married Huldah M Vincent, Mar 29, 1866, Union Grove, Minnesota
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Father and Son Taken
Two Members of the Caswell Family Pass Away in Four Days
Last Tuesday morning there passed away in this city one of those hardy western pioneers who well deserves to be reckoned among the empire builders of the last century, one who did a full man's share in the work of winning the northwest for settlement and civilization. Many a published biography lacks the elements of adventure and achievement that filled in such well rounded measure the half century of the active business life of Ziba Caswell.
When he died here Tueasdy morning, Mr. Caswell was a little over seventy-nine years of age, and had almost reached the four score years which are accounted man's full time on earth. He had been in failing health for a long time and was a victim of paralysis. Besides, the illness of his son who died last Friday depressed him greatly, although he was too ill at the time his son died to realize the loss.
Ziba Caswell was born in Brompton, Quebec, and moved west to the present location of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early fifties. Later he removed to Meeker in the same state, and in 1878 to Stevens county where he made his home for many years. He was during his entire career an active man of affairs and a large employer of labor, being engaged in the lumber and milling business and undertaking extensive contracts. He also carried on a mercantile business in connection with his saw mills and lumbering.
Beside all these lines of activity, he held the position of postmaster at Manannah, Minnesota for twenty years. Nor does this record tell the full story of the activities of Mr. Caswell's strenous life. Shortly after the discovery of gold in California he went to that state, and he was also among the Black Hills pioneers in the seventies. And to crown it all, this man who had already done work enough to wear out several ordinary men, in 1898, when he was sixty-six years of age, was again seized with this old gold hunting fever and went to the Copper river district.
He was married to Huldah M. Vincent at Union Grove, Minnesota, March 29, 1866. The only members of his immediate family to survive him are his wife and a sister living in Minnesota. The family, including the adopted son Vincent, came to Woodburn nine years ago and have since resided here.
Mr. Caswell's most marked trait was his inflexible integrity. He was also always a temperance man, using neither alcoholic liquors nor tobacco in all the vicissitudes of life on the frontier.
The funeral services took place at the family residence on south Front street at 2 p.m. Wednesday and were conducted by Rev. W. S. Gordon, of the M. E. church; and the interment was in Belle Passi cemetery. There were floral gifts in wonderful profusion. Among the out of town relatives who came to pay the last tribute of respect were; Mrs. Agnes Moses and daughter Ellen of Eugene; Mrs. Joliet Chisholm and daughter Venissa, from Portland; OC. Caswell, a nephew, with his wife and son, from Portland; R. Vincent and wife of Middleton, Oregon; and L.Vincent, and wife from Wilsonville.
The Woodburn Independent Newspaper
Woodburn, Oregon
November 16, 1911, Page 1, Column 2
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Father and Son Taken
Two Members of the Caswell Family Pass Away in Four Days
Last Tuesday morning there passed away in this city one of those hardy western pioneers who well deserves to be reckoned among the empire builders of the last century, one who did a full man's share in the work of winning the northwest for settlement and civilization. Many a published biography lacks the elements of adventure and achievement that filled in such well rounded measure the half century of the active business life of Ziba Caswell.
When he died here Tueasdy morning, Mr. Caswell was a little over seventy-nine years of age, and had almost reached the four score years which are accounted man's full time on earth. He had been in failing health for a long time and was a victim of paralysis. Besides, the illness of his son who died last Friday depressed him greatly, although he was too ill at the time his son died to realize the loss.
Ziba Caswell was born in Brompton, Quebec, and moved west to the present location of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early fifties. Later he removed to Meeker in the same state, and in 1878 to Stevens county where he made his home for many years. He was during his entire career an active man of affairs and a large employer of labor, being engaged in the lumber and milling business and undertaking extensive contracts. He also carried on a mercantile business in connection with his saw mills and lumbering.
Beside all these lines of activity, he held the position of postmaster at Manannah, Minnesota for twenty years. Nor does this record tell the full story of the activities of Mr. Caswell's strenous life. Shortly after the discovery of gold in California he went to that state, and he was also among the Black Hills pioneers in the seventies. And to crown it all, this man who had already done work enough to wear out several ordinary men, in 1898, when he was sixty-six years of age, was again seized with this old gold hunting fever and went to the Copper river district.
He was married to Huldah M. Vincent at Union Grove, Minnesota, March 29, 1866. The only members of his immediate family to survive him are his wife and a sister living in Minnesota. The family, including the adopted son Vincent, came to Woodburn nine years ago and have since resided here.
Mr. Caswell's most marked trait was his inflexible integrity. He was also always a temperance man, using neither alcoholic liquors nor tobacco in all the vicissitudes of life on the frontier.
The funeral services took place at the family residence on south Front street at 2 p.m. Wednesday and were conducted by Rev. W. S. Gordon, of the M. E. church; and the interment was in Belle Passi cemetery. There were floral gifts in wonderful profusion. Among the out of town relatives who came to pay the last tribute of respect were; Mrs. Agnes Moses and daughter Ellen of Eugene; Mrs. Joliet Chisholm and daughter Venissa, from Portland; OC. Caswell, a nephew, with his wife and son, from Portland; R. Vincent and wife of Middleton, Oregon; and L.Vincent, and wife from Wilsonville.
