William M. Suiter

SUITER, MANWARING

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/10/2014 at 14:22:51

WILLIAM M. SUITER FROZEN TO DEATH
SAD DECEASE OF PROMINENT OLD SETTLER

Found Dead on Country Road Near Le Claire Saturday Night-Came Here Nearly seventy
Years Ago, and was Long a Rapids Pilot.
The cold snap has proved fatal in at least one case in this county , and removes no less a personage than William M. Suiter late president of the Scott County Pioneer Settlers’ association. Mr. Suiter left his home in Le Claire Saturday night, to deliver a cow to a party living some distance away. His relatives became alarmed when he failed to return some hours afterward, and instituted a search for him. This resulted in his being found in the roadway, where he had fallen after being prostrated by the extreme cold. His hands, feet and face were badly frozen when he was found and he had been dead for some time. As he was 77 years of age, the cold had been too severe for his enfeebled vitality.

Mr. Suiter had been a resident of Scott county since 1836, his father having come here the previous year and sent back for his family. William M. was then 10 years of age, and had been born on the American bottoms, in Illinois, his parents being Phillip and Hannah Pancake Suiter. William H. was a rapids pilot at the age of 21 and followed that lucrative occupation all his life, amassing considerable property, in the town of Le Claire and its neighborhood. The late Mrs. J. H. Manwaring of this city was a daughter of his.

Source: Davenport Democrat, Davenport, Ia., 25 Jan 1904, p. 7.