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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1872
Page
3
A stream of city items mentions a proposed four story marble front building on Calhoun street, a powder works, and rumors about Geo Francis Train. It highlights guardian appointments in January and February, court actions, temperance tales, a divorce rumor, and a harsh list of deaths and mortuary entries for January 1872.
Born in 1810 in Posen Prussian Poland Simeon Barthesz pursued studies in Warsaw and joined the Franciscans. He served in Milwaukee South America Wellington Australia Fort Wayne Laporte and died in La Porte after a long illness at age sixty one.
The telegraph reports the sudden death of Hon Hocking H Hunter at his Lancaster Ohio home yesterday at 9 14 a m. He was about 71 and known as a prominent lawyer with influence on railroad statutes. He was Ohio Supreme Judge in 1863, later honored by peers for his work. Dr J B R Beck and wife head to Ohio for the funeral, returning Thursday night.
A reader compiled names of Fort Wayne teachers including Maggie Armstrong Ella J Clark Fannie Clark MaggieS Cochrane Amanda P Crumley J Henry Cummings Mrs Anna L Dillon Lenora I Drake Ella Embry Lizzie M Evang Hamsh E Evry Minnie Fero Mary E O Conner Abbie W Phelps Clara Phelps Estella Ray Edward Rubio Emma J Rupert Sydna Barbaugh Carl Schwarz Carrie B Sharp Orlinda P Sinclear Sarah E Smith Jennie Snivel Susan B Fowler Frank Hamilton Fannie A Hatch Annie M Hill Wm A Hodgdon Mrs Susan Co Hoffman Elizabeth J Imrie Helen M Jones Nettie Mark Jeremiah K E McClain Clark L McLain Helen M Miller Agnes J O Con nor Belle Spore Mary E Stevens Lou E Strong Josephine Strong Mary L Thompson Maggie A Tower Nellie B Vaughan John J Weber Eliza H Wood Jennie A Woodworth
Our accomplished friend L B Root of Root & Co 90 Columbia Street spends a few days in the city then travels to Terre Haute to oversee his dry goods business and afterward to New York where he maintains headquarters. The editor praises his talent and culture while noting the Gazette rarely features such articles.
In Fort Wayne at his mother’s residence near Broadway, Joan Caspia Scnoserr, aged nine years and 11 months. The funeral will be from the Cathedral on Monday February 6 1872 at 10 o clock.
Fort Wayne shoppers flood No 5 Keystone Block as Red Front Clothing Hall touts 20 percent lower prices on eight dollar suits and all wool suits for 15.00. Dealers advertise tea specials at 1.25 per pound and promise direct imports to cut profits, urging customers to visit for bargain prices and large carload stock.
John Huston Barnett died at his Spy Run Avenue home on Friday February 2 1872. He was born October 1 1820, eldest son of Captain Barnett a Fort Wayne pioneer. He survived an 1870 mill dam accident but contracted tuberculosis leading to his death. He never married and left his estate to relatives three months before death. A tribute recalls his honesty benevolence generosity and politeness and notes he had no enemies among friends and the community.
A mansion on Clinton Street known as Mollie Moore’s home was burned by an incendiary at 6 am. The fire reduced the marble-front building to ashes, with bells, engines, and adorned interiors described as ruined. Mollie Moore saved her gold-inlaid furniture and wardrobe as the mansion’s grandeur collapsed.
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