Averill, Van Buren – Died 1888

AVERILL, CUNNINGHAM

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 10/11/2014 at 17:15:54

Iowa Plain Dealer May 5, 1888, P3 C3

Van Buren Averill, a former resident of this county, died at Naperville, Ill., a few days since, aged along in the fifties. At an early day in the county he read law in the office of the Editor of the PLAIN DEALER, and was admitted to practice in the courts of the State, bearing an examination highly creditable. In 1859 he went to Indianapolis, Ind., entering the office of a gentleman who soon thereafter was elected one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the state. He married there; left the practice of law and became a clergyman in the Episcopal Church at Naperville. He leaves a wife and three children, the eldest a son about 17 years of age, Mrs. Loriston Averill of New Oregon is his mother; Mrs. H. C. Cunningham, of the same place, and Bem{?} Averill of D. T, are sister and brother of the deceased. He was a man of good ability and irreproachable character.