Mr. Philip B. Cornell died 1913

CORNELL, RICHARDSON, CLAYBAUGH, MCMILLAN

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Date: 2/29/2020 at 19:00:06

Evening Times-Republican, Friday, Apr 18, 1913, Marshalltown, IA, Page: 8

P. B. CORNELL

Old-Time Painting Contractor of City
Dies in Chicago

A telegram to the Times-Republican from Chicago today tells of the death in that city Thursday of Philip B. Cornell, for many years a well-known painting contractor of this city. Mr. Cornell died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Myron Richardson.

Mr. Cornell had been failing in health since last fall, and suffered from general breakdown. For weeks prior to his death he lay in a comatose condition.

Mr. Cornell was a native of Pennsylvania and was 70 years old. He took as his wife in 1863 Miss Eveline Claybaugh, and the couple came here in 1877. Mrs. Cornell died in this city very suddenly Feb. 8, 1900. Mr. Cornell continued to make his home here until two years ago last fall, when he went to Chicago to live with his daughter, Mrs. Richardson. The old Cornell home was at 108 South Second Street.

Aside from the daughter at whose home he died Mr. Cornell is survived by two sons, Frank Cornell, of San Francisco, and Erastus R. Cornell, formerly auditor of this county, but now of Highmore, S. D. Another daughter, Mrs. Margaret McMillan, died in Chicago Jan. 2, 1907.

Mr. Cornell’s body will be brought to this city for burial, and is expected to reach the city Monday morning. Internment in Riverside will probably take place directly from the train. Mrs. Cornell and her daughter Margaret are both buried in Riverside.