Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-28
JOHN CARTHEW

John CartheW was born at HOGAN.
County OF Cornwall February Oath.
/ 1898, during a visit of his parents
John and Eliza (Nance) Carthew. to
England. His parents returned to
America and settled in Wisconsin in
1889. For some years thereafter his
rather engaged in the hotel business
at Galena, Illinois, and in 1850 en-
tered the mercantile business at Ha-
eel Green, Wisconsin, at which place
the deceased spent his boyhood DAYS.
In 1856 the father removed to Rock
Vile, Wisconsin, to conduct a general
store but soon after became i'll and
the business was managed by the
son, who, upon the death Of his father
in 1859, became the owner of the bust
ness. Later a brother, Thomas H.
CartheW, became a partner and has
for many years continued in active
charge. The deceased removed to
! Lancaster in 1888 and purchased the
Grant County Abstract Office which
he conducted until 1899.
Mr.. Carthew was united in mar
riage to Miss Francie Jones of Po-
tosi, in 1875, and three children were
born OF the marriage, j. Ray Carthew
and Harry E. Carthew of Lancaster,
and Maude, now Mrs. Donald S. Sim
isOn of San Diego, California.
Mr.. Carthew has always been great
ly interested in public and political
matters and was always an ardent
and staunch Republican. He acted
as Postmaster at Rockville for many
years and was elected to the Wiscon-
sin Legislature in 1867 and was re-
elected in 1869 from what was then
a strongly Democratic district.
He was a member of the Orders of
7. 0. O. F. and knights of Pythias, in
both of which he was deeply interest
ed. Mr.. Carthew was man Of strong
character and upright life and by his
affability and manly qualities made
and retained through life many
friends both here and elsewhere.
With his DEATH on February 25th,
1917, another figure long familiar to
the residents of this city and county
has passed from us. Stricken in his
closing days as the shadows, of the
evening twilight deepened he compos-
eddy summed up the ambitions and
struggles of human life att their true
worth. TN
Calmly he looked on either Life, and
here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to
fear"
His death aWakens with peculiar
force reflections of that hour when
hope and faith innate in the human
heart shall assert their supremacy
over reason. 1t enforces the truth of
universal experience that in this bat
tie of life SORROWS must come, since
none, young, middle-aged nor old, can
escape the destiny fixed by the immut-
able law of nature. And so there is
the ever pressing need for hearts Of
oak" and hands of sturdy grasp to do
the worlds work, which forever re-
maineth to be done. 1t is an ad-
mOnitiOn that for many of us too the
sun deepens in its glow and quickens
down the evening sky. To him not
| long ago, there was a tinge of lustre
on the verge of the hills which yet
seemed distant and the dawn was
abroad in all the freshness of sum
mer morning, but the brightness was
but a forerunner of the dusk of eve
ming. His earthly career is completed.
Death is another life, we bow our
heads
AT going out, we think, and enter
straight
Another golden chamber of the Kings
Larger than this we leave, and
lovlier."
w. J. B.