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         DR. SOLOMON DILL, deceased, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, on the 14th of May, 1825, and died at his home in Fredonia, Iowa, March 1, 1883, aged fifty-seven years, nine months and seventeen days. On the 10th of August, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Jane Fowler, their union being celebrated at Oxford, Ohio. The following year he removed with his young bride to Iowa, locating at Toddtown, in Louisa County, where he at once began the practice of his profession, and soon secured an extensive patronage. For about three years he made that town his home, and then removed to Fredonia.

On the 17th of June, 1869, Mr. Dill was called upon to mourn the death of his beloved wife, who died leaving two children, little girls. The elder is now the wife of John Coulon, a resident of Oneida, Kan.; and the younger is the wife of A. M. Garrett. Dr. Dill was again married, Mrs. Mary Koontz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mickey, becoming his wife, the ceremony being performed on the 29th of June, 1871. Their union was blessed with one child, Bessie, who is now seven years old.

After establishing himself at Fredonia, Dr. Dill’s practice was greatly increased, extending for miles over the country in every direction. Being a strong man, possessed of the best impulses, having the welfare of suffering humanity at heart, he responded to every call, whether coming from rich or poor, in storm or sunshine, at night or day. He was an uncompromising foe to everything false and dishonest. He was a devoted husband, an indulgent father; to his friends, true, warm and constant, and to the poor, especially, he extended his fullest indulgence. In all his practice he never distressed any one to collect that which was justly his due. Tireless in industry, undergoing the ravages which this climate inflicts by constant exposure, he was stricken with paralysis. He then had to give up his night practice almost entirely, but continued faithful to those patients whom he could visit in the daytime, until November, 1882, when his steadily failing health compelled him to give that up also. Day by day he grew weaker, life slowly ebbing away, and for the last six weeks of his life was confined to his room. All that human agency could devise was done to alleviate his great suffering, and with the hope of his restoration to health, but all without avail, and on the 1st of March, 1873, his eyes were closed in the last long sleep. The funeral sermon was preached at 11 o’clock A. M. on the Saturday following his death, by the Rev. King, of . . .

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. . . Lettsville, in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Fredonia, the text being taken from the 24th chapter of Matthew: “Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh.” A large concourse of sympathizing friends followed the remains to the Fredonia Cemetery, where they were laid to rest.