DEATH OF PETER ALGER
Stricken With Paralysis
On last Saturday morning at about two o'clock Coroner Peter Alger was stricken with paralysis and has remained in a partially unconscious condition since. The entire right side of the body was affected. Occasionally the invalid would revive sufficient to recognize friends, and answer questions in monosyllables. Telegrams to his children brought those accessible to his bedside, where every attention is shown that affection can bestow. His recovery is beyond all hope, and the loved ones are tearfully watching a well spent life peacefully ebb away. The community deeply sympathize with them all in this trying affliction.
LATER – OBITUARY
Peter Alger departed this life at 1:30 Thursday morning. During the last hours he suffered much pain, though apparently not realizing it.
Mr. Alger was born near Colborne, Ontario, Dec., 1820. His parents were respectable farmers and he chose farming as an occupation which he has followed most of his life. He married and settled on a farm near his parents when a young man, and by habits of industry, economy and sterling integrity, had accumulated a competency.
In 1860 he went to Minnesota, purchased a farm but did not move his family there, and after remaining a year, owing to the unsettled state of the country in consequence of the breaking out of the war, sold his farm and returned to his home in Canada. In 1864 he moved with his family to St. Clair county in this state, where he rented a farm and remained till the spring of 1898, when he removed to Isabella county and settled three miles south of this village, on the farm now owned and occupied by his son Byron.
He came to Clare in the fall of 1870 and built a hotel which bears his name and became its first proprietor.
He afterwards rented his hotel and removed to the residence which he had recently built on fifth street, where he remained until the spring of the present year, when he again assumed the management of the hotel, which he occupied at the time of his death. About four years ago he purchased a tract of wild land just south of this village and proceeded to improve it for a farm. In the meantime he had disposed of the farm he settled on and improved when he came to this locality, to his son, his energies seeming to be better employed when making improvements, than in enjoying them after being made. Naturally energetic, resolute and determined, and ever interested in the welfare and prosperity of our village, he has been one of the foremost in building it up, and his death leaves a vacancy in our midst that will not easily be filled. As a man, Mr. Alger was truly one of nature's noblemen. Plain, unassuming, and strictly honest, he had won a large circle of devoted friends, who now claim the sad privilege of sharing their grief with those bound to him by the ties of nature. He was possessed of a strong determination of purpose, firm in his settled convictions of right, yet ever ready to change his mind when convinced of error. A prominent trait of his character was his attachment to his friends. He was not quick to enter into the closest confidence with men, but when once he found them worthy of his confidence and esteem, he stood by them with his characteristic firmness. In his intercourse with men, though not given to many words, he was genial, pleasant and courteous, mingled with a frankness belonging only to true manhood.
In his family relations he was all that could be desired; as a husband, pleasant and affectionate; as a parent, kind and indulgent. He leaves a widow and eight children, most of whom are grown up.
In his death his numerous acquaintances have lost a valued friend and the community a highly esteemed citizen, while the strong bonds of affection which united himself and family only makes their grief the more inconsolable. We shall gather around his bier to pay the last sad rites to all that is mortal, and extend to the family the fullest sympathy and consolation in their sad bereavement.
The funeral services will be held today, Friday, at 2 o'clock, from the Congregational church.
(The Clare County Press, p.3 – Clare, Michigan – 2 August 1878)
Stricken With Paralysis
On last Saturday morning at about two o'clock Coroner Peter Alger was stricken with paralysis and has remained in a partially unconscious condition since. The entire right side of the body was affected. Occasionally the invalid would revive sufficient to recognize friends, and answer questions in monosyllables. Telegrams to his children brought those accessible to his bedside, where every attention is shown that affection can bestow. His recovery is beyond all hope, and the loved ones are tearfully watching a well spent life peacefully ebb away. The community deeply sympathize with them all in this trying affliction.
LATER – OBITUARY
Peter Alger departed this life at 1:30 Thursday morning. During the last hours he suffered much pain, though apparently not realizing it.
Mr. Alger was born near Colborne, Ontario, Dec., 1820. His parents were respectable farmers and he chose farming as an occupation which he has followed most of his life. He married and settled on a farm near his parents when a young man, and by habits of industry, economy and sterling integrity, had accumulated a competency.
