The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-01-05
DEATH HAS CLAIMED HIM
His snRerings Relieved at an Early
Hour This Morning.
WAS A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN
Who HHd Beld Many Places of Trust and
Against whose Character There Is
Not Recorded n single Stain
-UnblemIshed Career
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Net Recorded n Single Stain
-UnbIemIshed Career
of Problty.
Aftor q Desperate struggle with the
Erin monster, death, DR.. Augustus
Leip logger, one of the best known and
mos, highly respected PHI sicians Of the
city, passed into the great unknown
world at O'Clock Friday morning.
About Eve weeks ago DR.. Leiniuger was
stricken with typhoid fever. From the
very first it was sten tiat the disease was
I the most virulent type, and the ply
sioians called in set out to battle it with
sll the soierce Of their craft. Skilled
and devoted nurses were procured and all
that could be. done By his loving wife and
solicitous relatives and friends was done
in the hops that his life might be spared
TO those who loved hin. The progress Of
the fever was noted; each change for the
better caused Joy to multitude of
friends leach change for the worse caused
m oyershadowing gloom. The worst
same this morning, when in the presence
uf his devoted wife and relatives the fight
was suddenly ended, with death the
victor.
DR.. A. Leiningsr was born in Pike
Iownship, thi, clunty, in 1859. When
he wss i've years of age his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Leininger, removed to
Van Vert county, where the family re-
mained until 1868, when they returned
to Stark county and took up their resi-
denoe north OF the city. The famous
Leininger hill, upon which at the present
time star DIS the Davis stone mansion,
was a part ( the farm SO long cultivated
by the parents Of the youthful Augustus.
After leaving school the young man went
into DR.. E. o. Portmann's otiice and
studied medicine. Later he went to
college, finally graduating with honors
from the Wooster University of Cleve-
land. About the year 1889 DR.. LeiniDger
now a full flelged M. D., returned to
Canton and opened up an Office. His
praotios soon became remunerative and
his popularity was~un questioned. His
shingle had not swung lorg in tie breeze
when he was nomin ted on the Dem
cratic ticket for coroner. His election |
followed and in 1884 he was reelected.
In December 1885 Sheriff James Lee
died, and under the statutes prevailing |
AZ that time the coroner became sheriff. |
DIR. Lsininger served until few months
before the expiration of. his term as cor
oner, when he resigned %tbe coroner's
office and was appointed by tHa co minis
sioners to I'll the unexpired teym of
Sheriff Lee. In 1887 he was a candidate
for the Office Of sheriff and was elected by |
q good majority. He filled the ofIics
until 1859 with credit to himself and
the Democracy he represented. His entire
political and official career bears not a
atn nula alfa Al nI.pN
fearless official, with keen appreciation
OF the desires cf the constituents whom
he represented wi b honesG fidelity.
After leaving the sheriff's Office DIR. Lein-
niger instituted the Ohio Protective
Association and Detective bdreau. He
also engaged 10 the manufacturing bust
ness. He gave the association and his
business his personal attention for two
years and then resumed the practice Of
medicine, which he continued until he con-
traoted the disease he had so often and
successfully conquered, but which carried
him into the presence of the Great Ply
siolan on high.
DR.. Leininger was whole souled man
whose kindly, quiet ways won him the
love and friendship of all who knew him.
A narrow thought never lived In his
mind. He was broad and liberal In his
views on every subject and charity for all
was motto engraven on the tablets of
is mentality. No sufferer ever went
without aid when big hearted DR.. Lein-
niger knew of 1T. His purse and his pro-
fessional attalnments were always free
to the poor and needy. Thsre was moth
ing little abont him but his stature.
Nature had used such precious material
in his composition that 1t could not
afford more heroic mouli. Such
eharscters as he should live, as their very
presence sends forth an influence for
good. BY the inscrutAbIs ways Of pro-
yidence, DR. Leininger's mortal remains
' III soon mingle with the dust. A Il