Oliver Wright Pitts (a Pennsylvania farmer) and family were the first settlers in 1856 and founded Pitts' Mill, later named Pittsville when the place assumed the appearance of a village. For two years Oliver Pitts ran a saw mill; his father, Luke Noble Pitts, soon afterwards bought the mill property and also considerable land in the vicinity. When he, with his wife Louisa and family arrived on the site of Pittsville in 1858, the only people then there were Oliver W. Pitts and wife, Wallace Potter, William Baker and Elijah Vroom. J. Q. Severn had resided there but had gone away and had not returned.
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Sudden Death.
A man named Pitts, employed at
Pond's mine, died suddenly this
morning of heart disease, as is supposed.
He had just come out of the mine, and
went back to get something which he had
forgotten, when he fell down and expired.
He has a brother living in Pittsville,
Wood county, on the Green Bay road, by
whom the intelligence of his death was
sent. He was about 58 years old.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Wednesday, March 12, 1879
Inquest.
Justice Devitt summoned a jury yester-
day to hold an inquest over the body of
the man Pitts, who died suddenly, the
previous day, at Pond's mine. The in-
quest was held at the house of John
Hatley, one of the firm by whom the de-
ceased was employed on the West side,
where the body was removed after the oc-
currence, and a verdict rendered by the
jury that the deceased came to his death
from some disease of the heart. A
response to a telegram sent to his brother
at Pittsville, Wood county, is being waited
for, before the remains will be interred.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Thursday, March 13, 1879
A brother of the man Pitts whose
sudden death from heart disease was re-
corded in the Free Press of Tuesday
arrived last evening, and took charge of
the remains, returning with them to his
former home at Pittsville, Wood county,
Wis., on the midnight train.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Friday, March 14, 1879
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Sudden Death.
A man named Pitts, employed at
Pond's mine, died suddenly this
morning of heart disease, as is supposed.
He had just come out of the mine, and
went back to get something which he had
forgotten, when he fell down and expired.
He has a brother living in Pittsville,
Wood county, on the Green Bay road, by
whom the intelligence of his death was
sent. He was about 58 years old.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Wednesday, March 12, 1879
Inquest.
Justice Devitt summoned a jury yester-
day to hold an inquest over the body of
the man Pitts, who died suddenly, the
previous day, at Pond's mine. The in-
quest was held at the house of John
Hatley, one of the firm by whom the de-
ceased was employed on the West side,
where the body was removed after the oc-
currence, and a verdict rendered by the
jury that the deceased came to his death
from some disease of the heart. A
response to a telegram sent to his brother
at Pittsville, Wood county, is being waited
for, before the remains will be interred.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Thursday, March 13, 1879
A brother of the man Pitts whose
sudden death from heart disease was re-
corded in the Free Press of Tuesday
arrived last evening, and took charge of
the remains, returning with them to his
former home at Pittsville, Wood county,
Wis., on the midnight train.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Friday, March 14, 1879
Oliver Wright Pitts (a Pennsylvania farmer) and family were the first settlers in 1856 and founded Pitts' Mill, later named Pittsville when the place assumed the appearance of a village. For two years Oliver Pitts ran a saw mill; his father, Luke Noble Pitts, soon afterwards bought the mill property and also considerable land in the vicinity. When he, with his wife Louisa and family arrived on the site of Pittsville in 1858, the only people then there were Oliver W. Pitts and wife, Wallace Potter, William Baker and Elijah Vroom. J. Q. Severn had resided there but had gone away and had not returned.
...........................................................
Sudden Death.
A man named Pitts, employed at
Pond's mine, died suddenly this
morning of heart disease, as is supposed.
He had just come out of the mine, and
went back to get something which he had
forgotten, when he fell down and expired.
He has a brother living in Pittsville,
Wood county, on the Green Bay road, by
whom the intelligence of his death was
sent. He was about 58 years old.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Wednesday, March 12, 1879
Inquest.
Justice Devitt summoned a jury yester-
day to hold an inquest over the body of
the man Pitts, who died suddenly, the
previous day, at Pond's mine. The in-
quest was held at the house of John
Hatley, one of the firm by whom the de-
ceased was employed on the West side,
where the body was removed after the oc-
currence, and a verdict rendered by the
jury that the deceased came to his death
from some disease of the heart. A
response to a telegram sent to his brother
at Pittsville, Wood county, is being waited
for, before the remains will be interred.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Thursday, March 13, 1879
A brother of the man Pitts whose
sudden death from heart disease was re-
corded in the Free Press of Tuesday
arrived last evening, and took charge of
the remains, returning with them to his
former home at Pittsville, Wood county,
Wis., on the midnight train.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Friday, March 14, 1879
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Sudden Death.
A man named Pitts, employed at
Pond's mine, died suddenly this
morning of heart disease, as is supposed.
He had just come out of the mine, and
went back to get something which he had
forgotten, when he fell down and expired.
He has a brother living in Pittsville,
Wood county, on the Green Bay road, by
whom the intelligence of his death was
sent. He was about 58 years old.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Wednesday, March 12, 1879
Inquest.
Justice Devitt summoned a jury yester-
day to hold an inquest over the body of
the man Pitts, who died suddenly, the
previous day, at Pond's mine. The in-
quest was held at the house of John
Hatley, one of the firm by whom the de-
ceased was employed on the West side,
where the body was removed after the oc-
currence, and a verdict rendered by the
jury that the deceased came to his death
from some disease of the heart. A
response to a telegram sent to his brother
at Pittsville, Wood county, is being waited
for, before the remains will be interred.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Thursday, March 13, 1879
A brother of the man Pitts whose
sudden death from heart disease was re-
corded in the Free Press of Tuesday
arrived last evening, and took charge of
the remains, returning with them to his
former home at Pittsville, Wood county,
Wis., on the midnight train.
— Eau Claire Daily Free Press; Friday, March 14, 1879
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