The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-11-24
In MEMORIAM.
Mothers Estimate of the Life Work o
DIR. McManuS.

Mothers Estimate of the Life Work oil
DR.. McManus.
Warren Coburn McManus, M. D., of
Edgerton, Wis, whose sudden death has
bereayed so many, was born in Bruins
wick, Maine, June 2lst, 1861. His faith
er. Captain George Warren McManus,
was the youngest but one of six brothers,
tive of whom became ship masters. Cap
tain George, as he was Familiarity called,
was for twenty years sea captain, COM
handing large merchant ships In the
foreign trade. That he never met with
disaster until the shipwreck in which he
lost his life, shows his remarkable ability
as navigator and commander. The fact
that several boys who began their sea
lives with him remained in his employ
until they were fitted to become success
full commanders themselves, shows his
kind nature and willingness to assist
those who had desire to rise.
The ship, D. L. Choate of Portland,
Me, on her return voyage from India
with cargo of rice, foundered on June
10, 1864, in terrible gale off the south
ern coast of Africa. One of the seamen,
after floating around on piece of wreck
for days, was rescued by the captain of
an English vessel and carried to the us.
consulate at st. Helena. This seaman
reported that he saw the captain and
several men in life boat. Hope was
therefore INDUCED that they also were
rescued. For months the people of his
town confidently looked for assurance
from some foreign port of the safety of
the men and the return of the master of
the ship. For years the wife hoped on.
Left widow at the age of twenty-three,
with two babes, Warren, aged three, and
George, one and half years, she return
ed to the home of her parents, and in
that home the boys were carefully train
ed, until after seven years of widowhood
their mother married Rev. Stephen M.
Newman, graduate of Bowdoin college,
who for seven years was pastor of the
Broadway Congregational church of
Taunton, Mass, then for another seven
years of the College church of Ripon,
Wis, and later for twenty-on years, of
the First Congregational church Of
Washington, D. C..
The boys studied in the public schools
of Taunton, Mass, in Ripon college, Wis,
and completed full courses in one of the
best medical schools of the District of
Columbia Warren took the degree of
M. D. in 1889 and George IN 1891. The
former was chosen valedictorian of his
class which numbered thirty-two
He was married by his step-father in
the Congregational church of Fulton,
Wis, to Miss Sue E. Sayre, daughter of
Hon. D. F. Sayre. He formed the &C
quaintance of this beautiful girl when
they were both studying at Ripon col
lege, and he found her a most efficient
and untiring helper in all his labors.
At the completion Of his studies he
settled for the practice of medicine in
Edgerton, Wis, and had built up large
and successful practice. His native gifts
and his fidelity to his profession in it's
highest demands made him a growing
man. The following beautiful account
was written by his wife in letter some
years ago: Warren has been south three
miles and back and now goes north five
miles. 1t is past ten o'clock in the even
ing and is showing. Another call came
three miles east while he was out. This
afternoon he was east seven or eight
miles Warren works hard and is ever
the same to everyone, rich or poor alike,
giving his best service in the sweetest,
quietest, manifest way"
The three lovely daughters, Phoebe, Eliza
beth and Catherine, were the joy and pride of
will be the same great comfort to their mother
that he was to his own bereaved mother. His
loving thOughtfulness for his mother from his
earliest bOyhOOd is cherished memory, Her
recovery from critical illness the past year is
due largely, she feels, to his wise and tender
ministrations. The remembrance of the long
rides with him through the country on his long
daily round will be continual JOY in her deep
sorrow.
If it were possible to rise f1om his bed he
never refused to respond to night call, even
n
necessary to take a man along to shovel
through the almost impossible drifts and
when he knew, too, that there was little or no
pay. Never mind the pay, l will bring you
through all right have heard him say to
man Stricken down with disease, who because
of the failure of his crops did not know where
the money to pay his physician was to come
from. BE kindly affectiOned one to another
with brOtherly love- was the spirit he reveal
self-sacrifce and of earthly riches but he gain
ed heavenly riches. an inheritance of the saints
in light.
The home which DR.. McManus and his wife
made for themselves was so open and free to
friends and acquaintance alike that scarcely a
day passed without some guests at their table
and some occupants for their two guest cham
berS. 1t can be truly said of this beloved ply
stefan He was given to hospitality"
He inherited his fathers love for the sea- and
would have followed it if he had obeyed his
own inclination. The same steady hand un
f1inching nerve, and unerring judgment which
plotted the ship through the stormy sea, saved
MIN from ACCIDENT Wnen IN mldnlght darkness
he dashed along the country road behind his
team of swift horses or in his motor car
Emergencies or danger aroused him to instant
and clear headed action.
He inherited also his fathers regular and
temperate habits A professional man who
does not use tobacco in any form, nor any kind
of intoxicating drink deserves COMMUNICATION
as an example to the young men of the day.
May the Heavenly Father the Divine PhyS1
clan, who gave His angels charge over the
wearied doctor, when fast asleep in his buggy,
faithful horses him safely home
help the dear wife, in her helplessness, to feel
that the same loving Father, with seepless
vigil watches her path. He will help her to-
say
my Father! see
l trust the faithfulneSS displayed of old,
I trust the love that never shall grow cold,
l trust in Thee
Forever and forever rest
Before him. limitless in lines of light
Bathed in a loneliness of perfect day,
Those shining paths where an Almighty Hand