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Dr. E. M. Woolley Passes Away at the Age of Eighty Years
Dr. Woolley’s desire has been gratified. On Tuesday night he was bidden to step over the river. For many months his life has been ebbing away and he has frequently expressed a desire to go. He had nothing to fear. He had so lived that he saw in death nothing to shrink from, but it was rather to be desired than the aches and pains of extreme old ago. Dr. Woolley was born March 20, 1817, at Lansing, N. Y., and came to Michigan in 1837 and to northern Illinois in 1838. In 1842 be entered the now Franklin Medical college, or St. Charles, Illinois, the first Institution of the kind in the then new West, and finished in 1844 at Rush Medical college, Chicago, which was organized a year after Franklin as its successor. He practiced in Boone county till 18__, when he went into the drug business in Belvidere and transferred his business to Traer in 1875. He married Miss Lucinda Hammon in 1845. Of the five children born to them one died in infancy and Nora (Mrs. D. E. Baker) died nine years ago. The other three, Mrs. D. E. Bryson, Mrs. I. L. Lacey and U. M. Woolley, are well and honorably known to most of our readers, as is also the surviving companion of more than fifty years.
Some years ago, the doctor wrote for an old settlers' meeting an outline account of his life. The manuscript was found among his papers. The plain, unvarnished story gives an impressive picture of hard pioneer struggling and rigid economy on the part of his parents in the long ago. His father, after his return from the war of 1812, moved to a new part of New York State, where he died the year following the birth of his son. The widow and family had a severe struggle for maintenance, affording a very limited opportunity for schooling and necessitating the absence or the boy from home at hard work much of the time from early boyhood. Then followed severe pioneering in the then now and maiarious regions of Michigan and Illinois, working at his trade as tinner. The struggles or his early manhood were intensified by the great financial collapse of 1837, whose effect was specially and so long felt in the West. And then he was almost a pioneer in Traer. In the early days or the town, he opened a drug store and was a loading merchant until health railed. The story or his struggles and or their success affords a fine lesson to boys now.
With all the hardships or his youth, he was favored in various ways. Among other things he was a friend and playmate of William H. Seward of Auburn, N. Y.
The patriotism shown by his father as a soldier of the war of 1812 was always manifested by the doctor, and the struggling of his boyhood helped to develop the friendship which eminently marked his relation to the struggling, “the honest poor" or David Livingstone. Dr, Woolley stood very high in the estimation of our people, as a broad-minded man of strong intellectuality and as a businessman. He was a success financially, but manhood stands above riches. The funeral took place at the Congregational church at2 p. m., yesterday. Rev Smith conducted the service assisted by Roy Henderson, a warm friend. A quartet choir sang “Rock of Ages,” He Is Gone” and “Nearer My God to Thee.” A profusion of flowers covered both casket and rostrum. Nearly all business places were closed during the service. Burial was in Buckingham. The pall hearers were T. F. Clark, U. F. Thomas, D. C. Ladd, Dr. Daniel, O. J. Rico und Dr. Parsons.
Traer Star Clipper Friday August 27th, 1897 page 5
Contributor: George (48419540)
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Dr. E. M. Woolley Passes Away at the Age of Eighty Years
Dr. Woolley’s desire has been gratified. On Tuesday night he was bidden to step over the river. For many months his life has been ebbing away and he has frequently expressed a desire to go. He had nothing to fear. He had so lived that he saw in death nothing to shrink from, but it was rather to be desired than the aches and pains of extreme old ago. Dr. Woolley was born March 20, 1817, at Lansing, N. Y., and came to Michigan in 1837 and to northern Illinois in 1838. In 1842 be entered the now Franklin Medical college, or St. Charles, Illinois, the first Institution of the kind in the then new West, and finished in 1844 at Rush Medical college, Chicago, which was organized a year after Franklin as its successor. He practiced in Boone county till 18__, when he went into the drug business in Belvidere and transferred his business to Traer in 1875. He married Miss Lucinda Hammon in 1845. Of the five children born to them one died in infancy and Nora (Mrs. D. E. Baker) died nine years ago. The other three, Mrs. D. E. Bryson, Mrs. I. L. Lacey and U. M. Woolley, are well and honorably known to most of our readers, as is also the surviving companion of more than fifty years.
