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PENDENTlY M0BNINGand Proprietoav l£i. «1884.n on...#2 00.. 1 00.. 5i40.i»6 OIOS.l2tiiosni uulu 0090 00Wl »0ttO lt;10100 Ontnjral auvertis-t, hubtishcr.Death of N. R. Stedman,irt the Crier fest All vcivvers mustis I have in i’s who’ll be ;an Conven-Tlift Citizens of Aurora Lose Their Most Cherished Citizen.ourual is a ayei*, gotten 'ull of..iu tailing matter too much to r -worthy oficial failure aipathy, but b into Wall ie boys with :ig a- country -like Aurora, t want,” he ■$10,000,000.n and'Hcud-the Chicago . good record hey arc ‘‘no ether to the so much toe-ag-weary be-i-strcich and )6ed nor bot-iu aud save team couId-lee.jtr savsthat imwill homi-mwill homi-nocratio will ! Presidency, lominated ont '4ick, that no 25 that you Me will bet ze sheep or that neither iictions will i sav!adge Givan's ary Bittner a, was ,to the ty of the city e gutter cov-ijury to Mrs was not put ty and there ke kind now (tore in com-tlie City will ler. The fe-n)ust for Jici* 6m taken up.for tlie City -morrow ev-ld it is the ice force/- Tt at our police ■ganized and Ian and a )(*-that we need none at all: eh iuetlicient ie the Police I have not en-ons as strict-• one opinion ►licebills are . ^ of money . the value ililure. I^Ve a or. dispensev of the dis-uot so many;iicted as was o. ' The facts atur is proba-Eween Giavin as-Towiiship. Holman; on-ji*80i) County Switzerland 17, and will for Woollen; tes, but gave.in it indorsed ji-'ess • liipley -day; Fraiik-for Holman,vi 11 give Hol-» conventionirg, May 22, be present.— urual.rs iueharac-pther county is not depend uiis of success easing its pa-well known, facilities foi it arc of other 1 of Directors er the embar-ou of opinion r, and always ;)position and ie the novel -with its reg-so attractive tesKiucnt iias id that for an ile other fairs epeatedlv.* the Aurora highly enfer-i'each fair for as. been so executed that ra fairgroundhome in the rmiued to at-. The grand each of our is become re-iduleut horse ding the peo-ith our show.• thing within ire is both iM-ve to all the ates their at-movement of it in constant re their eyes, ather or even ey can sit in Aurora fail-,ter equipped :hibitorsthau ts is the cumin all and as uro’ra Fair isa fair has al-nd the mati-pare no pains :p and a big or 1884 is lib-;iit and very pecially so in nore aud bet-ered thereinhis year from e, which is a . But it was it reasons and ment of thiserybodv may sir articles or xt fair, which 8, if we can mtions.eral than the patronizing our fair is in immediately icct a liberal eighbors and y to come aud iady said, we so novel and res this year, also be tirstand vou willShortlv after 7 o'clock Monday morning. Huy 12. 1SS4, our city was thrown into deepest sorrow to learn thafcNathaii Rockwell Stedman had just died at his residence, on Manchester Street. The .announcement was in the nature of a surprise to the community, for he had driven from his home to his office last Saturday, but he had been gradually declining ino » ohealth for some months, having been afflicted with heart, disease. On Monday morning he arose early as was his habit, ate his breakfast with a relish and there was no indication that his death was so near at band. Shortly after breakfast he arose from his chair, advanced, a step or two % forward, when,he swooned away aud peacefully breathed his last.Mr. Stedman was one of our oldest citizens, aud he was the most cherished one of them ail,,being esteemed for his goodness of heart, his father! v care for those connected with him in business, . and his many unostentatious charities to those who were afflicted or in want. No man gave more liberally where it would do the most good, and his gifts were so quietly bestowed that often the receiver probably knew not whence they came, so careful w^as he lest these charitable acts of his should appear to be done for show. We remember when the steamer Pat Rogers burned to the water's edge in tUe Ohio river, two miles below Aurora, iu August 1874, that* Mr.rStedman busied himself to clothe and feed those half dressed and hungry people who were rescued from that boat as if they were his own children. Many a poor person has gone to. bed at night in this town not knowing how to liml fuel or food for the next day and has awakened to find a bag of potatoes, a sack of Hour, or a load of coal at the door next morning and this through his beneficence. Only a tew days before his death as he was about to drive to his farm, some (Jistance in the country he rolled up a package of daily papers remarking that they might be given to some one who ‘had not the means of buying them. It was only a little kindness, probably to be bestowed upon someone whom lie never knew, but it was characteristic of the life of the man. The meu who were employed in his foundry loved him as a father and honored him ac-cordiugly; and he seemed to regard them as his foster children. For months and months during financial depressions, when moneyed men were going to pieces and factories were shutting down and employes were striking for back pay, his men have labored on faithfully for hiiii and never contained so closely were they allied to him and so implicitly they felt, that lie would see them through—anil he did-- *•! *.