The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-15
IN MEMORIAM.

Coakiey on Friday evening last produce
a most marked sensation in the city. Ia
fact IN the afternoon, when it was first
known that he was seriously, if not fat-
ally injured, there was more excitemeit
in the streets, and more eager and anx-
ious inquiries, than were to be seen oc
heard on the Cd day of July last, when
intelligence was received that President
Garfield had been shot in the back b.
the cowardly assassin, Guiteau. Thia
was evidence that no ordinary, everyday
man was in jeopardy; the reason Why
will perhaps appear from the following
brief sketch of the deceased:
DR.. Henry @. Coakley was born in thu
city of New York on the 10th day of July.
| lS41, and was at the time of his death a
little over forty years of age. His father
was an Irishman from the north of Ire
land and his mother of italian lineage.
and surely there could hardly be found
in the whole wide world better sample
combined in one person, of the outward
characteristics of both races. He had
| the dark wavy hair, the swarthy COM
plexion and clean cut features of the
Latin, and the tall 1.-the buoyant figure
of the Celt, was graceful in form and en-
ergetic in movement.
When about three years of age with
his parents and family he removed to
Embro, Canada West; there he attended
the common schools until he was II years
of age, and then went to the Normal
school at London for some time and
from which school he was graduated
After graduating he taught school for
some time at Sparta, Ont, and then took
course of medicine at the University at
Toronto, followed by course at Ann
Arbor, Mich, finishing his medical edu-
cation at the Chicago Medical College,
where he graduated some ten years ago.
After graduating he commenced prac-
tice in Appleton, this state, and stayed
there for very short time when he
moved to Manitowoc in March 1e72.-
Since then his career has been known
by all men in the community with eyes
to see or ears to hear.
When he came here he moved into the
Office of the unfortunate and lamonted
Balcom, and was eminently successful N
his profession from the start. With his
large endowments, ample preparation,
method, energy and industry, he could
not but be successful, and before long
he had work to do beyond the strength
Of ordinary men, but in physical endur-
ance and will-power he was no ordinary
man, and up to the day of his death, as
one of his professional brethren was
heard to say, he did more work than any
man in Manitowoc county. But alas !
what vantageth it to the lamented de
ceased now that for nearly ten years no
gave all of the powers of his broad mind
and vigorous body to the duties Of his
profession, in which he is said to have
accumulated considerable wealth.
He has gone in the sudden and sad
manner described elsewhere and could
take nothing with him that could do him
any good. There is, however, some
comfort in the reflection tina. he has left
something behind him that will be of
enduring benefit to all that were brought
in contact with him, besides leaving
ample means for the care Of his heart
stricken and suddenly bereaved widow
and three little children, he has left the
public legacy of value, q bequest to
every man, young or old, to set, the ex-
ample of life of integrity, of unwearied
industry, of sobriety, of virtue and NOR
atty.
In character he was enterprising, and
restless in mind, always wanted to be
doing something, trading horses, buying
and selling lots and land, building houses
ETC., in fact the super abundant energy
of the man must out in some direction.
In manner he was always gentlemanly
and kind, in language, chaste as chastity
itself; no man ever heard profane, OBJ
scene or indecent word out of his mouth.
In language and department he was what
he protested to be--a christian gentle
man.
In his profession, if he did not stand
at the top, he ranked at least equal to the
highest in this section of the country.
In surgery he was pre- eminent and had
q good deal of mechanical skill which he
used to help him out in many Of his diff
fcult cases.
Much more might be written in me-
n oriam which the readers of The Pilot
would perhaps like to read at this mo-
mcnt, now that in every nook and corner
of this county the death of the doctor has
been the universal subject of CONVERSE
ton and lament.
The large concourse that attended the
| funeral was some evidence of the estima-
ton the deceased was held in in his life
time. The cemetery hardly ever had as
many people in it at one time before.
We join with the people of the county
| at large in a sigh Of sorrow over what we
conceive to be no small public loss, and
| to the afflicted widow and tender father
less children, with moistened eye, We
extend our deepest sympathy, and pray
that the God of the departed doctor may
be the God, guide, protector and defence
| of the widow and her children. X
LITERARY NOTE.
| a substantial contribution to the COM
| ing centennial celebration at Yorktown is
Mr.. II. p. Johnston's volume, "The
Yorktovn CamDaion +" which Harnar G.