Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-24
DEATH CLAIMS C. ORTON
A LANGDON OLD PIONEER
Ranks Of Langdon "Old Timers is
Being Rapidly Trimmed Out by
the Angel of Death

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the Angel of Death
Death claimed one of Langdon's old
est pioneer business men and one of
its most highly respected citizens
when Mr.. C. Orton responded to the
final summons Monday morning at ten
minutes past seven O'Clock. The
end had been anticipated by the fam
lily and friends since Wednesday of
last week, when about noon Mr.. Or
alysis, and he had been in helpless
condition and only conscious at brief
intervals from that time until he
passed away. The paralytic stroke
with which Mr.. Orton was seized
Wednesday of last week was the third
he had had in three years, each of
which with his advancing age leaving
the patient in more weakened and
enfeebled condition to battle when the
final struggle came.
News of the critical condition of
the head of the Orton family brought
their youngest daughter, Mrs. Nc
! Lean, to the home from Fargo on
Thursday. Their other daughter,
Mrs. Winter, had left here about two
weeks ago for Portland, Oregon, and
other points on the Pacific coast but
! was reached by wire at Vancouver,
B. c., in time to allow her starting
on the sad homeward journey early
Friday morning, reaching Winnipeg
on Sunday and coming to Langdon via
auto during the afternoon in time to
know and be known by the dying par
: ent before he lapsed into final uncon-
| sciousness that evening
CELSIUS Orton was one Of the first
| of the early pioneers to start in busi-
| ness in Langdon, having come here
! from Morris, Man. in 1887, and
opened harness shop when the town
: was first beginning to build up on the
prairie and await the coming of the
! railroad which Was completed from
Park River as far as Langdon the
same fall For the first eight years
following Langdon' municipal incor.
n porat3u.. as city Mr. Orion was one
: of the aldermanic body which com.
f posed the city council. He was al
O ways among the foremost and ener-
S getic workers for the promotion of
e the welfare of the community, both
8 along business and social lines, though
!. never seeking prominence in public
: affairs when it was possible to avoid
t doing So. His affiliation with the
8 Masonic order dated back into the
j. early sos while still a resident on
! the Manitoba side of the line at Nor
: iss, and later transferred his member
ship to Lebanon lodge A. T. & A.
NJ, the members of which turned out
in large numbers at the funeral held
d yesterday afternoon, taking charge at
v the last rites of the burial service at
d the grave. Deceased was born in
; 1885, upwards of eighty years ago at
v what had been the homestead of the
t Orton family for three generations at
9 Glenbuel, Ont, and that immediate
: vicinity was his home until as young
n man he became a resident of the
!. United States The marriage of Mr..
d and Mrs. Orton was an event which
f occurred in 1866, the fiftieth we'd
e ding anniversary having been quite
: an event in the circle of the immed-
late family on June fifteenth of this
year.
In addition to the immediate fam
lily, consisting of the widow, Mrs. c..
Orton, her two daughters, Mrs. W..
r F. Winter and Mrs. Mclean, and
two sons, Morris and Alvin Orton, the
h deceased is also survived by a sister
whose home is at Glenbuel, Ontario,
o first filed on by their grandfather as
y a homestead when he came north from
j the Union Loyalist army at the close
:. of the Colonial war period The Or
a tons are able to trace their ancestry
q back to 1884, coming to America at
" that time from England and settling
+ in Virginia, where one branch of the
family still are living, the other
coming north at the time Mr.. Orton's
grand parents became frontier set.
E tiers in the G]enbuel region in On
- tario.
Il At the time of the outbreak of the
n Civil War MI. Orton was living in
f Illinois and enlisted with the ll2tk
e Infantry of that state, seeing nearly
: four years of active service and was
d one of the vast army of the north
v that took part in the famous march
J.. from Atlanta to the sea- although
d the command he was with, that OF
o General Thomas, were retained in
8 Tennessee to hold back the advance
J. north of the confederate's. Thus is
; shown that in the passing of the de.