DEATH OF JUDGE TUBBS
News was received in Glenwood, Thursday of the death of Judge Tubbs at Emerson at 1:05 p.m. The Judge had been failing for some months and his death was not unexpected. The immediate cause of death was catarrh of the stomach with other complications. Besides his wife the Judge leaves the following children: Wm. L. Tubbs, Mary D. (Mrs. Edward Birdsall), Hattie M. (Mrs. M. L. Evans) Emerson, Iowa; Volney V. Tubbs, Tustin, California; Bertha (Mrs. O. R. Patrick) Glenwood, Iowa, Ray B. Tubbs, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
Two are dead, dying in infancy, Walter M. Tubbs and Lizzie J. Tubbs.
Judge Tubbs was one of the founders of the town of Emerson, famous as the home of so many enterprising citizens. He has been one of the strong characters of western Iowa. It was through his encouragements that the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad was build westward from Creston at so early a day. Judge Smith McPherson said recently that it was this aid that caused the road to reach the Missouri river ten years earlier than it otherwise might have done.
Judge L. W. Tubbs of Emerson, had the distinction of having been a member of the first legislature of California after its admission to the union of states. He was born in Binghamton, New York, January 4, 1826 and at 12 years of age removed with his parents to the Western Reserve in Ohio. Later he was placed in Orberlin College, but owing to losses sustained by his father in road building, was compelled to give up his college course, in which he was making rapid progress, particularly in the studies of surveying and engineering. He went from school to Sundusky City, where he learned the millers trade and at the age of 19 years removed to Michigan. Here he earned the first money he could really call his own, helping to survey a railroad from Detroit to Ypsilanti, now a part of the Michigan Central system. March 1, 1849, he started across the plains with an ox train, of which he was chosen captain. They were on the road almost six months before Long's Barr, on the Feather river, was reached. Here he tried mining, but made only enough out of it to board and clothe himself. By an extra session of Congress, California was admitted to statehood in September 1850, and he was elected to the legislature from that district.. His term ended, he returned to Long's Barr and engaged in the mercantile and mining business, in the first of which he was highly successful. His health failed, and the physician ordered a sea voyage, so he sailed for Honolulu, where he remained three months, and then went to Chili and remained for some time, finally returning to his home in California to find that his partner had sold out the business and skipped the country. He returned to Flowerfield, Michigan, after an absence of four years, and again took up his old trade of Milling. Here he was married October 1, 1853 to Miss Sibyl J. Wheeler, daughter Hon. William Wheeler and remained until 1854, when failing health again compelled a change of climate. Iowa was decided upon and though several trips were subsequently made to Michigan, this state had ever since been his home. He had been a resident of Mills county for over 40 years and all his children but one have been born here.
He was elected Probate Judge of Mills County in 1858 and held the office until the law was changed, he was the first republican elected to the position in the county. In May 1861, he received an order from Governor Kirkwood to raise a company of mounted minute men and with the order was the request that no man should be selected or permitted to join who for any reason would not be able to go to war. Within four days fifty to men were enlisted and in the election, which was insisted upon by Mr. Tubbs, that gentleman was unanimously chosen captain. He received his commission June 8 and the organization was kept up to the close of the war. A second communication from the governor in October 1861, ordered him to recruit a regiment of all the men in the county, exception being made to those enlisted in the mounted force, which was done. An election was called to choose a colonel and as before, Mr. Tubbs received all the votes. This last company was never called out, the minute force being simply to keep back the Missouri raiders. Strange to say these men have not yet been mustered out.
In politics he was and had always been a republican, as are all his boys. He had been a member of the Masonic order for about fifty years, and had filled nearly every office in the organization.
Glenwood Opinion Tribune Archives, March 7, 1901, page 5
News was received in Glenwood, Thursday of the death of Judge Tubbs at Emerson at 1:05 p.m. The Judge had been failing for some months and his death was not unexpected. The immediate cause of death was catarrh of the stomach with other complications. Besides his wife the Judge leaves the following children: Wm. L. Tubbs, Mary D. (Mrs. Edward Birdsall), Hattie M. (Mrs. M. L. Evans) Emerson, Iowa; Volney V. Tubbs, Tustin, California; Bertha (Mrs. O. R. Patrick) Glenwood, Iowa, Ray B. Tubbs, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
Two are dead, dying in infancy, Walter M. Tubbs and Lizzie J. Tubbs.
Judge Tubbs was one of the founders of the town of Emerson, famous as the home of so many enterprising citizens. He has been one of the strong characters of western Iowa. It was through his encouragements that the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad was build westward from Creston at so early a day. Judge Smith McPherson said recently that it was this aid that caused the road to reach the Missouri river ten years earlier than it otherwise might have done.
