OBIT: Edward Z. TOWER, 1932, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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EDWARD Z. TOWER

Death of Popular Public Servant
Edward Z. Tower, Clerk of Garrett County Court Since 1887 Dies on 69th Birthday

  Edward Z. Tower, aged 69, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrett County since 
1887, died in Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, at 6 o'clock last Thursday morning 
after having been a patient in the institution since April 29, when he was 
admitted as a surgical patient following a brief illness as the result of a 
perforated intestine.
  Following the operation, which was performed on the day of his admittance to 
the hospital, Mr. Tower had shown remarkable improvement but had a sinking spell 
at 5:30 last Thursday morning and died within half an hour.
  Mr. Tower was born in Oakland on May 12, 1863, and lived exactly 69 years.  
His education was such as the scout public schools of his boyhood afforded, 
supplemented by wide general reading and private study.  Having determined to 
enter the legal profession, he became a student in the office of John W. Vitch, 
then State's Attorney for Garrett County, and was admitted to the bar in 1884.
  He did not enter into active practice of law, however, but became assistant to 
his father, William H. Tower, who was Clerk of the Circuit Court at the time.  
When the senior Mr. Tower died in 1887, the son was appointed temporary clerk, 
and the following November he was elected by a good majority on the Republican 
ticket, and again, in 1893, and ever since that time he was as regularly chosen 
by the citizens of the county as the term of his incumbency expired.
  He is survived by his wife, two sons, Thurl, a student at the University of 
Maryland, and Roger, a member of the Maryland State Police force.  He is also 
survived by two sisters, Mrs. Edward I. West and Mrs. G. A. Fraley, and by one 
brother, Charles A. Tower, all of Oakland.
  As a public official Mr. Tower was thorough in his administration of the 
office which he so long occupied and was esteemed by every one in the county for 
his obliging manner and attention to detail.
  Funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the 
Presbyterian church with the pastor, Rev. Walter B. Brock, officiating.

Meyersdale Republican, May 19, 1932