*?’••• *• % #N.: R. Stedinan w\as born in Euglish-town, N. V.,. February 10, 1814. In early lite lie went to Hartford, Conn., where he learned his trade as a moulder iii a foundry. In 1837 he came to Cincinnati and lived there about three years. From Cincinnati he moved to Rising Sun, Intl., where with Pinkney James as a partner he started the first foundry in this part of the country. Upon the death of Mr. James, W. II. Lamdins was taken into partnership, but in the spring of 1S49 his interest was purchased by Thomas and James W. Gaff and the foundry was moved to Aurora—its present location. In 1870 Nathan Stedman, the eldest son of the deceased was taken into the firm, of which he is now the only surviving member.Mr. Stedman was married three times and was the father of eleven children, all of whom are living. His first wife was Sarah Deldeu whom he married in 1837 and by whom he had one son and-tour daughters; his second wife was Louisa C. Cadwell to whom he was married August 23,1848,. and by whom he had one daughter and four sons. His surviving wife was Mrs. Sarah. J. Lauglcy, whom he married November 15, 1805, and by her he has one daughter. He has a4 brother living iu Hartford, Conn., also one in New York. His children-are Nathan Stedman, of this city; Mrs. Hattie Wilson, and Mrs. Lucy Hurst, of Streator, III.; Mrs. Jas. D. Parker, and Mrs. JoJui W. Christy, of Delhi, Ohio; Mrs. Juo. P. Stier, Messrs. Seth, liazeti, John aud Charles aud Miss Mary Stedinan, of this city.* THE FUNEKAL.The funeral services were held at the residence, on Manchester street, at I o’clock yesterday aud were conducted by Jlev. W. S. Bacon, of Cincinnati assisted by Rev. A. W. Freeman, of this city. In most perfect accord with the respect iu which Mr. Stedman was held iu Aurora, for nearly two score years his home, all of our business houses closed their doors aud suspended business during the afternoon, from one until three o’clock. The attendance at the funeral was very large —the largest ever seen in Aurora, and the ceremonies were under the direction of the employes of the deceased who were particularly anxious to show the highest respect to him who had stood so true to them, yet over them, for so many years, and to briug their last sad offerings with which to commemorate his loyalty and gooduess to them. The pall-bcarers had each been in his service for more than twenty years. They were Joseph Miller, John Sargent, Joseph Russell, Thos. It. Hubbart, M. It. Lukens and ltobt. II. Fowler. After the services were concluded, the remains of him whom Aurora knew and. respected so loug, were followed by the la”ge procession through the length of our city, whence they wore taken to Rising Sun for burial in a place of the deceased’s own selection.pressed. These were the words :If there is annther life, he is in bl’ssAnd if tliei-e is not. ho mmle ilio moH of this.”The impressive thought conveyed bv these eloquently expressive lines is, lliat the departed one, whose virtues thcv were employed to commemorate, had, by a uniformly benificeut and upright course of life, amply prepared hiiuself for the inheritance and enjoyment of a condition of felicity and happiness in the supcrsensuous world br-vond the boundaries of mortal existence, and that if, unhappily, ceasing to live in the body should be the setting forever of tiie bright star of our being in theuightand gloom of ended existence, he had nevertheless acted most wisely during his earthly pilgrimage. How eminently appropriate, how absolutely fitting, these lines, in speaking of Nathan Rockwell Ste t-iiian. whose remains, wearied and worn with the toils and struggles of a long, busy and eventful life, were yesterday deposited in the silent city of the dead, among his kindred and friends who had gone before him. aud in the very spot selected by himself.The writer remembers, although then quite a boy, when Mr. Stedman came to Aurora, and has known him well, the many years that have supervened since tliat time, and during that long period, while many men have been discussed aud criticised, yet he has never heard one unkind .word uttered against this uoble man. What a wonderful commentary on the life of a man and what a magnificent example for emulation is here preseuted. Kind reader, in speaking of this truly magnificent man join the writer for a moment in serious thought. Let us reflect. Here is a man who lived nearly four decades in a community, not large but most of the time very small compared with other places: so small, indeed, that every act and move is watched and scanned,—all the while Jtivcly engaged in busy scenes ; constantly employing and superintending large numbers of men : commingling daily, freely and cordially with the people; passing through many trials of business depression, as crisis after crisis of panic and business prostration swept over the country, and all the while preserving his equanimity like the giant oak, unshaken iu firmness amid the thousand storms that beat against it; never forgetting self-possession; never angry, but always pleasant and frequently humorous when most men would be despondent and overwhelmed with melancholy. and at the end of the fitful