In 1860 he went to Minnesota, purchased a farm but did not move his family there, and after remaining a year, owing to the unsettled state of the country in consequence of the breaking out of the war, sold his farm and returned to his home in Canada. In 1864 he moved with his family to St. Clair county in this state, where he rented a farm and remained till the spring of 1898, when he removed to Isabella county and settled three miles south of this village, on the farm now owned and occupied by his son Byron.
He came to Clare in the fall of 1870 and built a hotel which bears his name and became its first proprietor.
He afterwards rented his hotel and removed to the residence which he had recently built on fifth street, where he remained until the spring of the present year, when he again assumed the management of the hotel, which he occupied at the time of his death. About four years ago he purchased a tract of wild land just south of this village and proceeded to improve it for a farm. In the meantime he had disposed of the farm he settled on and improved when he came to this locality, to his son, his energies seeming to be better employed when making improvements, than in enjoying them after being made. Naturally energetic, resolute and determined, and ever interested in the welfare and prosperity of our village, he has been one of the foremost in building it up, and his death leaves a vacancy in our midst that will not easily be filled. As a man, Mr. Alger was truly one of nature's noblemen. Plain, unassuming, and strictly honest, he had won a large circle of devoted friends, who now claim the sad privilege of sharing their grief with those bound to him by the ties of nature. He was possessed of a strong determination of purpose, firm in his settled convictions of right, yet ever ready to change his mind when convinced of error. A prominent trait of his character was his attachment to his friends. He was not quick to enter into the closest confidence with men, but when once he found them worthy of his confidence and esteem, he stood by them with his characteristic firmness. In his intercourse with men, though not given to many words, he was genial, pleasant and courteous, mingled with a frankness belonging only to true manhood.
In his family relations he was all that could be desired; as a husband, pleasant and affectionate; as a parent, kind and indulgent. He leaves a widow and eight children, most of whom are grown up.
In his death his numerous acquaintances have lost a valued friend and the community a highly esteemed citizen, while the strong bonds of affection which united himself and family only makes their grief the more inconsolable. We shall gather around his bier to pay the last sad rites to all that is mortal, and extend to the family the fullest sympathy and consolation in their sad bereavement.
The funeral services will be held today, Friday, at 2 o'clock, from the Congregational church.
(The Clare County Press, p.3 – Clare, Michigan – 2 August 1878)
DEATH OF PETER ALGER
Stricken With Paralysis
On last Saturday morning at about two o'clock Coroner Peter Alger was stricken with paralysis and has remained in a partially unconscious condition since. The entire right side of the body was affected. Occasionally the invalid would revive sufficient to recognize friends, and answer questions in monosyllables. Telegrams to his children brought those accessible to his bedside, where every attention is shown that affection can bestow. His recovery is beyond all hope, and the loved ones are tearfully watching a well spent life peacefully ebb away. The community deeply sympathize with them all in this trying affliction.
LATER – OBITUARY
Peter Alger departed this life at 1:30 Thursday morning. During the last hours he suffered much pain, though apparently not realizing it.
Mr. Alger was born near Colborne, Ontario, Dec., 1820. His parents were respectable farmers and he chose farming as an occupation which he has followed most of his life. He married and settled on a farm near his parents when a young man, and by habits of industry, economy and sterling integrity, had accumulated a competency.
In 1860 he went to Minnesota, purchased a farm but did not move his family there, and after remaining a year, owing to the unsettled state of the country in consequence of the breaking out of the war, sold his farm and returned to his home in Canada. In 1864 he moved with his family to St. Clair county in this state, where he rented a farm and remained till the spring of 1898, when he removed to Isabella county and settled three miles south of this village, on the farm now owned and occupied by his son Byron.
He came to Clare in the fall of 1870 and built a hotel which bears his name and became its first proprietor.
He afterwards rented his hotel and removed to the residence which he had recently built on fifth street, where he remained until the spring of the present year, when he again assumed the management of the hotel, which he occupied at the time of his death. About four years ago he purchased a tract of wild land just south of this village and proceeded to improve it for a farm. In the meantime he had disposed of the farm he settled on and improved when he came to this locality, to his son, his energies seeming to be better employed when making improvements, than in enjoying them after being made. Naturally energetic, resolute and determined, and ever interested in the welfare and prosperity of our village, he has been one of the foremost in building it up, and his death leaves a vacancy in our midst that will not easily be filled. As a man, Mr. Alger was truly one of nature's noblemen. Plain, unassuming, and strictly honest, he had won a large circle of devoted friends, who now claim the sad privilege of sharing their grief with those bound to him by the ties of nature. He was possessed of a strong determination of purpose, firm in his settled convictions of right, yet ever ready to change his mind when convinced of error. A prominent trait of his character was his attachment to his friends. He was not quick to enter into the closest confidence with men, but when once he found them worthy of his confidence and esteem, he stood by them with his characteristic firmness. In his intercourse with men, though not given to many words, he was genial, pleasant and courteous, mingled with a frankness belonging only to true manhood.
