Day, Henry H. (1925)

DAY, FOOTE, STOCKTON, GRINNELL, LOVEJOY, WORCESTER

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 12/24/2010 at 10:48:13

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The recent death of Henry H. Day calls to mind a few facts of the earlier history of Grinnell. When the writer came to Grinnell, Mr. Day lived on the farm just over the line in Jasper County now owned by E.J. Hadley. This was for long years known as the Day home and in the minds of many old settlers they still think of it even with its modern improvements as the Day place.

We do not know just when but sometime, probably in the early eighties, Mr. Day moved with his family to Grinnell where he entered the employ of the S.H. Herrick Hardward Company and learned and followed the trade of a tinner.

Since those years he has lived in Kellogg and later in Nampa. His first wife whose maiden name was Susie Foote was well known in Grinnell and had many warm and earnest friends. His second wife known here as Kate Stockton was an active and popular young woman in the days of her young womanhood and a woman of real worth. Mr. Day himself was always courteous, industrious, kind, and thrifty. He was a scion of a well known early Grinnell family. His father, Rev. Pliny Day had many friends in Grinnell. Henry Day was a child of the first wife of Rev. Pliny Day. His second wife was a sister of Mrs. J.B. Grinnell and Mr. Henry Day is a half brother of E.P. Day who still occupies the old home known practically since the early history of the town as the Day home. It is on north Park Street.

Mr. Day enlisted in his early manhood in a regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers and faithfully served his country during the war. All who knew him remember him as a man of real worth, of sterling character, and of faithful devotion to duty. Of course when he grew older and a few years ago moved back to Grinnell there were few living who know him in the day of his young strength but all who did know that they have lost a real friend and a man whose influence was always for good. In addition to his three children, he leaves two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Lovejoy of Cambridge, Mass., and Mrs. Lizzie Worcester of Hollis, N.H.