Mr. Newton Doggett 1866

DOGGETT, LAWRENCE

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 5/25/2021 at 19:04:50

Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat, Sunday, May 20, 1866, Keokuk, IA, Page: 4

We noticed the suicide of Mr. Doggett, at the City Hotel, Thursday evening. The Ottumwa Courier says;
“Mr. Charles Lawrence received a dispatch from Keokuk last evening, announcing to him the sad intelligence of the death of Newton Doggett, through the instrumentality of strychnine, administered by himself, the event taking place at the City Hotel, in Keokuk. Mr. Doggett, a brother of Mr. Charles Lawrence , and had been a resident of this city some ten years, except about two years absence in the army , in the 9th Iowa Calvary. He was a young man of amiable disposition, of warm and generous impulses, patriotic and intelligent. Indeed, we have expected him to distinguish himself in the field at letters, for which he had taste and capability. But his unfortunate habit, acting upon a temperament exceedingly susceptible to such an influence, has led him to the commission of his act, and he is gone.”

“Mr. Charles Lawrence and his Son, Joseph N. Lawrence, left this morning for Keokuk, to pay the last tribute of respect to their unfortunate relative. They have, of course, not yet returned. We understand it was decided not to return the remains to Keokuk.”
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Daily City Item, Wednesday, May 23, 1866, Eddyville, Iowa, Page: 2

STATE NEWS

The Keokuk Constitution says:
The funeral of Mr. Doggett whose suicide we have already mentioned took place yesterday afternoon. His body was followed to the grave by a few friends who came down from Ottumwa, his former residence, to pay his remains the last tribute of respect on earth. The cause of his death seems to have originated in an affair of the heart. About a year ago, we understand, he became enamored of a young lady residing in Ottumwa, and his attachment grew so strong as to lead him to ask her hand in marriage. This she refused, and ever since her refusal he has been a confirmed inebriate, and the matter so preyed on his mind as to finally end in his destroying his life by taking strychnine.