Decatur County Journal

August 3l, l905

'DEATH OF ORR SANG'

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Passed Suddenly Away in Chicago. Successful Career as a Soldier and a

Business man.

ORR SANG, well known to many of our citizens, died suddenly at his

Chicago home on August 2l. His remains were interred in the Leon

Cemetery, August 23.

MR. SANG was born near McConnellsville, Ohio, in l840. He came to Iowa

in l858, teaching school near Pleasanton for about one year, when he

came to Leon and entered into the employment of Richards & Hale, who

conducted a general store on the site where the north hotel building now

stands. After the outbreak of the civil war, MR. SANG organized a

company of volunteers which were mustered into the 4th Iowa Cavalry. He

was commissioned as second lieutenant of Company L. 4th Iowa Cavalry, on

December ll, l863, prticipating in several engagements and remaining in

the service until his resignation November l, l864. After he returned

from the front in bad health, he was again associated with Richards &

Hale until the dissolution of this firm, when he accompanied MR. HALE to

Ottumwa in l865, and remained with him a few years. Then he took a

position as salesman with Buchanan & Co. of St. Louis, traveling over

this territory and the west. He was afterwards in the employ of Dodd,

Brown & Co., of St. Louis, then the largest wholesale dry good house

west of the Mississippi River. When Messrs. A.T. Stewart & Co., of New

York, established their western house at Chicago in l876, MR. SANG

transferred his headquarters to Chicago and occupied the position of

general salesman with the Stewart concern. He was a man of wide

acquaintance, traveling in his capacity of general salesman, over the

west and southwest, where he formed many lasting friendships. In fact

there are few hamlets in Nebraska, Kansas and the southwest in which ORR

SANG was not known. In l882 he left the house of A.T. Stewart & Co. and

associated himself with the firm of Burke Walker & Co., continuing with

this house until they discontinued business in l893, when he entered the

employ of the John V. Farwell Co., remaining with them until the first

of the present year, when his increasing infirmities warned him that he

must take a rest.

MR. SANG was married at Leon, June ll, l874, to MISS ELLA S. POST, who

survives him. In September, l903, he suffered a stroke of paralysis

from which he had never fully recovered, but his general health had

improved and his friends had reason to hope for him many years to enjoy

his well earned rest. During the past few years he had spent the winter

months in the south or in California and had arranged to make the latter

state his home. Expecting, however, to spend a part of each summer in

Iowa.

ORR SANG had many, many friends and his intense loyalty to his friends

was one of his marked characteristics. He was frank and candid in his

expressions, and was a generous benefactor when applied to for help.

His friends will long cherish his memory.

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