Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times Newspaper (Deadwood, SD), Wednesday, February 13, 1901, page 5:
Fred Rogers, second engineer at the electric light plant in this city, died at St. Joseph’s hospital yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock of pleurisy. His father, Daniel Rogers, is expected to arrive tonight from Florence, Colorado, and will take the remains back for burial.
In the prime of manhood, with but 28 years to his credit, strong and full of manly vigor, seemingly possessed of a constitution that barring disaster would insure him at least man’s allotted span of three score years and ten, his friends are startled at his untimely death. He had been ill only a little more than a week. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago last Saturday, and the fore part of this week an operation was performed to relieve him of his distress. It was the intention of the surgeons to operate further upon him yesterday, but his noting his condition, they saw that it would be fruitless.
Yesterday his employer, Paul Rewman, informed him that he probably could not live. In this the young man acquiesced cheerfully. Mr. Rewman asked him what he wished done, and he asked for Mrs. Ida Sherman-Womeldorf. Mrs. Womeldorf came down from Lead and remained at his bedside all day, until death released him from his agony, doing what she could to comfort him. He was a member of Deadwood Camp of Modern Woodmen of America, in which he held an insurance policy of one thousand dollars, payable to his mother.
In his daily life Fred Rogers was an exemplary young man. He was possessed of an even temper that was never disturbed, and he always had a cheerful greeting for his friends. He had lived and worked in Deadwood nearly ten years, had acquired no bad habits, made many strong friendships, was saving his money and was always considerate of the future.
He had invested some money in Colorado mining stocks, and fortune had favored him, so that he had gained a competence in his own right. He nevertheless retained his position in the electric light plant here, only taking a vacation at long intervals, and that for the purpose of visiting his parents.
He entered the employ of Mr. Rewman, at the electric light plant, seven years ago, as a fireman. He mastered the workings of the plant and became next in charge of the big engines. Mr. Rewman was deeply attached to him, and said last night: “He was a man in ten thousand. I have never had a man in whom I could entrust the running of the plant with greater confidence. I always knew that it was safe as long as he was around, and I do not know of anyone else to whom I could turn over the works with such a feeling of security. He knew every detail about the place and his faithfulness could not be shaken.”
The Modern Woodmen will act as an escort for his remains as they are taken to the train for shipment
Contributor:
Don Toms - [email protected]/ Don Toms, Lead, South Dakota
Fred Rogers, second engineer at the electric light plant in this city, died at St. Joseph’s hospital yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock of pleurisy. His father, Daniel Rogers, is expected to arrive tonight from Florence, Colorado, and will take the remains back for burial.
In the prime of manhood, with but 28 years to his credit, strong and full of manly vigor, seemingly possessed of a constitution that barring disaster would insure him at least man’s allotted span of three score years and ten, his friends are startled at his untimely death. He had been ill only a little more than a week. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago last Saturday, and the fore part of this week an operation was performed to relieve him of his distress. It was the intention of the surgeons to operate further upon him yesterday, but his noting his condition, they saw that it would be fruitless.
Yesterday his employer, Paul Rewman, informed him that he probably could not live. In this the young man acquiesced cheerfully. Mr. Rewman asked him what he wished done, and he asked for Mrs. Ida Sherman-Womeldorf. Mrs. Womeldorf came down from Lead and remained at his bedside all day, until death released him from his agony, doing what she could to comfort him. He was a member of Deadwood Camp of Modern Woodmen of America, in which he held an insurance policy of one thousand dollars, payable to his mother.
In his daily life Fred Rogers was an exemplary young man. He was possessed of an even temper that was never disturbed, and he always had a cheerful greeting for his friends. He had lived and worked in Deadwood nearly ten years, had acquired no bad habits, made many strong friendships, was saving his money and was always considerate of the future.
He had invested some money in Colorado mining stocks, and fortune had favored him, so that he had gained a competence in his own right. He nevertheless retained his position in the electric light plant here, only taking a vacation at long intervals, and that for the purpose of visiting his parents.
He entered the employ of Mr. Rewman, at the electric light plant, seven years ago, as a fireman. He mastered the workings of the plant and became next in charge of the big engines. Mr. Rewman was deeply attached to him, and said last night: “He was a man in ten thousand. I have never had a man in whom I could entrust the running of the plant with greater confidence. I always knew that it was safe as long as he was around, and I do not know of anyone else to whom I could turn over the works with such a feeling of security. He knew every detail about the place and his faithfulness could not be shaken.”
