Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-25
JOSEPH: JEFFERSON, AGED ACTOR
LOSES LONG FIGHT FOR
LIFE.
END CAME ON SUNDAY
BY Members Of He Fam.
lily, Famous ThespIan Passes Away
At Palm Beach, Florida - Burial
Will Be Near Buzzard's Bay Home.

Long and Active Stage, Career Of
Joseph jefferson.
Born Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 1929.
Debut as actor, Washington, 1888.
Appeared in Chicago, 1888. =
With Macready and Booth, 1s45.
Stage manager, Baltimore, 1853.
Stage manager, Richmond, 1854.
In England and France. 1856.
With Laura Keene, New York, 1857.
Created Rip Van Wrinkle, 1859.
Went to Australia and England,
1860-65.
Died April 2S, 1905.
His Famous Parts.
AS Rip Van Winkle in RIP Van
Winkle."
AS Bob Acres in "The Rivals"
AS Caleb Plummer In "The Crick-
ct on the Hearth"
AS Mr.. Golightly in Lend Me Five
Shillings."
AS Newman Noggs in Nicholas
Nickleby."
AS DR.. Ollapad in "The Poor Gen
tleman"
AS Asa Trenchard in "Our Ameri-
can Cousin"
AS DR.. Pangbloss in "The Heir at
Law"
AS Marall in "a New Way to Pay
Old Debts"
West Palm Beach, Fla, April "a
Joseph Jefferson, the eminent actor
died at his home, "The Reefs" a
Palm Beach. at 6:15 last evening. Th'
end came after day of unconscious
ness and after an heroic struggle o
days, which had exhausted his vitality
At his deathbed were his wife, hi
sons, Charles B. and Frank Jefferson
his nurse, Miss Mabel Bingham; Dr
r. B. Potter, and his faithful old ser
want, Carl Kettler.
The end was not a surprise to hi
family. Ever since his last sinkin,
spell, which came after rally OF
Thursday morning and which was fol
lowed by an apparent improvement
until Friday, the family had beel
waiting for the end. Mr.. Jefferson
condition Saturday night grew steadil,
worse, and the family, who had re
tired, were summoned from their bed
and Dr. Potter was called. The pa
TENTS condition continued to grow
worse all through Sunday and the brie
bulletins from the bedside containe,
no words of encouragement
Started From Indigestion.
The sickness of Mr.. Jefferson whicl
ended in his death was contracted,
is believed, while on a recent visi
to his son, Charles B. Jefferson, a
Hobe Sound, few miles above Pain
Beach, where he went to meet hi
friend, former President Cleveland. l
is believed that from slight indiscre
tion in his eating there he suffered a,
attack of indigestion Since his re
turn to his lone his condition grey
steadily worse, with slight rallies, ur
til the end.
The body Of Mr.. Jefferson will b
taken to Buzzards Bay on a specia
train leaving here this evening, az
companied by all the members of hi
family who are here. 1t will reac
New York Wednesday morning, an
the family hope to reach Buzzard'
Bay the evening of that day.
Sorrow at Buzzard's Bay.
Buzzard's Bay, Mass. April 24-Th
progress of Joseph Jefferson's las
illness was followed anxiously in this
his Cape Cod home, and the announce
ment of his death last night was re
ceived with genuine sorrow by tn
townspeople. to whom he had becom
a familiar figure during fifteen year
of summer residence here
The usual spring preparations at tn
Jefferson summer cottage, at the hea
of Buttermilk Bay, have been in pro
gress for some weeks, it being MI
Jefferson's custom to take up hi
residence here about the middle c
May. The house is the second whic
he built here. the first having bee
destroyed by fire April 1, 1893.
Mr. Jefferson's pleasant ways er
deared him to the people on the uppe
part of Cape Cod. who were Away
proud of his residence among then
His sons Thomas and Joseph bull
cottages here, and Mr.. Jefferson ais
built cottage here for his daughter
Josephine.
1t was learned today at tThe Crow
Nest" the home of Joseph Jefferson
that the body of the aged actor wi
te brought here and buried in Ba
View cemetery, Sandwich.