, 1890-01-25
{. NAGLE DEAD.
Cheyenne's Old Time Merchant
Passes Away.
News Of His Unexpected End
Shocks the Community.
Some Facts About His Prosperous
Career.

The community was startled yesterday
by the information that Erasmus Nagle
was dead. 1t was generally known that
he was not enjoying his usual good health.
confined to his bed, but as the reports
from being grave in character grew reas.
surfing, people settled down into the con-
viction that it would only be a matter of a
shor. time until be was able to be about
again as usual Following this, with a
s~uddenness that was stunning, came the
announcement of his death.
Mr., Nagle had suffered from chronic
g~astritis for the past four months. He
sought relief but failed to find it at the
hot springs. Symptoms .ot peritonitis
finally appeared. becoming general last
Wednesday morning, and were rapidly
followed by collapse aud death.
The name of E. Nagle has been ssso-
ciated with the commercial growth of the
city almost from its start. Mr.. Maggie
was born October 30, 1888, in St. Glars
vile. Belmont county. Ohio. He was
one of six children two of whom, John Z
Maggie and Mrs. Arm bruster, now live
here. After he had barely rea shed bis
majority he started westward to Chicago,
where he spent some lime In a CONNER
cial college. He then engaged as a trav-
cling salesman for a saddle and harness
manufacturing establishment. his terri
tory being Iowa and Illinois. He subse-
quentIy engaged in the came line of busl.
ness on his own account in Monmouth,
LII.
He emigrated to Colorado in 1864 and
engaged in the numbering business near
Georgetown. When Cheyenne began to
attract such widespread attention Mr..
Nagle turned his eyes in this direction
and moved here in the spring of 1868.
He at once engaged in the grocery bust
ness, his partner being Morton f. Post
and the firm being known as Post l.
Maggie. In 1870 he bought out Mr..
Posts interest and the name of f..
Nagle's grocery house ultimately became
known through the entire Rocky noun
tain region. About six years ago the
Union Mercantile company was organized
by the consolidation of the two largest
grocery houses in the city, f. Nagle's
and Whipple & Hays. Subsequently
the big grocery house of George A.
Draper was absorbed. Mr.. Nagle was
president of the Union Mercantile com
ANY from its organisation to the day of
his death. .
The only public offices which Mr.. Nagle
has ever consented to hold we're county
commissioner. chairman of the peniten-
tiary commission and chairman of the
first capitol building commission. In the
days of its greatest prosperity he engaged
in the catSh business. Snyder's interests
in the Sabille were purchased by Wulf
ien & Nagle, the latter subsequently buy
ing out his partner, and in turn selling
his outfit to A. H. Swan for something
over 5000, 900. He is still interested as a
stockholder in several cattle and ditch
companies and pretty nearly all the local
stock companies which are concerned in
public undertakings.
He was a member Of the Colorado
Pioneers association. He leaves q wife
and one son. His mother, now in her
S5th year, a sister and a brother live here.
His home at the corner of Seventeenth
md HnnOa otraafa % n..l1 ---l:.-
tural beauty. Like all matters which be
ever undertook, he studied the subject of
building deeply, and when he undertook
the task Of erecting a new home the work
was thoroughly performed in the re-
metest details.
Mr.. Nagle was one Of the wealthiest
citizens of Cheyenne. His estate is said
to be worth half a million dollars.