Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-05-06

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Entered into rest erernal, on May.
8, 1904, at : 40 o'clock q. m, after
q long illness, Louis Vasaly, aged,
81 years, 6 months and 30 days. !
When, two years ago last Decsmber,
tho writer Of these lines wrote the.
obituary notice Of the mother who
had just passed away, he hoped that
it.wouM be long before similar task
would be expected cf him for the old
father left behind. While in the pass
ing of the years the sad event musr
come to all, yet father was Of such .
vigorous constitution. and came Of
such long lived ancestry, that it was
thought It would be! many years be-
fore the dread summons came. But
the death Of mother was the begin
ming of the end. and when sickness
and intense suffering came, no one
who loved him could regret that the
pain-raoked body was at rest, and that
father had gone to join. in the world
beyond the grave, the loving and
loved companion Of many years.
Louis Vasaly was q native of the
province of Piedmont, Northern Italy,
but spent much Of his youth in what
Is known as Italian Switzerland. he
was ed ucsted at college at Alessan-
dria and at the University Of Milan.
later taking course in pharmacy at
the University of Turin. he took
active part In the revolutionary
struggles against the Austrian empire,
and was allied with the organized
movement for the uniication and
freedom Of the peninsula. He entered
the Sandman army, and was IN
many engagements, participating in
the battle Of Novara, March %, 1849,
when the Sandman army met the
Austrians under Marshal Radetzky,
and saw, on the field, Of battle the alb
dication Of King Charles Albert of
Sardinia in favor of his Son, the Duke
of Sarvoy, Victor Emanuel. As q
cavalry officer under General LAMAR
mora the deceased took part in the
Crimean war, participating with his
regiment in the psttle of the
Tchernaya. Aug. is, 1866, one of the
great battles of that war, and in the
siege of sebastopol. For some time he
was in the government service in the
Sardinian war Office under Count
Cavour. In 1859 he wss married to
Frances Riberi. In 1868 he came tc
the United States, landing at New
York City. He was employed for q
time there In newspaper work on
LEGO d'Iralia, q paper founded In
1S49. He enlisted in the Union army
and served as hospital steward and as
a private soldier. He took part in the
closing campaigns Of the Army of the
Potomac and was at the battle of
Petersburg and the fall of Richmond.
At the close of the war the regiment
was sent to Fort Ripley, and there he
was honorably discharged from the
service and became postmaster and
post trader, 5uilding up large busi-
ness In the winter Of 1868-69 he went
to Italy for his wife and two children,
returning in the spring. By delay in
reaching the port Of Havre in France
the family missed the steamship on
which passage had been taken, and
took the next steamer. The steamer
on which it was intended to cross the
ocean was lost with all on boara. In
1871 the family moved to Little Falls,
where deceased had since resided.
He was engaged in the drug and
mercantile business for many years.
and for about ten years, until 1856,
conducted the Vasaly house. a large
frame hotel building which stood On
the site Of the Buckman block. He
was several years a member of the
board Of education. Until compal-
atively recent time he was very &C.
tive, notwithstanding his advanced
age. in looking after his affairs. With
mothers death, Dec. II, 1901, he
began to fail. In the summer of 1902
he received stroke Of paralysis, but
being Of very hardy constitution was
not long confined to his room. though
he was never again we'll. About /
year ago he fell on a sidewalk and
was injured. He took to his bed then,
and gradually failed, suffering great
ly much Of the time, but he was OF
such strong vitality that he survived
long after it seemed he could endure
no more.
Seven children are left, all resi-
dents Of Little Falls-Stephen c.
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