Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-04
DEATHS OF WISCONSIN PEOPLE,,

DEATHS OF WISCONSIN PEOPLE,,
Mark Shaw, one of New York's old
est business men. died suddenly in the
LOBBY of the Narragansett Hotel of
heart disease. Mr.. Shaw was u
years old. For fifty years he was in
the shipping business.
David F. Hall, manager of THE
Man fthe Hour" now playing in Chi
cago, died from hemorrhage of the
brain. The body will be shipped to
New York. Mr.. Hall was 40 years old.
Kin6sbury Batchelder, professor of
Greek in Hillsdale college, Michigan,
died at Ocean Park. Me He was 81
years old. Death was due to cancer
Nelson Morris, the third member of
the famous 'big four Chicago big
packers, died in his sixty-eighth year.
Philip D. Armour and Gustavus F.
Swift preceded him to the grave and
Michael Cudahy is the only survivor
of the city's pioneers in the packing
industry Mr. Morris death came
from a chronic affection of the heart
DR.. S. D. Powell, who took carbolic
acid and then alcohol, to prove the lat
ter was an antidote, died from the eff
fects of his experiments. -.
The earl of Dunmsre, a prominel
Christian Scientist, who last Decemb r
visited Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy at
Concord, N. H., died at Trimley Manor,
near Canterbury. He was attacked by
illness suddenly and passed away be-
fore aid could be summoned The
earl was born in 1841 and married a
daughter of the second earl of Lei
cester His only son, Viscount Fin
castle, major of the sixteenth
lancers, succeeds to the title The
earl of Dunmore owned 7S,S00 acres
of land.
Byron H. Locke aged 81 years, one
of the pioneer settlers of Kenosha
county, at Pleasant Prairie; Edwin
Evenson, aged 16 years, at Rio; Peter
]. Peters, aged 81 years, at Kenosha;
Silas ingalls,, the oldest living pioneer
about Lake Geneva, aged IS years;
Mrs. Sarah Symmonds, widow of Seth
Symmonds, a pioneer resident of Ke-
nosha county. at Kenosha; Rev. N. G.
Earl. of heart trouble. at Alma, aged
70 years; ID Wheeler, president and
senior member of the Fl. Wheeler com
pany of Plymouth. after a long illness
tof cancer, at Plymouth,
Col. Isaac Wing died suddenly at
Bayfield, He was one Of the wealth
lest men in northern Wisconsin and
was noted for his gifts to charity. He
was closer to Senator Spooner than
any other man in northern Wisconsin.
He spent winters in Washington. Mr..
Wing was born in Winthrop, Me-, in
1922. He spent the early portion OF
his life in the woods of the Pine Tree
state, and came to Wisconsin shortly
before the civil war, settling in the
northern part He enlisted with the
Fourth Wisconsin, and after year of
active service was mustered out on
account of disability About 1870 he
moved to Bayfield, county. For mum
Der OF years he was receiver of pub
lie moneys for the United States gov
eminent. nd until 1882 he was in the
land department During Gov. Hoard
term Mr. Wing was chairman of the
military staff At the beginning of
the Spanish American war he fitted
out company of soldiers, which was
known as the Wing guard, His es
tate, estimated at about $1,000 600, Is
left in charge of A. e. Burnside and
G. A. r.. Polk of Bayfield, as admins
traitors and executors. He was never
married. but has number of relatives
in New England.