Some years ago, the doctor wrote for an old settlers' meeting an outline account of his life. The manuscript was found among his papers. The plain, unvarnished story gives an impressive picture of hard pioneer struggling and rigid economy on the part of his parents in the long ago. His father, after his return from the war of 1812, moved to a new part of New York State, where he died the year following the birth of his son. The widow and family had a severe struggle for maintenance, affording a very limited opportunity for schooling and necessitating the absence or the boy from home at hard work much of the time from early boyhood. Then followed severe pioneering in the then now and maiarious regions of Michigan and Illinois, working at his trade as tinner. The struggles or his early manhood were intensified by the great financial collapse of 1837, whose effect was specially and so long felt in the West. And then he was almost a pioneer in Traer. In the early days or the town, he opened a drug store and was a loading merchant until health railed. The story or his struggles and or their success affords a fine lesson to boys now.
With all the hardships or his youth, he was favored in various ways. Among other things he was a friend and playmate of William H. Seward of Auburn, N. Y.
The patriotism shown by his father as a soldier of the war of 1812 was always manifested by the doctor, and the struggling of his boyhood helped to develop the friendship which eminently marked his relation to the struggling, “the honest poor" or David Livingstone. Dr, Woolley stood very high in the estimation of our people, as a broad-minded man of strong intellectuality and as a businessman. He was a success financially, but manhood stands above riches. The funeral took place at the Congregational church at2 p. m., yesterday. Rev Smith conducted the service assisted by Roy Henderson, a warm friend. A quartet choir sang “Rock of Ages,” He Is Gone” and “Nearer My God to Thee.” A profusion of flowers covered both casket and rostrum. Nearly all business places were closed during the service. Burial was in Buckingham. The pall hearers were T. F. Clark, U. F. Thomas, D. C. Ladd, Dr. Daniel, O. J. Rico und Dr. Parsons.
Traer Star Clipper Friday August 27th, 1897 page 5
Contributor: George (48419540)
Erastus' parental links were provided courtesy of Find A Grave member Larry Head. Thank you
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Dr. E. M. Woolley Passes Away at the Age of Eighty Years
Dr. Woolley’s desire has been gratified. On Tuesday night he was bidden to step over the river. For many months his life has been ebbing away and he has frequently expressed a desire to go. He had nothing to fear. He had so lived that he saw in death nothing to shrink from, but it was rather to be desired than the aches and pains of extreme old ago. Dr. Woolley was born March 20, 1817, at Lansing, N. Y., and came to Michigan in 1837 and to northern Illinois in 1838. In 1842 be entered the now Franklin Medical college, or St. Charles, Illinois, the first Institution of the kind in the then new West, and finished in 1844 at Rush Medical college, Chicago, which was organized a year after Franklin as its successor. He practiced in Boone county till 18__, when he went into the drug business in Belvidere and transferred his business to Traer in 1875. He married Miss Lucinda Hammon in 1845. Of the five children born to them one died in infancy and Nora (Mrs. D. E. Baker) died nine years ago. The other three, Mrs. D. E. Bryson, Mrs. I. L. Lacey and U. M. Woolley, are well and honorably known to most of our readers, as is also the surviving companion of more than fifty years.
Some years ago, the doctor wrote for an old settlers' meeting an outline account of his life. The manuscript was found among his papers. The plain, unvarnished story gives an impressive picture of hard pioneer struggling and rigid economy on the part of his parents in the long ago. His father, after his return from the war of 1812, moved to a new part of New York State, where he died the year following the birth of his son. The widow and family had a severe struggle for maintenance, affording a very limited opportunity for schooling and necessitating the absence or the boy from home at hard work much of the time from early boyhood. Then followed severe pioneering in the then now and maiarious regions of Michigan and Illinois, working at his trade as tinner. The struggles or his early manhood were intensified by the great financial collapse of 1837, whose effect was specially and so long felt in the West. And then he was almost a pioneer in Traer. In the early days or the town, he opened a drug store and was a loading merchant until health railed. The story or his struggles and or their success affords a fine lesson to boys now.
