C. S. Ferguson (died 1875)

FERGUSON, RIGBY, EMERSON

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 9/29/2009 at 16:56:48

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, September 30, 1875

DIED-

FERGUSON- At Sterling, Iowa Township, Jackson County, Iowa, September 19, 1875, C. S. Ferguson, aged 62 years 6 months, 21 days.

Mr. Ferguson was born in Tioga County, New York. After arriving at adult age, he moved westward, coming to Iowa in 1838, and settling in Iowa Township. Taking up quite a large tract of land he laid out what is now known as the village of Sterling, four miles west of this town and began business as a mechanic. Gifted with peculiar powers in the mechanical art, he not only turned his attention to housebuilding, but erected and carried on quite successfully a wagon carriage and blacksmith shop, until 1856, when he engaged in the mercantile trade and continued therein until a few years of his death.

Mr. Ferguson was a man of more than ordinary ability, and hence for years he was called upon by his fellow citizens to occupy places of official trust, which he ever filled with integrity. His funeral took place from the Union Church in Sterling on Monday the 20th and his remains were committed to the grave in the presence of a large number of old settlers of this section. The sermon was by Rev. J. H. Rigby, the eulogy by Rev. O. Emerson, both replete with practical thought and liberal sentiment.-Sabula Gazette.