Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Peter, Richard 1874
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Ionia Sentinel, 20 Mar 1874

Richard Peter died at his residence in this city on Wednesday evening, March 
11, at 7 o’clock p.m.  He came to this city in July, 1872, and opened a drug 
store in the Sherman House Block.  Having a frail constitution and poor health, 
it soon became evident to him that he could not endure the close confinement 
necessary to success in this branch of business, and forming a partnership with 
Mr. Chauncey Barnes, he left the management of the store to him, while he 
traveled for the Bradstreet & Son Commercial Agency of Detroit.  His health 
temporarily improving with out door exercise incident to traveling, and being 
advised that he must not confine himself in the store, he took advantage of an 
opportunity offered him to go to Colorado or California in the employ of the 
agency, where it was thought the climate would better agree with him.  He 
therefore disposed of his interest in the store to Kelsey Bros., of Corunna, 
and went to Omaha, taking charge of a branch office of the Agency in that city, 
his family in the meantime remaining here.  For a short time after his arrival 
in Omaha his health improved, and the fond hopes of his family and friends for 
his complete restoration seemed about to be realized.  But, alas, these hopes 
were soon crushed, for soon the intelligence came this his cough had commenced 
with renewed violence, and that he was nearly prostrated.  Becoming satisfied 
that the fierce winds of that country were detrimental to his health, he 
resigned his position and returned to his family in this city, much worse than 
when he left, where he has been confined to the house most of the time until 
his death, in a slow but sure decline.

It was my pleasure to be an inmate of his family a short time, since his 
residence here, and I wish it were in my power to pay him the tribute his merit 
deserved.  For when a pure and exemplary man dies, one whose private life is 
above reproach and an example to all; it is a great loss to community, and a 
few lines of remembrance are but simple justice.  As a father he was kind, 
loving and generous, setting the purest example before his children, and 
inculcating in their minds those principles that would not only lead them in to 
a higher order of being, but make them useful members of society.  As the head 
of a family he was ever the courteous, christian gentleman, kind, genial and 
hospitable  As a friend he was all that could be desired, forming strong 
attachments, and all of his actions being squared by the golden rule.  You 
always felt that his friendship was pure and unselfish.  As a man he possessed 
a strong, clear mind, an indomitable will and an unconquerable perseverance, 
which, with a strong physical organism, would have placed him among the 
foremost business men of the State, as he was in intelligence.


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