With all the hardships or his youth, he was favored in various ways. Among other things he was a friend and playmate of William H. Seward of Auburn, N. Y.
The patriotism shown by his father as a soldier of the war of 1812 was always manifested by the doctor, and the struggling of his boyhood helped to develop the friendship which eminently marked his relation to the struggling, “the honest poor" or David Livingstone. Dr, Woolley stood very high in the estimation of our people, as a broad-minded man of strong intellectuality and as a businessman. He was a success financially, but manhood stands above riches. The funeral took place at the Congregational church at2 p. m., yesterday. Rev Smith conducted the service assisted by Roy Henderson, a warm friend. A quartet choir sang “Rock of Ages,” He Is Gone” and “Nearer My God to Thee.” A profusion of flowers covered both casket and rostrum. Nearly all business places were closed during the service. Burial was in Buckingham. The pall hearers were T. F. Clark, U. F. Thomas, D. C. Ladd, Dr. Daniel, O. J. Rico und Dr. Parsons.
Traer Star Clipper Friday August 27th, 1897 page 5
Contributor: George (48419540)
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Dr. E. M. Woolley Passes Away at the Age of Eighty Years
Dr. Woolley’s desire has been gratified. On Tuesday night he was bidden to step over the river. For many months his life has been ebbing away and he has frequently expressed a desire to go. He had nothing to fear. He had so lived that he saw in death nothing to shrink from, but it was rather to be desired than the aches and pains of extreme old ago. Dr. Woolley was born March 20, 1817, at Lansing, N. Y., and came to Michigan in 1837 and to northern Illinois in 1838. In 1842 be entered the now Franklin Medical college, or St. Charles, Illinois, the first Institution of the kind in the then new West, and finished in 1844 at Rush Medical college, Chicago, which was organized a year after Franklin as its successor. He practiced in Boone county till 18__, when he went into the drug business in Belvidere and transferred his business to Traer in 1875. He married Miss Lucinda Hammon in 1845. Of the five children born to them one died in infancy and Nora (Mrs. D. E. Baker) died nine years ago. The other three, Mrs. D. E. Bryson, Mrs. I. L. Lacey and U. M. Woolley, are well and honorably known to most of our readers, as is also the surviving companion of more than fifty years.
Some years ago, the doctor wrote for an old settlers' meeting an outline account of his life. The manuscript was found among his papers. The plain, unvarnished story gives an impressive picture of hard pioneer struggling and rigid economy on the part of his parents in the long ago. His father, after his return from the war of 1812, moved to a new part of New York State, where he died the year following the birth of his son. The widow and family had a severe struggle for maintenance, affording a very limited opportunity for schooling and necessitating the absence or the boy from home at hard work much of the time from early boyhood. Then followed severe pioneering in the then now and maiarious regions of Michigan and Illinois, working at his trade as tinner. The struggles or his early manhood were intensified by the great financial collapse of 1837, whose effect was specially and so long felt in the West. And then he was almost a pioneer in Traer. In the early days or the town, he opened a drug store and was a loading merchant until health railed. The story or his struggles and or their success affords a fine lesson to boys now.
With all the hardships or his youth, he was favored in various ways. Among other things he was a friend and playmate of William H. Seward of Auburn, N. Y.
The patriotism shown by his father as a soldier of the war of 1812 was always manifested by the doctor, and the struggling of his boyhood helped to develop the friendship which eminently marked his relation to the struggling, “the honest poor" or David Livingstone. Dr, Woolley stood very high in the estimation of our people, as a broad-minded man of strong intellectuality and as a businessman. He was a success financially, but manhood stands above riches. The funeral took place at the Congregational church at2 p. m., yesterday. Rev Smith conducted the service assisted by Roy Henderson, a warm friend. A quartet choir sang “Rock of Ages,” He Is Gone” and “Nearer My God to Thee.” A profusion of flowers covered both casket and rostrum. Nearly all business places were closed during the service. Burial was in Buckingham. The pall hearers were T. F. Clark, U. F. Thomas, D. C. Ladd, Dr. Daniel, O. J. Rico und Dr. Parsons.
Traer Star Clipper Friday August 27th, 1897 page 5
Contributor: George (48419540)
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