Marriages/Deaths; The Republican, January 1857 thru February 1857 Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives December 14, 2003 by Bill Porter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Local newspaper accounts Issues transcribed: January 1857 to February 1857 (Version - 12/14/2003) Transcriber's Notes: The following files were transcribed from a microfilm copy of The Republican newspaper obtained from the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Entries are listed in chronological order. News items were not reviewed in detail to ferret out every possible entry. When notice, local news items regarding births, deaths or marriages were also transcribed. Many deaths were reported by other regional or national papers and then reprinted in the news sections of The Republican. I did not systematically transcribe these remote press accounts for this document, as it was my intention to find reports on local residents. Therefore, if you are seeking a particular event in Dodge County during these years, you should consult the microfilm again, to truly satisfy your instincts or hunches. I have done my best, but for any changes or additions please contact me via my email link and I will update any missing elements. I hope this is useful to you, Bill Porter on 14 December 2003. Transcriber comments are shown between [ ] brackets. Volume 4, Number 42; 6 January 1857 Page 3, Columns 1 and 2, as follows: [News item] DEATH OF AN ONLY DAUGHTER Died in Milwaukee, at 9 o’clock P.M. on Wednesday the 24th of Dec. ult., after an illness of three days, Ada Kate, only daughter of John R. and Kate Sharpstein, aged 4 years, 4 months and 4 days. We cannot let this melancholy event so deeply afflicting to the parents pass, without extending to them our sympathy and deep sensibility of the loss they have met with in the death of their brilliant little daughter. [The Republican Junior Editor, S. C. Chandler, continues on philosophically for about another 10 column inches to explain the significance of death and loss...see paper if interested. No further pertinent details concerning this specific death are written.] Volume 4, Number 43; 20 January 1857 Page 2, Column 6, as follows: DIED At McHenry Co., Ill., Mr. Lewis Chamberlain, formerly of this place, aged 56 years, 3 months and 16 days. Mr. Chamberlain was coming to this state on a visit to see his friends, and had got as far as McHenry, when he was taken suddenly sick, and after an illness of one week, he died of Typhoid fever and inflamation of the lungs. Volume 4, Number 47; 3 February 1857 Page 2, Column 4 as follows: [News item] SUICIDE We are informed that Stephen Drown committed suicide last night by cutting his thrort [sic], at his residence, about two miles east of this city. Volume 4, Number 49; 10 February 1857 Page 2, Column 1 as follows: [News item] DEATH OF JOHN W. ROBINSON It becomes our painful duty to announce the John W. Robinson, Esq., of this city, died at the house of his brother-in-law, Mr. Charles M. Hoyt, in Milwaukee, at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning, 7th instant, of inflammation of the throat, in the thirty-first year of his age. His decease was sudden and unexpected and has cast a deep gloom over our entire community. He had been gone from home a few days, on business, and had returned as far as Milwaukee, where he was taken sick, though no apprehension of the fatal termination of his disease was entertained, until a few moments before the fatal moment arrived. He leaves a wife and four small children, to mourn the loss of a kind and indulgent husband and father. He was a son of John Robinson, Esq., Mayor of this City, and was, at the time of his death, a member of the Board of Aldermen, and also belonged to the Free Masons and Odd Fellows. He was a high-minded, public-spirited man, always putting his shoulder to the wheel and helping along every project having a tendency to advance the interests of our young and growing city, and his loss will create a void in our business and social circles, which cannot be easily supplied. We understand he had his life insured for $1,000, for the benefit of his family. His remains were brought to this place on the Monday Morning train from Milwaukee, and his funeral was attended on Monday afternoon, under the direction of the Masonic Order, by a very large concourse of people, including the firemen in full uniform, and a representative from our city authorities and every civic society in this place, all of whom deeply sympathize with the family of the deceased, in the terrible affliction they are called upon to bear. Volume 4, Number 50; 17 February 1857 Page 2, Column 5 as follows: [News item] DIED At Chicago, Illinois, on the 15th of January last, Mr. Elisha H. Huntington, aged 53 years. We had but a slight personal acquaintance with Mr. Huntington, but sufficient to impress us with the truth of what we find said of him by those who best knew him. We believed him to be an active, intelligent, honorable high-minded and thorough-going business man; honest, and upright in all his dealings with his fellow men, and we are happy to find we were not mistaken, by the eulogies passed upon him by his friends. He was President of the Mercantile Bank of this City, and Father of Wm. S. Huntington, cashier; a young man of fine abilities, good morals, and correct business habits. It will be seen by a notice in another column of this paper that the bank will continue its operations, as heretofore, and we understand that an increase of capital is to be made soon, so as to enlarge its capacity and safety for doing business. It is the design of this Bank to do a safe as well as profitable business. It was not started and founded upon a wild-cat experiment to cheat and defraud the public, and the stock-holders and officers are a sufficient guarantee for its safely and success. Since its establishment here it has done a good business, and by increasing its capital it will continue to do all that it has a capacity to do, and gain for itself a high and unshaken reputation. [NOTE: The Beaver Dam Republican and Sentinel ceased publication with the #52 issue of Volume 4 - February, 1857].