Iowa
Old Press
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co. Iowa
Monday, December 4, 1911
Page 8, Column 5
PIONEER BUSINESS MAN DIES
L. H. DRUMM SUCCUMBS TO PARALYTIC STROKE.
STRICKEN ONLY FIVE DAYS AGO
Decedent, Who Was Born in Germany, Came to Sioux City in 1868 and
Was Engaged in Meat Business Until Five Years Ago.
L. H. Drumm, pioneer business man and a member of the Sioux City
council during two terms beginning in 1888, died about 6 o'clock
Sunday morning at his residence, 1411 Geneva street, five days
after being stricken suddenly with paralysis while chatting in a
downtown business place. The severity of the paralytic attack
left slight hope of his recovery from the first. The age of Mr.
Drumm scored against him. He was nearly 73 years old. Mr. Drumm
was born January 9, 1839, at Neinkirchen, Bavaria. In May, 1864,
he was married to Miss Helen Bitighoefer, who died August 8,
1890. On November 12, 1891, he was wedded to Miss Wilhelmina
Closs, who now is his widow. A son, W. H. Drumm, also survives.
Mr. Drumm came to Sioux City in 1868, at once engaging in the
meat business on Pearl street. Until five years ago, when he
retired, he was
continuously at the head of the business. The funeral services
will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
residence. The services will be in charge of Sioux City lodge No.
164, I. O. O. F., and the Kringer-Verein. Rev. D. R. Huber, of
Trinity Lutheran church, will deliver the funeral address.
Friends have been requested not
to send flowers. Interment will be in the Floyd Cemetery. Denver,
Tacoma and Maquoketa papers are requested by the family to copy.
[transcribers note: the date of Louis' birth on his headstone is January 11. His death record gives the date as January 9, in agreement with the obit. Transcribed by V.R., April 2006]
Sioux City Journal, December 14, 1911
Capt. and Mrs. J.S. Lothrop presided at dinner Tuesday evening to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Carnations and ferns graced the prettily appointed table where places were laid for George C. Mitchell and son Russell, of Chicago, who came especially for the occasion, Capt. and Mrs. M. W. Murphy, and Edmund Murphy. Following the course menu, which Miss Blanche Anthony and Miss Hattie Lothrop assisted in serving, the evening was spent informally.
Capt. and Mrs. Lothrop were married December 12, 1861, at the farm of Captain Lothrop’s father near Tonica, Ill., Rev. Alfred Lothrop performing the ceremony. The following day, the captain, who was a second lieutenant in the Union army at that time, returned to his post at Salt River Bridge, Mo. A short time after, Mrs. Lothrop joined her husband in Missouri and remained until the command to which Capt. Lothrop belonged joined Pope’s army in the latter part of February, 1862.
The two years following Mrs. Lothrop lived with friends in Illinois, not seeing her husband again during this time. It was during the war that Capt. Murphy and Capt. Lothrop became such fast friends.
[transcribed by LZ, Oct 2020]