The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-11-07
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eonta, Otsego county, New York, FEB.
s. 1888. His mother died when he
was nine years old and he lived for
a number of years with an aunt who
was a true and ~steadfast friend to
the motherless boy and whose beau
tiful gentle spirit had much to do
with the making of his Christian
character. All the age of nineteen he
came west to Minnesota. He enrolled
as a student at Hamline university,
then located at Red Wing, Minnesota.
His ambition being to fit himself for
the MINISTRY and go to the foreign
field but his health was impaired
by the indoor confinement and he
was compelled to abandon the plan
he had cherished for his life work.
From the date of leaving college prac
tically all of his time has been spent
on the farm. He was married July 70
1867 to Margaret Clague at Castle
Rock, Minnesota. To this union ten
children We're born, two dying in
young childhood, and four. George
Earl. Ernest Philetus, Horace lleW-
ellyn, and Lula Margaret passing on
just as they We're crossing the thresh-
hold of youth into life's full day. Be
sides his widow he is survived By
four children. William s., Arthus G..
Alfred b, and Ethel Eliza Carhart
In the fall of ISIS he left Minnesota
and moved to the Red River Valley
in the hen territory of Dakota. In the
fall OF 1886 he moved again, settling
near Mitchell in what is now South
Dakota. This move vas made in the
interests of the education of his chill
dren. and seven of the number have
la.,1 .,.,lJlal nc gt,t1nntr Of Illl.nfg
Wesleyan university. About seven
years ago he left his farm neal Mt.
Vernon and moved to Mitchell. Five
years ago he suffered Il stroke OF
paralysis from which he never fully
recovered. Two years ago With his
wife and one son he went to Califor-
MIA seeking the benefit of a milder
climate. While there he suffered a
second stroke of paralysis, the effects
of which We're not permanently ser
ious. Last summer with his wife he
returned to South Dakota to visit his
sons and the many friends wher he
had lived so long. Upon the approach
of cold weather he longed to return
to the milder climate of the sunny
western land, and planned with his
wife to spend the winter at OroVllle,
California, where his son is pastor OF
the M. e. church. Here for TWO weeks
he seemed to enjoy most thoroughly
his surroundings being in the best
health he had been in for some time,
when suddenly on the 18th of Oct
, ODER while seated at the dinner table
. in the home of his son he was strick-
. en- with the third and fatal stroke OF
paralysis. For nearly nine days he
: fingered most of the time apparently
unconscious and free from pain and
at two o'clock Monday morning, Oct
81. he peacefully fell asleep and his
= spirit went home to God.
He was converted at the age o.
fourteen and none who knew hin
best would ever doubt hal he lived {
faithful consistent and consecratcC
Christian life, the gentle and poten
: influence of which may largely eX
, plain the fact that among his child
rem were four preachers OF the COS
pei and one missionary to the foreign
field.
S When a young man he enlisted
with the volunteers wlo responde'
to President Lincoln's call and TO
nine months of the Civil war serve'
d the union as Il member of the Fourth
: Minnesota regiment. but more distin
guished and memorable has been hi
faithful and life long service as
soldier of the cross. He has been
Il local preacher in the Methodist Epis
copal church since young manhoo,
and in his death the church loses
friend than whom none was true
and his family loses a husband an
father who was a marNal OF gentle
ness, graciousness, and goodness, an
yet the memory of his faithful lf
abides as a priceless heritage an
blessing.