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- PROMINENT CITIZEN IS CALLED BY DEATH
- James CLELAND Passes Away This Morning After a Long
and Useful Life.
- (From Thursday's Daily.)
- After a lingering illness of four months' duration from a
complication of diseases,
- James CLELAND passed away at 10:30 o'clock this morning
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. FISHER, 163 Terrace
street.
- Mr. CLELAND had passed his 87th birthday and was a
man of unusual vigor, both
- physically and mentally. He had been a prominent figure in
the business and financial circles of Rock county for over sixty
years, having devoted much of his life to agriculture.
- James CLELAND was born April 14th, 1820, at Little
Brittain, near Newburgh, in
- Orange county, New York, and was a third child of Samuel
and Jane CLELAND. His boyhood and early manhood was spent
on a farm in the county of his birth. At the age of twenty-six
years, with his older brother, George, he came west and after
over much of southern and eastern Wisconsin and some of northern
and western Iowa, they settled on adjoining farms in the town
of Center, Rock county, Wisconsin, in 1846. The following year,
having prepared a home, he returned to Orange county, New York,
and was married to Isabella BRYSON. Years of toil and
of the privations suffered by the early pioneers was rewarded
by a fair competency. Their home soon became known as one where
the typical hospitality and entertainment of the west was always
to be found.
- In 1879 and in the bloom of her womanhood, Mrs. CLELAND
entered into her rest.
- For several years after her death the old home on the farm
was maintained by the younger daughter, Mattie J. As advancing
years made the cares of the farm too strenuous, the home was
transferred in 1886 to Janesville, Wisconsin, where Mr. CLELAND
passed the evening of his life with his daughter Mary and her
family.
- Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. CLELAND,
four are left to mourn his
- loss--J. B. CLELAND and Wm. A. CLELAND of Portland,
Oregon, Mrs. A. L. FISHER of Janesville, Wis., and S.
J. CLELAND of Emporia, Kansas--Mattie J., who was the
wife of F. H. COLLINS of Fort Worth, Texas, having preceded
her father to her final rest in 1898.
- Funeral services will be held from the residence Friday at
two p.m. The Masons will
- have charge of the funeral rites.
- Tribute to the late James CLELAND was paid by scores
of loving and respecting
- friends this afternoon, when at two o'clock obsequies over
his remains were held at the home of A. L. FISHER, 163
Terrace street. The bier was almost hidden under a profusion
of beautiful floral offerings, among which was a handsome design
from the Free Masons. Rev. Dr. LAUGHLIN preached the funeral
sermon and song services were rendered by Mrs. A. O. WILSON
and Mrs. S. B. LEWIS. The interment was made in Oak Hil
cemetery and at the grave the masonic lodges of this city and
Footville conducted the funeral rites of the order, six members
serving as pall bearers.
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- Submitter: Lori Niemuth (no relation)
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