Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-07-17
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Ella K. Dixon, widow of Henry
W. Dixon. died at her Milwaukee res
idence.
Frank M. Fuller, secretary Of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania died
or apoDiexy at Uniontown.
Major Frank c. Culley. formerly
Mayor of Kenosha, died, aged 81 wears
he was we'll known to the literary
world.
Dr. Joseph Moore, former president
OF Earlham college, AMI an eminent
educator, is dead at his home in Rich.
mond, Ind.
Mrs. Frances w. James, widow of
the late Alfred James, president of the
orth National Fire Insurance Com.
pany, died at her home in Milwaukee
John W. Alexander, a wealthy oil
man OF Marietta, Ohio, died suddenly
en- the Rockefeller estate at Pom
tanico Hills, on the Hudson. He was
81 years old.
countess Caroline Won Lippe, mother
OF the count regent. died at Detmold.
Germany. She was countess Won
WarCensleber. She was born April
Z, 1914. and was married. Sept. 16
1859, to the late Count Ernest of Lime.
John Selby, a veteran of TIE Mexican
war, died at Tacoma, Wash aged 81
Years. He had served with General
Taylor at Buena Vista, and carried a
personal Glitter from President Lincoln
for later work in the Union army. The
remains will be sent to Jacksonville.
H., his former home.
Wilbur Fisk Sanders, civil war vet
eran, pioneer, lawyer, leader of the
vlgllantes, ana former United States
senator from Montana, is dead at his
home i'll Helena, aged ~. He had
been identified prominently with every
public movement in the state for forty
YEARS.
Fire Chief Meminger's funeral took
place from Holy Trinity church. Mil
Waukee. A delegation Of Chicago fire
men was present. The remains were
escorted to the cemetery by guard
OF seventy-five firemen. Behind the
hearse was led the empty buggy of the
late chief drawn by Kerry, his favorite
horse.
DR.. Eugene E. Holroyd, for many
years practfcfng physician in Chica-
go, died en- route to Chicago from AL
ahama, where he purchased two
months ago an orange grove TO which
he and his wife removed on account of
his failing health. He was So years
cid, and in 1881 came to Chicago to
take the chair of physiology in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
then recently founded.
Walter Kittredge, the poet and
author, who wrote Tenting Oil the Old
Camp Ground, died at Reeds Ferry
n. H. Death was the result of the in
frnities Of age. Mr.. Kittredge is sur
vlyed by a widow and one daughter.
OF his famous poem Mr.. Kittredge
once said 'In 1851 l tried to enlist
for the war, but was rejected because
of disability, SO | stayed at home and
wrote songs. I was a stiff abolition
list. In the fall of 1863 l had been at
Lynn, Mass, calling on the Hutchin-
son family of singers, and on my way
home l met friend who tolG me that I
had been drafted to go to the war.
The idea brought up afresh the
scenes Of soldier life. which had now
become familiar. I went home did
my work. and after dinner sat down
near the window with a violin in my
hands. I had seldom used a violin
for such a purpose, resorting generally
to a lap melodeOn. But While musing
with the stringed instrument my
thoughts wandered away to the south,
20 the camps at evening time, to the
soldiers gathered there, and Of my own
future among them. Almost uncon-
sciously my thoughts and music sim
ultaneoUsly as l drew the bow across
tia ctrinoS The mn1OiV anil words