Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12

| This morning, at the hour OF 1920
O'Clock. Tuesday, March 18th, 1901,
Mrs. Walter d. McIndoe passed
from this life, quietly, like one falling
off to sleep and conscious up to within
few hours of the end. The announce
ment, at an early hour, was received by
everybody with expressions of deep
sorrow, for no woman has been more
CONSPICUOUS in the history of our city,
nor one more sincerely respected or es-
| teemed than She
She was woman of wonderful con-
stitution, and was rugged in health and
very active until about year ago when
she commenced to show signs of
| failing health, this developed into heart
trouble and dropsy, and since Decem-
Der 10th last, she has not been able to
leave her room.
On numerous occasions, she was very
i'll and many times her life hung in the
balance, but she rallied and her rela-
| tives and intimate friends would be
happy again in finding her in her easy
chair and greeting them with cheerful
words and pleasant smiles, so char
acteristic of her. For few days past
she had been very sick, but her wonder
full vitality and ambition, enabled her,
only last evening, to sit up for while.
She realized that Death was lowering
Ger her, but she was ready and it had
no terrors for her Indeed, to one who
had led a life such as she had-pure,
noble, unselfish; disposition to take
things as they came, with cheerfulness,
and with an abiding faith in a blessed
immortality-there could be only one
way to meet the inevitable, and that
was bravely, cheerfully, with words
of encouragement to those dear ones
whom she was leaving behind, and
she met it in that way.
One can hardly realize what this
most estimable lady had done for the
growth and upbuilding of our beautiful
city. She was the beloved wife of the
late Walter D. McIndoe. That Hon.
gentleman came to Wausau in 1915 and
at once entered into the lumber bust
ness, and until his death, which Oc-
Cured in August, 1872, he was the
owner of and operated the saw mill
which is now owned by the Alexander
Stewart Lumber Company, at the foot
of Main street. Mr.. McIndoe was born
in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 2Sth day
of March, 1919. He was a business
man of high character and sound iudg-
ment and statesman of ability. From
the time of his coming to Wisconsin, he
took rank with the foremost men in
the state. With his enlarged business
views his operations soon became very
extensive. He became generally known
to the people of Wisconsin as one of
the most enterprising and prosperous
men of his day, in the state His efforts
were crowned with success, for in a
short time he accumulated a respect
able fortune. All his transactions
were conducted on liberal and honor
able principles ar he used his means
freely in bestowing comforts upon
those about him. Few, if any, of the
lumbermen were better known in bust
ness circles in Wisconsin, or in the
lower Mississippi Valley. He was
elected to the assembly in 1910, and
again in 1854. He was a prominent
candidate for governor in 1857, before
the republican state convention He
was elected to congress from this dis
trict in 1862 and again in 1864 and he
conducted the c.nalrs with great credit
to the district, the state and to himself.
Among the many measures favoring
northern Wisconsin which was adopted
through his instrumentality, was the