On the Aron farm in Ellington township, near the "Q" railway depot in Cliola Illinois, several miles north of Quincy, in Adams county, Illinois, occurred a fraud which ended in murder.
The Aron family had taken into its trust, a con man who purported to be a specialist doctor who could cure Mrs. Aron of her illness. This adventuring stranger, who was no doctor at all, also saw other patients across the county, at a steep fee.
The agreement had been that the large sum proposed by W. J. Jamison, who pronounced himself an "Indian herbalist" of great ability, would be paid only if and when Mrs. Aron was cured. However, some weeks passed, with no change in her condition.
When it was clear the charlatan could affect no cure, and the Aron family refused to pay his huge bill, the swindler became enraged and began to intimidate and verbally abuse John Aron.
The housekeeper Mrs. Simmonds rushed to the barn and alerted the son, Charles N. Aron, who ran into the household. He cautioned Jamison "stop abusing father." John Aron proposed they all eat breakfast and discuss it afterward.
Jamison would not be dissuaded or appeased. Jamison, per witnesses, shot Charles N. Aron in the neck. He then put a gun to the paterfamilias, John Aron's head and demanded $ 300. John Aron wrote a check for that amount, under duress. W. J. Jamison fled, and a doctor was summoned for Charles N. Aron, to no avail; his wound was fatal.
The gunman was pursued on horseback, and captured by a group of neighbors. They brought him to authorities.
The heartbroken mother died soon after her son; John Aron died in 1897. The murderer of Charles Aron was convicted, and was hanged 18 August 1893. This was the third hanging by judicial process that had occurred in Adams county, Illinois. It would later prove to be the last.
The county board of supervisors later ruled that father of the murder victim, John Aron, was not due reimbursement for attorney's fees, because "the county does not pay for pauper criminals." Further, the board ruled that the Aron family would reimburse any outstanding fees for 'medical' services, to the swindler's estate.
- bio by Tree Leaf.
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Fowler, Ill., April 21. -- Deceased was born in this county, and had spent his short life here. He was an exemplary young man, and had many friends among the young people, to whom the intelligence [news] of his sudden death is sad news.
The funeral services will be conducted at his home at three o'clock today, after which the body will be taken to Quincy for interment.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Thursday, April 21, 1892; page 6.
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Search the bounds of Adams county as one might, no young man could be found who held a higher place in the esteem and affection of the community, nor whose untimely killing could excite a greater shock or more sincere and universal sorrow.
He represented the best product of our vicinage. Active, whole-souled, manly, the stalwart-bodied and brainy son of one of our best families. None knew him, save to respect and be impressed with his fine character, his native ability, and his geniality.
Seldom is a son more idolized by his parents. He, in return, had a heart overflowing with sympathy and devotion to his mother, stricken by such a terrible disease. He was always looking to her comfort, and searching for some means of allaying her sufferings, and checking the inroads of the dreadful parasite, which was eating into her very life.
It was because everything else had failed, and because he could not give up hope that his beloved mother's life might be spared, that he welcomed the imposter Jamison's sanguine promises, and determined to try his treatment as a last resort.
And when, for a time, there was apparent improvement in her condition, how joyfully and buoyantly and gleefully he told the news to all his friends! Her improved symptoms meant life, and the time seemed near at hand when a perfect cure would come, and the shadow of the grave, under which they had been living so long, be lit up by the sunlight of hope.
Charlie Aron, as he was familiarly known by hundreds, was born February 23, 1859, and was therefore just 33 years old, when he met with his untimely end. He managed the large farming and stock interests at home with a clear head.
He had all the promise of a successful businessman. He was intelligent, quick, prompt to discern an opportunity, but upright and honorable in the smallest detail. He served with credit on the board of supervisors, where his father had with equal credit served before him.
Charles was elected in 1890, and served one term. He was very strong and inflexible in his convictions, and when he felt that he was right, could not be swerved by entreaties or threats. It was that characteristic that influenced him to oppose the county's reward of $1,000 toward the apprehension of a Mr. Porter, the murderer of E. C. Smith.
