Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-04-27

the Second church at Springfield, III.
Major Dewitt c. Cram, aged II. as
sistant United States district attorney
for northern Iowa. is dead at Dubuque.
Although he became totally blind ff-
teen years ago, this did not necessi-
tate his giving up the practice of law.
He was a vigorous prosecutor and a
skillful examiner of witnesses. He
was born in Vermont and served
throughout the civil war.
Z. L. Boies, oldest son of ex-Gov-
ernor Boies and the senior member
of the law firm of Boies & Boies at
Waterloo, Iowa, died of typhoid fever
Louis Boies was fast coming to the
front as a leader of the democratic
party of Iowa. He was AZ years of
age. Governor Boies, who has been
in poor health for some time, is
Frustrated over the blow.
Texas Angel is dead at HALEY,
Idaho. He was born at Angelica. n.
", in 1889 and served with distinc-
ton in the Twenty-seventh New York
regiment in the civil war. He prac-
ticed law in Eau Claire, Wis, as part
ner of Levi Villas. He was named
"Texas" by General Sam Houston, the
first president of the Texas republic,
who was a close friend of his father.
Mrs. Hester A. Thayer, aged sc,
died at Springfield, III. She was
born in Boston and was the daughter
of Stephen Thayer, formerly a prOml-
nent merchant of that city. She
went to Springfield early in life and
was a teacher of languages in the old
Springfield academy. She also
taught in the schools of Baltimore
and other cues in the east.
Rev. DR.. Howard Smith, dean of
the Reformed Episcopal seminary at
Philadelphia, and professor of
dogmatic theology in that institution,
died. aged SO years. He was born at
Kaskaskia, o., and studied for the
ministry at the Protestant Episcopal
seminary of Virginia His first
charge was at Knoxville, Tenn.
Later he occupied pulpits at Wash
.ington Heights, n. Y; Newark, n.
j., ana brooklyn, n. \.
c. p. Squires, vice president of the
Communication Savings bank at
Burlington, Iowa, director of the Rock
Island railroad and a retired capital
list. died of heart failure at Abba,
Iowa, in the private car of G. Z. Per
kins, former president of the Burling-
ton road, while on a trip through
Iowa. Mr.. Squires was born in Ben
nington, VT, March 30, 1927. He went
to Burlington in 1856 and founded the
c. p. Squires Drug Company. He
married Miss Anna Bethel Hedge. sis
ter of Congressman Thomas Hedge.
Joseph AlOnzo Sleeper, a pioneer
lawyer of Chicago and one of the two
men who drew the original re-
publican platform, died, aged 81
years Mr.. Sleeper was born Oct. 10,
1918, at Bethany, n. Y. In 1899 he
began the study of law in Alexander,
n. V. and in 1871 entered the Offices
of Dibble & Martindale at Batavia.
In 1874 he was admitted to- the court
of common pleas for Genesee county,
New York. Later he removed to
Evansville, Wis. where he was promi-
nent in the practice of the law until
1868, when he went TO Chicago and
became the partner of Henry X.
Wilton, which alliance existed until
the death of Mr.. Wilton in 1886. Mr..
Sleeper was the chairman of the
committee on resolutions at the
organization CT the republican party
in Madison, Wis, in 1854 and with
the late Judge Wyman Spooner wrote
the platform which was adopted by
the convention. Surviving Mr..
Sleeper is only the widow.