Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-24
P. a. MANGAN'S DEATH.
Eating Tribute to the Former Rock
Island Citizrn by a Wymore, Neb.,

Eating Tribute to the Former Roe
Island Citizen by a Wymore, Neb
| Paper.
The Weekly Ar5or State published a
Wymore, Neb., has the following con
corning P. A. Mangan, formerly of thi
city, whose death occurred at Monroe
La, last week as recorded in the ARGU
at the time:
The sad intelligence was conveyed {,
the city, Wednesday. that Mr.. P. A. Man
gan, familiarly known by his many friend
| and acquaintance as PATSY" had diet
Tuesday evening. April 16. 1890. at Mon
roe. La, of malarial fever. There hat
been no intimation of his illness, until ,
few minutes before the telegram came an
nouncing his death. 1t was thunder
bolt from a cloudless sky, to his unlim-
tied friends in this community.
Mr.. Mangan, at the time of his death
was about forty five years of age. He
had never married and his nearest of kir
now living, are his aged mother, three
brothers and two sisters, all residents Of
Davenport, Iowa, where he was born and
raised.
Mr.. Mangan was an essentially self
made man, having entered the railway
construction service in very humble ca.
pacity, at the age of sixteen, as a personal
attache of Hon. E. L Reynolds, of Rock
Island, ILL.,. on the then being constructed
Sterling Il r. |. railroad, with whose for
tunes his have been indirectly connected
In various ways ever since, with the ex-
ception of few years spent on the plains
between the Missouri river and the
Rockies in the Colorado mining districts
And many is the tale Patsy has spun to
his friends of those days of Indian mas
sacre and buffalo hunts. For long time
he and MIR. j. III. Reynolds, of this city,
were copartners in railway construction
At the time of his death he Was engaged in
an extensive track laying contract on the
Huston, Arkansas Central & Northern rail.
road in Arkansas and Louisiana, his bust
ness associate at the time being Mr.. E. P.
Reynolds, Jr., also of this city. He was
also largely interested in real estate in
this city, director in our street rail way
system and a stakeholder in our hotel
COMPANY. Though simon pure demo
crat In political views. yet it never inter-
fered with his friendships. He was an
advanced Mason and believer in the
Catholic creed.
To say that he had an enemy in this
world would be to say that which is I'M
true. In life he was one of natures no.
blemen. 10 death he was but gathered
to his friends who have passed before.
His was life of earnest, treless activity,
and yet while he labored no cause of
charity ever suffered at his hands. He
gathered flowers to strew them where a
floral tribute would inspire hope and
love; he amassed wealth to bring it and
Jay it at the command of an aged mother.
whom he loved better than all the world
beside. Years ago he prepared a COM
Portable home for her, and has oft ex-
pressed to his intimate friends his deter
mination that she should never want, nor
has she, nor now that he is gone will she,
as his entire estate is, as il has always
been. hers-and that old mother NAV
look back with pride on her sons career
and tell her grandchildren that their un-
Gle never willfully wronged liv>
ing being - human or brute-and
though he has gone whence no traveller
returneth, has driven the last spike, and
dumped the last scrsper full, his memory
will live on with his friends until they
too shall take the last Journey Ertinc,
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