Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Thomas, H. H.  March 17, 1904
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Peggy Luce pegsue59@cox.net February 18, 2007, 7:11 pm

The Walnut Valley Times, March 25, 1904
The Walnut Valley Times
March 25, 1904

Chicago, March 18 – General H. H. Thomas who was recently ousted as federal 
appraiser at the port of Chicago, died suddenly here yesterday. Heart disease 
is supposed to be the cause. When the Secretary of the Treasury demanded 
General Thomas’s resignation in January, the later refused to send it and 
threatened to appeal to the President. The letter he had written to Mr. 
Roosevelt, however, remained unanswered and the course of events resulted in 
general’s dismissal. Charges had been made against the method of managing the 
office.

The death of General Thomas was as dramatic as his removal. He had served in 
the Civil war, but never had made an application for a pension, while in 
receipt of other income.

Yesterday, after ineffectual efforts to secure other work, he had been in a 
lawyers office preparing a pension application when he fell dead. He was 70 
years old.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/butler/obits/t/thomas823ob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/

File size: 1.5 Kb