Obituary
In the town of Dodgeville, June 5, 1885, Peter Crook, aged 70 years. The deceased was born at Lancashire, England, A.D. 1815, and followed the profession of engineer from his youth. He came to America in the year 1840, and settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was chief engineer at the smelting works of Bushnell and Becks, of that city, up to the year 1855, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in the town of Dodgeville, about 11 miles north of Dodgeville village, where he remained until his death, and where his family now resides. Mr. Crook was a man possessing far more than the ordinary gift of intelligence and wise considerate judgement in the usual affairs of life. His life was one continual example of probity and moral rectitude and always exercising a broad spirit of tolerance in all political and religious affairs, he secured the most respectful deference to his opinions on all questions of policy which tendered to elevate and ennoble the human character. His death was the cause of universal sorrow among all who had lived to know his true worth as a citizen and neighbor, and he now sleeps in the calm diffusion of a perpetual obsequy hovering over his mound emanating from the sympathetic hearts of all who had learned to regard him as one who occupied a sphere in life to which many aspire but few attain.
In the town of Dodgeville, June 5, 1885, Peter Crook, aged 70 years. The deceased was born at Lancashire, England, A.D. 1815, and followed the profession of engineer from his youth. He came to America in the year 1840, and settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was chief engineer at the smelting works of Bushnell and Becks, of that city, up to the year 1855, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in the town of Dodgeville, about 11 miles north of Dodgeville village, where he remained until his death, and where his family now resides. Mr. Crook was a man possessing far more than the ordinary gift of intelligence and wise considerate judgement in the usual affairs of life. His life was one continual example of probity and moral rectitude and always exercising a broad spirit of tolerance in all political and religious affairs, he secured the most respectful deference to his opinions on all questions of policy which tendered to elevate and ennoble the human character. His death was the cause of universal sorrow among all who had lived to know his true worth as a citizen and neighbor, and he now sleeps in the calm diffusion of a perpetual obsequy hovering over his mound emanating from the sympathetic hearts of all who had learned to regard him as one who occupied a sphere in life to which many aspire but few attain.
Obituary
In the town of Dodgeville, June 5, 1885, Peter Crook, aged 70 years. The deceased was born at Lancashire, England, A.D. 1815, and followed the profession of engineer from his youth. He came to America in the year 1840, and settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was chief engineer at the smelting works of Bushnell and Becks, of that city, up to the year 1855, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in the town of Dodgeville, about 11 miles north of Dodgeville village, where he remained until his death, and where his family now resides. Mr. Crook was a man possessing far more than the ordinary gift of intelligence and wise considerate judgement in the usual affairs of life. His life was one continual example of probity and moral rectitude and always exercising a broad spirit of tolerance in all political and religious affairs, he secured the most respectful deference to his opinions on all questions of policy which tendered to elevate and ennoble the human character. His death was the cause of universal sorrow among all who had lived to know his true worth as a citizen and neighbor, and he now sleeps in the calm diffusion of a perpetual obsequy hovering over his mound emanating from the sympathetic hearts of all who had learned to regard him as one who occupied a sphere in life to which many aspire but few attain.
In the town of Dodgeville, June 5, 1885, Peter Crook, aged 70 years. The deceased was born at Lancashire, England, A.D. 1815, and followed the profession of engineer from his youth. He came to America in the year 1840, and settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was chief engineer at the smelting works of Bushnell and Becks, of that city, up to the year 1855, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in the town of Dodgeville, about 11 miles north of Dodgeville village, where he remained until his death, and where his family now resides. Mr. Crook was a man possessing far more than the ordinary gift of intelligence and wise considerate judgement in the usual affairs of life. His life was one continual example of probity and moral rectitude and always exercising a broad spirit of tolerance in all political and religious affairs, he secured the most respectful deference to his opinions on all questions of policy which tendered to elevate and ennoble the human character. His death was the cause of universal sorrow among all who had lived to know his true worth as a citizen and neighbor, and he now sleeps in the calm diffusion of a perpetual obsequy hovering over his mound emanating from the sympathetic hearts of all who had learned to regard him as one who occupied a sphere in life to which many aspire but few attain.
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