and protracted journey .of iportal life, no one can recall an unkind, ungenerous word ever spoken by mortal man against him. What a comforting reflection to those to Whom he was near aud dear, in this hour of their grief aud desolation. Indeed in the hour#of deepest anguish when they shall see the clods of the earth conceal forever the form of the loved one from their gaze, it shall be to them a solace and a joyous pride, that he lived uprightly, loved mankind, died conscious of the nobility of his manhood, and amid the unstinted plaudits of his fel-lowinen.The sentence upon the lips of every one is, “He died without leaving behind a single enemy.” Iu this one sentence are volumns of eulogy. How wise iu his intellection, how noble aud inagnauimous iu his heart and how deep aiid broad iu his humanity he must have been to have lived so long among men, in a world of horrid strife, miserable contention and frightful antagonisms and never received a frown or incurred the mild displeasure, much less the spiteful enmity, of anyone. Life is too short and shadowy for malice and revenge, aud his life with a heart too noble ami pure to give lodgement to the poisonous demon of hatred and revenge, inspired all men with whom he came iu con-tact^with his true nobility, and secured for him their love and esteem.He was generous to the needy and \yas undemonstrative in the bestowal of charity. He gave not that he might be known aud honored of ruen but out of the goodness of his heart, aud to relieve want and suffering. Mauy a fireplace will burn less brightly and many a heart throb less joyously now that Nathan K. Stedman is no more, unless some other Good Samaritan shall take his place aud walk iu his footsteps.He has not only left behind him the unclouded and unlimmed record of a noble life for others to follow, full of patient industry, honorable exertion iu business pursuits, noble deeds in benevolence and charity aud all that goes to make up the full measure of a noble manhood, but he* has given to the world a large family of children, every one of whom is worthy of the sire and an honor to society. He also leaves as a sojourner along the-highways of embodied life a most estimable wife who enjoyed the associadou and compauionship of the deceased duriug his latter years. The wife, the children, the grandchildren, the relatives all, whether immediate or remote, may be assured that they have the overflowing sympathy of an absolutely grief stricken community, iu which the writer of these hastily written liues most sincerely joins. Let it ever be remembered:•tlf there is another life, tie in in blissAmi inhere i» not, he mnde Lite in.ist or this,9’KEEPIT BEFORE PEOPLE!THETHE FLORAL OFFERINGS.The tributes of flowers were the spccialgifts and selections of the employes of the foundry of Stedinan Co. They were the most profuse and beautiful in selection aud design ever brought to this city, and were furnished by tlie..Ciuciunati Floral Compauy, aud were beautifully appropriate. One of the prettiest pieces of the lot was a large design called •• Faith, Hope and Charity.” It consisted of a cross about three feet high and ,resting against it. on one side was an anchor and on the other a heart. The cross was solid green, being made of ivy, aud the anchor aud heart and base of t he cross consisting of choice roses and lilies of the valley intertwined with tine ferns. The next prettiest piece was a broken column with a throe stringed Irc resting against it, one of the strings being broken. Thecolumn was of green, the other parts being made of Marechal Ne.J roses, lilies aud ferns. The “Cross and Wreath” was a beautiful piece also, the cross being about three feet high aud crowned with a beautiful white dove, with outstretched wings. A pillow about two and one half feet square, built of roses and lilies, with the word fiFatlrcr,? in purple, was a beautiful piece. The otlLcr pieces, scroll, sickle aud a sheaf of wheat, were all as lovely as taste and the finest flowers that grow could make them. The)”-were all true and fitting emblems of the life and character of the man in whose honor they were designed and bestowed.From an admiring friend wlio knew Mr. Stedman well and fully appreciated his character as a man and value as a citizen, we have received the followingdeserved tribute of respect,‘■The of ji {fowl tn.-in is never ft misfortune except t« iluise left behind to mourn.”A number of years ago, the writer hereof, iu perambulating through an antiquated grave yard near New Albany, Ind., observed an inscription upon a humble slab that marked the resting place of a pioneer citizen, which challenged his admiration on account of its simplicity and the heau.-fiful aud elevated seidinieut ft ex-The More Rectazros* Record as Trustee is Examined the Worse it Becomes ft*-and the Peoplt Walk $238.It is not Reclaims’ to side is personaiitto do in hi rather th: geutlemai his adminby as whc slurs and ; to hi pi an his detenuV .j1 shall cor point to fl wrongful!might say any man ^Hud out (I year, wit eyes, is lm other mai mistake, ait. 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Aurora Dearborn Independent
Aurora, Indiana, US
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