Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-17
OBITUARY.

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He was 50 years old.
Onna Klopp. the well-knOwn his
torian, is dead at the age of 81, al
Vienna.
Samuel S. Skinner, a retired banker
and merchant of Valparaiso, Ind, died
/ last evening at his home in Chicago
o. p. NJ. BOokwalter, who was
financial agent Of a publishing com
pany of Philadelphia, died in Denver.
| Mrs. Dorothy Cleveland Of AnadarkO,
/ president of the Oklahoma state W.
&c. T. U. for the past four years, is
dead at FL Reno.
Virgil Young, one of the Oldest and
! best known residents of Elkhart
Ind. died of cancer, aged so years. He
was married four times.
Captain George Fearing Hollis, for
merly United States consul at Cape
Town, south Africa, died at Maiden,
Mass. He was So years Of age.
Edward Weller. aged so years, one
of the oldest railroad engineers on the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern ana
a wealthy resident of Pana, H., is
dead.
DR.. Washington West, aged 70 years.
a prominent surgeon in st. Louis, was
stricken with apoplexy while walking
along a street and was removed to his
home. where he died.
Captain Louis NJ. Cha-teau, chief Of
the Fairr. unit park rollce of Phila-
delphia. IS dead. aged rs years. He
claimed 20 be the oldest Morse tel
egrapher n the world.
Samuel S. Skinner. aged 70 years, a
retired banker and merchant, died at
Valparaiso, Ind. He served in the
Indiana legislature two terms. He
leaves 4 large estate.
Mrs. Eliza f. Kennedy. one of the
pioneer residents of Miami county.
Indiana, died at Wabash. She was
the mother of Charles S. Haas, editor
Of the Wabash Daily Plaindealer.
A cablegram from Zurich, Switzer-
land announces the death there of
Henry S. Louchheim OF the banking
firm OF H. S. LOuchheim e Co. Of Phil
adelphia. He was 20 years of age.
John l. Nichols, ex-member OF the
Illinois legislature, died at Washing
ton, d. c., aged so years. For a num-
Der of years he held a position in the
United States senate document depart
ment.
John Gilbert Shanklin, for many
years a leading democrat of Indiana,
died at Lafayette after a long illness.
He was formerly editor of the Evans
vile Courier, and served one term as
secretary of state.
Edward Parkhurst, travelling sales
man for seventeen years with ]. C.
Farwell & Co. of Chicago. died as
Bloomington, Ill, after a lingering
illness with consumption, aged 40
years.
Alfonso Lancaster Jones, recently
Mexican minister to England, is dead
at Cuernavaca, whittier he had gone
for his health. He was a member OF
an English family who settled In
Mexico many years ago.
Eaton Stone, well known in his
time as a circus performer, is dead at
his home in Hutley, II. J., at the age
of sc. Stone is said to have been the
first man to turn a somersault on a
galloping horse. He retired from the
ring about thirty years ago.
Louis Z. Prindle, a well-known bank
official, died at his home in Kansas
City, Mo-, of kidney disease. Mr..
Prindle was born in Michigan in 1881.
He was graduated from the Ann ArOoi-
law school and after going to Kansas
City in 1865 practiced law, later be-
coming a banker.
w. C. jerks, who for thirty years
has been prominent in the lumber
business of the northwest. died at La
Crosse, of a stroke of paralysis. aged
56 years. He was a descendant Of
Peter jerks, who made the first IrOls
furnace in America and who also made
the dies for the first American coins.
Mrs. Teresa A. Meredith, wife OF
Captain William Nj. Meredith, director
of the bureau of engraving and print.
ing. died at her home in Washington
from heart disease. Mrs. Meredith
was about 50 years old, and was
native of Illinois. Her maiden name
was Richey.
Mrs. Louise Flannery. a pioneer
MissOurian and a civil war heroine.
died at her home near independence.
Mo. where she was born in 1929.
During the civil war she was unceas-
ing in her work of assisting the union
soldiers and caring for the wounded,
to whom her house was thrown open,
and at Lees Summit after the Skin
mish between union soldiers and the
forces OF General Hayes she served as
a nurse.