Wayne County MI Archives Obituaries.....Torrey, George G 1917
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Unknown newspaper, March 1917
1917 obituary – unknown newspaper

GEORGE G. TORREY DIES IN HOSPITAL

Widely-Known Citizen, With Home at Royal Oak, Expires

Native of Warren, Was Keenly Interest in Union School Alumni

With the death Thursday of George G. Torrey, Detroit lost one of its oldest 
and most substantial citizens and Michigan Agricultural College one of its 
first alumni.  Mr. Torrey was nearly 80 years old, and died after a week’s 
illness at Grace Hospital Thursday morning.  He had lived for the past few 
years at Royal Oak.

Born in Warren, Mich. in May 1837, he came to Detroit and attended the Marcy-
Barstow school, one of the first union schools built in the country and the 
first to fly the Stars and Stripes.  Mr. Torrey was a pupil of Mr. Marcy in 
the “fifties” and organized the old classmates 14 years ago.  Each year the 
pupils of Mr. and Mrs. Marcy held a reunion and banquet  and as secretary, Mr. 
Torrey kept the organization together.

He always took the keenest interest in this organization although he 
repeatedly refused its presidency offered by his old classmates, among whom 
were Charles H. Little, Frank L. Talor, and T.L. Backus.  Mrs. Sarah Hobson, 
president secretary of the association voiced the sentiment of the classmates 
that they will be at a loss to proceed without him.
Mr. Torrey was one of the first graduates of Michigan Agricultural College and 
attended the alumni reunion in 1915.  He intended to attend this year’s 
reunion also.  After graduating, he taught school for some years near Pontiac, 
but returned to Detroit, where he worked for the C.H. Little company for 35 
years.

He is survived by a brother, O.D. Torrey, Goodman, Mo.; one daughter , Miss 
Mabel Torrey;  two sons, Fred and William G. Torrey of Seattle, Wash.; by a 
niece, Mrs. Leonard Porter of Pittsford, Mich., and by a grandson, Russell 
Torrey.  Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending word from 
William Torrey in Seattle.


Additional Comments:
There is a photo in the obituary.  My records indicate George died March 22, 
1917 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.  The obituary was found in a book 
belonging to his neice, Lena Stiff Porter, who was raised by her Uncle George 
and his daughter Mabel Torrey.

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