Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
OBITUARY.
Luther R. Case.

The death of Luther R. Case, well known and prominent in the mercan- tile life of this city since 1881, occurred Sunday morning at his home, No. 14S Broad street. The end came peacefully at 5.9O o'clock. following a period of failing health due to a general break down and debility, conhntng him to his bed for the last four weeks.
 Luther Roswell Case was born April 29, 1888, at Norwich Town, in the old Case homestead still standing on Town street He was the youngest of the five children of Luther and Elizabeth Palmer Case, and is the last of the family to pass away. His ancestry traced back to Colonial times and in direct line to Miles Standish.
 Mir. Case obtained his education in the town schools and was a graduate of the private academy kept by Dr. Stone in the sos. After leaving school he entered the employ of the late George D. Fuller, who for many years kept the general store at the Norwich Town Green. In January, 1859, he ac- cepted a position in the large depart ment store of Ravens & Co. in St Louis. where he remained until April, 1881, when he was called home by the serious illness and death of his mother.
 Desiring to remain in his native city, he entered the employ of Ferdinand Stedman in the store which for many years stood on Washington street, near General HRrland's home, Sentry Hill. In 1862 he accepted the position of bookkeeper in the office of Norton
 Brothers, who at that time were the largest wholesale grocers in eastern Connecticut As a bookkeeper he was an acknowledged expert with but few equals. showing his special aptitude in this line by keeping the books of the Attawaugan company and it's several associated companies at the same time as he was with Norton Brothers, there
 by having in his charge five different sets of books. He remained with Nor ton Brothers until 1889, when, in part nership with the late Thomas King ston. under the firm name of Kingston
 & Case, he established a large and sue
 cessful wholesale grocery business on Water street
 Following the death of MT Kingston in 1871, the business was carried on | until 1878 under the firm name of Lu- 1 ther R. Case At the earnest soHcits- 1 ton of the late Henry B. Norton, in 1878 he disposed of his business and with the late Edward D. Fuller under 1 the firm name of Case & Fuller, took 1 over and carried on the business which l had been established for so many years by Norton Brothers.
 Retiring from this firm in 1888, Mir | Case again entered business for him | self in the same line in which he re- mained until 1891. For a year there after he was local agent for the Nor wich and New York Propeller company ] till g. change in management brought about a consolidation of offices. In | 1902 MT. Case entered the employ Of l.. ! n |. | sition he retained until October last
 when on account of failing health he
 was obliged 10 retire from active busi- ness.
 He always took deep interest in | affairs in Norwich, and while never a
 seeker after political office, he was | elected to the court of common coun- | cil In 1884 and served as councilman 1 for two years.
 | In 1881 he was elected a member of | the board of education of the Central 1 school district and served as a member | of the board for IS years. During this entire time he was chairman of the building and supplies committee for the district. AS chairman of the l building committee which erected the 1 Broad street school he took a deep in e
 terest in the erection of this building, l giving much of his time and thought ! to the erection of what was at that
 time the most modern school building in eastern Connecticut.
 For more than 25 years Mir. Case was a trustee of the Chelsea Savings
 bank, and for the greater part of lhat time was one of the auditors of that l institution.
 He was 6 member of the Centra
 Baptist church, having been identified with it almost continuously since his return to Norwich in 1861.
 In 1870 MT. Case was married to Sarah Carroll Jacobs of Thompson sf the residence of her uncle. I.ueius N Carroll, on Broadway. Mrs. Case sur
 wives her husband, with their son. James l.. Case, of Ne. 57 Warren
 street, A daughter Emma Louise passed away in this city in July. 1892 FraternaAy Mr. Case was prominent
 in the local Masonic bodies. being a
 S2d dAgreR Mason. He was raised in ) Somerset lsaSs, Re a4, sa July 2s