There was the strongest effort to induce him to yield his convictions, on the part of Dr. Dana, J. W. Bashforth, of the citizens' committee, and some of his warmest Quincy friends, but he could not be brought to agree with them.
The remarkable fact that he himself met his death similarly, at the hands of a fiend, is a coincidence that cannot but seem most strange under all the circumstances.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, August 18, 1893; page 2.
NB: The man, William John Jamison, who was convicted of the murder of Charles N. Aron, was hanged 18 August 1893.
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The remains of the late Charles N. Aaron, whose terrible death was a shock, not only to those who knew him, but to the entire community and county of which he was an exemplary citizen, were brought to Quincy on the 8:15 passenger train this morning, and taken to the home of J. J. Lusk, 1013 Hampshire street.
The remains were accompanied by the grief stricken relatives, and a large number of friends from Camp Point, Cliola, and other places in the vicinity. By the time the train arrived in this city, every coach was full of sorrowing people, who got on at every station, and came to witness the last sad rites over the remains.
Mr. John Aaron, father of deceased; and Mr. and Mrs. Lusk, a brother [William Aaron], and Mrs. Summons [Simmonds], the housekeeper at the family residence, accompanied the remains.
The condition of the mother is much worse, owing to the shock, and she was unable to attend the funeral.
By nine o'clock this morning, the residence of Mr. Lusk, the front lawn and the sidewalk on Hampshire street, for the distance of nearly a block each way, were crowded with people.
The board of supervisors attended the funeral in a body [as one group, in entirety.] Many beautiful floral designs covered the casket. Reverend S. H. Dana conducted the impressive ceremony. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the friends held short services at the family home.
The pall bearers were: George McAdams, Ed Mathes, B. F. Porter, Frank McDavitt, Duke Schroer, and S. Swanwick.
A large cortege followed the remains to their last resting place in Woodland cemetery.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, April 22, 1892; page 5.
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Fowler, April 25. -- Quite a number of Ellington [township] people attended the funeral of Charles Aaron in Quincy, last Friday.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Tuesday, April 26, 1892; page 6.
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Joseph J. Lusk, administrator, yesterday filed in the county court an inventory of the estate of Charles N. Aaron, the young farmer shot by Dr. Jamison.
Mr. Aaron died possessed of eighteen and a fraction acres in Ellington township, and an undivided one-third interest in the Robert E. Lee mine, in Colorado; also, twenty-eight horses, cows, and mules and buggies, wagons, harness, farm implements, produce, etc., and $236 in cash.
The appraisement bill was presented by Messrs. Stafford and E. K. Sweet. It shows the personal estate of deceased to be worth $1990.50.
Administrator Lusk petitioned for an order to sell the personal estate at public or private sale, to create a fund out of which to pay the debts against the estate.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, May 20, 1892; page 4.
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Yesterday, the coffin containing the remains of Charles Aron was removed from one part of Woodland cemetery to another -- to the lot recently purchased by his father, and in which Mrs. John Aron, the mother of Charles, is buried.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, October 13, 1893; page 5.
The Aron family had taken into its trust, a con man who purported to be a specialist doctor who could cure Mrs. Aron of her illness. This adventuring stranger, who was no doctor at all, also saw other patients across the county, at a steep fee.
The agreement had been that the large sum proposed by W. J. Jamison, who pronounced himself an "Indian herbalist" of great ability, would be paid only if and when Mrs. Aron was cured. However, some weeks passed, with no change in her condition.
When it was clear the charlatan could affect no cure, and the Aron family refused to pay his huge bill, the swindler became enraged and began to intimidate and verbally abuse John Aron.
The housekeeper Mrs. Simmonds rushed to the barn and alerted the son, Charles N. Aron, who ran into the household. He cautioned Jamison "stop abusing father." John Aron proposed they all eat breakfast and discuss it afterward.
