The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-10-19
Governor Pillsbury's Death
Brings Sorrow to All.
PLANS FOR FUNERAL
Prominent Men Will Bear and Es-
cort the Casket.
U. OF M. CADETS GUARD OF HONOR
EmpOyes of the Great Mills Will At
tend the Services at
the Grave.

Seldom has a man died whose passing
has occasioned such general regret
throughout the state as has the death Of
Former Governor j. S. Pillsbury, whose
name will go down to history as the
greatest philanthropist Minnesota ever
called her own.
Governor Pillsbury's death has been a
cause for mourning not only among his
personal friends and business associates
but among the tens of thousands who knew
him only by his works and who loved him
for the good he did.
The funeral will be held from the First
Congregational church at o'clock to-
morrow Afternoon, the services being con-
Quoted by Rev. E. W. Shurtleff, pastor Of
the chruch, assisted by Rev. George R.
Merrill, its former pastor The morning
service at the church will be omitted and
the body of the former governor will lie
in state between the hours of 10:30 and
Y, attended by guard of honor made up
from the cadet officers of the state uni
versity corps. The interment will be at
Lakewood.
The active pall-bearers will be L. p.
Hubbard, Henry L. Little, G. NJ Amsden,
George F. Porter, James T. Wyman, R.
NJ. Bennett, w. f. Decker and Professor
George B. Frankforter. The honorary
pall-bearers will be: Former Governor
Alexander Ramsey Senator William d..
Washburn, Greenleaf Clark, DR.. Cyrus
Northrop, Governor S. r. Van SAINT, Judge
William Lochren, Former Governor A. r..
McGill, Joseph Wheelock, p. d. Mcmillan
Former Governor John Lind, DR.. w. W..
Folwell, Judge Henry G. Hicks. Judge
Charles M. Start, H. P. Upham, John Mar
tin, J. B. Gilfllan and William B. Dean.
To Attend the Funeral.
Alexander Ramsey, president of the
Minnesota Historical society, has ap-
pointed the following committee to repre-
sent the society at the funeral: John D..
Ludden, Charles E. Flandrau, Henry l..
Moss, James H. Baker, William H. Dun
woody, G. VI. Loring, Samuel H. Thayer
and Professor ~ H. Winchell. The at
tendance by club members, however will
not by any means be restricted to this
committee.
Members of the Territorial Pioneers
association, of which Former Governor
Pillsbury was the president, will attend,
each member wearing the badge of the
association yelled in Grape. Members of
the Loyal Legion will also be present,
and will wear the insignia Of the order,
together with the usual mourning badge.
The sixty-two young ladies who are now
living at the Mahala Fisk Pillsbury home
will attend the funeral; as will also the
office employees of the Pillsbury- Wash
burn company. The men employed In the
mills will not go to the church, but will
witness a special ceremony to be held at
the grave. Many of these men knew Mr.
Pillsbury personally and considered him
a personal friend. Their grief ate his
death is personal feeling, not that usu
ally existing between employer and en-
plOyed.
At the offices of the Pillsbury Washburn
company, in the Guaranty building, decor
ators were busy this morning draping the
rooms in black and white. The govern
or's desk and his chair were covered with
black, and a border Of black and white
was festooned over the Office desk-p -parti-
ton On the walls portraits of the gor-
mer governor, of George A. Pillsbury,
Fred @. Pillsbury and Charles A. Pills
bury were all draped in mourning.
L. P. Hubbard, in speaking of the matter
said: THE governor was the last of the
quartet, SO we decided to drape all Of the
pictures. I know he would have wished
it."
Henry L. Little arrived in Chicago from