Son of Dr. John L. and Sarah F. Wakefield.∼DEAD IN HIS ROOM
JAMES O. WAKEFIELD, AN INSURANCE AGENT, EXPIRES VERY SUDDENLY.
HEMORRHAGE OF THE BRAIN
WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEXPECTED DEMISE SATURDAY NIGHT.
DECEASED WAS THE NEPHEW
Of Ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, but Lived Here Thirty Years.
James O. Wakefield, an agent in the employ of the Home Life Insurance company local agency, was found dead in his bed at his boarding house, 520 Cedar street, yesterday morning. Coroner Nelson held an autopsy at the undertaking rooms of Bantz & Dougherty, 483 St. Peter street, yesterday afternoon and found that Wakefield died from the effects of a hemorrhage of the brain. No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral, but it is likely that the body will be taken in charge by the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Sarah F. Wakefield, who lives at 1637 St. Anthony avenue.
Wakefield was forty-two years of age, and has lived in St. Paul for nearly thirty years. As a young man he entered the employ of Farwell, Ozmun & Kirk, where he remained in various positions for twenty years. Several years ago, however, ill health compelled Wakefield to give up his position as traveling agent and remain in St. Paul, where he became connected with the Home Life Insurance company.
For the past seven or eight years the deceased had been a sufferer from epileptic convulsions, and at the time of his death was under the care of Dr. Hubbell. While in Dr. Hubbell's office Saturday afternoon he was seized with a fit, though it was not of unusual severity, and when he recovered no immediate dangerous results were apprehended. Saturday night Wakefield conversed pleasantly with friends at the boarding house and retired about 10 o'clock. Nothing was heard of him until yesterday morning, when a domestic failed to get any response to an effort to awaken him for breakfast about 9:30 o'clock, and then Mr. Grayson, a fellow boarder, crawled from his room to Wakefield's by way of a bay window, to find the occupant lying face downward across the bed, dead. The bedclothes were undisturbed, as though Wakefield was about to retire and had been stricken in the act of getting into bed. Coroner Nelson, on viewing the body, was of the opinion that Wakefield had died about midnight.
The deceased is a nephew of ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, and ls survived by a mother, two sisters, and a brother, John Wakefield, living in this city.
Source: The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 22 Mar 1897, Page 2
JAMES O. WAKEFIELD, AN INSURANCE AGENT, EXPIRES VERY SUDDENLY.
HEMORRHAGE OF THE BRAIN
WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEXPECTED DEMISE SATURDAY NIGHT.
DECEASED WAS THE NEPHEW
Of Ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, but Lived Here Thirty Years.
James O. Wakefield, an agent in the employ of the Home Life Insurance company local agency, was found dead in his bed at his boarding house, 520 Cedar street, yesterday morning. Coroner Nelson held an autopsy at the undertaking rooms of Bantz & Dougherty, 483 St. Peter street, yesterday afternoon and found that Wakefield died from the effects of a hemorrhage of the brain. No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral, but it is likely that the body will be taken in charge by the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Sarah F. Wakefield, who lives at 1637 St. Anthony avenue.
Wakefield was forty-two years of age, and has lived in St. Paul for nearly thirty years. As a young man he entered the employ of Farwell, Ozmun & Kirk, where he remained in various positions for twenty years. Several years ago, however, ill health compelled Wakefield to give up his position as traveling agent and remain in St. Paul, where he became connected with the Home Life Insurance company.
For the past seven or eight years the deceased had been a sufferer from epileptic convulsions, and at the time of his death was under the care of Dr. Hubbell. While in Dr. Hubbell's office Saturday afternoon he was seized with a fit, though it was not of unusual severity, and when he recovered no immediate dangerous results were apprehended. Saturday night Wakefield conversed pleasantly with friends at the boarding house and retired about 10 o'clock. Nothing was heard of him until yesterday morning, when a domestic failed to get any response to an effort to awaken him for breakfast about 9:30 o'clock, and then Mr. Grayson, a fellow boarder, crawled from his room to Wakefield's by way of a bay window, to find the occupant lying face downward across the bed, dead. The bedclothes were undisturbed, as though Wakefield was about to retire and had been stricken in the act of getting into bed. Coroner Nelson, on viewing the body, was of the opinion that Wakefield had died about midnight.
The deceased is a nephew of ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, and ls survived by a mother, two sisters, and a brother, John Wakefield, living in this city.