Jamison would not be dissuaded or appeased. Jamison, per witnesses, shot Charles N. Aron in the neck. He then put a gun to the paterfamilias, John Aron's head and demanded $ 300. John Aron wrote a check for that amount, under duress. W. J. Jamison fled, and a doctor was summoned for Charles N. Aron, to no avail; his wound was fatal.
The gunman was pursued on horseback, and captured by a group of neighbors. They brought him to authorities.
The heartbroken mother died soon after her son; John Aron died in 1897. The murderer of Charles Aron was convicted, and was hanged 18 August 1893. This was the third hanging by judicial process that had occurred in Adams county, Illinois. It would later prove to be the last.
The county board of supervisors later ruled that father of the murder victim, John Aron, was not due reimbursement for attorney's fees, because "the county does not pay for pauper criminals." Further, the board ruled that the Aron family would reimburse any outstanding fees for 'medical' services, to the swindler's estate.
- bio by Tree Leaf.
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Fowler, Ill., April 21. -- Deceased was born in this county, and had spent his short life here. He was an exemplary young man, and had many friends among the young people, to whom the intelligence [news] of his sudden death is sad news.
The funeral services will be conducted at his home at three o'clock today, after which the body will be taken to Quincy for interment.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Thursday, April 21, 1892; page 6.
___________
Search the bounds of Adams county as one might, no young man could be found who held a higher place in the esteem and affection of the community, nor whose untimely killing could excite a greater shock or more sincere and universal sorrow.
He represented the best product of our vicinage. Active, whole-souled, manly, the stalwart-bodied and brainy son of one of our best families. None knew him, save to respect and be impressed with his fine character, his native ability, and his geniality.
Seldom is a son more idolized by his parents. He, in return, had a heart overflowing with sympathy and devotion to his mother, stricken by such a terrible disease. He was always looking to her comfort, and searching for some means of allaying her sufferings, and checking the inroads of the dreadful parasite, which was eating into her very life.
It was because everything else had failed, and because he could not give up hope that his beloved mother's life might be spared, that he welcomed the imposter Jamison's sanguine promises, and determined to try his treatment as a last resort.
And when, for a time, there was apparent improvement in her condition, how joyfully and buoyantly and gleefully he told the news to all his friends! Her improved symptoms meant life, and the time seemed near at hand when a perfect cure would come, and the shadow of the grave, under which they had been living so long, be lit up by the sunlight of hope.
Charlie Aron, as he was familiarly known by hundreds, was born February 23, 1859, and was therefore just 33 years old, when he met with his untimely end. He managed the large farming and stock interests at home with a clear head.
He had all the promise of a successful businessman. He was intelligent, quick, prompt to discern an opportunity, but upright and honorable in the smallest detail. He served with credit on the board of supervisors, where his father had with equal credit served before him.
Charles was elected in 1890, and served one term. He was very strong and inflexible in his convictions, and when he felt that he was right, could not be swerved by entreaties or threats. It was that characteristic that influenced him to oppose the county's reward of $1,000 toward the apprehension of a Mr. Porter, the murderer of E. C. Smith.
There was the strongest effort to induce him to yield his convictions, on the part of Dr. Dana, J. W. Bashforth, of the citizens' committee, and some of his warmest Quincy friends, but he could not be brought to agree with them.
The remarkable fact that he himself met his death similarly, at the hands of a fiend, is a coincidence that cannot but seem most strange under all the circumstances.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, August 18, 1893; page 2.
NB: The man, William John Jamison, who was convicted of the murder of Charles N. Aron, was hanged 18 August 1893.
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The remains of the late Charles N. Aaron, whose terrible death was a shock, not only to those who knew him, but to the entire community and county of which he was an exemplary citizen, were brought to Quincy on the 8:15 passenger train this morning, and taken to the home of J. J. Lusk, 1013 Hampshire street.
The remains were accompanied by the grief stricken relatives, and a large number of friends from Camp Point, Cliola, and other places in the vicinity. By the time the train arrived in this city, every coach was full of sorrowing people, who got on at every station, and came to witness the last sad rites over the remains.
