The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
N. A. ENGLISH DEAD.
. One OF the Founders OF the City and a Promi-
nent Citizen Passes suddenly Away.

and colorless. 1t is said that death can
show no evil as grievous as those met with
| in every life, but in the hardest extremity
! death is seldom welcome. And so the IN
expected announcement yesterday morn
| ing that y. 4. English was dead startled
the city. 1t don't seem possible. But yes
terday he was about, full of the life and
vigor which have characterized the man
for twenty-five years in this community
| where no figure has been more familiar
He was always so hopeful, in the darkest
hours-and he had his share of them-he
nsver gave up nor dispaired but
pushed energetically and hopefully
ahead. At least twice in the
| history Of this city which he helped to
found, has n. a English been a wealthy
man, and as often the victim of untoward
circumstances and reactions in values; but
he ever had kind word for every friend
and warm heart and open pocketbook for
every worthy cause.
Fer almost a quarter Of a century few
men have been more conspicuous in Wich-
ita than Nathaniel Anderson English. He
was born March IL. 1880, at Newark, Ohio,
and was consequently C years old. In 1861
he came to Kansas, locating in Leaven-
worth, the following year purchasing a
ranch on Jarvis creek on the old Santa Fc
trail where he engaged in trading with the
Arrapahoe and Kiowa Indians, in which
Ia mo- VI foct L g. f. -,
old Chief Santana. being saved through a
ransom after being robbed of all he had.
He came to Wichita in 1870. In company
with j. 2. Hilton he opened the first land
office in the town. In 1872 he plated his
own land as an addition to the city. the
north line of his farm being the present
center OF Douglas avenue In 1874 he be-
came member of the grain buying and
which firm erected an elevator and shipped
the first carload of wheat that ever went
out from this market. He was Que of the
original incorporates OF the Wichita
Savings Bank. now the Wichita National;
was stakeholder and director in the old
Wichita Bridge company; was chairman
of the first board of county commissioners
ever elected by the county; was for years
member of the city council; was the prime
mover aud furnished the money
to build the first street rail-
way; member and stakeholder
of the Archer electric light plant, and a
member of the present Crystal Ice COM
pany; was active and prominent as a
member of the directory of the board of
trade and first and last gave thousands of
dollars and years of his life to the upbuild-
McEwen of Leayenworth, in 1864 by whom
be had ten children, eight of whom are
living, three or four Of them being men
and women grown, all left to mourn the
Sudden and unexpected death of one who
to his wife was ever the soul of kindness
and to his sons and daughters indulgent
and loving beyond the expression of any
words of ours. He had not been sick
further than some complaint from indi-
gestion, which took an acute turn late
night before last, which caused convul-
sions in which he died at about yester-
day morning
Such is, briefly, the life and character
of the man who will be missed every day
and in many ways by our city. OF sunny
always pleasant and social
liberal and progressive in his
ideas, methodical and honest in business,
with a reputation for integrity and capaci
ty never questioned, he drops down and
out of our counsels, down and out of our
hopes and plans. down and out of all our
affairs and down and out of the Lives of
those others so dear to him,-down and
out forever.
The graves of the dead roll like waves at |
our feet and ever more green and more
numerous.
''How little do we know that which we are.
How less what we may be, the eternal surg
OF time and tide rolls on"
The disappointments and all the bright |
hopes of life alike are blotted out by that |
which we call death whose |
touch is white-cold and silence. The !
demands of the world and the cry of |
love are alike unavailing. Time for him |
IS blotted out and eternity veers dimly |
with its all too uncertain welcome The |
,ity for which he labored and of whose !
future he dreamed so much, his home and |
involved properties of which he expected |
so much, his many friends and fellow citi- |
lens with whom he had labored and hoped |
80 much, and above all his wife and chill |
iren whom he loved so much, are here to- |
lay as they were with him yesterday, but |
where is n. A Euglishs We say that he !
S dead, by which we mean that ne no
onger heeds our call nor responds in sym |
Dathy to the piriful anguish of her who |
never appealed to him before in vain. Into |
hat realm whose yelled mysteries involve /
70 much of hope and so little
VI certainty that bourne of IN
bounded shadows, where impenetrable
LIQUIDS are tinted only b. the light of |
christian faith, our friend has gone Over
he gulf, through the vale, across the val
ey from life we trust to immortality.
'Darkly we move, we press upon the brink
Happy OF viewiess worlds, and know il not;
es, Ii may be, that nearer than we think
Are those whom death has parted from our
lot"
That love, that earthly love, goes with
Is TO that shore unknown that we become
lot forgotten dust, we know. as certain as
hat the burning stars roll on above Us in
IN amending universe of light and power,