Pueblo - Denver County CO Archives Obituaries.....Urmy, David Fretz 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Melba Deuprey January 8, 2007, 8:01 pm Pueblo Chieftain 1898 David F. Urmy David F. Urmy died Wednesday night at Gowanda, N.Y., after an illness of nearly five years. Mr. Urmy was one of Pueblo's old and respected citizens, having been a member of the Pueblo county bar since 1874. He was at one time very prominent to Colorado republican politics, and was attorney general during Governor Grant's administration in 1883 and 1884. He was a native of Canada and came to this country when he was about seventeen years old and was nearly fifty years of age at the time of his death. He arrived in Pueblo in 1872 and for a time practiced dentistry, studying law meanwhile, and was admitted to the bar two years later and followed that profession until last spring when he was compelled to give it up on account of his poor health. He occupied may positions of trust, having been at one time vice president of the Pueblo National bank. He was a large owner of real estate but business reverses caused him to lose nearly all of it. His ailment was a general debility brought on by hard work but after a year spent in California he nearly recovered his health. Two successive attacks of the grippe broke his health down again, however, so that he never recovered. He went to Gowanda in March last and was better for a time but finally succumbed and died peacefully Wednesday evening. Mrs. Urmy was with him at the time of his death and in all probability the body will be buried there. Additional Comments: Colorado Attorney General 1883-1884 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/pueblo/obits/u/urmy_david_1898.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb