- PIONEER RESIDENT DIES OF APOPLEXY
- David Van Wart, of Evansville, Has a Stroke
After Listening to Mayor Rose
- (Special to the Gazette.)
- Evansville, Sept. 30. - David VAN WART, for fifty
years a resident of the town of Porter, died
- this morning as the result of a stroke of apoplexy he had
on Tuesday of last week. He leaves a widow and five sons, two
of whom, Lou and David, reside in Evansville. Dan and Frank reside
in Beloit and Charles on a farm near here.
- Was Much Excited
- Last Tuesday Mayor ROSE spoke in Evansville and Mr.
VAN WART, who was a life-long
- democrat, attended the meeting. After it was over he went
to Rose and told him that he was a life-long democrat and being
one he could not vote for him for governor as the democratic
nominee. He then went to his son, Lou's store and while talking
there dropped to the floor with a stroke of apoplexy. He was
carried to his home and died this morning at nine o'clock.
- An Old Settler
- Mr. VAN WART came to Wisconsin with his parents in
1844. He was born in New York state
- in 1835. He lived on his father's farm in the town of Porter
until 1852, when he joined the party of young men who went to
California in search of gold. The party went overland and took
two months in crossing the plains. Mr. VAN WART spent
two years on the Pacific coast and then returned to Wisconsin,
buying with his father the Ball tavern between Evansville and
Janesville. He was proprietor of this for eight years when he
sold out and again became a farmer.
- Married in 1857
- In 1857 he was married to Miss Ann JONES, a native
of Wales. It was only last spring that he
- left his farm and moved to Evansville to make his home near
his two sons. The interment will be at Evansville. [p. 1,
col. 1]
- STATE NOTES.
- ... Miss Bessie LYFORD, a Beloit college senior, returned
to college Tuesday, and Wednesday
- morning left unexpectedly to marry Harry SHREVE of
Port Byron... [p. 1, col. 2]
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