Cushman. The surprise was the
greater as Mr.. c. had seemed Of late in unusual
ly good health, and no one had heard OF his be-
ing seriously i'll. DR.. Stout, his physician, kind
ly gives us the following account of his condi
ton and the immediate cause Of his death:
The cause of Geo. II. n. Cushman's death was
embolism or heart-clot. All the symptoms, the
sudden and unexpected occurrence, together
with the fact that such formations are the Sc
quence of pneumonia commonly known as lung
fever from which he was just recovering, tend
to show that heart-clOt was the immediate cause
of his sudden taking of.
Mr.. &. had been an invalid for many years, and
under mistaken idea that his lungs were Al
fault left here for California, and whilst there
made the discovery that he was afflicted with a
tape worm. After his fathers DEATH at the re-
quest of his mother he returned home, and short
ly after got rid Of this parasite. Since then he
rapidly improved In health and flesh, and had
been laboriously engaged in assisting TO settle
up his fathers estate. On New Years day he was
confined to his room from the effects OF cold
contracted previously, but to his friends express
ed the hope that short rest with some domestic
remedies would soon restore him to health again.
Growing worse, however, on the 9Th OF January
sent for his physician, when he was found to
have pneumonia, called sometimes lung fever
Under treatment the disease yielded and he grad
ualy grew better, and on the 18th was 80 far COLI
valescent that farther medical attendance was
not deemed necessary.
On Sunday morning, the 18th, he dressed him.
self and went down to breakfast. His room was
in the second story. On his return to his room
and while in the act of smoking he was taken
with syncope or "fainting fit" and fell from his
chair. By the use of restoratives he so far recov
cred as to say to his mother mot to be alarmed
he felt BETTER" and expressed wish that the
confusion might cease. Soon, however, he was
taken with another faint spell and suddenly
expired. ~.
room loosened the heart-clot which most proba
bly, had been formed in the right cavity OF the
heart, and was carried along with the current OF
the blood and blocked up the vessel that supplies
the lungs; or if the clOt had been formed in the
left cavity of the heart then II was carried to and
blocked up the vessel that supplies the system
generally with blood. In either case the result
would have been the same.
Mr.. Cushman was 90 years old; had been born
in Ottawa and lived here all his life, excepta few
years that he spent, mainly on account OF his
health, in California. He was a young man Of
many attractive qualities, bright, intelligent and
Of excellent business qualifications, though hav-
ing embarked too heavily in the iron business in
the flush times between '67 and '73, the crash Of
1878 caught him aud he went to the wall, like
thousands of others. Since the death OF his faith
err he had been mainly engaged in trying to settle
up his estate and save as much as possible from
the wreck" Mr. c. had been married five or
six years and leaves sadly bereaved widow, but
no children of his own.