A Good Man At Rest

CITY ASSESSOR P. O'HEARN DIED THIS MORNING.

He was a Man of Upright Character and Without an Enemy Who Left an Honorable Record.

Patrick O'Hearn died at 1 o'clock this morning at his home 206 N. Thayer st. He was Ann Arbor's first and only city assessor, and had been elected time and again without opposition, a tribute which comes to but few men, especially to a position which requires such admirable qualities of heart and head to keep from making a host of enemies. Mr. O'Hearn's death comes as a shock to his friends although it had been long expected. He had been ailing for some time. The funeral services will be held at St. Thomas church, Thursday morning at 9:30 o'clock local time.

Patrick O'Hearn was the son of William and Catherine (Brown) O'Hearn, and born in New York city, Dec. 12, 1830. When seven years of age he with his parents removed to a farm in Green Oak, Livingston county. Here he attended the district schools and helped his parents on the farm. After reaching manhood he in company with John Welch started a grocery in the old Buchoz block on Detroit st. Later he went to New Orleans, where he spent several years in business. On his return he accepted the position of bookkeeper with the Ann Arbor Agricultural Co. For a year he was in Howell; the bookkeeper of Weinmeister & O'Hearn. He then became bookkeeper for Tolbert's lumber yard which position he filled until the time that his official duties as assessor demanded his entire attention. About the year 1860 he married Catherine, the daughter of Martin Howard, of Northfield. She died 19 years ago. Seven children of whom six survive blessed their union. The surviving children, Mary, May, Clara, Stella, C. Frank, the well known mail carrier, all of Ann Arbor, and George, of Detroit, for many years a trusted employee in the train dispatchers' office 'of the Michigan Central.

Mr. O'Hearn was one of the most greatly respected men in the community, his uprightness of character and frank manners gaining the respect and friendship of all who knew him. When the city charter was changed from the old supervisor system to that of an assessor, he was elected to that office. He gave such universal satisfaction that during the nine years that he held this office he only once had a competítor.

Previous to his election as assessor he had for a series of years held the office of supervisor of the third and fourth wards and it was his eminent success in this office which made him by common consent the logical candidate for assessor.

Mr. O'Hearn was a man without enemies. He was a kindly man, thoroughly conscientious in all his work, never a self seeker or self pusher. He was a man of incorruptible integrity, against whose official or private actions there was never a shadow of imputation and whom everyone trusted. The whole city will miss him and his place will be hard to fill.

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JOHN BAUMGAEDNER, Ann Arbor Electric Granite Works.