Mr. John Aaron, father of deceased; and Mr. and Mrs. Lusk, a brother [William Aaron], and Mrs. Summons [Simmonds], the housekeeper at the family residence, accompanied the remains.
The condition of the mother is much worse, owing to the shock, and she was unable to attend the funeral.
By nine o'clock this morning, the residence of Mr. Lusk, the front lawn and the sidewalk on Hampshire street, for the distance of nearly a block each way, were crowded with people.
The board of supervisors attended the funeral in a body [as one group, in entirety.] Many beautiful floral designs covered the casket. Reverend S. H. Dana conducted the impressive ceremony. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the friends held short services at the family home.
The pall bearers were: George McAdams, Ed Mathes, B. F. Porter, Frank McDavitt, Duke Schroer, and S. Swanwick.
A large cortege followed the remains to their last resting place in Woodland cemetery.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, April 22, 1892; page 5.
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Fowler, April 25. -- Quite a number of Ellington [township] people attended the funeral of Charles Aaron in Quincy, last Friday.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Tuesday, April 26, 1892; page 6.
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Joseph J. Lusk, administrator, yesterday filed in the county court an inventory of the estate of Charles N. Aaron, the young farmer shot by Dr. Jamison.
Mr. Aaron died possessed of eighteen and a fraction acres in Ellington township, and an undivided one-third interest in the Robert E. Lee mine, in Colorado; also, twenty-eight horses, cows, and mules and buggies, wagons, harness, farm implements, produce, etc., and $236 in cash.
The appraisement bill was presented by Messrs. Stafford and E. K. Sweet. It shows the personal estate of deceased to be worth $1990.50.
Administrator Lusk petitioned for an order to sell the personal estate at public or private sale, to create a fund out of which to pay the debts against the estate.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, May 20, 1892; page 4.
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Yesterday, the coffin containing the remains of Charles Aron was removed from one part of Woodland cemetery to another -- to the lot recently purchased by his father, and in which Mrs. John Aron, the mother of Charles, is buried.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, October 13, 1893; page 5.
On the Aron farm in Ellington township, near the "Q" railway depot in Cliola Illinois, several miles north of Quincy, in Adams county, Illinois, occurred a fraud which ended in murder.
The Aron family had taken into its trust, a con man who purported to be a specialist doctor who could cure Mrs. Aron of her illness. This adventuring stranger, who was no doctor at all, also saw other patients across the county, at a steep fee.
The agreement had been that the large sum proposed by W. J. Jamison, who pronounced himself an "Indian herbalist" of great ability, would be paid only if and when Mrs. Aron was cured. However, some weeks passed, with no change in her condition.
When it was clear the charlatan could affect no cure, and the Aron family refused to pay his huge bill, the swindler became enraged and began to intimidate and verbally abuse John Aron.
The housekeeper Mrs. Simmonds rushed to the barn and alerted the son, Charles N. Aron, who ran into the household. He cautioned Jamison "stop abusing father." John Aron proposed they all eat breakfast and discuss it afterward.
Jamison would not be dissuaded or appeased. Jamison, per witnesses, shot Charles N. Aron in the neck. He then put a gun to the paterfamilias, John Aron's head and demanded $ 300. John Aron wrote a check for that amount, under duress. W. J. Jamison fled, and a doctor was summoned for Charles N. Aron, to no avail; his wound was fatal.
The gunman was pursued on horseback, and captured by a group of neighbors. They brought him to authorities.
The heartbroken mother died soon after her son; John Aron died in 1897. The murderer of Charles Aron was convicted, and was hanged 18 August 1893. This was the third hanging by judicial process that had occurred in Adams county, Illinois. It would later prove to be the last.
The county board of supervisors later ruled that father of the murder victim, John Aron, was not due reimbursement for attorney's fees, because "the county does not pay for pauper criminals." Further, the board ruled that the Aron family would reimburse any outstanding fees for 'medical' services, to the swindler's estate.
- bio by Tree Leaf.
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Fowler, Ill., April 21. -- Deceased was born in this county, and had spent his short life here. He was an exemplary young man, and had many friends among the young people, to whom the intelligence [news] of his sudden death is sad news.
