Obituary: Royal Bryant HART, 21 July 1937, Barron Co., WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Nance Sampson 17 February 1999 ==================================================================== HART, Royal Bryant The death of R. B. Hart, 71, former editor of the Cumberland Advocate, one time mayor of that city and third municipal judge of Barron county, occurred last Wednesday (21 July 1937) in Hawaii where Mr. and Mrs. Hart went last October to make their home. Mr. Hart was stricken with heart attack July 7 and had been failing since that time. Royal Bryant Hart was born June 8, 1866 in Oakland, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, the son of Orlando P. and Elizabeth (Eustis) Hart. He attended public schools there and continued his education at Fort Atkinson. He taught for a time in the rural schools of Nebraska, then entered the University of Wisconsin and was graduated with a degree in letters in 1890. Soon after his graduation, Mr. Hart served as principal of schools at Juda and Cadott and in 1894 entered the law department at the Wisconsin university, receiving his degree in 1894. For eight years he served as proofreader in the chambers of the supreme court at Madison. In 1902, Mr. Hart opened an office in Shell Lake. He went to Cumberland in 1905, continued his law practice there for ten years and in 1915 became editor of the Cumberland Advocate, a weekly paper. He was married June 26, 1894 to Nellie F. Warrel of Durand. Mr. Hart served as chairman of the Barron county board; president of the Barron County Council of Defense during the Wold war; was third municipal judge of Barron county from 1917 to 1922, mayor of the city of Cumberland from 1916 to 1920 and city attorney from 1911 to 1914. He retired from active newspaper work in September of 1936 having been editor of the Cumberland Advocate continuously for 21 years. His wife had been associated with him in the newspaper. They went to Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii to reside with a daughter, Mrs. E. F. Shackleton, last October. Survivors besides Mrs. Shackleton and his wife are one son, Dr. W. E. Hart of Monticello, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. Ina Perry of Jefferson county. --Taken from the Washburn County Register, Shell Lake, Washburn Co., WI, 29 July 1937.