He was the son of William Amos and Rachel Whitehouse.
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Isaiah Amos Dies
Noted Prohibitionist Worker Succumbs After Operation
Oregon Post Long Held
Pioneer Who for Years Was Associated With Efforts of Drys Survived by Widow and 3 Children. Tribute Paid to Memory
[Photo with caption: “I. H. Amos, Prohibition Leader, Who Died Yesterday”]
Isaiah H. Amos, one the best-known men in the Prohibition party ranks, died at the Portland Surgical Hospital yesterday after an operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed last Saturday and, although Mr. Amos had rallied, he suffered a relapse and failed to recover. He was 71 years of age and had been a familiar figure in Oregon politics, being connected with the Prohibition party for many years.
Mr. Amos was born June 8, 1844, at Mount Savage, Md. When 24 years of age he married Miss Lillian J. Sadler, who, with three children — Miss Lillian Edna Amos, Miss Grace Mildred Amos and Dr. William F. Amos, all of this city — survive him.
Early Prohibition Work Done
With the Prohibitionists as early as 1869 he worked with Nationally famous men, such as Spencer Odell Case and others in pioneer work in Ohio.
In 1872 he was a candidate for the Ohio Legislature on the Prohibition ticket and took part in the constitutional amendment campaign of that year. He filled the position as secretary of the Cuyahoga County central committee for a number of years, and during his tenure of office there he became intimately associated with Samuel Dickie and Michael J. Fanning and others.
Mr. Amos moved to Oregon in 1887. For 15 years he served as chairman of the Oregon Prohibition committee and appeared as a candidate for Mayor of Portland, member of the State Senate and other offices.
Tribute Is Paid to Memory
During his residence in this city Mr. Amos at different times has been connected with the hardware firms of Foster & Robertson and Honeyman Hardware Company. For the few years prior to his death he was the Portland representative of a number of large Eastern hardware firms.
The esteem in which thousands of Portland persons held Mr. Amos is epitomized in the remarks of Dr. J. R. Wilson, former principal of Portland Academy. Mr. Wilson declared in a recent letter to Mr. Amos that “none of the letters that I have received (in appreciation for the work done by Dr. Wilson while in Portland) have touched me more deeply than yours. I have never passed on from one of our occasional meetings without feeling that it was good to have met you and felt for the moment the touch of a true man.”
Funeral services will be held from the chapel of J. P. Finley & Son tomorrow at 2:30 and the body will be cremated today.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Saturday, December 25, 1915, page 7]
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Isaiah Amos Dies
Noted Prohibitionist Worker Succumbs After Operation
Oregon Post Long Held
Pioneer Who for Years Was Associated With Efforts of Drys Survived by Widow and 3 Children. Tribute Paid to Memory
[Photo with caption: “I. H. Amos, Prohibition Leader, Who Died Yesterday”]
Isaiah H. Amos, one the best-known men in the Prohibition party ranks, died at the Portland Surgical Hospital yesterday after an operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed last Saturday and, although Mr. Amos had rallied, he suffered a relapse and failed to recover. He was 71 years of age and had been a familiar figure in Oregon politics, being connected with the Prohibition party for many years.
Mr. Amos was born June 8, 1844, at Mount Savage, Md. When 24 years of age he married Miss Lillian J. Sadler, who, with three children — Miss Lillian Edna Amos, Miss Grace Mildred Amos and Dr. William F. Amos, all of this city — survive him.
Early Prohibition Work Done
With the Prohibitionists as early as 1869 he worked with Nationally famous men, such as Spencer Odell Case and others in pioneer work in Ohio.
In 1872 he was a candidate for the Ohio Legislature on the Prohibition ticket and took part in the constitutional amendment campaign of that year. He filled the position as secretary of the Cuyahoga County central committee for a number of years, and during his tenure of office there he became intimately associated with Samuel Dickie and Michael J. Fanning and others.
Mr. Amos moved to Oregon in 1887. For 15 years he served as chairman of the Oregon Prohibition committee and appeared as a candidate for Mayor of Portland, member of the State Senate and other offices.
Tribute Is Paid to Memory
During his residence in this city Mr. Amos at different times has been connected with the hardware firms of Foster & Robertson and Honeyman Hardware Company. For the few years prior to his death he was the Portland representative of a number of large Eastern hardware firms.
The esteem in which thousands of Portland persons held Mr. Amos is epitomized in the remarks of Dr. J. R. Wilson, former principal of Portland Academy. Mr. Wilson declared in a recent letter to Mr. Amos that “none of the letters that I have received (in appreciation for the work done by Dr. Wilson while in Portland) have touched me more deeply than yours. I have never passed on from one of our occasional meetings without feeling that it was good to have met you and felt for the moment the touch of a true man.”
Funeral services will be held from the chapel of J. P. Finley & Son tomorrow at 2:30 and the body will be cremated today.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Saturday, December 25, 1915, page 7]
He was the son of William Amos and Rachel Whitehouse.
