Obituary: Columbia County, Wisconsin: Phillip CONNELL

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Submitted by Joan Benner, <jmbenner@tznet.com> May 2005

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From Kilbourn Weekly Events [Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin],
Thursday Feb. 25, 1915, Page 5

One day last week a passing vessel broke the ice in the Chicago river, and
into the open water came the body of a man. At the morgue the only scrap of
identification found was the business card of a Kilbourn attorney. From
this the drowned man was proved to be Phillip Connell, who for some years
lived in Kilbourn, and before that had lived in Adams county. He went to
Chicago nearly two years ago and had made his home some of the time with
his sister, Mrs. William Kennedy. They had not seen him since Christmas,
and it was thought by the authorities at the Chicago morgue that the body
had been in the river since that time, just before the river was closed
with ice. F. P. McManman, who had been appointed by the court as Connell’s
guardian, went to Chicago Saturday and brought the remains here to be
interred in the Catholic cemetery. Mrs. Kennedy and her husband accompanied
the remains from Chicago. He was 58 years of age.