Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-02
ROBERT D[NBON DIES
|. At HONE N ALBION
EARLY RESIDENT AND WELL.
KNOWN CITIZEN OF COUNTY
PASSES AWAY.
WAS OLD TIME JUSTICE
AND PENSION ATTORNEY
Served as Magistrate of Iowa Town
ship Twenty-Five Years or More.
and For Many Years as Member Of
School Board-Was Veteran Of Civil
war-Funeral Friday Afternoon.

! Following an illness of two months,
which started with severe cold, de-
! veloped into intestinal Indigestion, and
resulted in a general breakdown,
: Robert Denbow, a well-known old
resident of Albion, died at 1910 this
( morning at his home in Albion.
/ Mr. Denbow was one of the familiar
! figures of the county. and had a wide
acquaintance. For many years he has
been praCticing as a pension attorney,
a business in which he had been emf
! nenrly successful For twenty-five
years or more he had been a justice OF
the peace in Iowa township: for sew
! eral years had been a member and
clerk of the school board. and had
been township clerk. He was also
+: prominent in the work OF the republi-
/ can party in the county.
! Was Native Of Illinois.
! Mr. Denbow was a native of Knox
county, Illinois. having been born on
farm near Rio Sept. IS. lS43. of Scotch
parentage, a son OF solomon ana
! Elizabeth Cubbage Denbow. When
/
! August, 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Denbow
I came to this county and settled on
/ farm north of what was then Lafayette,
! the Denbow cabin being the first to be
built north OF the village.
Attends First Term in Seminary.
When the old Albion Seminary was
opened for its first term, young Den
bow was enrolled as a student, but it
7 y <o- he of
the civil war began booming early the
following year. and Denbow left school
u enlist.
Serves in Two Regiments.
Mr.. Denbow enlisted in Company d.
Fifth Iowa infantry, July l. 1861. at
Burlington, and served thru the Mis-
souri, campaign under General Ere
mont until November. At Otterville.
Mo-. he contracted measles. and. be-
cause of exposure due 70 a snow storm.
he became very i'll and was sent to a
hospital at St Louis. where ne was dis
charged owing to disability. He re-
enlisted July :, 1852. in Company X,
Eighteenth Iowa. was made third cor
poral Of his company Aug. II. 1868.
and was finally discharged at Little
Rock Ark. July 90. 1855.
During his three years in the
Eighteenth Mr.. Denbow saw a great
deal OF active service thruout Missouri
Arkansas, and the Indian territory. be-
ing on duty as scout and spy much
of the time.
At the close of the war he returned
home, and went to work for c. 3.
! Mendenhall, a stock raiser OF Eden
lille, where he was employed until
Jan. /, 1856.
Enters Railroad Service.
Deciding 10 enter railroad work Mr.
Denbow went west, to Wichita Kan
near where he took up a claim, and in
1871 went to work for the Santa Fe
railroad He helped build the line
from Florence to Great Bend, Kan, and
, the Wichita & Southwestern from
Newton TO Wichita. He helped survey
the town OF Newton. Kan, put in the
hrst telegraph wires and instruments
at Florence, and sent the first message
and sold the first railroad ticket out of
that place During the winters he
spent his time trapping and shooting
ouHaIo. After eight years in Kansas
! Mr.. Denoow, who had learned ;eleg-
raphE, went TO work as an operator
and agent for the Illinois Central at
! i'lhnone- and after a year there re-
turned 10 Albion, where he went into
the manufacturing Of barbed wire.
Later he went to work for the Iowa
central, becoming agent at State Cen
ter and then at Albion. He left the
service OF the company Aug Il 1885.
and took up his work as a pension at
| torney.
Survived by Widow and DAUGHTERS.
Mr.. DenooW had been married three
times. His first marriage was in K,or
I county, Illinois. to Sarah E. Cubhage
VINO bore him one daughter now Mrs
| Lillian Bolton, of Rio. Ill. Mrs Den
| bow died Nov. :, 1868.
! The second marriage was with Mice
augusta T. Mendenhall. Dec %, 1870,
al hmporla- Kan. From this union
-FOUR cnildren were born. one Of whom.
MIS- ). w. Lhamon, lives in this CITY.
VI the other children Laura died in in
fancy Feb. I, 1883: Mrs. Cora Munde,,
DIED at Albion ii September. 1902: ana
William died at Columbus. o. Sent Q
1909. Mrs. Denbow passed away in
Albion Dec. l, 1909.
On Nov. 4, 1911, in this city. Mr.. Der
bow took as his wife Mrs. Lillian n
Norton. who survives him.
Mr.. Denbow was a member of
Damascus Lodge. No. s2s, A. F. and
A. NJ, and Albion Chapter No. 2os
Order of the Eastern Star both of AL
bion. r
Funeral Friday Afternoon.
Funeral services will be held from
tne Methodist church at Albion Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. The church viii,
| be open to friends one hour before the