Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-04
Prominent Gilman Man Dies
After Short Illness Of III
ceration Of Stomach
WAS A PIONEER PHYSICIAN
Grief Over Sons Death, Little Over
Year ago, Thought to Have Hast
ened the End-Was One of Wealth.
est Men of tho county-sketch of
His Career.

very brief illness came to Dr. w. j.
Ward, Of Gilman. this morning. Dr.
Ward was stricken suddenly i'll at 6
O'Clock Thursday evening, as he was
weakness was the only symptom of
warning, and he fell and had to be
carried indoors. Hemorrhages Of the
stomach indicated an liberated condi-
ton of that important organ, and from
the first the patient himself, recognize
ing the symptoms. felt that the end
was only a question of few days.
His business matters were hurriedly
arranged, and his will was made in
the presence of his partners in BUSH
While somewhat improved Tuesday
the patient grew worse in the evening,
and expired at | this morning.
DR.. Ward was one Of the best known
residents Of the county, and one OF
the pioneer physicians of Gilman.
where he had lived since 1873. His
general health had been greatly inn
paired since the death Of his only son,
Walter J. Ward, which occurred year
ago last May. DR.. Wards very life
was centered in his son, his only child,
and when the young man YVES stricken
with appendicitis, and died 9. few days
later, the grief-stricken father was
even then anxious to go to his reward.
To his friends he said that he had no
further desire 10 live. and all that he
possessed in this worlds goods were
nothing to him now that his boy was
gone.
Or. Ward was a native of Canada
West, and was born December 5, 1S45.
He came to this county in the spring
OF 1865, settling on farm two miles
north of Gilman. He remained on the
farm three years, andNbegan the study
of medicine with DR.. j. Resler, at Le-
Grand. He also worked in LeGrand
drug store, studying both pharmacy
and medicine for two years. He went
back to Gilman in 1873, and in the
spring of 1874 established drug bust
ness in company with Capt. G. H.
Shaw. now of this city. Leaving the
business in charge Of his partner Mr..
Ward went to st. Louis, where he en-
tered the Homeopathic Medical Col
lege of Missouri, then one of the prin-
cipal medical schools of the west. Hts
PREVIOUS study in both pharmacy and
medicine made his way thru college
an easy one, and he was graduated
after eighteen months study, on Feb
ruary a. 1876.
Returning to Gilman, to engage in
practice and assist in the management
of his drug business, DIR. Ward bought
out the interest of Captain Shaw III
the fall of 1877, and took as his partner
his brother, Mr.. ]. A. Ward. The drug
store has been owned and managed by
Ward Bros, or under the firm name of
w. J. and j. A. Ward, ever since. DR..
Ward has been very successful in a
bushes way. He was good financler,
made profitable investments and ac-
quired land holdings that, at the time
of his death aggregate $4,000 alone.
His entire fortune is estimated at
100000.
In company with C. H. Seager, Of
thi scity, and L. G. Seager. now Of
Whitehill, Mich, but formerly Of Gill
man, DR.. Ward owned the Gilman Can
ming Company, large institution that
has an immense output OF. canned corn
and tomatoes each year. The Messrs.
Seager and DR.. Ward were also inter-
ested together in the lumber and box
manufacturing business at Whitehill,
Mich; the potato -four business at
Hart, Mich; the lumber and box bus
mess at Sharon, Pa, and at Petersburg,
Va. DR. Wards land Interest are prin-
cipally in Gilman and it's vicinity, Mar
shall and Tama counties, Cherokee and
Nebraska.
DR.. Ward was a prominent member
of the Masonic fraternity, and was one
of the charter members Of Cyrus Lodge,
No. 38, of Gilman, Of which
he was worshipful master for twelve
consecutive years. He was also mem
Der Of Signet Chapter, No. 80, r. A. NJ,
and st. Aldemar Commandery, No. 30,
both of this city.
DR.. Ward was married on January
s, 1878, to Miss Nellie M Vosburg, then
Of Tama county, who survives him.