1880 U. S. census: Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA. Occupation: Hardware Merchant.
Obituary from the Le Mars Sentinel (Le Mars, America Township, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA) on Thursday, November 17, 1881:
OBITUARY.
Levi C. LaRue.
On Wednesday night, November 9, 1881, at 9:30 o'clock, died Levi Gray LaRue, aged 31 years, 11 months, 1 day.
Did our duty as a journalist permit, we would add nothing to the bewilderingly sad announcement - Levi LaRue is dead. We knew him as intimately as it is allowed for one man to know another, and his death comes to us as a deep, personal grief. He was so modest and retiring in his disposition, and so shrewd 'withal, that but few indeed had opportunity to get a glimpse of his inner life - and only these few can tell of the native nobility of his soul and the lofty aims he cherished. He had a profound knowledge of human nature, and rated every man with whom he came in contact at his true value. He loathed shams, frauds and hypocrisies, and detected them with unerring instinct. He had an unbounded charity for the weaknesses incident to humanity, and so ordered his own life that he was a universal favorite. The slightest acquaintance with him secured respect, which ripened into admiration and affection on more intimate fellowship. While he was affable to all, and just to everyone, but his friends he grappled to his soul with books of steel. And thus it came that during the two weeks in which his life was ebbing away from a bed of sickness, the whole city and the hundreds of farmers who came hither, asked daily and hourly, with bated breath, "How is Levi?" Even the children paused in their play, and with deep concern would inquire after his welfare. Two or three mornings before his death, the writer was returning from the sickroom, as the children were going to school. They saw him coming and stopped at a street corner, fifteen or twenty of them, till his arrival, and eagerly asked after the sick man. When told that he was easier, the seemed relieved, and skipped off with lighter steps and brighter eyes. There was a kindiness and manliness in him that seemed to touch a responsive chord in every heart, and when at last the sad words, "Levi is dead," passed from lip to lip, each one felt as if he had lost a dear friend.
The deceased was born on a farm in Senaca county, Ohio, December 8, 1849. His people came from Steuben county, New York, and settled on the Western Reserve in an early day. His father was a man of strong religious convictions, a leading and active member of the Baptist church, and gave to his family a careful training. Levi attended the district school, after the manner of farmer's boys, but showed a more than usual aptitude for learning. When old enough he was sent to Hillsdale College, in Michigan, and graduated there in 1869.
After completing his course, the young man went to Birmingham, Illinois, where for a year or so, he acted as bookkeeper for his uncle, Richard Gray, who was operating a large flouring mill. Wishing to become versed in mercantile affairs, he went to Pekin, Illinois, where he did duty as a salesman for a few months. The confinement not seeming to agree with him he thought he would try farming, so he went to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where his brother, C. W. LaRue, was in that business, and bought a farm. It was here he met for the first time George E. Pew, with whose name his own has, of late years, been so intimately associated. George and C. W. were working a farm as partners, and Levi bought within a few miles of them. The two young men formed a great attachment for each other, that indeed, only grew stronger as the years rolled swiftly by. In the winter of '73-4 Levi sold his farm, and travelled for a Peoria house. In the meantime George E. Pew had come to Le Mars and engaged with H. W. VanSickel as salesman of agricultural implements. Pew saw a good opening for a man like LaRue and invited him to come here, which he did in 1876. The two bought out a concern in Sibley, and Levi went into the business of handling implements, coal, wood and grain for the new-made firm of Pew & LaRue, while Pew continued in Le Mars. That winter Pew & LaRue bought out VanSickel, and on the 1st of February, 1877, began business in Le Mars.
Since that time the career of Mr. LaRue is known to most of our readers. He was a splendid business man and an indefatigable worker. In business circles his word was as good as gold, and the firm of Pew & LaRue came to stand in the highest esteem wherever it was known.
Mr. LaRue has a fine, erect figure, and a constitution that gave promise of a long life. He was strictly temperate in all his habits, unless a too assiduous devotion to business be characterized as a species of intemperance. He began complaining of pains in his head some two weeks before he was taken down, but with the persistence of strong, healthy men, he paid no heed. His sickness developed into malarial fever, when he was taken to the home of his partner, Mr. Pew. Here everything that medical skill and the most assiduous attention of friends could do, was done. His brother, C. W. LaRue, came on from Ohio, and added his fraternal care to that of all the others, but it was of no avail. On Wednesday night of last week the active spirit of Levi G. LaRue passed gently away, and his form lay in the cold embrace of dreamless death.
On Thursday, after a brief, but touching service by the Rev. H. N. Cunningham, his remains were escorted by a large concourse of our citizens to the Union depot, where they were placed aboard the express and taken to Tiffin, Ohio, for interment, accompanied by C. W. LaRue, brother of the deceased, and Harry VanSickel, his faithful attendant during his illness.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967) • [email protected]
Obituary from the Le Mars Sentinel (Le Mars, America Township, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA) on Thursday, November 17, 1881:
OBITUARY.
