Judge Samuel S. Carruthers 1854-1910

CARRUTHERS, GREENE, LOZIER

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Date: 11/14/2014 at 23:41:02

Ottumwa tri-weekly courier, February 21, 1911
LATE BLOOMFIELD ATTORNEY
WAS PROMINENT IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
Bloomfield, Feb. 20.—(Special)
Judge Samuel S. Carruthers, one of the most prominent attorneys in Southern Iowa, died here this morning at 5 o'clock at the age of seventy-three years and six months. Death was due to a complication of diseases. His wife
and children, Mrs. Belle Greene of Metcalf, Ariz., W. K. Carruthers of Kansas City, and Mrs. Iowa C. Lozier of Carrollton. Mo., were present at the bedside when death came. Private funeral services will be held from the family apartments in the Commercial hotel Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery.
Judge Carruthers was born at Wheeling, W. Va., August 20, 1837, and came to Iowa in 1854. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1860, and in 1861 succeeded to the law business of Trimble & Baker when the members of this firm enlisted for the Civil war. In 1867 the law partnership of Trimble & Carruthers was formed. This partnership was dissolved about 27 years ago. Judge Carruthers was prominent as a railroad attorney, representing the Burlington, Rock Island and Wabash railroads in this capacity. He was a lifelong democrat and for a number of years was chairman of the Davis county central committee. Judge Carruthers served as one of the commissioners from Iowa to the St. Louis exposition.