The Anamosa Eureka, 10 Nov 1870, Page 3.
Philo Norton, of Wyoming, Iowa, died of typhoid fever Oct. 31st. 1870, aged 56 years. He was born on Onondaga Co., N. Y. and moved to Barry Co., Mich., about 1837. He came from there to Iowa and settled about one and a half miles from the village of Wyoming in 1856.
In a comparatively short time he made a beautiful home of his wild prairie, and caused it to bud and blossom as the rose. For the past few years he has resided in a beautiful home of his own creating in our village. Mr. Norton learned what so many people of Iowa have failed to learn that anything that gives pleasure and happiness to himself or family is of value. He loved his family and his home and was very fond of music; and when his young daughter, a few years since, had learned to play but one piece of music, he remarked that that one piece more than paid him the cost of the instrument he had purchased.
He gave two sons (all that remained to him of a former marriage, and all he had of sufficient age) to the service of his country. They both fell in that dreadful strife; and what could have been asked of him that he would not have given to help save his country I know not.
Philo Norton, of Wyoming, Iowa, died of typhoid fever Oct. 31st. 1870, aged 56 years. He was born on Onondaga Co., N. Y. and moved to Barry Co., Mich., about 1837. He came from there to Iowa and settled about one and a half miles from the village of Wyoming in 1856.
In a comparatively short time he made a beautiful home of his wild prairie, and caused it to bud and blossom as the rose. For the past few years he has resided in a beautiful home of his own creating in our village. Mr. Norton learned what so many people of Iowa have failed to learn that anything that gives pleasure and happiness to himself or family is of value. He loved his family and his home and was very fond of music; and when his young daughter, a few years since, had learned to play but one piece of music, he remarked that that one piece more than paid him the cost of the instrument he had purchased.
He gave two sons (all that remained to him of a former marriage, and all he had of sufficient age) to the service of his country. They both fell in that dreadful strife; and what could have been asked of him that he would not have given to help save his country I know not.
The Anamosa Eureka, 10 Nov 1870, Page 3.
Philo Norton, of Wyoming, Iowa, died of typhoid fever Oct. 31st. 1870, aged 56 years. He was born on Onondaga Co., N. Y. and moved to Barry Co., Mich., about 1837. He came from there to Iowa and settled about one and a half miles from the village of Wyoming in 1856.
In a comparatively short time he made a beautiful home of his wild prairie, and caused it to bud and blossom as the rose. For the past few years he has resided in a beautiful home of his own creating in our village. Mr. Norton learned what so many people of Iowa have failed to learn that anything that gives pleasure and happiness to himself or family is of value. He loved his family and his home and was very fond of music; and when his young daughter, a few years since, had learned to play but one piece of music, he remarked that that one piece more than paid him the cost of the instrument he had purchased.
He gave two sons (all that remained to him of a former marriage, and all he had of sufficient age) to the service of his country. They both fell in that dreadful strife; and what could have been asked of him that he would not have given to help save his country I know not.
Philo Norton, of Wyoming, Iowa, died of typhoid fever Oct. 31st. 1870, aged 56 years. He was born on Onondaga Co., N. Y. and moved to Barry Co., Mich., about 1837. He came from there to Iowa and settled about one and a half miles from the village of Wyoming in 1856.
In a comparatively short time he made a beautiful home of his wild prairie, and caused it to bud and blossom as the rose. For the past few years he has resided in a beautiful home of his own creating in our village. Mr. Norton learned what so many people of Iowa have failed to learn that anything that gives pleasure and happiness to himself or family is of value. He loved his family and his home and was very fond of music; and when his young daughter, a few years since, had learned to play but one piece of music, he remarked that that one piece more than paid him the cost of the instrument he had purchased.
He gave two sons (all that remained to him of a former marriage, and all he had of sufficient age) to the service of his country. They both fell in that dreadful strife; and what could have been asked of him that he would not have given to help save his country I know not.
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