Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Adelbert E. LAPHAM

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From the Adams County Press [Friendship, Adams Co., WI], Saturday April 24,
1915, Page 1

After a lingering illness of over a year from the results of a stroke of
paralysis, A. E. LAPHAM, ex-postmaster and druggist of Nekoosa, passed away
at his family residence at 8 o'clock Sunday morning, April 11, 1915. A good
citizen, an affectionate husband and father has gone to his reward. He was
a fine man whose virtures will live long after him.

Adelbert E. LAPHAM was born on May 10, 1853, at Lincoln, Adams County,
Wisconsin. He was reared and educated to manhood there and married to Miss
Susan A. WINEGAR February 27, 1878, where they both resided. After their
marriage they went to Nartlett, South Dakota, to live and operated a
drugstore. They lived there seven years and returned to Westfield, Wis.,
where they conducted a drug store for four years. They moved to Nekoosa in
1883, where they opened a drug store and have resided there ever since.

Mr. LAPHAM was appointed postmaster of Nekoosa in 1897, and conducted the
same efficiently until he retired April 1, 1914, when his failing health
and the present Democratic administration came into power. He sold out his
drug store some time before that.

Mr. LAPHAM was a member of the Masonic Lodge and was made a Mason in
Friendship, Wis., when 21 years of age. Since his residence in Nekoosa he
joined Grand Rapids Lodge No. 158 F. & A. M.

He leaves to mourn his death one son, Ela Lapham of Chicago, and one
daughter, Mrs. Nora TAYLOR of Dakota, one brother, Herbert Lapham of
Nekoosa and one sister, Mrs. CRANE of Mansiered, South Dakota.

The funeral will be held Wednesday from the house in Nekoosa at 2 o'clock
and the Masonic Lodge will be in charge of the same. --Grand Rapids
Reporter

The interment was in the Rock cemetery near Grand Marsh, and the services
were conducted by Quincy Lodge F. & A. M. of this village, of which about
twenty-five members were present.