Park W. Tourtellot (1872-1919)

TOURTELLOT

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 3/17/2010 at 23:23:51

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, March 1, 1919

Park Tourtellot Led Useful Life

Death Mourned By Many

Funeral Will Be Held On Monday Afternoon; Burial in Oak Hill

Funeral services for Park Tourtellot, prominent attorney, who died yesterday at St. Luke’s Hospital, will be held at the home, 2044 Fifth Avenue, Monday at 2:30 p.m., according to tentative plans made today. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. He was found in his private office in the Higley Building by one of his partners, M. J. Donnelly, when the latter returned from lunch Thursday.

“The statement that I obtained a statement from Mr. Tourtellot late Thursday evening while he was clear of mind regarding the act the details of which have not as yet been made public is not correct,” said Mr. Donnelly this morning. “After 2 p.m. Thursday Mr. Tourtellot was able to say scarcely more than “yes” and “no.” The only statement he made was what he told me when I found him after I returned from lunch. He told me that he had met with an accident. He also told William Chamberlain that at the hospital. “Knowing Park Tourtellot as I did I can not conceive of his taking his own life. It is one of those questions that will never be solved.”

Obituary of Mr. Tourtellot
Park W. Tourtellot was born in Wyoming, Jones County, Iowa, on January 20, 1872, and died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February 28, 1919. His parents were W. H. Tourtellot and Lucy Tourtellot . He graduated from the Wyoming Public Schools in 1894 and from the Liberal Arts Department of the State University of Iowa in the class of 1895 and from the Law School of the University in the class of 1896. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the University. He came to Cedar Rapids in the fall of 1896 establishing his office with the firm of Preston, Wheeler and Moffitt. He afterward opened an office of his own and a few weeks later became associated with the firm of Rickel, Crocker and Tourtellot. This firm enjoyed a large practice for a number of years. Mr. Crocker and Mr. Tourtellot later withdrew from this firm in order to enter the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company as attorneys for Iowa, and the firm of Cook, Crocker and Tourtellot was formed. Mr. Toutellot afterward voluntarily withdrew from this firm to reenter the general practice and formed a partnership with M. J. Donnelly of this city, the firm name at the time of his death being Tourtellot, Donnelly and Swab.

He was married on November 2, 1904, to Helen St. John of Cedar Rapids, and is survived by his wife and daughter, Ann, age 5, by his mother Lucy Tourtellot, of Wyoming, Iowa; his two brothers, Bert Tourtellot of Port Arthur, Canada, and Dr. Louis Tourtellot of Enid, Oklahoma, and one sister, Mrs. Dr. Lammerton of Enid, Oklahoma.

He was a member of Mt. Hermon Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Knights of the Pythias, Star of the West Lodge No. 1 and the Elks.

Mr. Tourtellot enjoyed an enviable reputation as a lawyer and his professional career was without a blemish. He enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the bench and bar of the state and had been remarkably successful in his practice. For some years previous to his death he had been counsel for the Fidelity and Casualty Company, one of the largest bonding and casualty companies in the United States and this work took him to all parts of the state. He was also general counsel and a member of the board of Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Cedar Rapids.

(The deceased was a nephew of J. M. Swigart of Maquoketa)

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