Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-25
OBITUARY,

OBITUARY.
j. B. Brown, aged n years, a
wealthy resident of Pana, ILL.,, died at
his home.
Jacob Balbach, one of the oldest
merchants in Chenoa, H.. ded at his
home in that city. aged II years.
Charles P. Giffin of Toledo, died of
heart disease, aged So years. He was
formerly speaker of the Ohio house.
Col s. c. Crowell of Maroa, ILL.,, a
civil war veteran. dropped dead in a
grocery at Decatur He was 80 years
old
State Senator George w. Wilhelm
of Canton, o., died of heart failure.
He was four times in the Ohio legis-
lature.
Alfreu Bowler, for many years as
ISOLATED with Al Hayman as manager
of the Baldwin theater in San Francis
co, Cal, is dead.
James Marshall died in Chicago He
was born in Pittsburg and served in
the war of the rebellion in the fourth
Ohio cavalry.
g. w. Gardner, father of State Sen
ator C. P. Gardner. died at Mendoza.
| ILL.,, the result of a paralytic stroke.
He was 7S years old.
Hosea M. Knowlton, former attor-
ney general of Massachusetts. who
was stricken with apoplexy Dec. 6,
died at Marion, Mass.
Thomas Meredith of Lewis. Ia.
died He was a well known philan-
thropist, and just before his death
gave $4,000 for a Y. NJ G. A. building.
Ex-Sheriff Samuel B. Glass. prom
inent republican politician and cashier
of the Reddick State bank, died at
Reddick, H., of cerebral hemorrhage.
DR.. j. M. Bowser. aged SO years, a
wealthy practicing physician of
Goshen, Ind, where he had been a res
ident for twenty years, died of heart
disease at his home.
Colonel Abraham Fullerton, former
congressman from the ninth Virginia
district, died at his home in Bristol,
! Tenn, aged 20 years. He organized
the first company of confederate in
fantry to go from east Tennessee.
General George P. Norman, aged
81 years, adjutant general of the
United Confederate Veterans, died at
New Orleans. He was on the staff
of Forrest and other confederate lead
ers during the war.
w T. Willis, aged 40 years, mem
Der of the Pfalser Coal company of
Brazil Ind, which was recently sold
to the Keaver Coal Company, and for
merly of Chicago. died. He former
ly resided in Chicago. His wife and
two children were with him. The body
was taken to Hillsdale, Mich.
Colonel j. L. Alternately, aged 50
years, a pioneer of Kansas and a
wealthy wholesale furniture manufac-
turer, died at his home in Leaven-
worth He was born in Ohio and
came west in 1856 He was the
father of W. M. Alternately of Kansas
City and father-in-law of ]. w Walter
of the Alternately Furniture Company
of that city. Colonel Abernathy's
estate is worth more than 81 900 900
During the civil war he was lieutenant
colonel of the eighth Kansas volun-
teers and participated in the battles
of Chickamauga and Lookout noun
tain.
General Wager Swayne, aged 6S
as the founder of the first schools for
the education of negroes and as the
victorious attorney of the national
bank system in the Ohio tax fight, died
at his residense in New York of a COM
plication or diseases. Mrs. Swayne
and his two sons and a daughter were
at the bedside. General Swayne, son
of Noah Haynes Swayne, justice of the
supreme court of the United States;
was of quaker descent, his ancestor,
Francis Swayne, having come to
America in the same vessel as Will
liam Penn. His mother was a Vir-
ginia woman, who celebrated her mar
riage to Judge Swayne by freeing all
her slaves, and who brought up her
son to be one of the most ardent aboli-
tionists of the civil war period. Wager
Swayne was educated az Yale. gradu-
ating in Sc with Chauncey M. Depew.
Justices Brown and Brewer of the SUI
preme court and other men since
prominent. He practiced law until the
breaking out of the civil war when he
offered his services and was appointed
major of the forty-third Ohio volun.
teers. He took part in the Missouri
campaign, assisting in the capture of
Island No. 10 and New Madrid, and
was in the battles of Corinth and Iuka,
NOTED to the colonelcy of his regi-
ment