Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dann, Albert James March 9, 1919
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Friday, March 14, 1919
Albert James Dann, son of James and Lucy Wilson-Dann, was born in Hopkins, 
Allegan county, February 14, 1862, and died at his home in Lake Odessa March 
9, 1919, at the age of 57 years and 23 days.  On account of living some 
distance from school, his school life began at about the age of eight or nine 
years in a district school, his earlier book instruction being at his mother’s 
knee, where he also received the Christian influence of a Wesleyan Methodist 
home.  At the age of 18 years he entered the Otsego high school and from there 
to the Wayland high school from which he graduated as valedictorian of his 
class.  He later attended the Ferris Institute and the Ypsilanti State Normal 
college, graduating from both these institutions with exceptionally good 
credits.  While attending the Ferris Institute he was made editor of the 
Literary Voice, the official publication of that institution.  This gave him 
the taste for editorial work which finally decided his later life energies.

The deceased was married June 26, 1889 to L. Alberta Smith of Wayland, 
Michigan and to this union were born two children, Stanley Wilson and Frances 
Ruth, now Mrs. Wm. Tietz, Jr., of Grand Haven.  These with one little 
granddaughter, Donna Louise Tietz, four sisters, Mrs. Emma Simpson of Spokane, 
Washington; Mrs. Ruth Tolhurst of Kalamazoo; Mrs. Fannie Hicks of Hastings and 
Mrs. Edna McBride of Hopkins, and a large circle of other relatives and 
friends are left to mourn their loss.

The deceased was baptized and united with the Christian church at Wayland in 
September 1889 and from this church his membership was transferred to the 
Methodist-Episcopal church at Grandville in 1893, being later transferred to 
Big Rapids, Paris and Lake Odessa, the latter being his home church as an 
official member at the time of his death. 

He was a member of the I.O.O. F. for over 30 years and of the F. & A. M. and 
K. of  P.  Since his residence in Lake Odessa, though a member of these 
organizations, he was not much inclined to society, his business and his home 
containing his temporal interests.  However, in every public enterprise his 
name was among the list of supporters to the extent of his means and business 
influence.

His rural school teaching was in Allegan, Barry and Ottawa counties.  His high 
school work began at Burnips, Allegan county, where he remained four years, 
then after one year as superintendent at Douglas he went to Grandville where 
he remained three years as superintendent.  Here he left teaching to finish 
work at Ypsilanti coming from there to Lake Odessa in 1901.  He served as 
superintendent of the Lake Odessa schools two years and was a member of the 
county board of school examiners two years.  

On the first day of March 1905 he entered the newspaper business in this 
village publishing his first issue of The Times on the ninth.  Later he took 
over the Wave and in the latter part of 1901 consolidated the two papers into 
the Wave-Times, “a publication,” stated the Ionia Weekly Sentinel, ‘to which 
he gave his best efforts and a vast amount of conscientious work, by which he 
gave this town a publication of merit and influence.  In the newspaper 
fraternity he was respected and liked for the sterling honesty and integrity 
to which he always held.  At heart he held the best traditions of his 
profession invaluable.”


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