Levi C. LaRue.
On Wednesday night, November 9, 1881, at 9:30 o'clock, died Levi Gray LaRue, aged 31 years, 11 months, 1 day.
Did our duty as a journalist permit, we would add nothing to the bewilderingly sad announcement - Levi LaRue is dead. We knew him as intimately as it is allowed for one man to know another, and his death comes to us as a deep, personal grief. He was so modest and retiring in his disposition, and so shrewd 'withal, that but few indeed had opportunity to get a glimpse of his inner life - and only these few can tell of the native nobility of his soul and the lofty aims he cherished. He had a profound knowledge of human nature, and rated every man with whom he came in contact at his true value. He loathed shams, frauds and hypocrisies, and detected them with unerring instinct. He had an unbounded charity for the weaknesses incident to humanity, and so ordered his own life that he was a universal favorite. The slightest acquaintance with him secured respect, which ripened into admiration and affection on more intimate fellowship. While he was affable to all, and just to everyone, but his friends he grappled to his soul with books of steel. And thus it came that during the two weeks in which his life was ebbing away from a bed of sickness, the whole city and the hundreds of farmers who came hither, asked daily and hourly, with bated breath, "How is Levi?" Even the children paused in their play, and with deep concern would inquire after his welfare. Two or three mornings before his death, the writer was returning from the sickroom, as the children were going to school. They saw him coming and stopped at a street corner, fifteen or twenty of them, till his arrival, and eagerly asked after the sick man. When told that he was easier, the seemed relieved, and skipped off with lighter steps and brighter eyes. There was a kindiness and manliness in him that seemed to touch a responsive chord in every heart, and when at last the sad words, "Levi is dead," passed from lip to lip, each one felt as if he had lost a dear friend.
The deceased was born on a farm in Senaca county, Ohio, December 8, 1849. His people came from Steuben county, New York, and settled on the Western Reserve in an early day. His father was a man of strong religious convictions, a leading and active member of the Baptist church, and gave to his family a careful training. Levi attended the district school, after the manner of farmer's boys, but showed a more than usual aptitude for learning. When old enough he was sent to Hillsdale College, in Michigan, and graduated there in 1869.
After completing his course, the young man went to Birmingham, Illinois, where for a year or so, he acted as bookkeeper for his uncle, Richard Gray, who was operating a large flouring mill. Wishing to become versed in mercantile affairs, he went to Pekin, Illinois, where he did duty as a salesman for a few months. The confinement not seeming to agree with him he thought he would try farming, so he went to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where his brother, C. W. LaRue, was in that business, and bought a farm. It was here he met for the first time George E. Pew, with whose name his own has, of late years, been so intimately associated. George and C. W. were working a farm as partners, and Levi bought within a few miles of them. The two young men formed a great attachment for each other, that indeed, only grew stronger as the years rolled swiftly by. In the winter of '73-4 Levi sold his farm, and travelled for a Peoria house. In the meantime George E. Pew had come to Le Mars and engaged with H. W. VanSickel as salesman of agricultural implements. Pew saw a good opening for a man like LaRue and invited him to come here, which he did in 1876. The two bought out a concern in Sibley, and Levi went into the business of handling implements, coal, wood and grain for the new-made firm of Pew & LaRue, while Pew continued in Le Mars. That winter Pew & LaRue bought out VanSickel, and on the 1st of February, 1877, began business in Le Mars.
Since that time the career of Mr. LaRue is known to most of our readers. He was a splendid business man and an indefatigable worker. In business circles his word was as good as gold, and the firm of Pew & LaRue came to stand in the highest esteem wherever it was known.
Mr. LaRue has a fine, erect figure, and a constitution that gave promise of a long life. He was strictly temperate in all his habits, unless a too assiduous devotion to business be characterized as a species of intemperance. He began complaining of pains in his head some two weeks before he was taken down, but with the persistence of strong, healthy men, he paid no heed. His sickness developed into malarial fever, when he was taken to the home of his partner, Mr. Pew. Here everything that medical skill and the most assiduous attention of friends could do, was done. His brother, C. W. LaRue, came on from Ohio, and added his fraternal care to that of all the others, but it was of no avail. On Wednesday night of last week the active spirit of Levi G. LaRue passed gently away, and his form lay in the cold embrace of dreamless death.
On Thursday, after a brief, but touching service by the Rev. H. N. Cunningham, his remains were escorted by a large concourse of our citizens to the Union depot, where they were placed aboard the express and taken to Tiffin, Ohio, for interment, accompanied by C. W. LaRue, brother of the deceased, and Harry VanSickel, his faithful attendant during his illness.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967) • [email protected]
1880 U. S. census: Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA. Occupation: Hardware Merchant.
Obituary from the Le Mars Sentinel (Le Mars, America Township, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA) on Thursday, November 17, 1881:
OBITUARY.