The funeral services will be conducted at his home at three o'clock today, after which the body will be taken to Quincy for interment.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Thursday, April 21, 1892; page 6.
___________
Search the bounds of Adams county as one might, no young man could be found who held a higher place in the esteem and affection of the community, nor whose untimely killing could excite a greater shock or more sincere and universal sorrow.
He represented the best product of our vicinage. Active, whole-souled, manly, the stalwart-bodied and brainy son of one of our best families. None knew him, save to respect and be impressed with his fine character, his native ability, and his geniality.
Seldom is a son more idolized by his parents. He, in return, had a heart overflowing with sympathy and devotion to his mother, stricken by such a terrible disease. He was always looking to her comfort, and searching for some means of allaying her sufferings, and checking the inroads of the dreadful parasite, which was eating into her very life.
It was because everything else had failed, and because he could not give up hope that his beloved mother's life might be spared, that he welcomed the imposter Jamison's sanguine promises, and determined to try his treatment as a last resort.
And when, for a time, there was apparent improvement in her condition, how joyfully and buoyantly and gleefully he told the news to all his friends! Her improved symptoms meant life, and the time seemed near at hand when a perfect cure would come, and the shadow of the grave, under which they had been living so long, be lit up by the sunlight of hope.
Charlie Aron, as he was familiarly known by hundreds, was born February 23, 1859, and was therefore just 33 years old, when he met with his untimely end. He managed the large farming and stock interests at home with a clear head.
He had all the promise of a successful businessman. He was intelligent, quick, prompt to discern an opportunity, but upright and honorable in the smallest detail. He served with credit on the board of supervisors, where his father had with equal credit served before him.
Charles was elected in 1890, and served one term. He was very strong and inflexible in his convictions, and when he felt that he was right, could not be swerved by entreaties or threats. It was that characteristic that influenced him to oppose the county's reward of $1,000 toward the apprehension of a Mr. Porter, the murderer of E. C. Smith.
There was the strongest effort to induce him to yield his convictions, on the part of Dr. Dana, J. W. Bashforth, of the citizens' committee, and some of his warmest Quincy friends, but he could not be brought to agree with them.
The remarkable fact that he himself met his death similarly, at the hands of a fiend, is a coincidence that cannot but seem most strange under all the circumstances.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, August 18, 1893; page 2.
NB: The man, William John Jamison, who was convicted of the murder of Charles N. Aron, was hanged 18 August 1893.
_________
The remains of the late Charles N. Aaron, whose terrible death was a shock, not only to those who knew him, but to the entire community and county of which he was an exemplary citizen, were brought to Quincy on the 8:15 passenger train this morning, and taken to the home of J. J. Lusk, 1013 Hampshire street.
The remains were accompanied by the grief stricken relatives, and a large number of friends from Camp Point, Cliola, and other places in the vicinity. By the time the train arrived in this city, every coach was full of sorrowing people, who got on at every station, and came to witness the last sad rites over the remains.
Mr. John Aaron, father of deceased; and Mr. and Mrs. Lusk, a brother [William Aaron], and Mrs. Summons [Simmonds], the housekeeper at the family residence, accompanied the remains.
The condition of the mother is much worse, owing to the shock, and she was unable to attend the funeral.
By nine o'clock this morning, the residence of Mr. Lusk, the front lawn and the sidewalk on Hampshire street, for the distance of nearly a block each way, were crowded with people.
The board of supervisors attended the funeral in a body [as one group, in entirety.] Many beautiful floral designs covered the casket. Reverend S. H. Dana conducted the impressive ceremony. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the friends held short services at the family home.
The pall bearers were: George McAdams, Ed Mathes, B. F. Porter, Frank McDavitt, Duke Schroer, and S. Swanwick.
A large cortege followed the remains to their last resting place in Woodland cemetery.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, April 22, 1892; page 5.
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Fowler, April 25. -- Quite a number of Ellington [township] people attended the funeral of Charles Aaron in Quincy, last Friday.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Tuesday, April 26, 1892; page 6.
