Bureau County Republican, Princeton, IL, September 14, 1911, Page 6, Column 2.
J. R. J. ANTHONY. With the death of Joseph Anthony at Watertown hospital last Friday afternoon closed the life long struggle of a noble man to take his full part in life in spite of bodily weakness. He succeeded so well that only the exceptional one among men of perfect health far surpassed him. He took his part in life the best he
could and he did it as a Christian gentleman, being marked by his patience, kindness and thoughtfulness of others down to the very last. One of the sweetest testimonies to the ears of his friends are the words of his nurses and attendants testifying that even in Watertown hospital the glory of sweet Christian manhood marked him as unusual. Joseph Rix Jones Anthony, son of
Dr. William C. Anthony and his wife, Jerusha Jones Anthony, was born in Princeton November 14, 1844, and received his education in this city until in 1862 he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to take a course in the famous Commercial college of that city. During the war he enlisted as a "hundred day man." Later he was engaged in business until his frail health, led him to look for
some line of work less confining. Being gifted with a fine voice and skill in reading and speaking he was attracted to the art of elocution, and went to the
Cummock School or Orotory [sic] at Evanston. So proficient did he become in his chosen profession that he was in demand as a trainer of prize and commencement
speakers in the various high schools and colleges of Illinois and Iowa. For five years he was instructor of elocution in the Chicago Theological Seminary and when his health failed, finally, was teaching in Greer college Hoopeston, Ill. A year ago, failing health and mental lapses occasioned fears for his sanity on the part of those nearest to him--fears that were proven well grounded when it was found necessary to take him to Watertown last March. He continued to fail, though receiving the kindest care, until he finally passed into rest at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. The funeral was held at 3 o'clock last Sunday afternoont the Congregational church in this city, which he joined
thirty-six years ago. Rev. B. M. Southgate, the pastor, conducted the service a quartette of his fellow church members sang the hymns of peace, so fitting in his case, and the relatives and friends who had known and esteemed him, among them many of his comrades from the local Grand Army Post, formed the company that did honor to his quiet, kindly life--a life without a stain, without a
reproach.
J. R. J. ANTHONY. With the death of Joseph Anthony at Watertown hospital last Friday afternoon closed the life long struggle of a noble man to take his full part in life in spite of bodily weakness. He succeeded so well that only the exceptional one among men of perfect health far surpassed him. He took his part in life the best he
could and he did it as a Christian gentleman, being marked by his patience, kindness and thoughtfulness of others down to the very last. One of the sweetest testimonies to the ears of his friends are the words of his nurses and attendants testifying that even in Watertown hospital the glory of sweet Christian manhood marked him as unusual. Joseph Rix Jones Anthony, son of
Dr. William C. Anthony and his wife, Jerusha Jones Anthony, was born in Princeton November 14, 1844, and received his education in this city until in 1862 he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to take a course in the famous Commercial college of that city. During the war he enlisted as a "hundred day man." Later he was engaged in business until his frail health, led him to look for
some line of work less confining. Being gifted with a fine voice and skill in reading and speaking he was attracted to the art of elocution, and went to the
Cummock School or Orotory [sic] at Evanston. So proficient did he become in his chosen profession that he was in demand as a trainer of prize and commencement
speakers in the various high schools and colleges of Illinois and Iowa. For five years he was instructor of elocution in the Chicago Theological Seminary and when his health failed, finally, was teaching in Greer college Hoopeston, Ill. A year ago, failing health and mental lapses occasioned fears for his sanity on the part of those nearest to him--fears that were proven well grounded when it was found necessary to take him to Watertown last March. He continued to fail, though receiving the kindest care, until he finally passed into rest at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. The funeral was held at 3 o'clock last Sunday afternoont the Congregational church in this city, which he joined
thirty-six years ago. Rev. B. M. Southgate, the pastor, conducted the service a quartette of his fellow church members sang the hymns of peace, so fitting in his case, and the relatives and friends who had known and esteemed him, among them many of his comrades from the local Grand Army Post, formed the company that did honor to his quiet, kindly life--a life without a stain, without a
reproach.
