Danforth, Warren Hon. 1829 – 1897

DANFORTH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:44

Source: Decorah Republican July 29, 1897 P 4 C 1

WORK OF THE REAPER.
HON. WARREN DANFORTH.
A notice posted up in the post office yesterday, announced that the funeral of Hon. Warren Danforth is to be held at his residence in Orleans township this afternoon. We have no data as to the time of death, but presume it occurred on Tuesday, and resulted from a paralytic stroke which attacked him on Friday last.
Mr. Danforth has been in ailing health since 1893, or even before that. In that year he visited the World’s Fair, and the excitement and fatigue of the great show overcame him, and be has not been a well person since.
Our data as to the life of the deceased is meagre. He was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., in 1829, moved with his parents to Jefferson Co. in 1831, where he grew to manhood on a farm and received a common school education. In 1861 he came to Iowa and settled in Orleans township where he acquired a large farm which he tilled with skill and thrift. In 1865 he represented his town on the Board of Supervisors, and in the 14th, l5th and 16th General Assemblies he was one of the two representatives from Winnesheik county. Circumstances gave him large prominence, and for one term, as chairman of the committee on appropriations, he was almost the recognized leader of that body, although in no sense a public speaker or debater.
In private life Mr. D. was a man of clean character, and high reputation for moral worth and uprightness. Many things we leave to be said in a fuller notice that we hope to secure.

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