John F. Devereaux 1833-1883

DEVEREAUX

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Date: 9/6/2014 at 11:29:26

People's Telephone, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa, 11 April 1883

DIED.-- In this city, April 4, 1883, Prof. John F. Devereaux aged 50 years. Professor Devereaux came to this city some four years ago, and opened a school for the purpose of instructing young men in the art of book-keeping and the science of language. As a linguist he had but few superiors in the west, and had he lived to carry out his designs, his merits as a scientist would have been more generally appreciated at home and abroad. His worst enemy was himself, too often neglecting the necessary observance of the immutable laws of health. The professor made but few acquaintances in our city, consequently his value to many young men, anxious to acquire a knowledge of the classics is entirely unknown. A few lovers of literary pursuits in Red Oak feel his loss, but the average citizen does not realize that at a period of life when men become most useful, Professor Devereaux  was stricken down.