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Death Of Harvey Cornwell

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Day
6
Month
February
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Harvey Cornwell díedSaturday evening at 9 :30, at lii.s home, 24 North Ingalls St. I(íitli carne suddenly froni j heart diaease. Although Mr. Cornwell has for a long time been subject to heart trouble, he was feeliug better than usual on Saturday, and it was not supposed at all that he was dangerously ill. Late in the evening lie had an attack oí the oíd trouble and before a physician could be summoned by his family, he was dead. Cornelius Cornwell, his brother, died in Ypsilaníi, about six weeks ago, and it is thought that the excitement and exertion produced by his going to Ypsilanti to attend the funeral made his trouble worse. Mr. Cornwell leaves a widow and three children, all the latter being married. They are: Wirt Cornwell, of Cornwell Place, this city ; Mrs. Ed. Darrow, of Chicago, and Mrs. Alford Graber, of Findlay, Ohio. The latter was present at the time of her father's death. Ile had only one brother living. Henry Cornwell. of 44 N. División street, and one sister, Mis. Snyder, of Ypsüanti. The lunenu occurreu iucsday morning at 10 o'clock at the iainily residence on Ingalls street. The following acted as pall bearers : Ambrose Kearney, Moses Seabolt, Patrick O'Hearn, David Kinaey, Edwai-d Duif y and H. W. Hayes. Harvey Cornwell was boni Nov. 4. 1820, in East Haddam, Conn. In 183(i, lus parents carne to Michigan and sottled in Monroe county, where the father died in 1S71 and the mother a few years before. Mr. Cornwell was the second son and cbild of a family of nine. When he carne to Michigan he pursued agricultural work until 1850, when he went to California and spent two yeara in gold mining. Retuming to Michigan in 1852 he settled in Washtenaw county going into the paper-mill business with bis brothers, Henry and Cornelius. For inany years he was connected with the ïpsilanti paper mili, and he rfwned a large interest in the Ann Arbor paper and puip milis. Besides tliis, Mr. Cornwell was intorested in a pulp mili at Jackson and one at Foster's. He was a Btockholder in the Farmer's and Mcchanics Bank and was its vice-president for three years. In 1855 Mr. Cornwell was married to Miss Alice Shannon, of this county, who, together with the three children mentioned aboye, survivea him.

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Ann Arbor Courier