Kaye, Arthur Died 1893

KAYE

Posted By: Allison Lawrence (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:41

Source: Decorah Republican August 3, 1893 P 4 C 2

The First Break. John B. Kaye was called to Lake Geneva, Wis., last week Monday, to attend the funeral of his brother, Mr. Arthur Kaye. Deceased was widely known as the proprietor and manager of Kaye’s Park, one of the most popular of the summer resorts that border Wisconsin’s gem lake. Mr. Kaye was the elder brother in a family of eleven children, and his death makes the first break in that circle since the death of the father. The aged mother of this family is still living.

Source: Decorah Republican August 3, 1893 P 8 C 1
(From our regular Correspondent.)
CALMAR, IOWA, Aug. 2, 1892.
--Since his last, your correspondent has been called to attend the funeral of his eldest brother, the eldest of a family of ten children of whom he was the first to fall. Arthur Kaye died at his home on the south shore of Lake Geneva, Wis., on July 23d, 1893, aged 62 years, having been confined to his bed just two weeks, though his illness extended over a period of nearly a year. Strong in his personality, a man without guile, truthful in all things, despising shams, intense and rugged in his honesty, his word once passed was sacred. Arthur Kaye was a man whom anyone might well feel proud to call brother, an honest, fearless, manly man. He was laid to rest in a beautiful spot overlooking the Lake, which he well loved, and whose fame he did more than any other man, to make known to the world. I met while absent a brother whom I had not seen for twenty four years, but he arrived too late for the funeral. Dispatches were received from a brother in Nevada, a sister in Florida, a sister in Minnesota and one in Kansas, all too remote to come to the funeral. Three brothers and a sister and the aged mother were present to see the “first born” laid to rest.