Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
CAPT. T.BURROWS DIES
AN ESTEEMED CITIZEN PASSES TO
The GREAT BEYOND.
Captain {. E. Burrows Passes Away
Saturday Evening After a Long
Illness. His Death Closed an
EventfuI and Well Spent Life. Fun
eral This Afternoon.

One of the best known and most uni.
versally respected citizens OF Aberdeen,
Capt. G. E. Burrows, died at 4 10 O'Clock
Saturday afternoon, of Bright's disease,
after an illness of nearly six months.
The funeral took place this afternoon, at
2 O'Clock, from the family residence, 1902
East Second street. under the auspices
OF the Masonic fraternity, of which the
deceased was an honored member.
Captain G. f. Burrows was born at
Waukesba, Wisconsin, October %, 1S41,
and was aged IS years, months and 6
days, and his death was the peaceful
closing of an honored life. At the be.
ginning of the Civil war he enlisted az a
private in the Third Michigan Cavalry,
before he had reached his majority, and
was discharged with the rank of lieuten-
ant after nearly three years OF active
service.
Captain Burrows was twice married,
being welded to Miss Amanda Atwood,
at Pentwater, Mich, December 8, 1865.
OF this union two children were born,
who survive, Mrs. w. H. Price, of Allen,
Mich, and Mrs. A. L. Smith, Of Port
land, Oregon. Mrs. Smith was at the
bedside of her father for several weeks
before he died. AT Montague, Mich, in
1882, Captain Burrows was married to
Miss Cora l. Stockwell, sister Of Hon.
A. P. Stockwell, which marriage resulted
in three children, two boys and girl.
The little girl, Josie A., died in 1894, at
the age OF six years, and the boys, Frank
E. and Glenn S., survive, with their
mother to mourn the loss of a loving
husbsnd and kind, lndulgent father.
Shortly after his war experience, Capt.
Burrows engaged in the steamboat bust.
ness ON Lake Michigan. and later formed
a mercantile firm with f. E. Jones, now
of this city, which continued for 23 years.
Coming to Aberdeen in 1890, Captain
Burrows, with \ E. Jones, A. P. Stock.
we'll and Wm.'Hunt, erected shinge
mill in South Aberdeen, and in 1892 Or
ganized the G. E. Burrows Co., which
entered the transportation business, and
for many years controlled the steamboat
business on Grays Harbor and the Che
halls river. OF late years this company
has devoted it's chief attention to logging
on the Humptulps river, with A. p.
Stockwell as active manager, Mr.. Bur-
rows taking well earned ease. Still,
until attacked with the fatal disease,
last January, he almays took lively in
terest in the Harbor Dock, one Of the
properties OF his company. When his
physical condition began to assume a
serious aspect last spring, Captain Bur-
rows went to California in the hope OF
beneftting his health, but returned in
weaker condition, so that the end was
looked for by his family and friends for
some weeks.
In the passing away OF Captain Burrows
may be noted the ultimate way of a
man who did much to develop the natur-
al resources OF the Grays Harbor coun.
try; OF a man while so doing, did it in
an unaggressive way, so that it is i'm
possible to find a person who enjoyed
his acquaintance who did not respect
him. His peaceful death was but the
rounding out OF a wellspent life, and his
bereaved relatives have the sympathy of
the entire community in their loss.