34 Deaths Reported During January - 1892

MATZEN, CENICK, CONNOR, STAMP, CROSS, PIPER, ANDERSON, SUESTKE, CARISTIAN, ROSSCH, FAHR, LOOP, STUART, NIELSEN, GRUMSTRUP, SMITH, CRAIG, ANTHONY, WELCH, MALTBY, FRIEND, CONSTOCK, EATON, ZIMMER, MICHELSEN, LANGAN, LAUSEN, MORAN, SPOORMAN, HAYNER, WILSON, LAMBERSTON, STARR, GRADY, SILL, ZITARN, CLAUSSEN, DILLIT, HOLBROOK, GALLAGHER, WHITMEYER

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The Clinton Daily Age, Clinton, Iowa, February 2, 1892

MANY DEATHS

THIRTY-FOUR REPORTED
DURING JANUARY

A Large Increase Over Preceding
Months-Gripe the Destroyer,

Thirty-Four deaths were reported to City Auditor Matzen during the month of January, just closed. This is the largest number ever reported from the city of Clinton in one month. In many of the cases of death reported, especially of those with advanced age, the prevailing epidemic, gripe, is a sign of a cause of death. During the month of January, 1891, twenty deaths were reported, and in December last, fifteen. The following taken from the record book in the county clerk’s office shows the
DEATHS REPORTED

Carrie Cenick, Clinton, Jan. 8, aged 37 years.
Thomas Connor, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 67 years
Henry Stamp, Clinton, Jan. 19, aged 22 years.
Albert B. Cross, Clinton, Jan. 19, aged 72 years.
Anna Piper, Clinton, Jan. 17, aged 1 year
Lucie M. Anderson, Clinton, Jan. 17, aged 2 years
Augusta Suestke, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 22 years
Hage Caristian, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 7 years
Theodor Rossch, Clinton, Jan. 18, aged 3 years
Paul B. Fahr, Clinton, Jan. 18, aged 5 years
Christian Loof, Clinton, Jan. 11, aged 64 years
Ellen Stuart, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 47 years
Batil M. Nielsen, Clinton, Jan. 14, aged 66 years
Karen Yohnsen Grumstrup, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 48 years
Robert L. Smith, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 46 years
Franklin Craig, Clinton, Jan. 15, aged 72 years
Betsy Anthony, Clinton, Jan. 11, aged 53 years
John Welch, Clinton, Jan. 5, aged 5 years
E. Maltby, Clinton, Jan. 20, aged 32 years
Elizabeth Friend, Clinton, Jan. 18, aged 81 years
Ward P. Constock, Clinton, Jan. 18, aged 18 years
E. P. Eaton, Clinton, Jan 23, aged 71 years
Anna M. Zimmer, Clinton, Jan. 22, aged 37 years
Joseph Michelsen, Clinton, Jan. 20, aged 2 months
Ellen Langan, Clinton, Jan. 23, aged 48 years
Cians P. Lausen, Clinton, Jan. 27, aged 26 years
James Moran Sr., Clinton, Jan. 23, aged 70 years
Arthur A. Mayne, Clinton, Jan. 3, aged 3 years
Charles Spoorman, Clinton, Jan. 5 aged 52 years
Lulu Hayner, Clinton, Jan. 29, aged 2 years
Mrs. Ben Smith, Clinton, Jan. 22, aged 26 years
C. W. Wilson, Clinton, Jan. 5, aged 25 years
Charles L. Lamberston, Clinton, Jan. 8, aged 1 year
S. N. Smith, Clinton, Dec. 1, aged 67 years
Sarah A. Starr, Clinton, Dec,. 29, aged 47 years
Baby Grady, Clinton, Dec. 29, aged 3 days
D. T. Sill, Clinton, Dec. 28, aged 80 years
Paulina Zitarn, Chancy, Jan. 1, aged 4 months
Abel G. Claussen, Lincoln, Jan. 22, aged 3 years
Johann Dillit, Davenport, Jan. 21,
Anna M. Holbrook, Wichita, Kan., Jan. 5, aged 88 years
Edward J. Gallagher, Chicago, Jan. 10
Leah Whitmeyer, Chicago, Jan. 6, aged 68 years