Portage County, Wisconsin
Obituaries


Mrs. Martin Cahill
Stevens Point Daily Journal (Stevens Point, Wis.) Saturday, 22 Feb. 1896; submitted by FoFG; MZ

Mrs. Martin Cahill died at her home on Strongs avenue at 3:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. She had been afflicted for the past year with eczema. Mrs. Cahill was born in Wexlord county, Ireland, but her exact age is not known at the present writing. Her first husband, Mr. Hazard, was killed in the army and on December 4, 1870, she was, married to Martin Cahill in this city. Mr. Cahill built what is now the Arlington house in 1873, and kept it under the name of the Cahill house until June 1, 1885, when it was bought by M. Cassidy and the name changed to the Arlington. Mr. Cahill died in April, 1889. Mrs. Cahill had no children, but an adopted daughter, Mrs. Dominick Kennedy lives on Water street.


William Calverly
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Wood County, Wis.) Tuesday, 21 Oct. 1986; contributed by Ron Flink & transcribed by Marla Zwakman
 
William E. Calverly, 71, Route 1, Ettrick, father of Debra Gukenberger, Marshfield, died Sunday at a La Crosse hospital.
 
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Fossum Funeral Home, Ettrick. Burial will be in Ettrick Cemetery.
 
Visitation will be from 7-9 tonight at the funeral home.
 
Mr. Calverly was born Aug. 21, 1915, in Bancroft to James and Mae Calverley.
 
He married Henrietta White Harmston Nov. 21, 1960, in Waukon, Iowa. She survives.
 
He retired two years ago and for the last five years was a security guard at Arcadia Furniture Co., Arcadia. He was an over-the-road semi driver. His longest employment was with Gross Trucking, Wisconsin Rapids.
 
He was a member of the Teamsters Union, Chicago, for 30 years.
 
Surviving, besides his wife and daughter are three sons, Robert and Harry, both of Wisconsin Rapids, and James, Anoka, Minn.; two step-sons, Charles Harmston, Hebron, Ind., and Howard Harmston, Arcadia; four other daughters, Joyce White, La Crosse, Donna Mehlbrech, Waukesha, Gladys DePatie, Oaklawn, Ill. And Ethel Reiter, Ettrick; 25 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
 
He was predeceased by a brother.


Gavin A. Campbell
Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Hennepin Co. MN) 16 Mar. 1899 - Sub. by Brenda W.

MANKATO EDUCATOR
Died at Stevens Point Last Night - Prominently Connected.
Stevens Point, Wis., March 15. - Gavin Archibald Campbell, a teacher of languages and history in the Mankato, Minn., high school, died here Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock. The deceased was 29 years old and graduated from the Stevens Point high school in 1887, from Phillips, Andover, in 1890 and from Williams in 1898. He also took a post-graduate course at Chicago University. He was the second son of the late Gavin Campbell, division superintendent of the Wisconsin Central lines. He was a Master Mason in the local lodge.



Gavin Campbell
 Aberdeen Daily News (Aberdeen, S.D.) 1 Feb. 1894 - Sub. by Brenda W.

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1. - Gavin Campbell, general superintendent of the Wisconsin Central road, died at Stevens Point after a prolonged illness, the result of overwork. The deceased was 58 years of age.

JOHN K. CANTWELL
Gazette (Stevens Point, Wis.) Wednesday, 31 Mar. 1909; MZ submitted by FoFG

John Richard Cantwell, only son of Mrs. P. H. Cantwell, 1031 Normal avenue, passed away at the family home at 7 o'clock last Friday morning, death being due to tuberculosis, with which he had suffered for several months. He appeared to improve at one time, but thereafter Slight's disease began to manifest itself, followed by bronchial pneumonia and rheumatism. Some weeks were spent at West Baden, Ind., and with his sister at Minneapolis, he being brought to the home of his mother three weeks before the final dissolution, gradually growing weaker to the end, but always retaining hope of recovery.

The deceased young man was a native of La Crosse county, born in the town of Burns, Sept. 20, 1878, and was in his 31st year. His boyhood days were spent in his home town and at Bangor, and about 9 years ago he went to Madison, where he held a clerkship in the Sherlock hotel for six years, and for three years before be was obliged to give up work he was employed in a like capacity in the Meyers house at Janesville. He had visited here a number of times, making many friends among all whom he met, and at Madison and Janesville his circle of friends was especially large.

Besides his mother the deceased leaves four sisters, all of whom were with him for several days before the final dissolution. These are Mrs. D. A. Petre of Minneapolis. Mrs. C. A. Yates, of Madison, and Misses Lucy and Mamie, of this city, Miss Lucy being a teacher in the Minneapolis schools.

The remains were taken to Bangor on the 9:15 train Monday morning, brief services being held at the residence by Rev. J. A. Stemen, and after the arrival of the train at Bangor in the afternoon, services were conducted at the Presbyterian church there by Mr. Stemen, internment following in the cemetery in the town of Burns beside those of the father who died a number of years ago.



Fred J. Carpenter
Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, St. Louis Co. Wis.) 29 Aug. 1908

WISCONSIN LEGISLATOR DEAD.
STEVENS POINT, Wis., Aug. 28. - Fred J. Carpenter, member of the assembly for Portage county in the Wisconsin legislature, died at his home here yesterday afternoon, after suffering for six months with cerebral hemorrhage. He was 37 years of age and had served six years in the assembly. He was a member of the firm of Park & Carpenter, attorneys.

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