Kendall, S. G. 1820 - 1880

KENDALL

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/23/2014 at 14:03:43

Iowa Plain Dealer August 12, 1880, P3 C4

DIED.

KENDALL.—In Kendallville, Iowa Sunday morning, August 8, 1880, S. G. Kendall in the 60 year of his age.

The deceased was born in the town of Bethel, Oxford county, in the state of Maine on the 20th day of October 1820. He was given a good common school education, and aside from that was educated for the profession and practice of medicine in one of the Allopathic colleges of the east. Turning his attention to other pursuits and vocations he drifted into the south, after his marriage residing in the state of Louisiana and Mississippi until about the year 1860, when, after the result of the election of that year became known, apprehensive of the results that followed, he returned to the north. Fifteen years ago the present month, we believe he commenced work about the mill at Kendallville which enterprise absorbed most of his time to the time of the sickness terminating in death. He was a man held in high esteem by his friends and neighbors, who from the time we become acquainted with him to the hour of his passing away had conferred upon him places of trust and honor immediately connected with their local concerns and interests. Thus as Justice of the Peace, Treasurer of the District township, and member of the county board of Supervisors of Winneshiek county did they honor and trust him, while his political opinions differed from those of the majority thus confiding in his honor and integrity of character. As a member of the board of Supervisors, he saved to the people of the county hundred’s of dollars, heretofore filched from their pockets in the interest of rings, without neglecting one material interest of the public. Of course the machine politicians who thrive in Winneshiek county, and flourish there without precedent, were indignant at the stoppage of their bountiful supply of public pap. As a man, a friend, a neighbor, a public servant of the people, as a husband and father, in fact in all the varied relations of life he stood above reproach, esteemed, loved and respected, universally. His acquaintance extended through northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, and when the unwelcome news of death spread among the people their appreciation of the man was manifest in the multitudes who came to pay their last tribute of respect at his burial. The funeral ceremonies were under the direct control of the Masonic fraternity, of which order he was an honored member. The funeral discourse was by the Rev. P. W. Gould, likewise an honored brother of the mystic tie.

He leaves a widow and five children, three married daughters and two sons, to mourn the death of one of the best father’s and husband that ever blessed a home. His loss is not simply a family affliction, it is a public calamity which all may and do mourn. Peace to his remains, honor to his memory, emulation of his charities, and a following to his manly virtues.

Kendallville-Eddy Cemetery
 

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