Strother, Worden 1829 – 1899
STROTHER, NILES, BARTON, NICHOLS
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:21
Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer November 24, 1899, FP, C5
Obituary.
Worden Strother passed away Wednesday evening, November 22, 1899, after fifteen weeks of pain and suffering. He was born in Faulkner county, Virginia, February 3, 1829, and had attained the age of 70 years 9 months and 19 days. When ten years of age he left home and went to the state of Ohio, thence he located in Racene,{sic} Wisconsin, about 1835. In 1838 he came to Howard county, locating in Vernon Springs, where he engaged in merchandising with P. C. Kirkpatrick, under the firm name of Strother & Kirkpatrick. During the early part of the war they removed their stock of goods to New Oregon, where they continued the trade as the leading dealers in general merchandise in the county, until they removed to Cresco with the first who came here, having previously built the south store now occupied by Johnson Brothers. Disposing of this store he engaged in selling farm machinery, conducting an immense business in all lines at a time when the entire farming industry was centered in wheat production. In the mean time he had procured the valuable farm property one mile west of the city, now owned by members of the family and by Mr. Enoch Strother. On this farm he was engaged in breeding the finest Short-Horn cattle for several years in connection with his other business enterprises. In 1876 he built the Strother House where for the past 21 years he has been engaged catering to the public as its proprietor.
On June 28, 1862, he was united in marriage with Miss Louise Niles of Vernon Springs, at West Union, she being a student at the Upper Iowa University at Fayette. To them two daughters were born, Virginia, wife of Mr. C. D. Nichols of Cresco, and Miss Josephine, who with the widow, a sister, Mrs. Virginia Barton of Louisville, Ky., and a brother. Hon. Enoch Strother of Virginia City, Nevada, survive him. When the critical condition of Mr. Strother was known his brother Enoch came here to assist in caring for him, at which duty he has been attentive since the 9th of September. The writer has been acquainted with the deceased since 1858, and most of the time had intimate business relations with him in the varied interests in which he was concerned, in advancing and promoting them through the medium of the press. In all the relations of citizenship, business man and hotel proprietor we have found him a man worthy of the esteem and respect of his fellow men, and which he retained in the highest degree to the hour of his demise.
The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the house at 2:30, conducted by Rev O. H. Holmes, assisted by Rev. C. A. Marshall and Rev. G. W. Fall. The interment will be in Oak Lawn cemetery.
Oak Lawn Cemetery
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