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Joseph J. Lusk, administrator, yesterday filed in the county court an inventory of the estate of Charles N. Aaron, the young farmer shot by Dr. Jamison.
Mr. Aaron died possessed of eighteen and a fraction acres in Ellington township, and an undivided one-third interest in the Robert E. Lee mine, in Colorado; also, twenty-eight horses, cows, and mules and buggies, wagons, harness, farm implements, produce, etc., and $236 in cash.
The appraisement bill was presented by Messrs. Stafford and E. K. Sweet. It shows the personal estate of deceased to be worth $1990.50.
Administrator Lusk petitioned for an order to sell the personal estate at public or private sale, to create a fund out of which to pay the debts against the estate.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, May 20, 1892; page 4.
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Yesterday, the coffin containing the remains of Charles Aron was removed from one part of Woodland cemetery to another -- to the lot recently purchased by his father, and in which Mrs. John Aron, the mother of Charles, is buried.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, October 13, 1893; page 5.
The Aron family had taken into its trust, a con man who purported to be a specialist doctor who could cure Mrs. Aron of her illness. This adventuring stranger, who was no doctor at all, also saw other patients across the county, at a steep fee.
The agreement had been that the large sum proposed by W. J. Jamison, who pronounced himself an "Indian herbalist" of great ability, would be paid only if and when Mrs. Aron was cured. However, some weeks passed, with no change in her condition.
When it was clear the charlatan could affect no cure, and the Aron family refused to pay his huge bill, the swindler became enraged and began to intimidate and verbally abuse John Aron.
The housekeeper Mrs. Simmonds rushed to the barn and alerted the son, Charles N. Aron, who ran into the household. He cautioned Jamison "stop abusing father." John Aron proposed they all eat breakfast and discuss it afterward.
Jamison would not be dissuaded or appeased. Jamison, per witnesses, shot Charles N. Aron in the neck. He then put a gun to the paterfamilias, John Aron's head and demanded $ 300. John Aron wrote a check for that amount, under duress. W. J. Jamison fled, and a doctor was summoned for Charles N. Aron, to no avail; his wound was fatal.
The gunman was pursued on horseback, and captured by a group of neighbors. They brought him to authorities.
The heartbroken mother died soon after her son; John Aron died in 1897. The murderer of Charles Aron was convicted, and was hanged 18 August 1893. This was the third hanging by judicial process that had occurred in Adams county, Illinois. It would later prove to be the last.
The county board of supervisors later ruled that father of the murder victim, John Aron, was not due reimbursement for attorney's fees, because "the county does not pay for pauper criminals." Further, the board ruled that the Aron family would reimburse any outstanding fees for 'medical' services, to the swindler's estate.
- bio by Tree Leaf.
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Fowler, Ill., April 21. -- Deceased was born in this county, and had spent his short life here. He was an exemplary young man, and had many friends among the young people, to whom the intelligence [news] of his sudden death is sad news.
The funeral services will be conducted at his home at three o'clock today, after which the body will be taken to Quincy for interment.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Thursday, April 21, 1892; page 6.
___________
Search the bounds of Adams county as one might, no young man could be found who held a higher place in the esteem and affection of the community, nor whose untimely killing could excite a greater shock or more sincere and universal sorrow.
He represented the best product of our vicinage. Active, whole-souled, manly, the stalwart-bodied and brainy son of one of our best families. None knew him, save to respect and be impressed with his fine character, his native ability, and his geniality.
Seldom is a son more idolized by his parents. He, in return, had a heart overflowing with sympathy and devotion to his mother, stricken by such a terrible disease. He was always looking to her comfort, and searching for some means of allaying her sufferings, and checking the inroads of the dreadful parasite, which was eating into her very life.
It was because everything else had failed, and because he could not give up hope that his beloved mother's life might be spared, that he welcomed the imposter Jamison's sanguine promises, and determined to try his treatment as a last resort.
