Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-30
Obituary..

lie lnlduCa MARIA christina 1SaD0lld
died in Madrid
Aubrey Thomas De We're, the poet,
died in London He was born in
1914.
EX-Congressman A J. Holmes of
Boone, Iowa, died in the insane hos
pital at Clarinda, Iowa. He repre-
scented the tenth Iowa district three
terms in congress.
Sister Levina, a religious member of
the Order of Notre Dame, died of per-
itonitis at Hagerstown, Md. Sister Lee
VIVA was a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
McCombes Of Philadelphia.
Joseph B. Reed, one of the wealth.
est business men of Cecil county, Md,
died at his home at Bay View after a
brief illness, aged 80 years. For over
thirty years he was postmaster at Bay
View.
Mrs. HonOra Sweeney of Saratoga
Springs, n. Y, aged SIS years, fell
dead at the funeral Of her husband,
Jeremiah Sweeney. The service was
stoppd and joint funeral of husband
and wife will be held.
Mrs. Caroline Bolles Foster, wife of
Rev. John o. Foster of Rock River
conference and for many years a resi-
dent Of Chicago, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Stephen J. Herben,
in Newark, N. J., aged II years.
John Jacoby, a contractor, died at
the Central hotel, Wilmington, Del.
He built large intercepting sewer
along the Brandywine river and nu-
merous other sewage works. Lately
he had contracts in Washington, D. G.
Joseph Burke, the violinist and act
accompanist to Jenny Lind on her
tour to the United States, is dead in
New York, aged IS. Congressman
Charles H. Burke of South Dakota is
his nephew.
Charles T. Green, special agent of
the United States land office at Rapid
City, S. D., was stricken with apoplexy
while working in his Office and died
as a result. He had been connected
with the department ten years His
home was at Des Moines, Iowa.
Judge William H. Dewitt, a distin-
guished member of the Montana bar,
is dead Of acute heart trouble, at
Butte City He was associate Justice
of the state supreme court for several
years, and in 1900 was a member of
the national committee from Montana.
Welcome Wells, aged 81 years,
pioneer Of Ohio and Kansas and
California forty-niner, died at his
home in Manhattan, Kan. He was
born at DanVille, VT. He had been
mayor of Troy, N. Y, and a member
of both branches of the Kansas legis-
lature.
Rufus NAPLES, aged 76 years, for
mer district judge in Louisiana and
the author of several well-known law
textbooks, among them NAPLES on At
tachments, died of heart disease at
Ann Arbor. He was born in Dele
ware, moved to New Orleans in 1849,
where he studied law, and went to
Ann Arbor in 1878.
Captain John H. Lee died at his
home near Benton Harbor, Mich,
after ten days illness with pneumonia.
He was one of the oldest fruit grow
ers in that section, having settled
near st. Joseph in 1866. He was born
in Croton Falls, Westchester county,
N. Y, in 1S43. He was captain of
colored regiment in the civil war.
lisa S. Richards, who emigrated to
Victor, Iowa, nearly fifty years ago
and who for forty years has been an
extensive operator in western real
estate, died at Victor. His only son,
H. Y. Richards of Washington, D. c.,
general land and industrial agent of
the Southern railway and the Mobile
and Ohio railroad, and six daughters,
who reside in the west, survive him.
Stephen B. Culver, a great-grand-
son of Colonel Stephen Lee, who was
a member of the Crown Point expedi-
ton of Queen AIMS war in 1906. died
at his home in Mount Vernon. N. Y,
after brief Illness. He was a cousin
OF the countess of Waldersee, wife of
the prime minister of Germany. He
was a graduate Of Union college and
OF the Columbia school of mines. For
the past twenty years he had been
connected with the custom-house in
New York.
Rev. DR.. H. K. Hines is dead, at
Portland, Oregon, aged IA. DR.. Hines
came to Oregon fifty years ago from
Herklmer county, n. Y, and during
that time he was connected with the
affairs Of the Methodist Episcopal |
church in the northwest AS presid- |
ing elder Of the states Of Oregon, |
Washington and Idaho he became
widely known throughout the north !