The Lawrence Locomotive (Lawrence, NE), Friday, January 15, 1915; pg. 1
Dr. J. E. Barrett Called By Death
Sunday evening word was phoned to Lawrence from Evart's sanitarium at Lincoln that Dr. Barrett, who had gone there from his home here, the day before, had quietly passed away while resting in bed, the direct cause of death evidently being heart disease. The doctor's brother, Pat Barrett, was absent from the room when the summons came to unexpectedly, as there was seemingly nothing in the patient's condition to indicate that death was at hand.
Accompanied by H. Gilsdorf and the doctor's brother, they left Saturday morning for Lincoln to consult a specialist in regard to Mr. Barrett's condition, which was a complicated case of nervous breakdown, kidney and heart trouble, which for the past three months had been very serious, although the doctor experienced a former attack about 1 1/2 years ago, from which he never fully recovered.
In the death of Dr. Barrett many grieved and shed tears with the bereaved family. For twenty-nine years he faced the elements in driving the hills about Lawrence in answering the calls of humanity for medical aid. The storm was never too fierce for him and his call to duty was the most sacred trust of his life. His life was one of sacrifice to his profession as he frequently remarked to those about him that his pecuniary gains had been very moderate in return for the labor and energy of an active life. The doctor graduated at Iowa City, locating in Lawrence in 1886. He began his life work with the advent of Lawrence on the map and here he was satisfied to stay among the people to whom he had endeared himself such as the faithful country doctor can who is the first called in an hour when sickness and distress invades the home.
He was 54 years of age. He married Miss Lizzie Bentler at St. Stephens, in November 1888. To them has been born six children, two preceding the father in death. To the devoted, faithful wife, and bereft children and brother the most profound and affectionate sympathy is tendered them by the community.
The funeral from the Church of the Sacred Heart Wednesday morning was very large. Schools were dismissed and business houses were closed during the church services. The floral offerings from the businessmen, public school, societies and friends were indeed, a beautiful testimony of the love and extreme in which the departed was held in the community. Interment at St. Stephens.
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The Lawrence Locomotive (Lawrence, NE), Friday, January 22, 1915; pg. 1
Obituary
John Edmund Barrett was born in Ashland, Pennsylvania, August 17th, 1860. With his parents he moved, in 1864, to Iowa County, Iowa. In 1877, he went to Iowa City, where he attended the Iowa City Academy, graduating in 1881. He then entered the Iowa State University and spent one year in the School of Liberal Arts when he decided to take up the study of medicine which school he entered in 1882, and from which he graduated in 1886. After his graduation he went to Chicago and took a postgraduate course at the Chicago University. Returning in the fall, he located at What Cheer, Iowa, but finding the field unfavorable, he decided to go west, finally locating at St. Stephens, in 1886.
When Lawrence was founded, he became one of her pioneers and has practiced his profession in this place, for twenty-nine years. He also served his county in the office of coroner for nine years and in the capacity of secretary of the county board of health for ten years.
On November 13th, 1888, he was united in holy wedlock to Elizabeth M. Bentler, of Council Bluff, Iowa, to which happy union was born six children of which four survive to console the lonely wife and widow.
Dr. J. E. Barrett Called By Death
Sunday evening word was phoned to Lawrence from Evart's sanitarium at Lincoln that Dr. Barrett, who had gone there from his home here, the day before, had quietly passed away while resting in bed, the direct cause of death evidently being heart disease. The doctor's brother, Pat Barrett, was absent from the room when the summons came to unexpectedly, as there was seemingly nothing in the patient's condition to indicate that death was at hand.
Accompanied by H. Gilsdorf and the doctor's brother, they left Saturday morning for Lincoln to consult a specialist in regard to Mr. Barrett's condition, which was a complicated case of nervous breakdown, kidney and heart trouble, which for the past three months had been very serious, although the doctor experienced a former attack about 1 1/2 years ago, from which he never fully recovered.
