| DIED.-- In this city, April 4, 1883, Prof.
John F. Devereaux aged 50 years. Professor Devereaux came to this
city some four years ago, and opened a school for the purpose of
instructing young men in the art of book-keeping and the science of
language. As a linguist he had but few superiors in the west, and
had he lived to carry out his designs, his merits as a scientist
would have been more generally appreciated at home and abroad. His
worst enemy was himself, too often neglecting the necessary
observance of the immutable laws of health. The professor made but
few acquaintances in our city, consequently his value to many young
men, anxious to acquire a knowledge of the classics is entirely
unknown. A few lovers of literary pursuits in Red Oak feel his loss,
but the average citizen does not realize that at a period of life
when men become most useful, Professor Devereaux
was stricken down. |
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