Levi C. LaRue.
On Wednesday night, November 9, 1881, at 9:30 o'clock, died Levi Gray LaRue, aged 31 years, 11 months, 1 day.
Did our duty as a journalist permit, we would add nothing to the bewilderingly sad announcement - Levi LaRue is dead. We knew him as intimately as it is allowed for one man to know another, and his death comes to us as a deep, personal grief. He was so modest and retiring in his disposition, and so shrewd 'withal, that but few indeed had opportunity to get a glimpse of his inner life - and only these few can tell of the native nobility of his soul and the lofty aims he cherished. He had a profound knowledge of human nature, and rated every man with whom he came in contact at his true value. He loathed shams, frauds and hypocrisies, and detected them with unerring instinct. He had an unbounded charity for the weaknesses incident to humanity, and so ordered his own life that he was a universal favorite. The slightest acquaintance with him secured respect, which ripened into admiration and affection on more intimate fellowship. While he was affable to all, and just to everyone, but his friends he grappled to his soul with books of steel. And thus it came that during the two weeks in which his life was ebbing away from a bed of sickness, the whole city and the hundreds of farmers who came hither, asked daily and hourly, with bated breath, "How is Levi?" Even the children paused in their play, and with deep concern would inquire after his welfare. Two or three mornings before his death, the writer was returning from the sickroom, as the children were going to school. They saw him coming and stopped at a street corner, fifteen or twenty of them, till his arrival, and eagerly asked after the sick man. When told that he was easier, the seemed relieved, and skipped off with lighter steps and brighter eyes. There was a kindiness and manliness in him that seemed to touch a responsive chord in every heart, and when at last the sad words, "Levi is dead," passed from lip to lip, each one felt as if he had lost a dear friend.
The deceased was born on a farm in Senaca county, Ohio, December 8, 1849. His people came from Steuben county, New York, and settled on the Western Reserve in an early day. His father was a man of strong religious convictions, a leading and active member of the Baptist church, and gave to his family a careful training. Levi attended the district school, after the manner of farmer's boys, but showed a more than usual aptitude for learning. When old enough he was sent to Hillsdale College, in Michigan, and graduated there in 1869.
After completing his course, the young man went to Birmingham, Illinois, where for a year or so, he acted as bookkeeper for his uncle, Richard Gray, who was operating a large flouring mill. Wishing to become versed in mercantile affairs, he went to Pekin, Illinois, where he did duty as a salesman for a few months. The confinement not seeming to agree with him he thought he would try farming, so he went to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where his brother, C. W. LaRue, was in that business, and bought a farm. It was here he met for the first time George E. Pew, with whose name his own has, of late years, been so intimately associated. George and C. W. were working a farm as partners, and Levi bought within a few miles of them. The two young men formed a great attachment for each other, that indeed, only grew stronger as the years rolled swiftly by. In the winter of '73-4 Levi sold his farm, and travelled for a Peoria house. In the meantime George E. Pew had come to Le Mars and engaged with H. W. VanSickel as salesman of agricultural implements. Pew saw a good opening for a man like LaRue and invited him to come here, which he did in 1876. The two bought out a concern in Sibley, and Levi went into the business of handling implements, coal, wood and grain for the new-made firm of Pew & LaRue, while Pew continued in Le Mars. That winter Pew & LaRue bought out VanSickel, and on the 1st of February, 1877, began business in Le Mars.
Since that time the career of Mr. LaRue is known to most of our readers. He was a splendid business man and an indefatigable worker. In business circles his word was as good as gold, and the firm of Pew & LaRue came to stand in the highest esteem wherever it was known.
Mr. LaRue has a fine, erect figure, and a constitution that gave promise of a long life. He was strictly temperate in all his habits, unless a too assiduous devotion to business be characterized as a species of intemperance. He began complaining of pains in his head some two weeks before he was taken down, but with the persistence of strong, healthy men, he paid no heed. His sickness developed into malarial fever, when he was taken to the home of his partner, Mr. Pew. Here everything that medical skill and the most assiduous attention of friends could do, was done. His brother, C. W. LaRue, came on from Ohio, and added his fraternal care to that of all the others, but it was of no avail. On Wednesday night of last week the active spirit of Levi G. LaRue passed gently away, and his form lay in the cold embrace of dreamless death.
On Thursday, after a brief, but touching service by the Rev. H. N. Cunningham, his remains were escorted by a large concourse of our citizens to the Union depot, where they were placed aboard the express and taken to Tiffin, Ohio, for interment, accompanied by C. W. LaRue, brother of the deceased, and Harry VanSickel, his faithful attendant during his illness.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967) • [email protected]
Obituary from the Le Mars Sentinel (Le Mars, America Township, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA) on Thursday, November 17, 1881:
OBITUARY.
