Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1905-11-30
C. ]. FENTON HAS
PASSED TO HIS REST
Among Pioneers and Solid Men
Of This Section.
Battled Bravely Against Typho. Pneumonia for
Five Weeks. but Finally Succumbed
to It's Ravases.

the worse came Wednesday morning
and for two days his life hung in the
balance. He passed peacefully to rest
at $50 o'clock on the morning of No
vember oath. Itwas almost five weeks
since he was taken with typhoid fever.
This was allayed and the sick one was
recovering only to be taken with pneu-
monia. He was on fair way to re-
covery, it was thought, when he sud-
denly became worse.
In his death Oakes loses one of her
progressive, substantial business men.
He was one of the plain, honest,
hard-working men Of the community; one
who had achieved fair degree of sue
cess in this world goods from earnest
and devoted attention to duty. It was
in the year of 1891 that he moved to
Oakes from his Sargent county farm.
He started in the machinery business
with James H. Cooper, now deputy in
ternal revenue collector for North
Dakota, with his home at Courtenay.
That partnership existed for number
of years when Mr.. Fenton bought out
his partner and commenced doing bust
ness for himself. To his machinery
business he added stock of hardware.
In 1899 he took in as partner, C. S.
Brown, and ever since the firm of Fen
ton & Brown has been doing a good
business in hardware and machinery.
1t was only short time ago that Mr..
Fenton decided to become less active
in business and he sold half of his in
terest to B. w. Slocum, who is to as
sumo an interest on January 1st. But
his rest from the cares and responsi-
bilities of this world ceased sooner
than the time he had decided to lay
aside the active duties of life.
Chauncey j. Fenton was born at
Findley Lake, Chautauqua county, New
York, on May 18, 1853 hence was in
his fifty-third year. His early years
were spent in that state and Pennsyl-
vania, mostly in the oil region. AtNorth-
east, Pa, he was united in marriage
to Miss Clara L. Douglas, and to them
were born four children. One little son
died in infancy and the other three are
living in Oakes, being: Mrs. Grace
Crocker, Miss Pearl and Master Hughie
Fenton. The family was happy one.
They have splendid residence, the fin.
est in the city, and nothing was more
pleasing to the head Of the house than
Ito see his family well provided for. He
was Of quiet, unassuming disposition
and was happiest in the center of his
family.
Mr.. Fenton came west with:his family
in 1884 and settled on farm eight miles
east of where Oakes now stands. There
he endured the trials and privations Of
pioneer life and by hard work and ear.
nest application had succeededin adding
! to his acres and building up splendid
farm. This he owned at the time Of
his death.
Short funeral services were held al
the residence on Saturday afternoon
and were conducted by Rev. ]. S. De
Long, pastor of the Methodist Episcopa
church. The remains were taken to the
depot, escorted by members of the
Odd Fellows and A. o. u. w. orders, Of
which deceased was a devoted member,
and the body was shipped on the N. P.
train for Northeast, Pa, where inter.
ment will take place. Accompanying
the remains were his wife, son Hughie,
his mother-in-law. Mrs. E. A. Douglas
and his brother-in-law, Fred Babcock.
His mother lives with her daughter,
Mrs. i. v. Babcock, at Kansas City,
Mo-, and these with his brother, Frank
Fenton of Northeast, Pa, are the only
surviving members of his fathers
family.
His death was keenly felt by a large
circle of business friends and acquaint
ances, and the family has the sympathy
Of the entire community in its bereave
ment.