Dilworth, Jim c1828 - 1908

DILWORTH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:24

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Feb. 21, 1908, FP, C6

Jim Dilworth Dead.
The following item relates to a former Cresco man who about thirty years ago built and run what was known as Dilworth hotel on the corner now occupied by Fitzgerald & Woods, warehouse, which was destroyed by fire in 1890. Since leaving Cresco Mr. Dilworth has resided in Minneapolis and the Dakotas, and for several years was a park policeman in Minneapolis. The item is taken from the St. Paul Dispatch of the 13th.
“Stricken by heart disease or apoplexy as he was about to leave an Eighth and Central car at Fourth St. and Central avenue early last evening, J. A. Dilworth, a veteran of the civil war, died a few minutes after he had been taken into a store on the corner and before a physican{sic}could reach him.
Mr. Dilworth entered the car at Lake street. He was nearly 80 years of age, and appeared to be very much fatigued at the time, he asked the conductor to awaken him at East Island avenue in case he should fall asleep. He went to arouse the old man, who apparently fallen asleep. He appeared to be dazed and it was with some difficulty that he was assisted off the car and taken into a nearby store.
Mr. Dilworth lived at 27 Eastman avenue, Nicollet Island, Minneapolis.”