Levi C. LaRue.
On Wednesday night, November 9, 1881, at 9:30 o'clock, died Levi Gray LaRue, aged 31 years, 11 months, 1 day.
Did our duty as a journalist permit, we would add nothing to the bewilderingly sad announcement - Levi LaRue is dead. We knew him as intimately as it is allowed for one man to know another, and his death comes to us as a deep, personal grief. He was so modest and retiring in his disposition, and so shrewd 'withal, that but few indeed had opportunity to get a glimpse of his inner life - and only these few can tell of the native nobility of his soul and the lofty aims he cherished. He had a profound knowledge of human nature, and rated every man with whom he came in contact at his true value. He loathed shams, frauds and hypocrisies, and detected them with unerring instinct. He had an unbounded charity for the weaknesses incident to humanity, and so ordered his own life that he was a universal favorite. The slightest acquaintance with him secured respect, which ripened into admiration and affection on more intimate fellowship. While he was affable to all, and just to everyone, but his friends he grappled to his soul with books of steel. And thus it came that during the two weeks in which his life was ebbing away from a bed of sickness, the whole city and the hundreds of farmers who came hither, asked daily and hourly, with bated breath, "How is Levi?" Even the children paused in their play, and with deep concern would inquire after his welfare. Two or three mornings before his death, the writer was returning from the sickroom, as the children were going to school. They saw him coming and stopped at a street corner, fifteen or twenty of them, till his arrival, and eagerly asked after the sick man. When told that he was easier, the seemed relieved, and skipped off with lighter steps and brighter eyes. There was a kindiness and manliness in him that seemed to touch a responsive chord in every heart, and when at last the sad words, "Levi is dead," passed from lip to lip, each one felt as if he had lost a dear friend.
The deceased was born on a farm in Senaca county, Ohio, December 8, 1849. His people came from Steuben county, New York, and settled on the Western Reserve in an early day. His father was a man of strong religious convictions, a leading and active member of the Baptist church, and gave to his family a careful training. Levi attended the district school, after the manner of farmer's boys, but showed a more than usual aptitude for learning. When old enough he was sent to Hillsdale College, in Michigan, and graduated there in 1869.
After completing his course, the young man went to Birmingham, Illinois, where for a year or so, he acted as bookkeeper for his uncle, Richard Gray, who was operating a large flouring mill. Wishing to become versed in mercantile affairs, he went to Pekin, Illinois, where he did duty as a salesman for a few months. The confinement not seeming to agree with him he thought he would try farming, so he went to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where his brother, C. W. LaRue, was in that business, and bought a farm. It was here he met for the first time George E. Pew, with whose name his own has, of late years, been so intimately associated. George and C. W. were working a farm as partners, and Levi bought within a few miles of them. The two young men formed a great attachment for each other, that indeed, only grew stronger as the years rolled swiftly by. In the winter of '73-4 Levi sold his farm, and travelled for a Peoria house. In the meantime George E. Pew had come to Le Mars and engaged with H. W. VanSickel as salesman of agricultural implements. Pew saw a good opening for a man like LaRue and invited him to come here, which he did in 1876. The two bought out a concern in Sibley, and Levi went into the business of handling implements, coal, wood and grain for the new-made firm of Pew & LaRue, while Pew continued in Le Mars. That winter Pew & LaRue bought out VanSickel, and on the 1st of February, 1877, began business in Le Mars.
Since that time the career of Mr. LaRue is known to most of our readers. He was a splendid business man and an indefatigable worker. In business circles his word was as good as gold, and the firm of Pew & LaRue came to stand in the highest esteem wherever it was known.
Mr. LaRue has a fine, erect figure, and a constitution that gave promise of a long life. He was strictly temperate in all his habits, unless a too assiduous devotion to business be characterized as a species of intemperance. He began complaining of pains in his head some two weeks before he was taken down, but with the persistence of strong, healthy men, he paid no heed. His sickness developed into malarial fever, when he was taken to the home of his partner, Mr. Pew. Here everything that medical skill and the most assiduous attention of friends could do, was done. His brother, C. W. LaRue, came on from Ohio, and added his fraternal care to that of all the others, but it was of no avail. On Wednesday night of last week the active spirit of Levi G. LaRue passed gently away, and his form lay in the cold embrace of dreamless death.
On Thursday, after a brief, but touching service by the Rev. H. N. Cunningham, his remains were escorted by a large concourse of our citizens to the Union depot, where they were placed aboard the express and taken to Tiffin, Ohio, for interment, accompanied by C. W. LaRue, brother of the deceased, and Harry VanSickel, his faithful attendant during his illness.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967) • [email protected]
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