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Daniel Cronin - 1873 - 1938

CRONIN, BURMEISTER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/4/2018 at 19:37:32

The Ute Independent
16 December 1938

Former Ute Citizen Dies of Apoplexy
Daniel Cronin, Druggist, Found Unconscious In His Store Following Stroke

We reprint the following from the Columbus (Nebraska) Daily Telegram, concerning the death of a former Ute citizen, Daniel Cronin, who had been a druggist at and resident of Platte Center for 36 years.

“Daniel J. Cronin, 65, prominent druggist and resident of Platte Center for 36 years, died at 6:50 p.m. yesterday at St. Mary’s Hospital. He was removed to the hospital yesterday morning after being found in his store, where he had lain all night unconscious, the victim of a stroke of paralysis, with which he was stricken sometime after he closed his drug store Thursday evening.

“Mr. Cronin usually closed his store, the Corner Pharmacy, about 10 p.m. each day, and went to his home. His housekeeper retired early in the evening as usual, and his absence from home was not discovered until the next morning when she didn’t hear him get up at the regular time. Going to his room, she found his bed had not been disturbed, so she notified his store assistant, Darrell Kingston, who hurried to the store and found Mr. Cronin unconscious on the floor by the prescription counter.

“Stricken While Closing Store”

“The fact that he had one arm in his overcoat, all the lights in the store were out except one at the prescription counter, and the night light was on, led the family to believe that he was stricken just as he was ready to go home, which was always about 10 o’clock. He never regained consciousness.

“Mr. Cronin established his home in Platte Center in 1902, when he moved there from Iowa to accept a position in the drug store, which he bought two years later, and which he actively operated until his death.

“He was born August 3, 1873, at DeWitt, Iowa and spent his boyhood days in the vicinity of DeWitt, Dow City and Dunlap. As a young man he enrolled in the pharmacy college of the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, and after graduating he went to Washta, Iowa, to work in a drug store. There he met Miss Anna Burmeister, to whom he was married April 24, 1901 at Ute, Iowa. A year later they moved to Platte Center.

Civic Leader

“Throughout his years of residence there he became one of the leading and esteemed business men of the town. He was a member of the Modern woodmen, the Catholic Foresters and St. Joseph’s society of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church of which he was a devout member.

Mrs. Cronin died April 22, 1933.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J.L. Pinkerton, of Kimball and Mrs. A.L. Hobbensiefken, of Platte Center, one son, Ervin P. Cronin of Omaha; one brother, Tim Cronin of Dunlap, Iowa; one sister, Mrs. William Shanahan of Ute, Iowa and four grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Platte Center, with Rev. Fr. Teves, pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in St. Patrick’s Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Gass Funeral Home until tomorrow morning when it will be taken to the home in Platte Center.

(Editor’s Note) –Our long acquaintance with Daniel Cronin enables us to state that when he first came to the Ute community he farmed with Frank Binnal on the Ordway place just east of town. His first experience in the drug store business was gained when he worked here for Bray Bros. before entering college. He first met his wife, Anna Burmeister, here in Ute where her family lived at that time She was a sister to one of our present town ladies, Mrs. John Luth.


 

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