And when, for a time, there was apparent improvement in her condition, how joyfully and buoyantly and gleefully he told the news to all his friends! Her improved symptoms meant life, and the time seemed near at hand when a perfect cure would come, and the shadow of the grave, under which they had been living so long, be lit up by the sunlight of hope.
Charlie Aron, as he was familiarly known by hundreds, was born February 23, 1859, and was therefore just 33 years old, when he met with his untimely end. He managed the large farming and stock interests at home with a clear head.
He had all the promise of a successful businessman. He was intelligent, quick, prompt to discern an opportunity, but upright and honorable in the smallest detail. He served with credit on the board of supervisors, where his father had with equal credit served before him.
Charles was elected in 1890, and served one term. He was very strong and inflexible in his convictions, and when he felt that he was right, could not be swerved by entreaties or threats. It was that characteristic that influenced him to oppose the county's reward of $1,000 toward the apprehension of a Mr. Porter, the murderer of E. C. Smith.
There was the strongest effort to induce him to yield his convictions, on the part of Dr. Dana, J. W. Bashforth, of the citizens' committee, and some of his warmest Quincy friends, but he could not be brought to agree with them.
The remarkable fact that he himself met his death similarly, at the hands of a fiend, is a coincidence that cannot but seem most strange under all the circumstances.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, August 18, 1893; page 2.
NB: The man, William John Jamison, who was convicted of the murder of Charles N. Aron, was hanged 18 August 1893.
_________
The remains of the late Charles N. Aaron, whose terrible death was a shock, not only to those who knew him, but to the entire community and county of which he was an exemplary citizen, were brought to Quincy on the 8:15 passenger train this morning, and taken to the home of J. J. Lusk, 1013 Hampshire street.
The remains were accompanied by the grief stricken relatives, and a large number of friends from Camp Point, Cliola, and other places in the vicinity. By the time the train arrived in this city, every coach was full of sorrowing people, who got on at every station, and came to witness the last sad rites over the remains.
Mr. John Aaron, father of deceased; and Mr. and Mrs. Lusk, a brother [William Aaron], and Mrs. Summons [Simmonds], the housekeeper at the family residence, accompanied the remains.
The condition of the mother is much worse, owing to the shock, and she was unable to attend the funeral.
By nine o'clock this morning, the residence of Mr. Lusk, the front lawn and the sidewalk on Hampshire street, for the distance of nearly a block each way, were crowded with people.
The board of supervisors attended the funeral in a body [as one group, in entirety.] Many beautiful floral designs covered the casket. Reverend S. H. Dana conducted the impressive ceremony. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the friends held short services at the family home.
The pall bearers were: George McAdams, Ed Mathes, B. F. Porter, Frank McDavitt, Duke Schroer, and S. Swanwick.
A large cortege followed the remains to their last resting place in Woodland cemetery.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, April 22, 1892; page 5.
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Fowler, April 25. -- Quite a number of Ellington [township] people attended the funeral of Charles Aaron in Quincy, last Friday.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Tuesday, April 26, 1892; page 6.
_________
Joseph J. Lusk, administrator, yesterday filed in the county court an inventory of the estate of Charles N. Aaron, the young farmer shot by Dr. Jamison.
Mr. Aaron died possessed of eighteen and a fraction acres in Ellington township, and an undivided one-third interest in the Robert E. Lee mine, in Colorado; also, twenty-eight horses, cows, and mules and buggies, wagons, harness, farm implements, produce, etc., and $236 in cash.
The appraisement bill was presented by Messrs. Stafford and E. K. Sweet. It shows the personal estate of deceased to be worth $1990.50.
Administrator Lusk petitioned for an order to sell the personal estate at public or private sale, to create a fund out of which to pay the debts against the estate.
- The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, May 20, 1892; page 4.
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Yesterday, the coffin containing the remains of Charles Aron was removed from one part of Woodland cemetery to another -- to the lot recently purchased by his father, and in which Mrs. John Aron, the mother of Charles, is buried.
- The Quincy Daily Herald, Friday, October 13, 1893; page 5.
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