The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
OBITUARY.

As is well known to many of our readers, MI
Warner died suddenly on the date above men
toned. After q several months visit with wifi
and little grandson at his old home in Paines
vile, Ohio, he returned to Kimbau on Wednes
day evening, Mch. 31st, and on the following af-
ternoon was suddenly taken with neuralgia OF
the heart, from the effects of which he died or
Friday morning. April End, at half past ter
o'clock. His death was as painless MS it was
sudden and unexpected. After Il restless nigh,
he sank into a quiet sleep from which he neve,
awoke.
The sad news was quickly conveyed to the
stricken widow and other loved ones at home
while business in kimballw was for a time almost
entirely suspended, So great was the shock to the
community. In gainesville, where the deceased
had been but q few days before in perfect health
the shock WIS even greater and the news coulc
hardly be credited. The remains were taken il
charge by the Masonic lodge in Kimball, OF
which the deceased was a member, and by then
escorted and conveyed to the depot and placed
on board the afternoon train; thence they were
transported to gainesville, accompanied by Mr.
Fred Warner and the editor of this paper. Thu
funeral services took place in gainesville Tues
day afternoon, April 9th, Rev. w. II. Gallager
rector of st. james Episcopal church, officiating
Friends and relatives from Adrian, Flint anC
Pontiac, Mich; Youngstown. Warren, Bryan anC
Cleveland, Ohio, were among those present tt
pay their last respects to one they had known
and loved in life. The remains were deposited
in the vault of Evergreen Cemetery, there tc
await lnterment beside those of a bright youne
son and two lovely daughters. who had preceded
their devoted father to the Other Shore.
The decease d leaves a wife and one son, the
former of whom is nearly Frustrated under this
last and most terrible blow. With a lite sad.
dened and embittered by the loss of three chill.
dren who were q part of her very life, the present
affection comes doubly hard. 1t were idle to of.
fer words of consolation at this time, which at
best must be as empty sorads. Would that the
deep and sincere sympathy of acquaintance
friends and relatives could in a measure assuaee
the pain and grief of this hour.
Aside from his immediate family, the deceased
also leaves a mother, brother and two sisters to
mourn his loss.
Daniel Warner was born in Leroy. Lake county,
Ohio, on July 5th, 1928, and would, therefore,
have been SO years of age in July next. His early
education WIS received in Concord, a town in
the same county, whittier his parents removed in
an early day. While Daniel was yet a young man
may AAoNtU w LII q buldll tOWH III teauka
county, FIVE miles distant. Early in life here he
engaged IN the stock business, buying and driv-
ing stock overland to the Eastern market, a bust
ness IN which he WAS very successful. He was
married in 1910 to Nancy B. Judd, of Concord.
whose parents came from Connecticut in an
early day. In 1855 he moved with his family,
which now consisted of a wife and four children,
to Chardon, the county seat of the county, and
engaged in the general merchandise business, as
scouting In the business with him shortly after,
his brother, Ed Warner. During the years pre-
vlous to this and up to the time of his removal
to gainesville in 1865. he still was actively en-
gagged IN buying and shipping stock and succeed
ed in acquiring a comfortable competence. 1t
was characteristic of him that aside from his
regular mercantile business he was always spec
ulating in various enterprises outside, and in
which he was uniformly successful. Desiring
to give his children better schooling facilities
and partly for business reasons, he bought a
beautiful place of residence in gainesville and
moved his family there on the 9th day of April.
1s6j-just 20 years after which no was carried
from his home never to enter 1t again. Upon
moving to gainesville he entered the dry goods
business with his brother-in-law, C.. C, Field.
under the firm name of Warner 4 Field. At the
close Of the war. 1855, he in company with his
brother, F. D. Warner, entered largely into buy
ing and selling government clothing. guns, etc.
AT n government sale in Nashville, Tenn, they
bid off over $4,000 worth of goods in one day,
As fast as they bought goods at these sales they
brought them North and disposed of them at
auction and private sale. About the year 1870
the firm of Warner & Field was changed to War
ner Il Mastick, which was a few years after
changed to Warner u Co.. with Fred Warner and
the writer as working partners. The firm had
two stores i'll gainesville, one dry goods, the 9TH
er crockery, and a general store in Montyille. n
town II miles south. The deceased was at the
same time and for several years after an active
partner in the following firms and enterprises:
Garfield & Warner, brewers and distillers; Gar
field, Jewell & Warner, livery and proprietors of
the Cowles House; Gross. Garfield d Warner,
cigar manufacturers; Hemingway, Garfield g.
Warner, government dock and light house con-
tractors; and Ferris, Garfield Il Warner, COM
prising the gainesville Bridge & Construction
Co. In all of the above enterprises the deceased
furnished e large part Of the capital. and when
the hard times following the panic and crash of
7s came he was necessarily n heavy loser. The
disconragements and misfortunes of those times
would have dlsheartened most men, not SO with
him. But during the years following the panic
the hard times found money making almost an
impossibility; and while the year 1881 found him
possessed of n comfortable competence, well
advanced in years and not in the best of health,
yet from a desire to leave his family well pro-
vlded for IN any lmmergency, he went to Dakota
in the fall Of that year, and before returning
bought tho town-site of Kimball from the Mil
waukee company. Kimbal and the surrounding
country was then but q barren prairie, and what
the town or country would ever amount to was
but q mere conjecture. His investment at that
time of nearly 5000 was, therefore. a neryy
proceeding, and one which few men would have
attempted, even though they had been possessed
OF much more abundant means than he had al
his His shrewdness in discovering
n good speculation when it was Mt hand and his
keen foresight are now plainly apparent. He
has seen kimball and Brule county grow ano
prosper beyond his fondest hopes and anticipa
tons. but his death just at this time is to BIZ
keenly regretted if for no other reason than thai
he took the greatest pleasure of his life in
watching the advancement of Kimball. where hit
sole business interests were concent1a ted, and il
which he took SO much pride. To the public On
terprises of Kimball he gave freely and w%illingl,
mot ~lavishly, but 30 far rs he deemed it his dut,
to do 80. His long business career had taught
him the curse of a heavy municipal debt to
young town, and he advised caution in this re
spect rather than extravaganza. His loss t,
Rimball is one that as the years roll on will be
come more and more felt.
Daniel Warner was in many respects a ma,
OF remarkable business ability. As will be seer
by the foregoing, the business enterprises h,
would engage in were only limited by the mean
at his command. Had he been possessed of
million it is safe to say that every dollar of i
would have been invested in business or rea
estate. He would never have loaned a dollar o,
interest unless to accommodate a friend. Il wa
too slow q method of making money and not I.
his taste. He would rather risk a hundred dol