Niles, Stephen – Died 1874

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Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/15/2013 at 16:45:11

Iowa Plain Dealer August 14, 1874, P3 C3

Death of Stephen Niles.

We learn from J. F. Webster the fact that Stephen Niles who has been for the past few months traveling in the capacity of ticket agent with Cole’s circus was killed in a railroad accident at Harrisonburgh Va., on the 3rd of August, 1874. To the old settlers of this county the name of Stephen Niles is as familiar as household words. Coming into the county a mere lad he had grown up in our midst, as clerk in the store of Strother & Kirkpatrick, at Vernon Springs then at New Oregon, afterwards in this place and finally a partner of the firms successively, of Brown & Niles, and Bones & Niles, thus extending his acquaintance over a large extent of country, through a long series of years for one of his years. He was a man of noble, generous impulses, of ample business qualifications and with the hosts of friends his business had called about him, but for associations, that all the youth of our land should shun as they would a pestilence, or the hot breath of hell, his business would have still been with us; him a blessing to all his associates and a constant source of happiness to his wife, children, family and friends. But he is gone to his final reward. They who robbed his wife of a husband, his children of a home, and a father, all of us of a friend, are still in their nefarious business in Cresco.