The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-10-03
DENNIS NAGLE
PASSES AWAY.
After a Life of Nearly a Centur!
Answers Final Call.
FATHER OF THE LATE JOHN NAGLE.
A Man Whose Years were Euli OF
Honor and Usefulness.
SOME OF HIS CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS,
Dies at the Home OF His Daughter, Mrs.
James Ryan-Funerai took Place
in Meme Churchyafd.

A man who for long years was a.
ieighbor of Dennis Maggie in Meme on
hearing of the old pioneers death, con !
sciously and with feeling gave express
ion to eulogy coming from the heart AMI
not alone from the intellect. lie sald,
Maggie was fine old man, kindly
neighbor, whose long years were iull OF
usefulness and activity making his llte
a source of good to the community III
which he moved His impulses We're
ALWAYS kind, his convictions hrn anG
his courage indomitable. When other
men Law down the plowshare to rest III
the autumn of their days this man con
tinued to work until age with its de
caying breath had SO benumbed his
physical fibres that he was forced into
unwilling retirement. Ia the gong OF
Mr.. Maggie there passed into the myster
les of death Just man, and | wish to
cast this tribute upon his cairn inrespect
Of his memory
Dennis Maggie, who died on Monday at
/ o'clock in the morning, was the father
of the lamented John Maggie, the latter
who for many years graced the columns
of The Pilot by his writings and whose
name is II household word throughout
the county
1t was long life between the cradle
and the grave for Mr. Maggie. He came
into the world while the ninteenth cen
fury was yet in its swaddling clothes.
While the exact date of his birth Is IN
doubt it was either in the year 1909 or
1910 At this juncture Europe was III
the throes of its struggle with the great
Bonaparte. Mr. Maggie was boy
when the battle of Waterloo was fought,
and it is said he remembers we'll when
Napoleon was taken to St Helena ana
the circumstances Of the emperors death
We're vivid to him even to old age. To
retrospect such distance seems incred-
ible bat the man who was laid to rest
Yesterday in St Isidore's cemetery at
Meme, was boy Of at least six years
when Napoleon made his last struggle
and he was twelve years old when the
French warrior breathed his last at St.
Helena
As young man Mr.. Maggie came to
this country from Ireland Cork being
his native town He crossed the ocean
alone, landing in New York, in 1887
from where he went to Albany. In the
latter city he remained sufficiently long
TO be married, his wife in her maiden
hood was Anna Harding After a brief
residence in the Empire state he left for
Canada, where three children We're born,
namely, John Nagle Mrs. Kirwau and
Mrs Malloy He stopped in Canada
for several years, but left in lS4S fOg
Wisconsin He took up his residence
the same year in Meme and continued
on the farm until 1896, when he moved
into Manitowoc, making his home with
his daughter Mrs Ryan. Mr. Maggie
took up his home in this county when it
was little more than wilderness and
Manitowoc itself was but small village. !
1t meant courage and endurance to farm
in those days and in both of these attrib |
utes Mr. Maggie was master
One apropos story is told of Mr., Maggie |
which is here repeated. In the town of /
Meme he was known to have convict |
ions and to express them with emphasis
If he believed thing he would hold TO |
his point unwaveringly. One day he en-
gagged in conversation with James Pep /
pard, who was then the village school .
master and during the confab NJ? Pep
pard remarked:
Any port in Il storm"
You are wrong quoth Mr. Maggie,
you err in construction, hence bad
grammar"
ooh, no, do not said Peppard, III
show you the quotation in print in IA
thousand different places.
IF you show me it in ten thousand
different books" was the rejoinder,
that would not be proof that the con-
struction of the quotation is grammatic-
ally correct.
What form would you put it then to
be correct?'
ANY port from storm.
Here controversy ceased and the school
teacher left the older man slightly crest
fallen, but better informed 1t is told
also that Mr.. Maggie had tenacious
memory, one peculiarly adapted to re-