Norton, Albert L. 1847 - 1872

NORTON

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 11/19/2004 at 11:57:30

TIMES May 30, 1872 P3 C4

Mr. Norton's Death--As many would like to know the particulars and cause of the death of Mr. A. L. Norton, the former Principal of the school in this place. We clip the following account from the Evasville (Wis.) Review:

A late number of the Burlington Standard converys to us the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. Albert L. Norton, which ocurred in Denver, Colorado, about the first of April, whither he had gone to regain his health.

We first became acquainted with Mr. Norton while in charge of the Public Schools in Cresco, Iowa. He was a graduate of Beloit College, and for years strove hard to obtain an education fitting for the ministry. He visited Evansville two years ago, and shortly after, took leave of his friends in Wisconsin, to attend the Theological Siminary at Andover, Mass. But health failing him, was obliged to relinquish study altogether, and went to Colorado with the phantom hope of regaining it. His death resulted from hemorrhage of the lungs, which bled so profusely as to fill his mouth and nostrils. He died in fifteen minutes after the attack. Mr. Norton was a fine man, and an exemplary christian.

Second Obit:

Iowa Plain Dealer May 17, 1872, P3 C3

DIED

In Denver, Colorado, April 5th 1872, A. L. NORTON aged 25 years.

It will not be forgotten by the people of Cresco that A. L. Norton mentioned above, was the first Principal of our graded school. As a disciplinarian, as an instructor, as an energetic faithful principal, as an upright honorable man and true friend to his pupils, his many friends in Cresco remember him and will lament his untimely death. When he left here it was, we believe, his intention to enter the ministry. But failing health induced him to try the benefit of a change of climate. His death occurred from profuse hemorrhage of the lungs. His numerous friends here and elsewhere may well mourn that death, the avenger of man, should so soon claim him as its own.