In the death of Dr. Barrett many grieved and shed tears with the bereaved family. For twenty-nine years he faced the elements in driving the hills about Lawrence in answering the calls of humanity for medical aid. The storm was never too fierce for him and his call to duty was the most sacred trust of his life. His life was one of sacrifice to his profession as he frequently remarked to those about him that his pecuniary gains had been very moderate in return for the labor and energy of an active life. The doctor graduated at Iowa City, locating in Lawrence in 1886. He began his life work with the advent of Lawrence on the map and here he was satisfied to stay among the people to whom he had endeared himself such as the faithful country doctor can who is the first called in an hour when sickness and distress invades the home.
He was 54 years of age. He married Miss Lizzie Bentler at St. Stephens, in November 1888. To them has been born six children, two preceding the father in death. To the devoted, faithful wife, and bereft children and brother the most profound and affectionate sympathy is tendered them by the community.
The funeral from the Church of the Sacred Heart Wednesday morning was very large. Schools were dismissed and business houses were closed during the church services. The floral offerings from the businessmen, public school, societies and friends were indeed, a beautiful testimony of the love and extreme in which the departed was held in the community. Interment at St. Stephens.
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The Lawrence Locomotive (Lawrence, NE), Friday, January 22, 1915; pg. 1
Obituary
John Edmund Barrett was born in Ashland, Pennsylvania, August 17th, 1860. With his parents he moved, in 1864, to Iowa County, Iowa. In 1877, he went to Iowa City, where he attended the Iowa City Academy, graduating in 1881. He then entered the Iowa State University and spent one year in the School of Liberal Arts when he decided to take up the study of medicine which school he entered in 1882, and from which he graduated in 1886. After his graduation he went to Chicago and took a postgraduate course at the Chicago University. Returning in the fall, he located at What Cheer, Iowa, but finding the field unfavorable, he decided to go west, finally locating at St. Stephens, in 1886.
When Lawrence was founded, he became one of her pioneers and has practiced his profession in this place, for twenty-nine years. He also served his county in the office of coroner for nine years and in the capacity of secretary of the county board of health for ten years.
On November 13th, 1888, he was united in holy wedlock to Elizabeth M. Bentler, of Council Bluff, Iowa, to which happy union was born six children of which four survive to console the lonely wife and widow.
The Lawrence Locomotive (Lawrence, NE), Friday, January 15, 1915; pg. 1
Dr. J. E. Barrett Called By Death
Sunday evening word was phoned to Lawrence from Evart's sanitarium at Lincoln that Dr. Barrett, who had gone there from his home here, the day before, had quietly passed away while resting in bed, the direct cause of death evidently being heart disease. The doctor's brother, Pat Barrett, was absent from the room when the summons came to unexpectedly, as there was seemingly nothing in the patient's condition to indicate that death was at hand.
Accompanied by H. Gilsdorf and the doctor's brother, they left Saturday morning for Lincoln to consult a specialist in regard to Mr. Barrett's condition, which was a complicated case of nervous breakdown, kidney and heart trouble, which for the past three months had been very serious, although the doctor experienced a former attack about 1 1/2 years ago, from which he never fully recovered.
In the death of Dr. Barrett many grieved and shed tears with the bereaved family. For twenty-nine years he faced the elements in driving the hills about Lawrence in answering the calls of humanity for medical aid. The storm was never too fierce for him and his call to duty was the most sacred trust of his life. His life was one of sacrifice to his profession as he frequently remarked to those about him that his pecuniary gains had been very moderate in return for the labor and energy of an active life. The doctor graduated at Iowa City, locating in Lawrence in 1886. He began his life work with the advent of Lawrence on the map and here he was satisfied to stay among the people to whom he had endeared himself such as the faithful country doctor can who is the first called in an hour when sickness and distress invades the home.
He was 54 years of age. He married Miss Lizzie Bentler at St. Stephens, in November 1888. To them has been born six children, two preceding the father in death. To the devoted, faithful wife, and bereft children and brother the most profound and affectionate sympathy is tendered them by the community.
The funeral from the Church of the Sacred Heart Wednesday morning was very large. Schools were dismissed and business houses were closed during the church services. The floral offerings from the businessmen, public school, societies and friends were indeed, a beautiful testimony of the love and extreme in which the departed was held in the community. Interment at St. Stephens.
