The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-24
DEATH OF HoRATio N. JOSE
He Expired Suddenly Last Evening at
His Home ON High Street.

street. He had been apparently in his
usual health and attended church with
Mrs. Jose in the morning. In the after
noon MI. and Mrs. Jose took their GUS
tomary Sunday drive, returning about
tea time. While at supper Mr.. Jose
spoke of his hands being cold and of moi
feeling just right His wife suggested
sending for DR.. Weeks, to which he
consented. When the doctor arrived he
found Mr.. Jose was apparently worse
and advised him to go to bed. Mr. Jose
walked up stairs to his bedroom without
assistance. Proper remedies were en-
ployed, but in 10 minutes after he goi
into bed he expired. The cause of his
death was congestion of the lungs ag
gravated by fatty degeneration of the
heart.
Mr.. Jose was descended from Martin
Jose, one of the. early settlers of Scar,
boro, and his father Alexander, was
born in that town. He married May IA,
1907, Sally, daughter of Thomas Emery
OI DuAlOu, WHcIc uS AsCu +h1o SAO"oOA
part of his business life. Their chill
dren were three sons and four daughters,
of whom Horatio N. Jose was the fifth
child, born in the town of Buxton, March
Is, 1870 ,..
Mr.. Jose's boyhood was spent at home
with the ordinary advantages for obtain
ing an education. Without pecuniary
assistance and unaided, at the age OF
IA, he came to Portland, where until he
reached his majority he was clerk in a
dry goods and carpet house. On March
21, 1910, he entered into partnership
with Joseph Poor, under the firm name
of Poor & Jose. The firm carried on
the dry goods and carpet business for 20
years. Upon the dissolution of the part
nership in 1860, Mr.. Jose disposed of his
interest in the business and turned his
attention to real estate operations, rail-
reading and manufacturing. The same
year, in conjunction with the late Judge
Shepley, he remodelled the Preble
House, now standing on the corner OF
Congress and Preble streets, and sub
sequently he built the Printers
Exchange Centennial Block, Jose
Block, and other buildings, which are
among the most substantial buildings in
the city.
Soon after retiring from the mercantile
business he became director in the
Portland and Kennebec and Maine Cen
trail railways. He was one of the
organizers of the Portland & Ogdens-
burg railroad in 1870, and was for some
time treasurer.
He was one of the founders of the
Maine General Hospital, and has since
remained one of it's directors, and al
ways been devoted to its interests. For
many years he has been director of the
Cumberland National Bank, and in 1877
was elected its president. He was
treasurer of the Portland Kerosene Oil
Company for fifteen years, and has been
its president since May, 1879; a director
of the Atwood Lead Company since its
organization, and later its president; a
director in the Portland Dry Dock Com
danny, a director in the Portland Water
Company; and manager and treasurer
of the Bartlett Land and Lumber Com
pany, organized in 1878. For over fifty
years Mr.. Jose has been one of the
most active business men Of Portland,
and one of its largest real estate owners.
He has been interested in the prosperity
of the city and in the welfare of its citi-
zens, and a supporter of all enterprises
tending to benefit society. The new and
beautiful Kotzschmar Hall is a monu-
ment to his public spirit. He has
never been solicitous of political
preferment, and has never accepted any
office except as one of the building loan
commissioners of the city.
Mr.. Jose also had a military record,
known to all volunteers of the late war
in this city. He was quartermaster of
General Shepley's regiment, the 18th
Maine, and was his assistant quarter
master general when the Judge was mi
itary governor Of Louisiana
He married August 80, 1S43, Nancy B.,
daughter of Thomas Hooper Of Charles
town, Mass. One child is living, Helen
N, wife of Mr.. Herbert D. Pierce, son
of the late Professor Benjamin Pierce, of
the United States Coast Survey.
Mrs. Jose died a number of years ago
and Mr.. Jose married again, his second
wife being Mrs. Harriet N. Wetherbee of
this city, who survives him.
Obituary Notes.
Nelson Brigham, a well-known resi-
dent of Columbia, was found dead in his
barn Friday. Heart trouble was the
cause.
Tommy's Notion of the Great Christopher.
The following conversation took place
on recent afternoon between lady of
this city and one of our public. school
boys:
Uel1i TommyN did Won celebrate Co