The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-12
Father OF c. 3. Lake, Former Resi-
dent Of keokuk, Passed Away
In Marion,
Iowa
WAS PROMINENT G. A. r.
He Was Born In Ohio and Served
With Conspicuous Bravery
In the Civil
War.

Word has been received here OF
the death in Marion, Iowa, OF Captain
C. S. Lake, father of c. B. Lake, form
er clerk OF courts here, and who has
visited here with his son several
,, times
Captain Lake was prominent in q,
A. r. circles in Iowa.
The following Is from q Cedar
Rapids paper:
Captain c. s. Lake is dead.
Marion today mourns the loss OF
one of its most distinguished resi-
dents, a lawyer Of prominence tn
other days and a man who was hon
ored by President Cleveland and by
the supreme court OF the United
States.
Captain Lake died at the home OF
his daughter Mrs. C. N. Owen, Wed
nesday evening, after few days ill
ness The funeral will be held Friday
at 1920 at the house, the Rev. NJ.
Barrett conducting brief service.
Friends are invited. The party will
then go by funeral car to Marengo
for the burial in the family lot He
is survived by one son, C. B. Lake,
Des Moines, and the following daugn-
tiers, Mrs. G. N. Owen, Marion; Mrs.
w. D. Curtis, Madison, Wis; Mrs.
Norma ROmes, Rogerson, Idaho. There
is also a sister, Mrs. M. L. Elliott, OF
Marion, and a half-brother, Enoch Dye,
Of Marion, besides nine grandchildren.
Was Native Of Ohio.
Captain Lake was born in Mans
field. Ohio. and had he lived until
February IA. Wednesday of next week,
would have been seventy-seven years
old. He resided in his native town
until he was thirteen years of age,
when he came to Iowa City with his
parents. He had good education,
and entered his professional study
in the law Office of Edmunds and
Ransom in 1859. He was in lowe
City at the breaking out Of the civil
war. He responded to the first call
for troops and enlisted April 10.
1861, In Company B, First Iowa, In
fantry. The following August, when
| the regiment was mustered ont. he
re-enlisted in the Eighteenth Iowa
infantry, was soon transferred to the
TwentySecond Iowa, and afterwards
to the Twentieth Iowa, as adjutant.
At the close OF the war he took up
his law study in the office of Rush
Clark of Iowa City. He moved to
Marengo in 1856 and for several years
was o partner Of N. B. Holbrook. In
1872 he became q law partner with
J. N. W. RUMBLE That continued
until his appointment as pension
agent by President Cleveland at the
age Of forty-six. His territory In
Guided Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota.
In 1865 he moved to Des Moines
and resided there until 1892 practicins
law the last two years. Then he NOR
ed to Burlington and was associated
in practice with Judge Smyth. In
1894 he returned to Marengo practic-
ing law until the death Of his wifa
in 1897, when he moved to Marion and
has since made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. c. N. Owen. Captain
Lake was in politics always a demo
GRAFT and staid by the party through
the periods when there was little re-
gard for loyalty.
On a visit to Washington at enc
time ne was admitted to the bar Of
the United States supreme court. He
had been prominent in G. A. r. cir
Giles and had always been present at
the reunions Of the Twentieth Iowa.