BONNEY, George H. (1819-1885)

BONNEY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/26/2019 at 13:59:28

George H. Bonney
(1819 - 1885)

The Weekly Herald, Indianola, Iowa, Thurs., Feb 12, 1885, p.2, col.1
The death of Dr. G. H. Bonney, some weeks ago, is another instance of the terrible effect of intoxicating drinks. Some years ago there was no more popular physician with a large class of people, in Warren County than Dr. Bonney; but he prided himself on his ability to drink when he pleased and to let it alone when he pleased. In a few years he lost control of his will and became a confirmed drunkard. Whisky broke up his family, ruined his business, and made him a wanderer and an outcast. A few weeks ago he started from Creston to visit his daughter in the country, but found himself unable to make the trip, and turned back to the house from which he started. He had been seated but a short time when he fell dead in his chair. A year or more ago he came back to this place and made a heroic effort to reform, and was, in a measure successful, but whisky had already done its work. His constitution was shattered, his health ruined, his mind enfeebled, and his reputation as a physician gone. His old practice would not return to him, and discouraged, he went away. His life was a failure and what was the cause? Whisky. A man who will sell whisky by those who he knows intend to drink it, is a wretch, and deserves the execution of mankind, and the men who justify the sale of it are partakers of this crime and but little better. They are enemies to society, and a deadly menace to any people they live among.