The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-09
The Inventor of the Se1f.Feeding
attachment For ThreSherS
Dies Suddenly.
Heart Failure Came Upon Him and
He Dies With a Smile
on His Lips.

onon was OCCupytHS lOChluS CAoii
at the time. Three minutes previous
he was holding the youngest Dwor-
shak, a child of about nine months.
He apparently felt slight pain COM
ing on in the region Of his heart, and
without uttering a word of surprise or
pain he handed the baby ever to his
wife. His head took natural posi-
ton upwards. Mrs. Dworshak sup
posed that he was playing with the
child. She spoke to him but no re-
sponse came. She waited a few mo-
ments and then attempted to arouse
him, but without effect. She called
on two or three neighbors and they
supposed that he was still alive but
numb. DR.. Finn was summoned and
after an examination pronounced Mr..
Dworshak dead. He stated that heart
failure was the cause.
Mr.. Dworshak has been suffering
from heart trouble for several years,
and on one or two other occasions was
forced to quit his work temporarily
and retire to the house.
The funeral occurred from the Bo-
hemian Catholic church near the resi-
dence last Monday. A Bohemian
priest from St. Paul oficiated. A
large number of friends and relatives
were present at the funeral services.
The deceased leaves wife and nine
children, all girls, the oldest of which
is only IL years of age. His property
consists of a house and three acre
lot, constituting his home, a large
number of old threshing machines
and other machinery. His wife is
known as first class business woman
and will probably be able to realize
from the machinery as we'll as his in
vention.
As before stated he was the inventor
and patentee of the first self-feeding
attachment for threshing machine.
The attachment is labor saying and
lessons the danger to men working
around the machine. The invention
was perfected and the patent secured
about four years ago. He merely Sc
cured one patent to cover the whole
machine. At the time of the inven-
ton he refused $4,000 for the exclu-
sive right to manufacture and sell the
feeders. Later he refused Sis, 900.
Just what he asked is not known, but
he at once commenced getting the
feeders manufactured by Minneapo-
lis manufacturing house and placing
the same on the market. A year or
two later an Eastern machine COM
pany infringed upon the feeder
patent and commenced the wholesale
manufacturing of the feeder. Mr..
Dworshak had no money to prosecute
the company and besides he undoubt-
edly made mistake in not having
patents to cover several different parts
of the machine. The result was that
the eastern concern with immense
capital was able to practically run Mr..
Dworshak's feeder from the market.
Mr.. Dworshak was not over 40 years
of age. He was a pleasant and ge-
nial fellow to meet and was strictly
honest in all of his business dealings.
His neighbors speak of him in the
highest terms and from all can be
heard expressions of regret over his
untimely taking off. His widow was
his best counselor during his life and
in a measure transacted nearly all of
his business, particularly in cores
pondence and finance. She is re-
markable woman and will undoubted-
ly be equal to the task of raising the
nine girls.