The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
oRLoNzo P. NoRrHRUP.

Orlonzo p. Northrup, whose death
on Tuesday, July 10, was briefly noted
in last weeks REGISTER, was born i'm
Thorntown, Ind, on the 9th of March,
1858. He came with his parents to
Kansas the same year, and this State
has ever since been his home. After
course in the lola high school he en-
tered Eastman National Business COL
lege, POughkeepsie, n. ", from which
he graduated in 1877. On his return
to lola he engaged in the mercantile
1888, when failing health compelled
him to relinquish it, Since that time
he has travelled extensively in differ
ent parts of the United States, placing
himself under the treatment of the
most eminent physicians and special
lists in the hope of regaining his health.
All efforts of human skill were of no
avail, however, and he returned home
in November, 1891, since which time
he failed gradually until the end came.
The funeral services were held at the
residence at o'clock on Friday after
noon, July ~, Rev. J. McGaughey
officiating, assisted by Rev. Freed and
Rev. DIR. Drake. The rich casket was
covered with beautiful flowers, the
offerings of lifetime friends, and the
services, which were very largely at
tended, were appropriate and impress
sive.
The writer of this has known Lion"
NOrthrup about as long as he has
known anybody, and it is with feel
ing of deep personal loss that he pens
this notice of his death. We have
known him in the school room, where
he was studious and respectful, on the
play ground, where he was fair and
manly, in social life, where he was
courteous and entertaining, in bust
ness relations, where he was liberal,
enterprising and uDswervingly hon.
est,-and from all this intimate knowl-
edge of him we could not, if we would,
write anything to his discredit. now
that we are to know him ON this earth
no more forever. We never knew
him, even as a boy, to do mean or
an unmanly or a dishonest act. In a
social way he made few intimate
friends, either among men or women,
for he was of singularly retiring and
self-cOntained disposition, as little
given to talk about himself or his
plans or ambitions as anybody we
ever knew. But the few who did
come near him learned that he had
read widely and had observed closely,
and found his conversation easy and
full and entertaining.
He was one among the few of our
boys who did not think the quiet little
town ''tOo Slow for him. With his
business education and training and
with the ample means at his COM
mand, when he came of age to engage
in business for himself he might easily
have advanced his fortunes by remov-
ing to a larger city. But he was 10y
al to the town which had been his |
home practically all his life. He
knew, as We all knew, that the remov-
al of the firm of o. p. Northrup & Co. |
would take away the only firm at that /
time doing a dry-goods business in
lola which was able to compete with
the strong firms of rival towns, and |
would therefore be a heavy blow to
the town. And so he stayed. And |
lola owes him much, not only for his
liberal contribution to every public
but also for the shrewdness
and enterprise with which he man.
aged his private business, thereby at
tracting and holding trade that might
otherwise have drifted to rival towns.
He is dead now. dead ere his
prime" But the consolation is left
lis family and his friends that his
life, though short, was useful and well
spent. that he leaves a name that is q
fragrant memory among those who
Knew him, and that he rests in peace.