The Modern Woodmen will act as an escort for his remains as they are taken to the train for shipment
Contributor:
Don Toms - [email protected]/ Don Toms, Lead, South Dakota
Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times Newspaper (Deadwood, SD), Wednesday, February 13, 1901, page 5:
Fred Rogers, second engineer at the electric light plant in this city, died at St. Joseph’s hospital yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock of pleurisy. His father, Daniel Rogers, is expected to arrive tonight from Florence, Colorado, and will take the remains back for burial.
In the prime of manhood, with but 28 years to his credit, strong and full of manly vigor, seemingly possessed of a constitution that barring disaster would insure him at least man’s allotted span of three score years and ten, his friends are startled at his untimely death. He had been ill only a little more than a week. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago last Saturday, and the fore part of this week an operation was performed to relieve him of his distress. It was the intention of the surgeons to operate further upon him yesterday, but his noting his condition, they saw that it would be fruitless.
Yesterday his employer, Paul Rewman, informed him that he probably could not live. In this the young man acquiesced cheerfully. Mr. Rewman asked him what he wished done, and he asked for Mrs. Ida Sherman-Womeldorf. Mrs. Womeldorf came down from Lead and remained at his bedside all day, until death released him from his agony, doing what she could to comfort him. He was a member of Deadwood Camp of Modern Woodmen of America, in which he held an insurance policy of one thousand dollars, payable to his mother.
In his daily life Fred Rogers was an exemplary young man. He was possessed of an even temper that was never disturbed, and he always had a cheerful greeting for his friends. He had lived and worked in Deadwood nearly ten years, had acquired no bad habits, made many strong friendships, was saving his money and was always considerate of the future.
He had invested some money in Colorado mining stocks, and fortune had favored him, so that he had gained a competence in his own right. He nevertheless retained his position in the electric light plant here, only taking a vacation at long intervals, and that for the purpose of visiting his parents.
He entered the employ of Mr. Rewman, at the electric light plant, seven years ago, as a fireman. He mastered the workings of the plant and became next in charge of the big engines. Mr. Rewman was deeply attached to him, and said last night: “He was a man in ten thousand. I have never had a man in whom I could entrust the running of the plant with greater confidence. I always knew that it was safe as long as he was around, and I do not know of anyone else to whom I could turn over the works with such a feeling of security. He knew every detail about the place and his faithfulness could not be shaken.”
The Modern Woodmen will act as an escort for his remains as they are taken to the train for shipment
Contributor:
Don Toms - [email protected]/ Don Toms, Lead, South Dakota
Fred Rogers, second engineer at the electric light plant in this city, died at St. Joseph’s hospital yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock of pleurisy. His father, Daniel Rogers, is expected to arrive tonight from Florence, Colorado, and will take the remains back for burial.
In the prime of manhood, with but 28 years to his credit, strong and full of manly vigor, seemingly possessed of a constitution that barring disaster would insure him at least man’s allotted span of three score years and ten, his friends are startled at his untimely death. He had been ill only a little more than a week. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago last Saturday, and the fore part of this week an operation was performed to relieve him of his distress. It was the intention of the surgeons to operate further upon him yesterday, but his noting his condition, they saw that it would be fruitless.
Yesterday his employer, Paul Rewman, informed him that he probably could not live. In this the young man acquiesced cheerfully. Mr. Rewman asked him what he wished done, and he asked for Mrs. Ida Sherman-Womeldorf. Mrs. Womeldorf came down from Lead and remained at his bedside all day, until death released him from his agony, doing what she could to comfort him. He was a member of Deadwood Camp of Modern Woodmen of America, in which he held an insurance policy of one thousand dollars, payable to his mother.
In his daily life Fred Rogers was an exemplary young man. He was possessed of an even temper that was never disturbed, and he always had a cheerful greeting for his friends. He had lived and worked in Deadwood nearly ten years, had acquired no bad habits, made many strong friendships, was saving his money and was always considerate of the future.
He had invested some money in Colorado mining stocks, and fortune had favored him, so that he had gained a competence in his own right. He nevertheless retained his position in the electric light plant here, only taking a vacation at long intervals, and that for the purpose of visiting his parents.
He entered the employ of Mr. Rewman, at the electric light plant, seven years ago, as a fireman. He mastered the workings of the plant and became next in charge of the big engines. Mr. Rewman was deeply attached to him, and said last night: “He was a man in ten thousand. I have never had a man in whom I could entrust the running of the plant with greater confidence. I always knew that it was safe as long as he was around, and I do not know of anyone else to whom I could turn over the works with such a feeling of security. He knew every detail about the place and his faithfulness could not be shaken.”
The Modern Woodmen will act as an escort for his remains as they are taken to the train for shipment
Contributor:
Don Toms - [email protected]/ Don Toms, Lead, South Dakota
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