Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-03
OBITUARY
PLATT:

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Cresco were surprised and panied to
learn of the death of Daniel Platt
who passed away at about I O'Clock
after only about three days illness
from pneumonia. Few knew of his
Illness at all and that his condition
was so serious was scarcely realized
by any. Wednesday, he returned
from business trip to Chicago and
was taken with severe chill, the
forerunner of the fatal attack of
pneumonia.
Daniel Platt was born in Swanton,
Vermont, July %, 1928, where he re-
sided for Is years. In 1858, he married
Martha Pennock and removed to Wis
consin. He engaged in mercantile
business at Lone Rock, Wisconsin,
where in 1858, Mrs. Platt died.
In 1866, he married Florence South
ard, and the same year they moved to
Cresco, where he has since had his
home and for forty years has been en-
gagged IN business; the first store built
in Cresco was built by him in 1866.
Mr. Platt served Cresco at various
times as councilman and mayor, and
as one Of her pioneer business men
was very widely known.
For forty years he maintained a
reputation for strict integrity and
uprightness in all his dealing.
Besides his wife, he leaves to mourn
his loss and cherish his memory, two
daughters, Mrs. q. L. Harding, of
Mason City, and Mrs. Q. L. Terry, Of
Cresco, and one son, J. L. Platt, Of
Cresco, and seven grandchil aren.
The funeral took place Monday
afternoon at 'clock at the Congre.
gational church, Rev. j. A. Eakin
officiating. Interment was in Oak
Lawn Cemetery. As a mark of re-
spect to the memory of the deceased,
all the business houses of the city
closed at the hour of his funeral.
GLASS:
} John G. Glass was born in Indiana
County, Pennsylvania, in 1888, aud
died at his home near Cresco, Wednes-
day evening, March %, 1906, aged Sc
years and IL days.
!. June I, 1854, he was united in
marriage to Miss Sarah Mole in
Pennsylvania, and in the autumn OF
the same year they came West,
settling in Dayton Twp, Chickasaw
County, where they resided until re-
moving to Howard County in 1883.
/ He was the father of twelve children
two of whom have preceded him In
death. The surviving children are f.
w., of Boise, Idaho, L. H., Wauconda
Washington, Mrs. A. Stowell, Elida
N. NJ, and T. E., Albert. Jos. j.
John c., Charles, Arthur and Maggie
all of Cresco. These children, together
with his wife, live to mourn the loss
of kind and affectionate father anC
husband.
The funeral occurred Friday morn
ing from the Church of the Assump
ton, Of which deceased was consist
emit member. Interment was il
st. Joseph's Cemetery.
JACKSON:
1 Catherine McGrath was born ii
Tipperary, Ireland, in 1922, and diet
at her home in Cresco, Ia, Thursday
March 20, 1905, aged "a years. Will
her parents, she came to America IL
1880, and located at Van Kleek Hill
N. Y, and few years later went tt
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, where sh'
was united in marriage with Johl
Jackson, moving from there to Malone
N. Y, and later coming to Cresco ii
1866, residing here continuously since
She was the mother Of five children
four of whom survive her, two o
them being with her at the time o
her death.
She was kind and loving mother
| a Christian woman, beloved by every
one.
| The funeral occurred Saturda,
morning from the Church of tn