Judge L. W. Tubbs of Emerson, had the distinction of having been a member of the first legislature of California after its admission to the union of states. He was born in Binghamton, New York, January 4, 1826 and at 12 years of age removed with his parents to the Western Reserve in Ohio. Later he was placed in Orberlin College, but owing to losses sustained by his father in road building, was compelled to give up his college course, in which he was making rapid progress, particularly in the studies of surveying and engineering. He went from school to Sundusky City, where he learned the millers trade and at the age of 19 years removed to Michigan. Here he earned the first money he could really call his own, helping to survey a railroad from Detroit to Ypsilanti, now a part of the Michigan Central system. March 1, 1849, he started across the plains with an ox train, of which he was chosen captain. They were on the road almost six months before Long's Barr, on the Feather river, was reached. Here he tried mining, but made only enough out of it to board and clothe himself. By an extra session of Congress, California was admitted to statehood in September 1850, and he was elected to the legislature from that district.. His term ended, he returned to Long's Barr and engaged in the mercantile and mining business, in the first of which he was highly successful. His health failed, and the physician ordered a sea voyage, so he sailed for Honolulu, where he remained three months, and then went to Chili and remained for some time, finally returning to his home in California to find that his partner had sold out the business and skipped the country. He returned to Flowerfield, Michigan, after an absence of four years, and again took up his old trade of Milling. Here he was married October 1, 1853 to Miss Sibyl J. Wheeler, daughter Hon. William Wheeler and remained until 1854, when failing health again compelled a change of climate. Iowa was decided upon and though several trips were subsequently made to Michigan, this state had ever since been his home. He had been a resident of Mills county for over 40 years and all his children but one have been born here.
He was elected Probate Judge of Mills County in 1858 and held the office until the law was changed, he was the first republican elected to the position in the county. In May 1861, he received an order from Governor Kirkwood to raise a company of mounted minute men and with the order was the request that no man should be selected or permitted to join who for any reason would not be able to go to war. Within four days fifty to men were enlisted and in the election, which was insisted upon by Mr. Tubbs, that gentleman was unanimously chosen captain. He received his commission June 8 and the organization was kept up to the close of the war. A second communication from the governor in October 1861, ordered him to recruit a regiment of all the men in the county, exception being made to those enlisted in the mounted force, which was done. An election was called to choose a colonel and as before, Mr. Tubbs received all the votes. This last company was never called out, the minute force being simply to keep back the Missouri raiders. Strange to say these men have not yet been mustered out.
In politics he was and had always been a republican, as are all his boys. He had been a member of the Masonic order for about fifty years, and had filled nearly every office in the organization.
Glenwood Opinion Tribune Archives, March 7, 1901, page 5
DEATH OF JUDGE TUBBS
News was received in Glenwood, Thursday of the death of Judge Tubbs at Emerson at 1:05 p.m. The Judge had been failing for some months and his death was not unexpected. The immediate cause of death was catarrh of the stomach with other complications. Besides his wife the Judge leaves the following children: Wm. L. Tubbs, Mary D. (Mrs. Edward Birdsall), Hattie M. (Mrs. M. L. Evans) Emerson, Iowa; Volney V. Tubbs, Tustin, California; Bertha (Mrs. O. R. Patrick) Glenwood, Iowa, Ray B. Tubbs, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
Two are dead, dying in infancy, Walter M. Tubbs and Lizzie J. Tubbs.
Judge Tubbs was one of the founders of the town of Emerson, famous as the home of so many enterprising citizens. He has been one of the strong characters of western Iowa. It was through his encouragements that the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad was build westward from Creston at so early a day. Judge Smith McPherson said recently that it was this aid that caused the road to reach the Missouri river ten years earlier than it otherwise might have done.
Judge L. W. Tubbs of Emerson, had the distinction of having been a member of the first legislature of California after its admission to the union of states. He was born in Binghamton, New York, January 4, 1826 and at 12 years of age removed with his parents to the Western Reserve in Ohio. Later he was placed in Orberlin College, but owing to losses sustained by his father in road building, was compelled to give up his college course, in which he was making rapid progress, particularly in the studies of surveying and engineering. He went from school to Sundusky City, where he learned the millers trade and at the age of 19 years removed to Michigan. Here he earned the first money he could really call his own, helping to survey a railroad from Detroit to Ypsilanti, now a part of the Michigan Central system. March 1, 1849, he started across the plains with an ox train, of which he was chosen captain. They were on the road almost six months before Long's Barr, on the Feather river, was reached. Here he tried mining, but made only enough out of it to board and clothe himself. By an extra session of Congress, California was admitted to statehood in September 1850, and he was elected to the legislature from that district.. His term ended, he returned to Long's Barr and engaged in the mercantile and mining business, in the first of which he was highly successful. His health failed, and the physician ordered a sea voyage, so he sailed for Honolulu, where he remained three months, and then went to Chili and remained for some time, finally returning to his home in California to find that his partner had sold out the business and skipped the country. He returned to Flowerfield, Michigan, after an absence of four years, and again took up his old trade of Milling. Here he was married October 1, 1853 to Miss Sibyl J. Wheeler, daughter Hon. William Wheeler and remained until 1854, when failing health again compelled a change of climate. Iowa was decided upon and though several trips were subsequently made to Michigan, this state had ever since been his home. He had been a resident of Mills county for over 40 years and all his children but one have been born here.
