Ray County, Missouri Obituaries - Shields, Dan K., Capt. d. date

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Death of Capt. Dan K. Shields

The following brief dispatch appeared in the Republic last Saturday:
Greenville, Ill., Jan 20. - Capt. Dan K. Shields, a noted temperance lecturer of the 
states of the Mississippi Valley, died at his house in this city today aged 53 years. 
He was at the time of his death general organizer of the Northwestern branch of the 
Order of the Legion of Honor.

Capt. Shields, it will be remembered, was in Ray county during the local option campaign
in 1887 and accomplished a great work in so thoroughly organizing the temperance people
of the county that they achieved a victory at the polls. He was probably the best 
organizer the temperance workers of the state have ever had in the field, and while he
had his faults (and who has not?) he accomplished a wonderful amount of good and there
are reformed men all over the state who rejoice that he ever entered the work, and 
their sincere sympathies go out to his family in their four of greatest grief.


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