Gogebic County MI Archives Obituaries.....Maxwell, George R September 1894
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THE BESSEMER HERALD - SEPT 29, 1894
THE BESSEMER HERALD - SEPT 29, 1894

George Maxwell Dead

The news dispatches from Cheyenne, Wyoming last Sunday, stated that one George 
R. Maxwell had died the night before at a hotel in that city through an 
overdose of morphine.  The man was registered at the Inter-Ocean Hotel as 
George R. Maxwell, of Mexico, and from papers found in his satchel it seemed 
he was a civil engineer.  There was an envelope post-marked Washington, and 
addressed to George R. Maxwell, No. 143 East Eighteenth street, New York.  On 
the bottom of the valise was a fresh custom-house label from the custom-house 
at Suspension bridge, N.Y.  No papers, letters, or other means of 
identification were found among his belongings.  He wore a Knights Templar 
button and on his finger was a Masonic ring.  A dispatch from Mr. Maxwell's 
father who lives in Ishpeming confirmed the belief that the dead man was "our 
George" and many expressions of regret were heard from those who knew him 
during his residence in Bessemer.  From the wording of the dispatches from the 
west it was at first believed that Mr. Maxwell had committed suicide, but it 
transpires that he was in the habit at times of using morphine to ? relief 
from cramps to which he was subject.  The fact that the means of 
identifications were so limited lends some show of closing suicide.  Mr. 
Maxwell was a resident of Bessemer for several years and was during a portion 
of that time one of the publishers of the Gogebic Iron Spirit.  "The remains 
have been sent from the west to Ishpeming for burial.

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