Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-07

stages of consumption. Tied down by
business affairs that he thought could
lot be left to others. he disregar6ed the
advice of physicians and friends to seek
q different cline, and the result has
been that he gradually failed unit.
three months ago he was compelled to
take to his bed. While changes at times
We're for the better, his condition has
been grave from the beginning of his
sickness, and to his physician it has
been realized that the matter of his
aeath was only the question of time.
| Mr.. Shorthill was born in Pulaski, o.,
| Oct. i, 1851. He removed with his par
| ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Shorthill. to
this city in the ia of 1865, and has
Leen resident of Marshaltown ever
since, with the exception of one year
during his boyhood, spent in Tama On
| Nov. o. 1872, he was united in marriage
TO Miss Luella Bingaman.
| Mr.. Shorthill's first business venture
In this city was in 1871, when he start
ed a dray line. 1t was not long, how
ever, until he engaged in the ice BUSH
mes. and after some time spent at that
he entered the fuel and building ma
terial supply business, at the stand
now occupied by George Gregory. With
lC. e. Gilman as partner, he con-
structed and operated the first street
car line In this city, and continued to
do so until the place, becoming too
large for horse cars, necessitated the
| installation of the present electric sys-
tenn. His next venture was when he pur-
chased from B. r. Frederick the con-
trolling interest in the Marshall foun-
dry and machine shops. This industry
he took at time when the plant had
all but collapsed and from the rem
nants he built up one of the
most lucrative businesses in the
city. This firm was later Incorporated
under the name of the A. T.. Shorthll
Company, and he has remained as it's
president up to the time of his death.
Besides being actively engaged in this
business, he was also heavily Interest,"
ed in real estate, both in this city, the
surrounding country and South Dako-
ia.
The passing of this man from the ac-
tive struggle of daily life to the broader
life beyond marks the passing from
MarshalltoWn of one of it's most unique
characters. He was unique in the fact
that he was in every sense the self
made man. Starting with but limited
education. and almost penniless, by UNI
RENTING labor and ceaseess energy he
was able to mass together fortune
and an industry both of which are Il
credit to the town and the good name
he has left behind. He was Il man of
clear vision and long foresight. and was
acknowledged to be one of the city's
shrewdest business men. by his abili-
ty to foresee the future with that keen
insight into affairs that comes to COM
paratively but few his business VEN
lures have been remarkable for their
unfaillng success. With him to be idle
was to be worse than dead, and his
greatest displeasure was i'm his work. ut
which he kept until his illness COM
PEELED him to step down and out of the
active turmoil of business life. He was
respected by all for his high-minded-
ness and integrity, and the best that
can be said of any man has been said of
him, that he was a man of his word.
fils promise was as good as the act,
and i'm his death the faithful and heart
broken wife loses tender and loving
husband, the city a good and substan
tial citizen.
Mr. Shorthill's life represents to a
large extent the commercial and finan-
cial growth of this city, and while his
exact wealth is not known to GER