The Woodburn Independent Newspaper
Woodburn, Oregon
November 16, 1911, Page 1, Column 2
married Huldah M Vincent, Mar 29, 1866, Union Grove, Minnesota
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Father and Son Taken
Two Members of the Caswell Family Pass Away in Four Days
Last Tuesday morning there passed away in this city one of those hardy western pioneers who well deserves to be reckoned among the empire builders of the last century, one who did a full man's share in the work of winning the northwest for settlement and civilization. Many a published biography lacks the elements of adventure and achievement that filled in such well rounded measure the half century of the active business life of Ziba Caswell.
When he died here Tueasdy morning, Mr. Caswell was a little over seventy-nine years of age, and had almost reached the four score years which are accounted man's full time on earth. He had been in failing health for a long time and was a victim of paralysis. Besides, the illness of his son who died last Friday depressed him greatly, although he was too ill at the time his son died to realize the loss.
Ziba Caswell was born in Brompton, Quebec, and moved west to the present location of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early fifties. Later he removed to Meeker in the same state, and in 1878 to Stevens county where he made his home for many years. He was during his entire career an active man of affairs and a large employer of labor, being engaged in the lumber and milling business and undertaking extensive contracts. He also carried on a mercantile business in connection with his saw mills and lumbering.
Beside all these lines of activity, he held the position of postmaster at Manannah, Minnesota for twenty years. Nor does this record tell the full story of the activities of Mr. Caswell's strenous life. Shortly after the discovery of gold in California he went to that state, and he was also among the Black Hills pioneers in the seventies. And to crown it all, this man who had already done work enough to wear out several ordinary men, in 1898, when he was sixty-six years of age, was again seized with this old gold hunting fever and went to the Copper river district.
He was married to Huldah M. Vincent at Union Grove, Minnesota, March 29, 1866. The only members of his immediate family to survive him are his wife and a sister living in Minnesota. The family, including the adopted son Vincent, came to Woodburn nine years ago and have since resided here.
Mr. Caswell's most marked trait was his inflexible integrity. He was also always a temperance man, using neither alcoholic liquors nor tobacco in all the vicissitudes of life on the frontier.
The funeral services took place at the family residence on south Front street at 2 p.m. Wednesday and were conducted by Rev. W. S. Gordon, of the M. E. church; and the interment was in Belle Passi cemetery. There were floral gifts in wonderful profusion. Among the out of town relatives who came to pay the last tribute of respect were; Mrs. Agnes Moses and daughter Ellen of Eugene; Mrs. Joliet Chisholm and daughter Venissa, from Portland; OC. Caswell, a nephew, with his wife and son, from Portland; R. Vincent and wife of Middleton, Oregon; and L.Vincent, and wife from Wilsonville.
The Woodburn Independent Newspaper
Woodburn, Oregon
November 16, 1911, Page 1, Column 2
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Father and Son Taken
Two Members of the Caswell Family Pass Away in Four Days
Last Tuesday morning there passed away in this city one of those hardy western pioneers who well deserves to be reckoned among the empire builders of the last century, one who did a full man's share in the work of winning the northwest for settlement and civilization. Many a published biography lacks the elements of adventure and achievement that filled in such well rounded measure the half century of the active business life of Ziba Caswell.
When he died here Tueasdy morning, Mr. Caswell was a little over seventy-nine years of age, and had almost reached the four score years which are accounted man's full time on earth. He had been in failing health for a long time and was a victim of paralysis. Besides, the illness of his son who died last Friday depressed him greatly, although he was too ill at the time his son died to realize the loss.
Ziba Caswell was born in Brompton, Quebec, and moved west to the present location of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early fifties. Later he removed to Meeker in the same state, and in 1878 to Stevens county where he made his home for many years. He was during his entire career an active man of affairs and a large employer of labor, being engaged in the lumber and milling business and undertaking extensive contracts. He also carried on a mercantile business in connection with his saw mills and lumbering.
Beside all these lines of activity, he held the position of postmaster at Manannah, Minnesota for twenty years. Nor does this record tell the full story of the activities of Mr. Caswell's strenous life. Shortly after the discovery of gold in California he went to that state, and he was also among the Black Hills pioneers in the seventies. And to crown it all, this man who had already done work enough to wear out several ordinary men, in 1898, when he was sixty-six years of age, was again seized with this old gold hunting fever and went to the Copper river district.
He was married to Huldah M. Vincent at Union Grove, Minnesota, March 29, 1866. The only members of his immediate family to survive him are his wife and a sister living in Minnesota. The family, including the adopted son Vincent, came to Woodburn nine years ago and have since resided here.
Mr. Caswell's most marked trait was his inflexible integrity. He was also always a temperance man, using neither alcoholic liquors nor tobacco in all the vicissitudes of life on the frontier.
The funeral services took place at the family residence on south Front street at 2 p.m. Wednesday and were conducted by Rev. W. S. Gordon, of the M. E. church; and the interment was in Belle Passi cemetery. There were floral gifts in wonderful profusion. Among the out of town relatives who came to pay the last tribute of respect were; Mrs. Agnes Moses and daughter Ellen of Eugene; Mrs. Joliet Chisholm and daughter Venissa, from Portland; OC. Caswell, a nephew, with his wife and son, from Portland; R. Vincent and wife of Middleton, Oregon; and L.Vincent, and wife from Wilsonville.
The Woodburn Independent Newspaper
Woodburn, Oregon
November 16, 1911, Page 1, Column 2
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