Richard Harrington

HARRINGTON, SMITH, JAMISON, BORN, MILLER, WALROD

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

23 April 1915 - The Clinton Advertiser page 5

PIONEER ENDS LIFE; JUMPS IN WAPSIE RIVER
Richard Harrington, Native of Clinton County, Eludes Relatives and Drowns Self
HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH
Melancholia from Continued Illness Believed Cause--Born on Farm Occupied at Time of Death
(Special to the ADVERTISER)
Grand Mound, Ia., April 23--Richard Harrington, wealthy pioneer farmer, threw himself in the Wapsie river and at a point three miles from here and was drowned yesterday. Continued ill health causing a partial derangement of his mind was believed to have been the cause. He eluded a posse of friends and relatives who were seeking to stop him in his rash act.

Mr. Harrington, who was 67 years old, had been in poor health for some time. He has been melancholy of late and from things he had said his relatives feared some such attempt as he was successful in yesterday. Consequently, when he was discovered going through the woods toward the river yesterday forenoon, Mack Harrington, a nephew, rapidly called five or six others together and they started in pursuit of Mr. Harrington.

They failed to find him in the woods and when they reached the river they found his hat lying on the bank. They immediately started dragging and about 1:30 his body was found several yards below where the hat had been found. Coroner Kellogg was notified and he arrived shortly after, but decided no inquest was necessary.

Mr. Harrington was born in the home where he lived at the time of his death. He built up the farm and increased it in size until at the time of his death he was reputed to be wealthy. He was well known throughout the community and the county and was respected by his neighbors and associates.

His wife and two children survive him, Belinda and Lowell Harrington.

He also leaves a brother and six sisters, Levi Harrington, Mrs. John A. Smith, Mrs. William Jamison, Mrs. J. D. Harrington, Mrs. Jacob Born and Mrs. Ed Miller, living near Grand Mound, and Mrs. Lester Walrod, near DeWitt. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the home. Interment will be in the cemetery nearby.