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PHIL J. PFENNING DEAD.Phil J. Pfenning, an old-time resident of Baxter Springs, died at hie late home in Joplin on Thursday night of last week.Funeral services were held Sunday and the remains interred in the Fairview cemetery at Joplin.Phil J. Pfeoning was a native of Germany, born at Bingen, on the Rhine, January 22, 1844. With hi* parents he emigrated to America in 1840, and his youth was passed in New York City, where he grew to manhood. At the beginning of the civil war Mr. Pfenning enlisted in the service of the government, and was employed for a term of years as a guard for government freighting caravans engaged in freight-ing in the plains. In this work he crossed the continent and for years engaged in the toilsome sod perilous enterprises of the new and undeveloped west.Settling at San Francisco at the close of the war Mr. Pfenning engaged in various prospecting and mining ventures, and later visited Mexico and nearly all the states of the south and west Thirty-five yeara ago he came to Baxter Springs, Kas., and has since that time been identified with the growth and enterprises of the mineral region in and about Joplin, having seen and been a part of all the marvelous development of this region of country.Thirty years ago Phil J. Pfenning and Mias Alice M. Cooley were married at Baxter Springs. During the last sixteen yeara they have made their home in Joplin, where Mr. Pfenning was engaged in mining enterprises until his retirement from active business life, several years ago.The widow, four sons and four daughters survive: Mrs. BlanchPorkner, wife of H. A. Forkner, a lawyer of Colnmbns; Edward C. Pfenning, a clerk in the Miners bank of Joplin, and Phillip Cn Davidson, Milam, Marie L., Nina, and Frances Pfenning, all residing at the family boms sod students of the public schools of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Forkner had been called to Joplin on account of the illneas of the father and the children all were at home when death came.
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Baxter Springs News
Baxter Springs, Kansas, US
Thu, May 18, 1905
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