REUBEN EARLE FENTON, only son of Governor
Reuben E. Fenton and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth (Scudder) (Dau of JOEL SCUDDER)
Fenton, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., June 12, 1865, and died at Naples, Italy, March 25, 1895. From the blue skies and sunny shores of Italy, in a strangely beautiful foreign casket, his body was borne by the ship "Werra" to the United States, and upon Good Friday, 1895, entered for the last time the stately home he loved so well, where the aged mother had hoped to see him reign as head of a family, and upon an April day, while the world was still singing of the resurrection morn, was laid in the Fenton mausoleum, the tomb of his father. Reuben Earle Fenton attended the public schools of Jamestown, studied under a tutor, prepared for college at St. John's Military School, Manlius, N. Y., then, in the spring of 1884, entered Brown University. The sudden death of his father in i885, however, compelled the abandonment of his University course. He returned to Jamestown and assumed the management of the Fenton estate. In 1899 he organized and brought to Jamestown an important industry, the Fenton Metallic Works, becoming president of that company. His business talents were of a high order, and he acquired numerous other important interests. He was a young man with every reason to look forward confidently to a career of eminent success. He was of dignified, commanding presence, with a strong mind enriched by training and travel, was courteous and genial, and popular in his own city. His travels took over much of the United States. Europe and the Far East. At St. Augustine, during the winter of i8go, while
passing the season at his orange grove in Florida, he
met Lillian Mai Hayden, daughter of Charles H.
Hayden. After a brief and romantic courtship they were married, Oct. 2, 1890, at the Hayden homestead, Columbus, Ohio. Already he had seen much of the world, and with his wife passed the five years following their marriage in journeying both in the old world and the new. After a winter spent in Egypt, he was returning to settle in Jamestown, but fell ill in Naples, Italy, and there died, March 25, 1895.
The funeral of Reuben Earle Fenton was perhaps
more largely attended than any other ever had been in Jamestown, except that of his distinguished father, Governor Reuben E. Fenton. The funeral was semi- military in character, the Fenton Guards in full uniform marching in the van to the sound of bugles and muffled drumbeat, while upon either side of the bier six men of Lieutenant Fenton's old platoon marched as a guard of honor. The solemn Episcopal service was conducted by Rev. A. Sidney Dealey, rector of St. Luke's Church, and a beautiful tribute was delivered by Rev. C. C. Alberton, of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, giving hope to the living and eulogy for the dead, "who slept beneath a wilderness of flowers."
Reuben E. Fenton and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth (Scudder) (Dau of JOEL SCUDDER)
Fenton, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., June 12, 1865, and died at Naples, Italy, March 25, 1895. From the blue skies and sunny shores of Italy, in a strangely beautiful foreign casket, his body was borne by the ship "Werra" to the United States, and upon Good Friday, 1895, entered for the last time the stately home he loved so well, where the aged mother had hoped to see him reign as head of a family, and upon an April day, while the world was still singing of the resurrection morn, was laid in the Fenton mausoleum, the tomb of his father. Reuben Earle Fenton attended the public schools of Jamestown, studied under a tutor, prepared for college at St. John's Military School, Manlius, N. Y., then, in the spring of 1884, entered Brown University. The sudden death of his father in i885, however, compelled the abandonment of his University course. He returned to Jamestown and assumed the management of the Fenton estate. In 1899 he organized and brought to Jamestown an important industry, the Fenton Metallic Works, becoming president of that company. His business talents were of a high order, and he acquired numerous other important interests. He was a young man with every reason to look forward confidently to a career of eminent success. He was of dignified, commanding presence, with a strong mind enriched by training and travel, was courteous and genial, and popular in his own city. His travels took over much of the United States. Europe and the Far East. At St. Augustine, during the winter of i8go, while
passing the season at his orange grove in Florida, he
met Lillian Mai Hayden, daughter of Charles H.
Hayden. After a brief and romantic courtship they were married, Oct. 2, 1890, at the Hayden homestead, Columbus, Ohio. Already he had seen much of the world, and with his wife passed the five years following their marriage in journeying both in the old world and the new. After a winter spent in Egypt, he was returning to settle in Jamestown, but fell ill in Naples, Italy, and there died, March 25, 1895.
The funeral of Reuben Earle Fenton was perhaps
more largely attended than any other ever had been in Jamestown, except that of his distinguished father, Governor Reuben E. Fenton. The funeral was semi- military in character, the Fenton Guards in full uniform marching in the van to the sound of bugles and muffled drumbeat, while upon either side of the bier six men of Lieutenant Fenton's old platoon marched as a guard of honor. The solemn Episcopal service was conducted by Rev. A. Sidney Dealey, rector of St. Luke's Church, and a beautiful tribute was delivered by Rev. C. C. Alberton, of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, giving hope to the living and eulogy for the dead, "who slept beneath a wilderness of flowers."
