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'Death of Wife a Few WeeksfAgo no Doubt Hastened19Assessor’s Demise.qfiod-;^/RESIDENT OF CITYscene jFOETY-FIVE YEARSConducted a Paint and Oil Store for Two Decades -Made a Valuable Official - Staunch Republican in Politics.Announcement of the sudden death of ‘William JL Talc, dtv assessor, early Saturday evening,- at hLa home, 035 Grand avenue, was received-with expressions of regret and sorrow-.throughout the city. Mr.-Xate had only been confined to'the house since Tuesday and. his most intimate friends did not know he was illand the shock was greater on that ac-ireen ^- mi — n mi i **and WJIjLIAM R_ TATE.ette ’ ^r 0f count. Only a few weeks ego his belovedJjyrtr* w‘^e passed, away and from that time-heugc could be seen to gradually fail, but' he .:i n\ c s -the city: and - fcol d’ h i A r i end ^ - ■able ^hat hc.wafKiirgood health and was get--fl-H.tihg hi3ebooks in shape for -the next an-nual assessment.- In 'the death .of Mr,; Kf.Tate the city loses’one of.its oldest and kiiber moPdPl^ar business men, one who has R«and ^ve^- bcre elose to forty years. The im- opmediate cause of his death was heart thfailure. selBRIEF SKETCH OF DECEASED. toung Tllac. William R. Tate was born March 23, ^ ■j^g 1940, in Cleveland, Ohio, and he was a ^ son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Tate. When ^ CB^ but fourty cars of age deceased - was ^ the brought to Wisconsin by- his, pArenta ^ ^w_. and lie lived in Milwaukee untibabout 10 j-f( •jfe. years of age. Until fifteen years ago,.ho cc^ attended school and worked on.the farm, nne, and then begun to learn the strode- of ^ house, sign and wagon painting, por ^ four or five years he %vas employed Ae ^ car shops at Milwaukee/ and,came .to. Racine July 5, 18G1. He became, .fore- ^ man of the old Racine Mississippi Rail* ^ h«r roa(i paint shops, in charge of- the loco- ^0g ute niotivc 0Plt;1 passenger shops. In this po-[ sition he remained for twelve years and hi j in 1S73 entered the employe of the uld Mitchell Lewis Co.. being foreman of my their heavy and light work department*.ufd ENTERED INTO BUSINESS. ®111- ^ v ‘aj_ With the Mitchell people he vemAined .Gmsix yfilTB, leaving their employe in 1380,and started in business for himself, con- Jiducting one of the' largest paint and oil Maihoures-in the city for nineteen years. He ty,[l*' retired from that business and did more banor less sign business For more than fivo Cm«ycars-Jhe acted as, city-assessor and made tiesnn one of the. best official* in that capacity k^othe city ever had. Ho also held other coinYs\. offices of trust. «Hc was a member of the - ASt, Luke's church, also a member of Ma- farror sonic lodge No, 18, having been made a jjarue .Jfason in 1865, Politically he was al-nd ways n staunch Republican and ever gainIn found working in the interests of that!is i»rt-v- salery MARRIED IN-.1S65, oncca k • rMr. Tate was united in marriage nn witt re j November 1, 1865, to Miss Mary A.0’ Wright, who died only a few weeks ago S D’ of pneumonia. • Two children were bornp :3^ Mjss Alice Tate, afterward Mrs, Walter -t Driver, now deceased„ and Arthur Tate, ,f 1T1the only sunix’ing^ child. There Is one ...i . yj liebi’other, Sauiuel 'E.-Xafce of.Milwaukee,or Deceased-was a man of the higlrest in-^ tcgritv. As a citizen ho was progressive M 1 La and ever ready to lend jl- hand in building S***1 up the municipality; a* a business man € he was honest, fair and-upright; as a' father he - was indulgent- and a most hf-fectionate’ and kind huabrfnd. As -a i st neighbor there was none better. In the j?reP ip capacity of. aaaesBor he wteb most, valua-.■y ble, being well; posted* as to'.tlic values of. je real and personal property and it was■ :his ambition to.be just to'all and consid- with a- ering the vast field the assessors coveredj he v a few complainta were ever heard* PohlRALW R. TATE MEETS
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Racine Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Nov 20, 1906
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