Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Curry, James "Squire" 1903
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Ionia Daily Standard, 13 Aug 1903

James Curry Dead.

The Veteran Justice of The Peace, and Familiar Main Street Figure, Passes From
Earth.

James Curry, for 30-odd years a resident of Ionia, and for 20 of these,
consecutively, a justice of the peace from the First ward of this city, closed
his eyes to the scenes of this world, at 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. 
Deceased was a native of Ireland, born on January 6, 1836, and came to New York
in 1852, where he lived until in the middle 60’s, when he came to Iona for the
second, and permanent time.  He was a carriage body maker by trade, and plied
that vocation – pretty much all of the time in a shop of his own, for some 12
years after establishing a residence here.

It was as a sagacious politician that ‘Squire Curry was best known and most
successful.  At the spring election in 1883 he was elected one of the justices
of the peace of this city, and qualified on the 4th day of July of that year,
and has qualified successively on every fourth 4th of July since – on July 4
last entering upon his sixth term of office.

Mr. Curry was of unobtrusive makeup and bearing, but a keen reader of human
nature.  He was of decided judicial temperament, which adapted him peculiarly to
such civil business as is incidental to the office he so long held, and much of
which was brought before him.

Deceased is survived by a wife and five children, all of whom are at present at
home: James, Jr., Miss Louise, Miss Rose, John and Benjamin.  A brother,
Patrick, is a prominent farmer in Danby township. 

The funeral, which will be a large one, will be attended from the Church of SS.
Peter & Paul, on Monday morning next, at 9 o’clock.


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