Orrin Allan Wilson 1879-1916

WILSON, TITCOMB, MCCORMICK, POTTER

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 8/1/2002 at 23:04:08

Obituary: The Clinton Herald Wednesday August 30, 1916 p. 8 Orrin Wilson to Sleep at His Old Home Under the above caption the San Francisco Bulletinof August 26, comments upon the death of Orrin A. Wilson, whose death occurred last Friday. George E. Wilson, his father, will arrive in the city tomorrow morning, via the Overland Limited, bringing the body of his son to the family home, 306 Sixth avenue. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Bulletin says: Orrin A. Wilson, Pebble Beach Lodge polo player, who suffered a fracture of the skull at Del Monte Thursday when he was thrown from his horse and dragged a considerable distance, yielded to his injuries at Adler Sanitarium yesterday afternoon and died without having regained consciousness from the time of the accident. Wilson was rushed to San Francisco on an early train yesterday morning by Drs. Emmett P. Rixford and Alanson Weeks, in order to undergo an operation as a last resort, neither surgeon expressing any hope that it would be of any avail. Wilson was one of the popular members of the Bohemian Club. He was a graduate of Stanford in the class of 1904 and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was a native of Clinton, Iowa. The funeral services and interment will be at his old home. The body will be sent Monday. There will be no polo at Del Monte during the week end, the players having decided to come here and pay their last respects to their friend before the body is sent away. Wilson was engaged to marry Mrs. Nella Titcomb McCormick Potter and she was at his bedside when the end came. Following his death she collapsed and had to be removed to her hotel in charge of a physician. But she declared she would be able to accompany the body east.