REUBEN EARLE FENTON, only son of Governor
Reuben E. Fenton and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth (Scudder) (Dau of JOEL SCUDDER)
Fenton, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., June 12, 1865, and died at Naples, Italy, March 25, 1895. From the blue skies and sunny shores of Italy, in a strangely beautiful foreign casket, his body was borne by the ship "Werra" to the United States, and upon Good Friday, 1895, entered for the last time the stately home he loved so well, where the aged mother had hoped to see him reign as head of a family, and upon an April day, while the world was still singing of the resurrection morn, was laid in the Fenton mausoleum, the tomb of his father. Reuben Earle Fenton attended the public schools of Jamestown, studied under a tutor, prepared for college at St. John's Military School, Manlius, N. Y., then, in the spring of 1884, entered Brown University. The sudden death of his father in i885, however, compelled the abandonment of his University course. He returned to Jamestown and assumed the management of the Fenton estate. In 1899 he organized and brought to Jamestown an important industry, the Fenton Metallic Works, becoming president of that company. His business talents were of a high order, and he acquired numerous other important interests. He was a young man with every reason to look forward confidently to a career of eminent success. He was of dignified, commanding presence, with a strong mind enriched by training and travel, was courteous and genial, and popular in his own city. His travels took over much of the United States. Europe and the Far East. At St. Augustine, during the winter of i8go, while
passing the season at his orange grove in Florida, he
met Lillian Mai Hayden, daughter of Charles H.
Hayden. After a brief and romantic courtship they were married, Oct. 2, 1890, at the Hayden homestead, Columbus, Ohio. Already he had seen much of the world, and with his wife passed the five years following their marriage in journeying both in the old world and the new. After a winter spent in Egypt, he was returning to settle in Jamestown, but fell ill in Naples, Italy, and there died, March 25, 1895.
The funeral of Reuben Earle Fenton was perhaps
more largely attended than any other ever had been in Jamestown, except that of his distinguished father, Governor Reuben E. Fenton. The funeral was semi- military in character, the Fenton Guards in full uniform marching in the van to the sound of bugles and muffled drumbeat, while upon either side of the bier six men of Lieutenant Fenton's old platoon marched as a guard of honor. The solemn Episcopal service was conducted by Rev. A. Sidney Dealey, rector of St. Luke's Church, and a beautiful tribute was delivered by Rev. C. C. Alberton, of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, giving hope to the living and eulogy for the dead, "who slept beneath a wilderness of flowers."
Reuben E. Fenton and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth (Scudder) (Dau of JOEL SCUDDER)
Fenton, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., June 12, 1865, and died at Naples, Italy, March 25, 1895. From the blue skies and sunny shores of Italy, in a strangely beautiful foreign casket, his body was borne by the ship "Werra" to the United States, and upon Good Friday, 1895, entered for the last time the stately home he loved so well, where the aged mother had hoped to see him reign as head of a family, and upon an April day, while the world was still singing of the resurrection morn, was laid in the Fenton mausoleum, the tomb of his father. Reuben Earle Fenton attended the public schools of Jamestown, studied under a tutor, prepared for college at St. John's Military School, Manlius, N. Y., then, in the spring of 1884, entered Brown University. The sudden death of his father in i885, however, compelled the abandonment of his University course. He returned to Jamestown and assumed the management of the Fenton estate. In 1899 he organized and brought to Jamestown an important industry, the Fenton Metallic Works, becoming president of that company. His business talents were of a high order, and he acquired numerous other important interests. He was a young man with every reason to look forward confidently to a career of eminent success. He was of dignified, commanding presence, with a strong mind enriched by training and travel, was courteous and genial, and popular in his own city. His travels took over much of the United States. Europe and the Far East. At St. Augustine, during the winter of i8go, while
passing the season at his orange grove in Florida, he
met Lillian Mai Hayden, daughter of Charles H.
Hayden. After a brief and romantic courtship they were married, Oct. 2, 1890, at the Hayden homestead, Columbus, Ohio. Already he had seen much of the world, and with his wife passed the five years following their marriage in journeying both in the old world and the new. After a winter spent in Egypt, he was returning to settle in Jamestown, but fell ill in Naples, Italy, and there died, March 25, 1895.
The funeral of Reuben Earle Fenton was perhaps
more largely attended than any other ever had been in Jamestown, except that of his distinguished father, Governor Reuben E. Fenton. The funeral was semi- military in character, the Fenton Guards in full uniform marching in the van to the sound of bugles and muffled drumbeat, while upon either side of the bier six men of Lieutenant Fenton's old platoon marched as a guard of honor. The solemn Episcopal service was conducted by Rev. A. Sidney Dealey, rector of St. Luke's Church, and a beautiful tribute was delivered by Rev. C. C. Alberton, of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, giving hope to the living and eulogy for the dead, "who slept beneath a wilderness of flowers."
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