Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rork, James 1922
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, June 16, 1922

James Rork, pioneer manufacturer and business man, and a resident of Lansing 
almost continuously since 1850, died Sunday morning at St. Lawrence hospital, 
Lansing, after a losing fight for eight weeks against the effects of 
pneumonia, aggravated by his advanced age.  Mr. Rork was operated upon a few 
days ago with a hope that he might be benefited.  The operation was performed 
on the lungs.

The funeral was held Tuesday morning at 10:30 from the First Baptist church, 
of which Mr. Rork was deacon and trustee, teacher, and active worker.  Four 
sons, Charles E., Douglas, Ariz.; Frank C., Miami, Ariz.; Elmer J. 
Indianapolis, Ind., and James E. Rork, Kalamazoo, are left, and also three 
brothers and two sisters.  These are: Thomas Rork, of Rork & Price, and M. J. 
Rork, of Lansing, and Edward Rork, of Palo, and Mrs. Ellen Little, Rosebush, 
and Mrs. Rosenie Walker, Los Angeles, Cal.

Mr. Rork was born January 27, 1850 in the township of Leroy, Ingham county.  
He spent some of his boyhood in Perry, Shiawassee county.  In 1873 he went to 
Palo and started in business for himself.  On October 21, two years later, Mr. 
Rork married Miss Julia E. Griffith at Palo.

Mr. and Mrs. Rork continued to live in Palo until 1880, when he returned to 
Ingham county and formed a partnership in Lansing with his bother, M. J. 
Rork.  The two brothers opened a farm implement business and also started 
manufacturing.



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