OREN, Jesse 1824-1897
OREN, HINSKY, CARR, FULTON, MCCOY
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 11/12/2012 at 01:26:51
Dr. Jessie Oren,
September 22, 1824 - August 25, 1897
HIS WAS A BUSY LIFE,
DR. JESSE OREN, OF LA PORTE.Had Been Unwell Since Serving as
Surgeon In Russian Army During
Crimean War.
(From Friday's Daily.)As noted in yesterday's Courier, Dr. Jesse Oren died at the residence of his son-in-law, Marion Myers, in La Porte City, on Wednesday evening, Aug. 26, at 8:20. Our correspondent at that place furnishes the following particulars:
Dr. Oren came to La Porte City in 1858 and formed a partnership with Dr. Jesse Wasson, which partnership was carried on for a few years, when Dr. Oren purchased and moved to his farm some six miles east of La Porte. (Here he continued the practice of medicine and the government of his farm continuing in the practice of his profession until about twelve years ago.
In addition to his medical practice and the management of his farm he established and for several years maintained an apiary, and it is said that he was the first man to bring bees west of the Allegheny Mountains. He was uniformly successful, not alone in bee culture but in medical practice and farming also. Some twelve years ago he invested in town lots in Daytona, Florida, and built some seven residences there, one of which has been his winter home since that time, the doctor spending his winters in Florida and the spring and summer seasons in Iowa.
Dr. Oren was born in York County, Pennsylvania in 1824, and prior to coming to La Porte he served as surgeon in the Russian army during the Crimean war. During his service he was attacked with Asiatic cholera, and since that time he has never been a well man. He has been a confirmed invalid with diabetes since 1891 and had he lived until next month he would have been 73 years of age.
He was the father of 12 children, five of whom and his aged wife are left to mourn the death of a kind and devoted father. Those living are: Dr. S. A. Oren, of Lanark, Illinois, Mrs. M. Myers, and Miss Viola E. Oren of La Porte City, Mrs. M. I. Hinsky, of Daytona, Florida, and Mrs. H. J. Carr, of Fulton, Illinois, all of whom, with the exception of Mrs. Hinsky, will be present at the funeral.
Dr. Oren was generally successful In everything In which he engaged and at the time of his death was the possessor of quite valuable landed interests, owning some seven or eight hundred acres of land in the bend of the river below this city, as well as six residence properties at Daytona, Florida.
Proper division was made of the property a short time before the doctor's death, which places a proportionate part in the title of the wife and surviving children. He has been for several years a director of the Union State Bank of this city, and was a stockholder in the syndicate block which was built in 1891.
The post mortem examination held yesterday evening shows the doctor's death to have been caused by suppuration of the gall bladder due to the presence of a large gall stone and an abscess of the upper portion of the left lung, the result of pneumonia.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. today, consisting of a short service at the house by Rev. S. E. Koona, when the services will be taken in charge of by Trowel lodge No. 216, A. F. & A. M., of which deceased had been a member for some twenty years, and the remains laid to rest according to the custom of the society in West View cemetery, which was at one time owned by the deceased.
[Waterloo Courier, Wednesday, September 01, 1897, Waterloo, Iowa]
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NOTES:His wife was Mary A. P. Oren 1832-1918
Additional children's names:
Michael Pray Oren (1853 - 1854)
Laura Mary Oren (1857 - 1861)
Mamie Oren (1862 - 1862)
Caroline Pray Oren (1864 - 1867)
Jessie Belle Oren (1871 - 1880)
Alice Lorimer Oren (1873 - 1880)
Florence May Oren (1876 - 1880)(Credit Deb)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Jesse Oren was born September 22, 1824, the eldest son of John and Lydia Oren. John Oren was born November 18, 1792, and died March 5, 1972, and was the son of Joseph Oren, who died at the age of eighty-four years in the year 1838.
Joseph Oren was the son of John Oren, who had a hard lot during the Revolutionary War, having his house torn down in mid-winter by the opposing party, and ten children sought shelter in the barn from the snow and cold. About this time a noted chase occurred after Dr. Oren's maternal great-grandfather, Jacob Keller. All his ancestors on both sides were born and reared in York County, Pennsylvania, and owned farms adjoining each other. These farms were near the Susquehanna River - on the south side of the river opposite Middletown. Just below Middletown are the rapids in the river, and it is considered very dangerous to attempt a passage by any ordinary boar. Middletown is situated at the junction of Sweet Arrow Creek with the river.
Jacob Keller had gone across the river and was attacked and pursued to the south of this creek. Ice was thick in both river and creek and just grinding along prior to closing up for the winter. It seemed to be only a choice as to the manner of dying. Jacob Keller chose death by ice and water rather than to be captured. He rushed in among the ice, succeeding after a time in getting on top of a large cake of it, and went over the falls safely and landed on an island about three miles below the falls. On this uninhabited island of about five acres of ground he remained nearly three days before the river closed and he was able to cross to the shore on the ice. The island has ever since been called "Keller's Island," although no living person except Dr. Oren, we presume, could give the origin of its name.
[An exerpt from History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, 1904]
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NOTE: His wife's obituary says they had a daughter whose last name was McCOY.
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