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ROBERT H, FOLGERAn Old and Respected Citizen Passes Away.A USEFUL CAREER ENDED,Mr. Folger Occupied the Bench of Massillon for Fifty Years and Was the Oldest Practicing Lawyer in Ohio-Those Who Knew Him.Robert H. Folger, aged 87 years, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Massillon, died on Wednesday morning at 3 o’clock, from the effects of various weaknesses attendant upon old age.I p to a period datiDg about four weeks ago Mr. Folger was able to attend to hisbusiness affairs, but since that time he has been confiued tohis-bed and has been gradually sinking. Although his condition was in a measure realized by his family and friends, death was not momentarily expected. Captain William H. Folger, of the United States navy,visited his father last week, and findingthat there was little preceptible change in the latt-er’s condition from day to day, returned to New York, where he is engaged in important business connected with the fitting up of the new battleship Kearsarge. CaptaiD Folger was notified of his father’s death this morning and will probably reach the city on Thursday. Mr. Folger's other survivingtricks. Dates, faces, places and happenings were fixed in his mind, and age apparently never in the slightest degree impaired his memory.THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST. Referring to Mr. Folger this morning, John O. Garrett, for a number of years associated with him in the practice of law, said: “Having been a partner of Mr. Foiger for more than two years, and baviDg been continuously associated with him since 1879 as partner, lawyer and justice of the peace, I knew him as a man of extensive legal knowledge, a successful advocate, of sterling integrity and a success in his profession; a man of general information, remarkable memory and practical ideas of the times and age in which he lived. With him died information concerning the last century that few, if any, in Stark county can recount. We who knew him best will miss his counsel—ever ready and williog to give, to assist the studem or young lawyer. His equal will be, in this respect, sought for in vain in this community. Ripe in experience, a thorough self-made scholar and a man among men, I am sorry to bid him adieu.’’“My association with Mr. Folger,” said Robert H. Day, “dated from 1892, since which time, until very recently, I saw him almost daily in office life. That association was not only pleasant aud social, but Instructive and interesting in a high degree. His acquaintance with prominent men of the abolition and war period, his wonderfully retentive memory, his knowledge of the classics and literature made him always a welcome visitor and a man whom it wa9 always a pleasure to meet. As a lawyer and judicial officer, he was hard-working, active and impartial, and to the younger members of the profession with which
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Massillon Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Thu, May 11, 1899
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