The Irish standard., 1914-07-25
JAMES j. CRESSWEI4L
Passes Away at His Residence on
Garfield Avenue.

Cresswell departed this life on SAT
urday, July IL, at his residence
394S Garfield avenue south, IN the
seventy-frst year of his age, leaving
a wife and two daughters and hosts
of friends to mourn his demise.
The deceased was a man OF scno-
larly attachments and writer VI
eminent ability. He frequently con-
tributed to the Catholic press and oc-
casionally to the daily newspapers
and attracted much attention by the
high literary merit of his articles
He was a poet, a historian ana d
writer of fiction and was we'll posted
nm the current topics of the day. He
was a. man of considerable intellec-
tual activity and reflected honor on
the Irish race, to which he was proud
to belong.
Miss Emma L., daughter, is a
teacher in the Sumner school, MIN
neapolis. and Miss Clara l.. Is a
stenographer in this city with Fred
T.. GRAY of the London Guarantee
and Accident Co. of England and the
Massachusetts Bonding and 1nsur-
ance Co. of Boston. Mass, having
won her position at a competitive
examination in st. Paul. The tol-
lowing sketch of Mr.. Cresswel Is
taken from the Galena Daily Gazette
of July Is:
The remains of DR.. ]. ]. Cresswell
reached Galena from his recent nome
in Minneapolis Tuesday morning.
His widow, two daughters. Emma
and Clara, and his intimate frlend'
Father Cleary, accompanied the re-
mains.
They were met at the train by
friends and accompanied direct 10
St. Michael's church. At the close OF
requiem mass and the funeral ser
vices prescribed by the church, with
Father Cleary as celebrant. the fun
eral cortege proceeded to the ceme-
terry on the East side, where, by gen.
tie hands and with saddened hearts,
he was laid away, beside his two
daughters, who, in the dawn OF
Young womanhood, sometime slnce'
had preceded him to the other shore.
Messrs. John Cloran, M. j. Burns
John Slattery, j. D. Crowley, Tim
othy Grady and John German
friends of many years, feelingly and
tenderly, performed the office OF
pallbearers as tribute of reverence
affection and respect to the genial,
kindly soul they had known init
mately for many years and esteemed
most highly.
DR.. Cresswell was born in Ireland
in the year 1913; his father died
while he was so young that he had
no recollection of him. When still
but a child, he came to America with
an uncle and joined his mother who
had preceded him, at Toledo.
Here he resided few years, and
for a short time received some
school advantages at Notre Dame,
then in it's formative stage. For
some years, he was intimately asso-
ciated with that educational institu-
ton, both as pupil and teacher; to
the last Notre Dame occupied fond
place in his affections. Subsequently
he held similar relations with St.
Mary's of the Lake, located in Chi
cago, and the college located at Sim
sinawa Mound. When complications
eliminated in the closing Of the lat
ter college, in the early sixties, J. J.
Creswell was among it's faculty.
Thereafter he taught in the public
schools in the vicinity. Eighteen
sixty-four found him teaching the
higher branches and the classics in
the Galena high school, and thus was
initiated his residence here, which
continued until three years ago,
when he went to join his children In
Minneapolis.
His early student years, coupled
with the habits of a lifetime, famil-
iarized him with much of the best of
the cultured past; his tendency, ever
along intellectual activity, made him
an interesting and entertaining COM
panion to all fortunate enough to en-
Joy intimate acquaintance with him.
His life has left a pleasant men,
ory, hallowed by earnest, sincere liv-
ing. His leaving makes a void of
sorrow and deprivation, not alone to
the immediate members of his fam
lily, but to all who knew him.
Were life's pathway, trod by each,
adorned with acts and thoughts as
rich in devotion to justice, love and
humanity as is that of DR.. Cresswell,
much of the miseries of life would
be unknown, and sunshine and
pleasure would more profusely bless
our civilization.
EDWARD F. HOY.