Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Nathaniel E. LIBBY ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Nathaniel E. Libby 1850-1925 After a lingering sickness, Nathaniel Libby, one of the pioneers of Evansville, departed this life, Thursday, January 22 at the home of his nephew, W. E. Campbell, of Madison. The deceased was born in New Hampshire, August 16, 1850, coming to Wisconsin with his parents, six years later, in the conveyance of that day, a covered wagon. Mr. Libby was educated in the schools of this city and became a school teacher, carpenter and telegrapher, he having the distinction of being the first telegraph operated and agent of the Northwestern Railroad at Leyden. His father dying in 1881, Mr. Libby was left the sole support of his mother and provided for her until her death in 1896. Shortly after this he was married to Lizzie May Keegan, she departing this life several years ago. Mr. Libby was a life long member of the Baptist church being for many years superintendent of the Free Will Baptist Sunday school before that organization merged into the present First Baptist Church of this city. Mr. Libby was a man whose life of rectitude and kindness and forbearance toward his fellow men had won for him the respect and love for all who knew him and in his passing there will be a personality which will be missed by all his old associates and others who knew him well. The funeral services were held at the Baptist church last Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Gales officiating. Interment was in Maple Hill Cemetery. January 29, 1925, Evansville Review, p. 5, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin