Branch County MI Archives Obituaries.....TWISS, Edward May 13, 1895
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Coldwater Republican - May 1895
May 13 - Dr. Edward TWISS died at the residence of his sister, Mrs. J.C. LEONARD, in
this place, Sunday 
at 1:00 p.m. in the 70th year of his age. Deceased had practiced medicine for over
45 years, most of 
the time in this vicinity. A short time before the war he went to Kansas as a
pioneer for freedom. During 
the war he served as assistant surgeon of the 16th Kansas Calvary, being promoted to
surgeon of the 
same regiment. He was a learned and skillful physician, although for several years
past, owing to his 
age, he had not been in active practice. The mental makeup that carried him to
Kansas and into battle 
for freedom and right, remained with him during his whole life. His sole aim was to
see and do the 
right. He never swerved an atom from his convictions of right for the sake of
influence or business. He 
died as he lived, an honest man. (Published in 14 May paper)

21 May 1895 - Dr. Edward Twiss who died at Union City on Sunday was well known to
the Department 
of Interior officials at Washington by reason of his efforts on behalf of the
Pottowatamie indians of 
Michigan. He had secured one or two large appropriations for them and another claim
of something like 
$15,000 is now pending. He looked after the welfare of the indians upon the
reservation near Athens 
with almost paternal solicitude and they repaid the care with almost dog-like
devotion. He was the 
arbiter in all of the controversies and his decision in any matter was looked upon
as infallible. Dr. TWISS 
was a unique man in many ways, but possessed the esteem of a wide circle of friends.
There is deep 
mourning among the Pottowatamies over his death. (Detroit Free Press)

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