Bureau County Republican, Princeton, IL, September 14, 1911, Page 6, Column 2.
J. R. J. ANTHONY. With the death of Joseph Anthony at Watertown hospital last Friday afternoon closed the life long struggle of a noble man to take his full part in life in spite of bodily weakness. He succeeded so well that only the exceptional one among men of perfect health far surpassed him. He took his part in life the best he
could and he did it as a Christian gentleman, being marked by his patience, kindness and thoughtfulness of others down to the very last. One of the sweetest testimonies to the ears of his friends are the words of his nurses and attendants testifying that even in Watertown hospital the glory of sweet Christian manhood marked him as unusual. Joseph Rix Jones Anthony, son of
Dr. William C. Anthony and his wife, Jerusha Jones Anthony, was born in Princeton November 14, 1844, and received his education in this city until in 1862 he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to take a course in the famous Commercial college of that city. During the war he enlisted as a "hundred day man." Later he was engaged in business until his frail health, led him to look for
some line of work less confining. Being gifted with a fine voice and skill in reading and speaking he was attracted to the art of elocution, and went to the
Cummock School or Orotory [sic] at Evanston. So proficient did he become in his chosen profession that he was in demand as a trainer of prize and commencement
speakers in the various high schools and colleges of Illinois and Iowa. For five years he was instructor of elocution in the Chicago Theological Seminary and when his health failed, finally, was teaching in Greer college Hoopeston, Ill. A year ago, failing health and mental lapses occasioned fears for his sanity on the part of those nearest to him--fears that were proven well grounded when it was found necessary to take him to Watertown last March. He continued to fail, though receiving the kindest care, until he finally passed into rest at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. The funeral was held at 3 o'clock last Sunday afternoont the Congregational church in this city, which he joined
thirty-six years ago. Rev. B. M. Southgate, the pastor, conducted the service a quartette of his fellow church members sang the hymns of peace, so fitting in his case, and the relatives and friends who had known and esteemed him, among them many of his comrades from the local Grand Army Post, formed the company that did honor to his quiet, kindly life--a life without a stain, without a
reproach.
J. R. J. ANTHONY. With the death of Joseph Anthony at Watertown hospital last Friday afternoon closed the life long struggle of a noble man to take his full part in life in spite of bodily weakness. He succeeded so well that only the exceptional one among men of perfect health far surpassed him. He took his part in life the best he
could and he did it as a Christian gentleman, being marked by his patience, kindness and thoughtfulness of others down to the very last. One of the sweetest testimonies to the ears of his friends are the words of his nurses and attendants testifying that even in Watertown hospital the glory of sweet Christian manhood marked him as unusual. Joseph Rix Jones Anthony, son of
Dr. William C. Anthony and his wife, Jerusha Jones Anthony, was born in Princeton November 14, 1844, and received his education in this city until in 1862 he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to take a course in the famous Commercial college of that city. During the war he enlisted as a "hundred day man." Later he was engaged in business until his frail health, led him to look for
some line of work less confining. Being gifted with a fine voice and skill in reading and speaking he was attracted to the art of elocution, and went to the
Cummock School or Orotory [sic] at Evanston. So proficient did he become in his chosen profession that he was in demand as a trainer of prize and commencement
speakers in the various high schools and colleges of Illinois and Iowa. For five years he was instructor of elocution in the Chicago Theological Seminary and when his health failed, finally, was teaching in Greer college Hoopeston, Ill. A year ago, failing health and mental lapses occasioned fears for his sanity on the part of those nearest to him--fears that were proven well grounded when it was found necessary to take him to Watertown last March. He continued to fail, though receiving the kindest care, until he finally passed into rest at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. The funeral was held at 3 o'clock last Sunday afternoont the Congregational church in this city, which he joined
thirty-six years ago. Rev. B. M. Southgate, the pastor, conducted the service a quartette of his fellow church members sang the hymns of peace, so fitting in his case, and the relatives and friends who had known and esteemed him, among them many of his comrades from the local Grand Army Post, formed the company that did honor to his quiet, kindly life--a life without a stain, without a
reproach.
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