Clyde P. Lamar (d. 1909)

LAMAR, BEACH, RATHKA, RATHKE

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Date: 6/15/2022 at 15:42:21

LAMAR - Professor Clyde P. Lamar, who died in Chicago Saturday, July 17, following an operation for appendicitis, was interred in Forest cemetery, Oskaloosa, this afternoon. The body arrived at 11:50 o'clock this morning via the Iowa Central and the funeral was held at the Central M.E. church at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. The operation for the trouble was performed three weeks ago. The patient did well for a time but suffered a relapse. Mr. Lamar was a bright young fellow of thirty-nine years. He was a teacher in the Chicago high school and was a public speaker of excellent reputation. He was one of the entertainers of the Oskaloosa chautauqua on last season's program. He was here on the morning of August 20 and talked upon the theme "Savings of a Lifetime." He pleased a large audience upon the occasion. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. Thomas C. Beach, of Spring Creek township, Mrs. C. H. Lamar, of Oklahoma City, Frank Lamar, of Rome, Iowa, Miss Artilisa Lamar, of Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. Martha Rathka. Mr. and Mrs. Rathka went to Chicago after the body and accompanied the deceased to Oskaloosa (Oskaloosa Daily Herald, July 20, 1909, p. 8)

LAMAR - Clyde P. Lamar, son of W.H. and Ann Eliza Lamar, deceased, died in Chicago July 17, 1909, the result of an operation for appendicitis. He was born in Mahaska county, April 25, 1870. He grew to manhood on a farm near Leighton, Iowa. He was deeply interested in education, and began teaching when a mere boy of seventeen. He graduated from the Northwestern University Law School of Chicago and was admitted to the bar, and received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, but he still clung to the profession of teaching and held the position of instructor in Civics and Economics in the Medill High school, Chicago, up to the time of his death. In 1900, Mr. Lamar visited Europe to study the educational systems of the Old World. Upon his return he prepared a series of lectures which he delivered in various parts of the country to large audiences. His lectures were always instructive and entertaining. Mr. Lamar, from boyhood, was a close student and careful thinker along economic lines. He was broadly democratic in his nature, and devoted his entire life to preparing himself to be useful to the people at large. He was an accomplished speaker, a careful student, and an honest man, and was well equipped for a life of usefulness. That a life so full of promise, so well prepared for usefulness, so devoted to the good of humanity, should be cut off at the beginning of its career, is one of the mysteries that is hard to understand. We bow our heads and say, "Thy will be done." He leaves two brothers, Chauncey N. of Oklahoma City, Frank of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and three sisters, Arthesa, of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Rathke of Glenwood, Iowa, and Mrs. Beach of Oskaloosa, Iowa, to mourn his death. (Oskaloosa Daily Herald, July 27, 1909, p. 7)