The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
DEATH COMES As GREAT SHOCK
MIR. Head Had Been Taken Ill on Sun
day Morning and Sudden Attack of
Heart Failure Ends In Death Death
Brings Deep Sorrow.

Eugene R. Head, president of the
Head-Simmons Publishing Company,
and managing editor of the Kenosha
Evening News and the Telegraph
Courier, died very suddenly at his
residence on Durkee avenue just after
1l:00 0 clock Tuesday morning. Death
came as a result Of an attack of
paralysis of the heart The announce
ment of the death of Mr.. Head came
as a great shock to even those nearest
him IN business and private life as
while he had been i'll since last Sun
day morning his closest friends had not
felt that the end was so near. On
Sunday morning Mr. Head was taken
with hard cold and it was believed
that this had developed into tonsilitis.
He had been in bed since Sunday
morning. The sudden attack Of heart
disease came only a few minutes be-
fore his death.
For more than a year Mr.. Head had
suffered from slight attacks Of heart
disease, but in recent months he had
improved so much that his friends
were hopeful that his condition had
greatly improved. He was an ardent
golfer and on Saturday afternoon he
had played over the links of the Keno
sha Country Club and he had felt no
serious results from his exercise of the
day. He had not complained in any
way to the party of friends with him
during the afternoon and it was not
until Sunday that any alarm had been
felt over his condition. The compli-
cation of the old trouble with the in
lection of his throat is thought to
have FASTENED the end.
In the death of Mr.. Head Kenosha
loses one of its most progressive citi-
zens and those who knew him in his
private life feel deeply the loss of one
of their best friends.
Eugene Ralph Head was native of
Kenosha. He was born November Is,
1866, and was a son of the late George
D. Head and Eliza Sexton Head. He
had spent his entire life in Kenosha.
Educated in the schools of the city he
early in life elected to follow bust
ness career and when yet boy he
was associated with his father in the
Offices of the old Head and Sutherland
Lumber Yards. He remained with the
company for thirteen years and then
purchased the Evening News and the
Telegraph Courier and became the pub
Usher Of these two papers. He still
retained his interest in the Kenosha
Lumber Company and was vice presi-
dent of the company at the time of
his death. A year later he associated
with him in the newspaper business
George P. Hewitt of Appleton, who re
manned as member Of the firm for
four years when S. s. Simmons took
over the interests of Mr.. Hewitt and
the firm of Head and Simmons, which
afterward became the Head Simmons
Publishing Company, was formed
During the earlier years of his bust
ness as a publisher Mr. Head was also
in the real estate business and he was
rated as one of the most successful
men in the business in Kenosha. I'm
der his supervision many Of the larg-
est subdivisions in the city were open
ed to provide homes for the increas-
ing population of the city In recent
years, however, he had given his entire
time to the management of the two
papers and the business department of
the company of which he was the
president.
Mr.. Head was a representative of
the highest type of the progressive
business man His honor and integrity
shown out in all of his dealings and
won for him a place high in the regard
of all people with whom he came into
contact. He was liberal to fault and
he carried the personal honor which
characterized his whole life into the
smallest details Of his business. His
men who had business relations with
him always found in him one who
could be trusted in every affair of life.
He was in the very maturity Of his
business success when death came. He
had given careful study to the work
of his publications and had made this
work so successful that his advice had
been eagerly sought by many men who
had been much longer in the same line
Of business.
Mr.. Head gave much to his home
city. He was always interested in
Kenosha and his interest in the adj
vancement of the city was reflected
in everything that he did. All public
Questions enGrossed his most careful