The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-12
Tribute to I. Halner.

Ignace Hainer was born Ill Hungary
November Is, 1918. He received the
best education afforded by the Univers.
tiles of his county and became special
ly proficient in history and languages.
Following the traditions of long
ancestral line he entered upon the pro.
fession of law in the land where the at.
torney takes no cause unless thoroughly
convinced of its Justice where fees and
conetacts f6f cdfhapnsatioHNs are I'M
known and the worthy counsel fecsGeaf
the reward of an hOnorian from his an.
preciative client.
He continued the practice of law with
signal ability, haying in his charge many
large Interests, until the great revolution
OF l84S in his native land called him to
arms with Kossuth and his compatriots.
Their struggle for liberty wonderful
ly excited the admiration and sympathy
of the civilized world, but the small
band of heroic Magyars, poorly equip
ned and armed could not successfully
maintain the unequal contest against
the combined forces of Austria and
Russia and after fruitless struggle of
two years the patriots we're overpower-
ed and Hungary, broken and bleeding,
lay at the cong ueror's feet.
Though not formally exil ed with
others, many of whom took less con-
spicuous part in that eventful struggle,
Mr.. Hainer could not endure the 90.
preston against which he had SO gal
lantly struggled andsin 1854 emigrated
to America living for a year at Chicago
and IN 1866 made his way over the then
trackless prairie, at a time when the
slow OK team performed the work now
swiftly done by steam and rail, and took
up his home at the Hungarian Colony
of New Buda. Of that remarkable col.
ony so well known to the older resi-.
dents of Iowa only Francis Varea and
Stephen Radnich remain.
Here, with his family unused TO the
trials, privation, suffering and hardship
incident to frontier life, in that conf
dence and hopefulness characteristic of
his people that in this land of the free,
opportunities would open to his chill.
dren denied to the father in the old
world, he began at middle age new
life and became part of that force
which transformed wilderness into a
blooming garden.
ne acceped the position of Professor of
Modern Languages in the State Uni.
versity of Missouri and served in that
capacity until the breaking out of the
Civil War, when on account of his I'M
compromising loyalty to the land of his
adoption, he was ousted by the confed-
erates-Gen. Sterling, Price, and others
then in control of the institution.
He then returned with his family to
the neighborhood of New Buda, where
no continued ~
which occurred on March Is, 1900, at
the ripe age Of 81 years, months and
IL days.
He was married in 1916 to Ada Bartos
who survives him. There was born to
them 9 children, Of these Laura the
eldest was married to Stephen Radnich
Of Davis City, lowe, and died in 1871.
Victor, a son died four years ago in
Colorado.
Seven children are still alive. These
]. Of Aurora, Neb., Mrs. Ada Blaise of
Perry, Okla, Julius q. Of St. Louis,
Mo-, Bayard 7. Of Perry, Okla. Mrs.
Hermine II. Gabel of Aurora, Neb.,
Mrs. Norma Beach of Geneva, N. Y. and
Mrs. Vesta Chase of St. Louis, Mo.
The end came without moments
warning. In apparent excellent health
and usual vigor, on his way to the vii
lage, he was stricken with apoplexy and
died without a struggle or pain.
He was an exemplary citizen and a
good man. Highly educated-a lin
guist whose equal is seldom meta rare
character whose rugged virtues made
his name synonym for honesty, re-
liability and the highest type of patriot.
ism and citizenship Those who knew
him best respected and Logged him most;
those whose lives she touched most in
timately have th)e greatest cause to
The funeral services occurred Wed.
nesday afternoonl At the Union church
I'm Davis City, Vi here Notwithstanding
the very inci INT weather, large
EeEowd assembl Lpay the last tribute