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newspaper Seward County Independent, Seward, Nebraska, Nov. 6, 1919
Dr. Robert Sigmund Hirsch
Obituary
Seward County Independent, Seward, Nebraska, Nov. 6, 1919
  
    Dr. R.S. Hirsch was born in 1849 in Ladenburg, Germany. He came to  
America in his seventeenth year,
landing in New York City, in 1865. After attending school for a time in New 
York, he located in 
Detroit, Michigan, in the year 1867. In 1870 he located at Lincoln, Neb., and 
from there came to Seward 
in 1875. Here he married Louisa Jane Hitchock and they located on a homestead 
near the present site 
of Gresham in the year 1876.
To this union were born eight children: Charles Robert, Ida May, Herman 
Julius, Nellie Leopoldina, 
Albert Henry, Joseph Otto Leopold, Harry Arthur Jones(should be James), and 
Adolph Alonzo. Two of
these, Ida May, who died in infancy, and Harry Arthur James, who died at the 
age of 9 years, have 
preceeded him to the better land.
    In 1887 he left the homestead, moving to Ulysses, Nebr., where in 
connection with his profession he 
conducted a pharmacy. He remained in Ulysses until 1884 when he and his family 
returned to the homestead 
where they spent another three years. From the homestead he moved to Gresham 
in the year 1887, and 
there lived for 25 years. From Gresham he came to Seward where he lived until 
his death which occured 
October 29, 1919.
    He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, six children, and eighteen 
grandchildren. The wife, Mrs. R.S.
Hirsch, of Seward; the sons, Charles R. of North Loup; Herman J. of Talmage; 
Albert H. of Denver, 
Colo.; Joseph O. of Stossburg (possibly Stromsburg); and Adolph A. of 
Coalings, Calif.; and the 
daughter, Mrs. Dr. S.C. Harris, or (should be 'of') Gresham. 
    Dr. Hirsch was a faithful attendant and an ardent worker in lodge work. He 
was always found at his 
post of duty whenever it was possible. He joined the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows in the early 
eighties. He was also in his fifieth year as a Mason. During these fifty years 
he became a 32nd degree 
Mason and a member of the Mystic Schrine.
    Dr. Hirsch was held in high esteem by the many people who knew him for so 
many years in this part of 
Nebraska. As physician pharmacist, lodge member, and citizen he won friends 
who will long remember him. 
    Short funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday at noon by the 
Rev. L.J. Lewis, pastor of the 
Presbyterian church, and also in the Methodist church at Gresham at 2:30 p.m. 
He was laid to rest in the 
cemetery at Gresham by his brothers of the Masonic lodge. The Lodge of Gresham 
conducted the service and 
a number of the Seward Masons also participated.-------There was also a 
picture in the papaer but I cant place it here. You can email me for it.

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