In his family relations he was all that could be desired; as a husband, pleasant and affectionate; as a parent, kind and indulgent. He leaves a widow and eight children, most of whom are grown up.
In his death his numerous acquaintances have lost a valued friend and the community a highly esteemed citizen, while the strong bonds of affection which united himself and family only makes their grief the more inconsolable. We shall gather around his bier to pay the last sad rites to all that is mortal, and extend to the family the fullest sympathy and consolation in their sad bereavement.
The funeral services will be held today, Friday, at 2 o'clock, from the Congregational church.
(The Clare County Press, p.3 – Clare, Michigan – 2 August 1878)
Stricken With Paralysis
On last Saturday morning at about two o'clock Coroner Peter Alger was stricken with paralysis and has remained in a partially unconscious condition since. The entire right side of the body was affected. Occasionally the invalid would revive sufficient to recognize friends, and answer questions in monosyllables. Telegrams to his children brought those accessible to his bedside, where every attention is shown that affection can bestow. His recovery is beyond all hope, and the loved ones are tearfully watching a well spent life peacefully ebb away. The community deeply sympathize with them all in this trying affliction.
LATER – OBITUARY
Peter Alger departed this life at 1:30 Thursday morning. During the last hours he suffered much pain, though apparently not realizing it.
Mr. Alger was born near Colborne, Ontario, Dec., 1820. His parents were respectable farmers and he chose farming as an occupation which he has followed most of his life. He married and settled on a farm near his parents when a young man, and by habits of industry, economy and sterling integrity, had accumulated a competency.
In 1860 he went to Minnesota, purchased a farm but did not move his family there, and after remaining a year, owing to the unsettled state of the country in consequence of the breaking out of the war, sold his farm and returned to his home in Canada. In 1864 he moved with his family to St. Clair county in this state, where he rented a farm and remained till the spring of 1898, when he removed to Isabella county and settled three miles south of this village, on the farm now owned and occupied by his son Byron.
He came to Clare in the fall of 1870 and built a hotel which bears his name and became its first proprietor.
He afterwards rented his hotel and removed to the residence which he had recently built on fifth street, where he remained until the spring of the present year, when he again assumed the management of the hotel, which he occupied at the time of his death. About four years ago he purchased a tract of wild land just south of this village and proceeded to improve it for a farm. In the meantime he had disposed of the farm he settled on and improved when he came to this locality, to his son, his energies seeming to be better employed when making improvements, than in enjoying them after being made. Naturally energetic, resolute and determined, and ever interested in the welfare and prosperity of our village, he has been one of the foremost in building it up, and his death leaves a vacancy in our midst that will not easily be filled. As a man, Mr. Alger was truly one of nature's noblemen. Plain, unassuming, and strictly honest, he had won a large circle of devoted friends, who now claim the sad privilege of sharing their grief with those bound to him by the ties of nature. He was possessed of a strong determination of purpose, firm in his settled convictions of right, yet ever ready to change his mind when convinced of error. A prominent trait of his character was his attachment to his friends. He was not quick to enter into the closest confidence with men, but when once he found them worthy of his confidence and esteem, he stood by them with his characteristic firmness. In his intercourse with men, though not given to many words, he was genial, pleasant and courteous, mingled with a frankness belonging only to true manhood.
In his family relations he was all that could be desired; as a husband, pleasant and affectionate; as a parent, kind and indulgent. He leaves a widow and eight children, most of whom are grown up.
In his death his numerous acquaintances have lost a valued friend and the community a highly esteemed citizen, while the strong bonds of affection which united himself and family only makes their grief the more inconsolable. We shall gather around his bier to pay the last sad rites to all that is mortal, and extend to the family the fullest sympathy and consolation in their sad bereavement.
The funeral services will be held today, Friday, at 2 o'clock, from the Congregational church.
(The Clare County Press, p.3 – Clare, Michigan – 2 August 1878)
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