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Isaiah Amos Dies
Noted Prohibitionist Worker Succumbs After Operation
Oregon Post Long Held
Pioneer Who for Years Was Associated With Efforts of Drys Survived by Widow and 3 Children. Tribute Paid to Memory
[Photo with caption: “I. H. Amos, Prohibition Leader, Who Died Yesterday”]
Isaiah H. Amos, one the best-known men in the Prohibition party ranks, died at the Portland Surgical Hospital yesterday after an operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed last Saturday and, although Mr. Amos had rallied, he suffered a relapse and failed to recover. He was 71 years of age and had been a familiar figure in Oregon politics, being connected with the Prohibition party for many years.
Mr. Amos was born June 8, 1844, at Mount Savage, Md. When 24 years of age he married Miss Lillian J. Sadler, who, with three children — Miss Lillian Edna Amos, Miss Grace Mildred Amos and Dr. William F. Amos, all of this city — survive him.
Early Prohibition Work Done
With the Prohibitionists as early as 1869 he worked with Nationally famous men, such as Spencer Odell Case and others in pioneer work in Ohio.
In 1872 he was a candidate for the Ohio Legislature on the Prohibition ticket and took part in the constitutional amendment campaign of that year. He filled the position as secretary of the Cuyahoga County central committee for a number of years, and during his tenure of office there he became intimately associated with Samuel Dickie and Michael J. Fanning and others.
Mr. Amos moved to Oregon in 1887. For 15 years he served as chairman of the Oregon Prohibition committee and appeared as a candidate for Mayor of Portland, member of the State Senate and other offices.
Tribute Is Paid to Memory
During his residence in this city Mr. Amos at different times has been connected with the hardware firms of Foster & Robertson and Honeyman Hardware Company. For the few years prior to his death he was the Portland representative of a number of large Eastern hardware firms.
The esteem in which thousands of Portland persons held Mr. Amos is epitomized in the remarks of Dr. J. R. Wilson, former principal of Portland Academy. Mr. Wilson declared in a recent letter to Mr. Amos that “none of the letters that I have received (in appreciation for the work done by Dr. Wilson while in Portland) have touched me more deeply than yours. I have never passed on from one of our occasional meetings without feeling that it was good to have met you and felt for the moment the touch of a true man.”
Funeral services will be held from the chapel of J. P. Finley & Son tomorrow at 2:30 and the body will be cremated today.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Saturday, December 25, 1915, page 7]
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Isaiah Amos Dies
Noted Prohibitionist Worker Succumbs After Operation
Oregon Post Long Held
Pioneer Who for Years Was Associated With Efforts of Drys Survived by Widow and 3 Children. Tribute Paid to Memory
[Photo with caption: “I. H. Amos, Prohibition Leader, Who Died Yesterday”]
Isaiah H. Amos, one the best-known men in the Prohibition party ranks, died at the Portland Surgical Hospital yesterday after an operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed last Saturday and, although Mr. Amos had rallied, he suffered a relapse and failed to recover. He was 71 years of age and had been a familiar figure in Oregon politics, being connected with the Prohibition party for many years.
Mr. Amos was born June 8, 1844, at Mount Savage, Md. When 24 years of age he married Miss Lillian J. Sadler, who, with three children — Miss Lillian Edna Amos, Miss Grace Mildred Amos and Dr. William F. Amos, all of this city — survive him.
Early Prohibition Work Done
With the Prohibitionists as early as 1869 he worked with Nationally famous men, such as Spencer Odell Case and others in pioneer work in Ohio.
In 1872 he was a candidate for the Ohio Legislature on the Prohibition ticket and took part in the constitutional amendment campaign of that year. He filled the position as secretary of the Cuyahoga County central committee for a number of years, and during his tenure of office there he became intimately associated with Samuel Dickie and Michael J. Fanning and others.
Mr. Amos moved to Oregon in 1887. For 15 years he served as chairman of the Oregon Prohibition committee and appeared as a candidate for Mayor of Portland, member of the State Senate and other offices.
Tribute Is Paid to Memory
During his residence in this city Mr. Amos at different times has been connected with the hardware firms of Foster & Robertson and Honeyman Hardware Company. For the few years prior to his death he was the Portland representative of a number of large Eastern hardware firms.
The esteem in which thousands of Portland persons held Mr. Amos is epitomized in the remarks of Dr. J. R. Wilson, former principal of Portland Academy. Mr. Wilson declared in a recent letter to Mr. Amos that “none of the letters that I have received (in appreciation for the work done by Dr. Wilson while in Portland) have touched me more deeply than yours. I have never passed on from one of our occasional meetings without feeling that it was good to have met you and felt for the moment the touch of a true man.”
Funeral services will be held from the chapel of J. P. Finley & Son tomorrow at 2:30 and the body will be cremated today.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Saturday, December 25, 1915, page 7]
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