Source: The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 22 Mar 1897, Page 2
Son of Dr. John L. and Sarah F. Wakefield.∼DEAD IN HIS ROOM
JAMES O. WAKEFIELD, AN INSURANCE AGENT, EXPIRES VERY SUDDENLY.
HEMORRHAGE OF THE BRAIN
WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEXPECTED DEMISE SATURDAY NIGHT.
DECEASED WAS THE NEPHEW
Of Ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, but Lived Here Thirty Years.
James O. Wakefield, an agent in the employ of the Home Life Insurance company local agency, was found dead in his bed at his boarding house, 520 Cedar street, yesterday morning. Coroner Nelson held an autopsy at the undertaking rooms of Bantz & Dougherty, 483 St. Peter street, yesterday afternoon and found that Wakefield died from the effects of a hemorrhage of the brain. No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral, but it is likely that the body will be taken in charge by the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Sarah F. Wakefield, who lives at 1637 St. Anthony avenue.
Wakefield was forty-two years of age, and has lived in St. Paul for nearly thirty years. As a young man he entered the employ of Farwell, Ozmun & Kirk, where he remained in various positions for twenty years. Several years ago, however, ill health compelled Wakefield to give up his position as traveling agent and remain in St. Paul, where he became connected with the Home Life Insurance company.
For the past seven or eight years the deceased had been a sufferer from epileptic convulsions, and at the time of his death was under the care of Dr. Hubbell. While in Dr. Hubbell's office Saturday afternoon he was seized with a fit, though it was not of unusual severity, and when he recovered no immediate dangerous results were apprehended. Saturday night Wakefield conversed pleasantly with friends at the boarding house and retired about 10 o'clock. Nothing was heard of him until yesterday morning, when a domestic failed to get any response to an effort to awaken him for breakfast about 9:30 o'clock, and then Mr. Grayson, a fellow boarder, crawled from his room to Wakefield's by way of a bay window, to find the occupant lying face downward across the bed, dead. The bedclothes were undisturbed, as though Wakefield was about to retire and had been stricken in the act of getting into bed. Coroner Nelson, on viewing the body, was of the opinion that Wakefield had died about midnight.
The deceased is a nephew of ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, and ls survived by a mother, two sisters, and a brother, John Wakefield, living in this city.
Source: The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 22 Mar 1897, Page 2
JAMES O. WAKEFIELD, AN INSURANCE AGENT, EXPIRES VERY SUDDENLY.
HEMORRHAGE OF THE BRAIN
WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEXPECTED DEMISE SATURDAY NIGHT.
DECEASED WAS THE NEPHEW
Of Ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, but Lived Here Thirty Years.
James O. Wakefield, an agent in the employ of the Home Life Insurance company local agency, was found dead in his bed at his boarding house, 520 Cedar street, yesterday morning. Coroner Nelson held an autopsy at the undertaking rooms of Bantz & Dougherty, 483 St. Peter street, yesterday afternoon and found that Wakefield died from the effects of a hemorrhage of the brain. No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral, but it is likely that the body will be taken in charge by the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Sarah F. Wakefield, who lives at 1637 St. Anthony avenue.
Wakefield was forty-two years of age, and has lived in St. Paul for nearly thirty years. As a young man he entered the employ of Farwell, Ozmun & Kirk, where he remained in various positions for twenty years. Several years ago, however, ill health compelled Wakefield to give up his position as traveling agent and remain in St. Paul, where he became connected with the Home Life Insurance company.
For the past seven or eight years the deceased had been a sufferer from epileptic convulsions, and at the time of his death was under the care of Dr. Hubbell. While in Dr. Hubbell's office Saturday afternoon he was seized with a fit, though it was not of unusual severity, and when he recovered no immediate dangerous results were apprehended. Saturday night Wakefield conversed pleasantly with friends at the boarding house and retired about 10 o'clock. Nothing was heard of him until yesterday morning, when a domestic failed to get any response to an effort to awaken him for breakfast about 9:30 o'clock, and then Mr. Grayson, a fellow boarder, crawled from his room to Wakefield's by way of a bay window, to find the occupant lying face downward across the bed, dead. The bedclothes were undisturbed, as though Wakefield was about to retire and had been stricken in the act of getting into bed. Coroner Nelson, on viewing the body, was of the opinion that Wakefield had died about midnight.
The deceased is a nephew of ex-Lieut. Gov. J. B. Wakefield, of Blue Earth City, and ls survived by a mother, two sisters, and a brother, John Wakefield, living in this city.
Source: The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 22 Mar 1897, Page 2
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