Edwin Henry Addison (1859-1933)

ADDISON, CARTER, VINSEL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/4/2021 at 22:57:48

From Nevada Evening Journal October 2, 1933 (page 1)

E. H. Addison, 74, pioneer Story county resident and dean of the Story county Bar association, died very suddenly late Sunday afternoon of a heart attack, after having been taken ill at his home 705 Sixth street, about two hours before.

The news of the passing of Mr. Addison, for a century a prominent resident of Nevada, came as a great shock as it spread about the city during the evening hours. Death occurred about 6:30.

Mr. and Mrs. Addison, with relatives from Illinois had visited Minneapolis earlier last week, returning home Friday. Mr. Addison had taken quite a severe cold during the trip but had been up and had dinner with the family and enjoyed an automobile drive during the earlier part of the afternoon.

About four o'clock he became ill and was hastened over to Iowa sanitarium but sank rapidly and passed away at 6:30.

The only son of James Addison, who had but recently returned to his home in Des Moines from Miami, Florida, where he head left his family for the winter, and had come up to Nevada for the week end and was with his mother when the husband and father passed away.

Mr. Addison, a native of Illinois where he was born 74 years ago on New Years day, came to Iowa with his parents as a boy and lived in Nevada and attended the local schools. Finishing the Nevada schools with the class of 1875, a year before the first class graduated, he was mad an honorary member of the Nevada high school alumni association at its meeting in 1923.

As a young man he was a farmer and still owns a farm in north Polk county that he operated during those years. Later he read law, was admitted to the bar and had been a practicing attorney for many years.

First located at Maxwell where he enjoyed a lucrative practice, he moved to Nevada in 1903 and here he had continued the practice of law.

Always active in political and other public affairs, he had frequently represented the Republican party in its conventions and other activities but had always refused to hold office himself, preferring to use his efforts for the furtherance of matters in the interest of the party and his friends.

He had long ago attained the highest ranks in the Masonic fraternity and had also been very active in Pythian circles. He was a charter member of the Maxwell Pythian Lodge, organized in 1892 and later, in 1903, transferred his membership to Samson Lodge No. 77 of Nevada.

He leaves besides his wife of half a century, one son, James Addison of Des Moines. The two daughters, Mrs. Anna Addison-Carter of El Centro, California and Mrs. Hazel Addison-Vinsel, died early this year, within a few weeks of each other.

Dependent upon the arrival of the grandson, Addison Carter from his home at El Centro, Calif., definite funeral arrangements cannot be announced.

I was said however, that the service will not be before Thursday and possibly not until Friday afternoon.

Word from El Centro this morning indicated that the grandson would come. The younger grandson, James Carter has been making his home with the grand parents since the death of his mother, who was buried here on January 26.

The younger daughter, Mrs. H. M. Vinsel died very suddenly at her home here a few days after the death of Mrs. Carter, and was buried on February 10.