William Dolphin (1907)

DOLPHIN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/28/2010 at 16:32:22

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
May 9, 1907, page 4

Death of WILLIAM DOLPHIN

About the time that Heimer established his flouring mill in Winterset, William Dolphin came here to act as the engineer, having previously managed the mill at St. Charles. He made this his home continuously for fifteen or twenty years and will be well remembered by those of our readers who lived here at that time. He was a very energetic, out-spoken and genial gentleman and quite a politician. He left here about twenty years ago to improve a farm in Pocahontas county this state. His health failing a few years ago he returned to Des Moines where he made his home till death. He died last Saturday and was buried at Des Moines Monday afternoon. It was his last request that all his Winterset acquaintances who could do so should attend his funeral. We are not informed how many went.

Mr. Dolphin was a faithful soldier during the war of the Rebellion and loved to recount his experiences during that struggle. He was a member of the 2d N.Y. cavalry, Gen Kilpatrick, the famous cavalry leader, was colonel of his regiment and E. P. Roe, the noted Presbyterian clergyman and novelist, was the chaplain. Many times he delightfully entertained his listening friends narrating incidents in his military career in which those distinguished men formed the basis of his remarks.

There are those who will read this brief obituary that will have grateful remembrances of the pleasant hours spent in his company in the days gone by and they will be glad to know that he did not forget his Winterset friends in the closing hours of life.