Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-22
Obituary.

Geo. w. Dobson was born i'll Cres-
CO, Iowa, July 20, 1875, where he
lived untll his twentieth year, attend
ing the public schools of Cresco, being
a member of the high school when he
went to Rockford, ILL.,, and was EN-.
ployed there about two years.
He enlisted in Co. A 4th U. S.
lnft. at Chicago, June 2S, 1897, aud
was sent to Fort Sheridan, Ill. staying
there with his regiment until June
1898, when they were sent to Tampa,
Fla, Oil their way to Cuba, going
with the 5th Corps to Santiago. He
was i'll the battles of ElCaney, SanIuan
and the Siege of Santiago and several
small skirmishes and severalIdays and
nights after the-battles, burying the
dead, and caring for the sick and
wounded, until stricken with malaria
and fever himself. He was sent with
other sick soldiers to Montauk Point,
Long Island, where he was held in
quarantine tor month. His health
being somewhat improved, he was
given thirty days furlough, to visit
friends at home, at the close Of Which
he reported at Fort Sheridan, about
Nov. s, 1898. George being of a
studious turn of mind had improved
his spare time IN the Fort previous to
going to Cuba in pursuit of studies
which he had previously been utter.
ested. aud continued to study and to
pursue useful reading whenever he
had opportunity and was well inform.
ed. He also was proficient in music
and was member of the Cresco band
before he left his native town. In
January, 1899, he was promoted as
trumpeter and assigned to Co. of the
same regiment, and started enroute to
the Philippine Islands, via New York,
Gibraltar and Suez Canal. He served
with his regiment tor some time Ill
Luzon and was in several encounters
with the Fillpinos.
in his health again breaking down,
and he was sent TO the hospital at
Manila, staying there about month
when he was sent on hospital ship
to San Francisco, arriving Feb. a.,
1900, and remaining in hospital there
until somewhat improved in health,
when he reported for duty, but he had
: several relapses in which he was
| obliged to return to the hospital. Gu
, expiration OF his term of three years
service he was discharged from the
army July 6, 1900, at San Francisco,
Cal. He did not come home, knowing
that the climate here would be un.
favorable for HIM, after being subject
SO long to the intense heat of the
tropics. He had been employed
during the winter until his last sick
ness. He was taken with apoplexy
Sunday, Jan. FL, and was taken 10
the city hospital, where he died at 3 p.
M. Thursday, Jan. 81, 1901.
The letter bringing the particulars
of his last sickness says: she had a
great many friends here" This was
true of George wherever he was well
known. He was a young man of gooc
5 character and gentlemanly bearine
and won the respect and esteem Of
those who knew him we'll. The same
letter brings to the bereaved friend.
!, here the comforting assurance that he
received in his last sickness the
kindest care that loving hands could
give him, and that he was laid to res
with soldiers hono1s in the Preside
4 by those who loved him.
, Thus, in soldiers grave another
!, the third, OF our young men from
Cresco who gave themselves to theil
country when its honor and its fat
: needed defenders. He loved hi!
t country, his God; and did his duty
d All honor to his memory.
u Soldier rest, thy warfare DER
Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking
Dream of battle fields no more,
Days of danger nights of waking"