The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-29
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Abbott Blunt, the well known news
paper man, died at 6:45 am. today, at
st. Mary's hospital, where he had been
very i'll for several days with Bright's
disease. !. .,e.g.@g -, 40
His sister, Mrs. Edita Mitchell of
Oshkosh, Wis, arrived in the. city yes,
terday, and was by his bedside and an.
other sister, Mrs. Jacob Cronbach OF
Mount Vernon, Ind, will arrive tomor-
row. A brother, Hamar Blunt, lives in
Seattle, and two sisters live at Mount
Vernon ..
The funeral will take place Wednes-
day from the residence Of Mr.. Blunt s
mother-in-law, Mrs. Anna G. Flickinger,
1909 East Seventeenth. street, at an
hour to be determined upon.
Abbott Blunt was born Oct. II, 1855,
at Charlottesville, Ind, and was the son
hood was spent in his native town, and
he entered Wabash college at Craw-
louisville, Ind, in 1873, having pre-
pared for college at the famous school
at >Farming ton, Me-, known as fLittle
Blue Of which Alden j. Blethen was
principal. He took the regular CLASH
cal course and -graduatGd with credit ID IN
among men IN later years, Abbott Blunt
was a genuine favorite. While exhib-
iting the same. modesty and possessing
the same retiring disposition which
characterized him in later life, his nat
ural brilliancy and cleverness, his rare
fund of humor soon came to be recog-
nized not only by his classmates but by
the whole body of students. His liter
ary productions generally took the form
of something of a humorous character,
and gave promise of the cleverness
which he afterward displayed in his
newspaper work Mr. Blunt studied
law and was admitted to the bar, but
did not practice. In 1850, at the in
vitation Of u. s. McLain, who was in
Wabash college at the same time with
Mr.. Blunt, he went to Kansas City to
Join. the staff Of the Kansas City Jour,
nal. He also during this period worked
on a Topeka, Kan, paper. In 1884
when Messrs, Blethen and w. b.. Has
kell bought the Minneapolis Tribune,
he came here with them. On the new
staff he was assigned the duties OF
ing editor. S..s x ..r..,> e. - .-~
Editor of The Times.
In 1891 Mr.. Blunt left the Tribune
and returned to Topeka, where he had
been offered good newspaper posi-
ton He returned to Minnesota, how
l. ever, two or three years later, when
Mr.. Haskell had become owner Of the
Times, and was with that paper doing
! editorial work until about year and
a half ago, when he became editor Of
the Duluth News-Tribunc. Ill health
| compelled him to take leave of absence
some four or five months ago and he
went home to Indiana. where he had
been making an uphill fight against
disease since. A week ago he came to
Minneapolis, feeling fairly well, tho
| looking a sick man, and was about
town greeting old friends for several
days. Becoming severely i'll, he went
to St. Mary's hospital. Z
| His Marriage.
Mr.. Blunt was married in Minneapo
lis in 1889 to Miss Emma Flickinger
who died almost exactly ten years af
ter their marriage. The intervening
time was a. very happy period in the
lives of both. They were mutually de
voted and spent all their leisure time
together. They built a house on Frank
lin avenue, near Irving, and had done
great deal toward making it a home
when Mrs. Blunt's .health began tt
fail Hef death was severe blow tx
Mr.. Blunt, from which he did not re
cover.
OF Retiring Disposition.
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Personally, Mr.. Blunt was not wide
ly known, even among newspaper men
and to the public scarcely at all, as h,
was in no sense /" mixer He was Of
a retiring and extremely diffident dis
position. Anything like public ap
pearance was Observation-Disclosures i'm
Possible-to him. Yet. he was not
reeluse nor Of morose disposition
Among his few intimates he was of
sunny temperament and was. the brigh
particular light Of any circle Nitl
which he chose to associate himself
He was an Elk and a member Of tn
Press club of Minneapolis.
His best professional work was tina
done as an editorial Photographer. il
this line he was excelled by few me,
in the country. His drives at polite
and politicians which take up SO muc]
Of the attention of the American news
paper paragrapher were quaint and ha
the advantage Of taking q detache
view Of the subjects treated, whic
gave his paragraphs an original TURF
They were in great demand among til
exchanges and had circulation a
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