John Clinton Kinsel (1817-1885)

KINSEL, KINSELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/20/2011 at 22:38:10

From Story County Watchman September 11, 1885

DIED:--In Cambridge, Iowa, September 5th at 3 P. M., J. C. Kinsel aged 68 years 1 month and 8 days, after an illness of 14 days during which time his disease was not expected to prove fatal until the day before his death. All that could be done to relieve his suffering, supply his wants and stay the progress of his disease was done by his kind and devoted wife, warm personal friends and the sonstant care of his physicians. But alas! all those ministrations proved futile in staying our midst one of our most useful and respected citizens. His death will not only mark the broken chain in the family circle and prove a sad and lamented loss to his wife and children but his council and zealous labor in every important improvement and beneficial enterprise for the town of Cambridge and vicinity will also be often missed by the many friends of J. C. Kinsel. He was born in Huntingdon county, Penn., July 28, 1817 and came to Iowa in 1851 and permanantly located in Cambridge in 1863 where he has since resided. Mr. Kinsel was always a radical man, always a union man, always a temperate man and in favor of stringent temperance laws and their full enforcement. He has always taken a leading part in the political questions occuring during his residence in Iowa. For several years he was justice of the peace in Union township, and it is but justice to him to say that none of his predecessors nor those who succeeded him in that office filled the place better. At the time of his death he was mayor of the town of Cambridge having held and faithfully filled that office since his election.

Rev. Edin Johnson officiated at his funeral, and a large concourse of citizens followed his remains to their lat resting place and the curtain of death obscures from our view the once familiar personage. Death is the colsing scene in the drama of life. The brown and falling leaves, the decaying flowers of the field, the moaning winds of qutumn, the earlier setting sun and the shortened duration of his rays all join in the sad, sad requiem of J. C. Kinsel.
J. M. BROWN M. D.

CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 7, 1885

WHEREAS, Death has taken from our council J. D. Kinsell, mayor, thereby depriving us of a dutiful officer and faithful counsellor, therefore,

Resolved, by the trustees of the town of Cambridge, That we deeply mourn his loss, and shall ever hold him in grateful remembrance; and that we hereby tender to the bereaved wife and family of the deceased our deep sympathies in their affliction.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be published in the county papers and written upon the minutes of the town record, and a copy be forwarded to the members of the family.

J. M. BROWN, Recorder, pro tem,
F. M. LIVINGSTON, Mayor, pro tem.