He was elected Probate Judge of Mills County in 1858 and held the office until the law was changed, he was the first republican elected to the position in the county. In May 1861, he received an order from Governor Kirkwood to raise a company of mounted minute men and with the order was the request that no man should be selected or permitted to join who for any reason would not be able to go to war. Within four days fifty to men were enlisted and in the election, which was insisted upon by Mr. Tubbs, that gentleman was unanimously chosen captain. He received his commission June 8 and the organization was kept up to the close of the war. A second communication from the governor in October 1861, ordered him to recruit a regiment of all the men in the county, exception being made to those enlisted in the mounted force, which was done. An election was called to choose a colonel and as before, Mr. Tubbs received all the votes. This last company was never called out, the minute force being simply to keep back the Missouri raiders. Strange to say these men have not yet been mustered out.
In politics he was and had always been a republican, as are all his boys. He had been a member of the Masonic order for about fifty years, and had filled nearly every office in the organization.
Glenwood Opinion Tribune Archives, March 7, 1901, page 5
News was received in Glenwood, Thursday of the death of Judge Tubbs at Emerson at 1:05 p.m. The Judge had been failing for some months and his death was not unexpected. The immediate cause of death was catarrh of the stomach with other complications. Besides his wife the Judge leaves the following children: Wm. L. Tubbs, Mary D. (Mrs. Edward Birdsall), Hattie M. (Mrs. M. L. Evans) Emerson, Iowa; Volney V. Tubbs, Tustin, California; Bertha (Mrs. O. R. Patrick) Glenwood, Iowa, Ray B. Tubbs, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
Two are dead, dying in infancy, Walter M. Tubbs and Lizzie J. Tubbs.
Judge Tubbs was one of the founders of the town of Emerson, famous as the home of so many enterprising citizens. He has been one of the strong characters of western Iowa. It was through his encouragements that the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad was build westward from Creston at so early a day. Judge Smith McPherson said recently that it was this aid that caused the road to reach the Missouri river ten years earlier than it otherwise might have done.
Judge L. W. Tubbs of Emerson, had the distinction of having been a member of the first legislature of California after its admission to the union of states. He was born in Binghamton, New York, January 4, 1826 and at 12 years of age removed with his parents to the Western Reserve in Ohio. Later he was placed in Orberlin College, but owing to losses sustained by his father in road building, was compelled to give up his college course, in which he was making rapid progress, particularly in the studies of surveying and engineering. He went from school to Sundusky City, where he learned the millers trade and at the age of 19 years removed to Michigan. Here he earned the first money he could really call his own, helping to survey a railroad from Detroit to Ypsilanti, now a part of the Michigan Central system. March 1, 1849, he started across the plains with an ox train, of which he was chosen captain. They were on the road almost six months before Long's Barr, on the Feather river, was reached. Here he tried mining, but made only enough out of it to board and clothe himself. By an extra session of Congress, California was admitted to statehood in September 1850, and he was elected to the legislature from that district.. His term ended, he returned to Long's Barr and engaged in the mercantile and mining business, in the first of which he was highly successful. His health failed, and the physician ordered a sea voyage, so he sailed for Honolulu, where he remained three months, and then went to Chili and remained for some time, finally returning to his home in California to find that his partner had sold out the business and skipped the country. He returned to Flowerfield, Michigan, after an absence of four years, and again took up his old trade of Milling. Here he was married October 1, 1853 to Miss Sibyl J. Wheeler, daughter Hon. William Wheeler and remained until 1854, when failing health again compelled a change of climate. Iowa was decided upon and though several trips were subsequently made to Michigan, this state had ever since been his home. He had been a resident of Mills county for over 40 years and all his children but one have been born here.
He was elected Probate Judge of Mills County in 1858 and held the office until the law was changed, he was the first republican elected to the position in the county. In May 1861, he received an order from Governor Kirkwood to raise a company of mounted minute men and with the order was the request that no man should be selected or permitted to join who for any reason would not be able to go to war. Within four days fifty to men were enlisted and in the election, which was insisted upon by Mr. Tubbs, that gentleman was unanimously chosen captain. He received his commission June 8 and the organization was kept up to the close of the war. A second communication from the governor in October 1861, ordered him to recruit a regiment of all the men in the county, exception being made to those enlisted in the mounted force, which was done. An election was called to choose a colonel and as before, Mr. Tubbs received all the votes. This last company was never called out, the minute force being simply to keep back the Missouri raiders. Strange to say these men have not yet been mustered out.
In politics he was and had always been a republican, as are all his boys. He had been a member of the Masonic order for about fifty years, and had filled nearly every office in the organization.
Glenwood Opinion Tribune Archives, March 7, 1901, page 5
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