The Forrest City times., 1905-04-14
MR. LOUIS ROLL WAGE
Thg Closing of q Great and
 Beautiful Life.
HE EAD CAME TUESDAY HORNIFG
prC1 incnt Merchant and Capital - Passes to His Eternal
 Reward.

Tuesday morning, April Il, l905, It $50 o'clock.
 His death wa, not unexpected, Us he had been confined 10 hls room several weeks by a malignant can cer of the throat, having not been seer D his usual walks of business since February 24th, on which day, Ae accidental explosion of an alcohol lamp with winch he pre- pared his medicinal treatment, gave him q severe shock and pain fui burns about the face.
 Louis Rollwage was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 9th, 1851 and had he lived until the 9th oI the present month would have been 54 years Of age. He spent lis beyhood days in Cincinnati, and received a common school ed ueation Ia the public schools of that cily. Al the age of thirteen  4e accepted situation in an in sofanee office, and few years ;. thereafter, accepted position as assistant bookkeepor in the Frank hIi Type Foundry, holding this sit. 4ahon ualil he emigrated South.
 He ved#ia Memphis ia tn. aps4mu q 1>12, aad= shortly there after aoeeFle1#a situation with Noe, Hoy Co., t firm then doma. mercantile business in Forrest City.
 h the autumn ot 1S74. he and hls tIother, Hon. Otto B RoIlwaee, tau1ded the prosperous and WideI} known finn Of |, RoIlwdge < Go. winch was recognized as one Of the strongest and most sQb,tautial business firms in Eastern Arkan- sas. This firm was dissolved byI mutusl consent in 1903, 0ao 5 ro- turing, and being succeeded by Mr John W. Alderson, son-ih-iaw oil l. Rollwagt, and the business was continued under the firm name of RolIwage X AIderson. On the first of the present year this firm and | the firm of Russell, Graham < O., were merged into the Fussell-G ra- ham-Alderson Company in which | MT. Louis RolIwage was largely 1 interested, and of which he was member of the Board of Direct org.
 Louis Rollwage was never an as pirant for political fayors CT pub lie houors, but his constituency elected him a member of the city eounell, and eXceptone year that he declined to allow his name to go on the tickot was for thirty-two consec- utive years member of the school board, during the greater part eff whlea tine he was it's president. lgidng that office at the time Of Ms demise. He was also q large shareholder in the Bank of Eastern Arkansas, and vtccpresident ot that institution; director and ex. president of the Forrest City Hotel Company, treasurer, of several Of the benevolent orders establish ed here, and interested in the For. rest City Ice and Power Company.
 He was a Knight Templar Mason, Knight of Honor, a member of inc Knights and Ladies of Honor and one of the most genial, safe and prominent citizens of Eastern Arkansas.
 Mir. Rollwage was married in 1873 to Miss Lizzie McDaniel, daughter of Mir. John Mcdaniel, deceased, who with one son, Louis F. and four daughters, viz: Mrs. J. L. Jelks, of Memphis, Mrs. Alice McRas, recently of Texas, Mrs. John W. Alderson, and little Miss Allyn Rollwage, survive him.
 Up to few years ago Mir. Louis Rollwage was the leader in nearly all musical affairs of this city, and t was through intimate associa. tons with him for many years in a Ausical way. that va laarcad .o