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The Lawrence Locomotive (Lawrence, NE), Friday, January 22, 1915; pg. 1
Obituary
John Edmund Barrett was born in Ashland, Pennsylvania, August 17th, 1860. With his parents he moved, in 1864, to Iowa County, Iowa. In 1877, he went to Iowa City, where he attended the Iowa City Academy, graduating in 1881. He then entered the Iowa State University and spent one year in the School of Liberal Arts when he decided to take up the study of medicine which school he entered in 1882, and from which he graduated in 1886. After his graduation he went to Chicago and took a postgraduate course at the Chicago University. Returning in the fall, he located at What Cheer, Iowa, but finding the field unfavorable, he decided to go west, finally locating at St. Stephens, in 1886.
When Lawrence was founded, he became one of her pioneers and has practiced his profession in this place, for twenty-nine years. He also served his county in the office of coroner for nine years and in the capacity of secretary of the county board of health for ten years.
On November 13th, 1888, he was united in holy wedlock to Elizabeth M. Bentler, of Council Bluff, Iowa, to which happy union was born six children of which four survive to console the lonely wife and widow.
Dr. J. E. Barrett Called By Death
Sunday evening word was phoned to Lawrence from Evart's sanitarium at Lincoln that Dr. Barrett, who had gone there from his home here, the day before, had quietly passed away while resting in bed, the direct cause of death evidently being heart disease. The doctor's brother, Pat Barrett, was absent from the room when the summons came to unexpectedly, as there was seemingly nothing in the patient's condition to indicate that death was at hand.
Accompanied by H. Gilsdorf and the doctor's brother, they left Saturday morning for Lincoln to consult a specialist in regard to Mr. Barrett's condition, which was a complicated case of nervous breakdown, kidney and heart trouble, which for the past three months had been very serious, although the doctor experienced a former attack about 1 1/2 years ago, from which he never fully recovered.
In the death of Dr. Barrett many grieved and shed tears with the bereaved family. For twenty-nine years he faced the elements in driving the hills about Lawrence in answering the calls of humanity for medical aid. The storm was never too fierce for him and his call to duty was the most sacred trust of his life. His life was one of sacrifice to his profession as he frequently remarked to those about him that his pecuniary gains had been very moderate in return for the labor and energy of an active life. The doctor graduated at Iowa City, locating in Lawrence in 1886. He began his life work with the advent of Lawrence on the map and here he was satisfied to stay among the people to whom he had endeared himself such as the faithful country doctor can who is the first called in an hour when sickness and distress invades the home.
He was 54 years of age. He married Miss Lizzie Bentler at St. Stephens, in November 1888. To them has been born six children, two preceding the father in death. To the devoted, faithful wife, and bereft children and brother the most profound and affectionate sympathy is tendered them by the community.
The funeral from the Church of the Sacred Heart Wednesday morning was very large. Schools were dismissed and business houses were closed during the church services. The floral offerings from the businessmen, public school, societies and friends were indeed, a beautiful testimony of the love and extreme in which the departed was held in the community. Interment at St. Stephens.
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The Lawrence Locomotive (Lawrence, NE), Friday, January 22, 1915; pg. 1
Obituary
John Edmund Barrett was born in Ashland, Pennsylvania, August 17th, 1860. With his parents he moved, in 1864, to Iowa County, Iowa. In 1877, he went to Iowa City, where he attended the Iowa City Academy, graduating in 1881. He then entered the Iowa State University and spent one year in the School of Liberal Arts when he decided to take up the study of medicine which school he entered in 1882, and from which he graduated in 1886. After his graduation he went to Chicago and took a postgraduate course at the Chicago University. Returning in the fall, he located at What Cheer, Iowa, but finding the field unfavorable, he decided to go west, finally locating at St. Stephens, in 1886.
When Lawrence was founded, he became one of her pioneers and has practiced his profession in this place, for twenty-nine years. He also served his county in the office of coroner for nine years and in the capacity of secretary of the county board of health for ten years.
On November 13th, 1888, he was united in holy wedlock to Elizabeth M. Bentler, of Council Bluff, Iowa, to which happy union was born six children of which four survive to console the lonely wife and widow.
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