Student Dies From Excessive Study

RIPPERTON

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 8/5/2009 at 23:29:05

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, July 19, 1877

Student Dies From Excessive Study

Charles Ripperton, a student for some time at the high school in this city, died at the residence of his parents in Brandon township, last Wednesday. Excessive study is supposed to have caused his death, the physicians not being able to assign any other reason. For several days prior to his death his brain was insensible to outside impressions, although all his other physical faculties seemed healthy. Charlie was an exceptionally good boy, having none of the bad habits common to youth, and was held in high regard by all his classmates, many of whom attended his funeral in the Mt. Hope Cemetery.