Frank D. Cadogan
Utica Saturday Globe, May 2015
Frank D. Cadogan
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: At the home of his son, Frank H. Cadogan, in Utica [Oneida Co., NY], Monday night occurred the unexpected death of Frank D. Cadogan, aged about 60. Mr. Cadogan retired at the usual hour and apparently in his usual health. Members of the family were greatly shocked the next morning to find that he had expired during the night, from heart failure. Mr. Cadogan was a native of Norwich and had spent the larger part of his life here, marrying Miss Keyes. For a number of years he was an upholsterer in the employ of the furniture firm of Breese & Clarke and later was a resident for 10 years of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he was a fire boss in the coal mines. Returning to Norwich a few years ago he had since made his home here with his son, James L. Cadogan, until last October he went to Utica to reside with his son, Frank. Besides his two sons he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Delin Bowers and Mrs. Hattie Cline, both residents of Norwich. The body was brought to this city Thursday morning and taken direct to Mount Hope Cemetery, where brief burial services were held from the chapel.
Hiram H. Tucker
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 6, 1904
Death never came in a more sudden or unexpected way than it came to Hiram H. Tucker of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday, Jan. 2, 1904. Mr. Tucker had been confined to his room for several days with a badly sprained leg, but aside from this injury apparently enjoyed his usual good health. Saturday morning he seemed unusually cheerful but preferred to remain in bed so that the injured member could be kept in a comfortable position. Often while he had been thus confined his family had heard him whistling and singing as they moved about in adjoining rooms and so it was that a humming sound heard by Mrs. Tucker while she was preparing his morning meal aroused no alarm. However, when she returned to his room after an absence of scarcely two minutes he was gasping for breath. Medical assistance was hastily summoned but he passed away almost before the first physician reached his side. Death is attributed to weakness of the heart. Hiram H. Tucker was born in the town of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] Jan. 25, 1854. He was deprived of a father's care in his early years but in 1860 occurred his mother's marriage to Reuben B. Aldrich of Norwich, and on the farm of the latter which is located in the western part of the town, the boy grew to manhood. When he was thirteen years of age he united with the First Baptist church of this village and ever afterward lived a consistent Christian life. He was educated in the old Norwich academy and at Lowell Business college at Binghamton. While a student at the latter institution he became a proficient telegraph operator and in 1878, soon after leaving college, he entered the employ of the Delaware and Lackawanna railway company which he faithfully served until his death. His first position was that of station agent at Hamilton. From there he was transferred to Brisbin and later to Richfield Junction. For seven years he was chief train despatcher for the Utica division of the Lackawanna with an office at Utica. Sixteen years ago, because of impaired health, he resigned his position and accepted that of station agent at Sherburne. During these years he has interested himself in every movement which has tended to the improvement of the village he made his home. His business interests at Sherburne were manifold. Beside attending to his duties as station and express agent, he owned and operated an extensive coal and creamery business. Though never a politician he was many times honored by the Prohibitionists of the county, having been their candidate for the assembly at the last election. For several years he was a member of the Sherburne board of education and at the time of his death was the chairman of that board. In the church he was always a pillar of strength, having served for many years as leader of the choir. In every emergency he could be counted upon as an active agent for good. In the town of Sherburne and in every locality which has ever been his home, they are many who know of Mr. Tucker's generosity and benevolence and are saddened by his sudden death. Quite, unassuming, and genial in his demeanor, he numbered among his friends all who knew him. Charity was with him a primary principle and in his good deeds he always followed the scriptural injunction which "does not let the left hand know that the right hand doeth." At the time of his death Mr. Tucker was a member of the Maccabees and of the Whitmore Hose company of Sherburne; master elect of Sherburne Lodge No. 444, F.&A.M.; high priest of Chenango Chapter, No. 253, R.A.M.; member of Norwich Commandery No. 46, K.T.; also a member of the order of the Mystic Shrine at Utica. On Jan. 22, 1878, Mr. Tucker was united in marriage with Miss Jennie E. Crumb of Hamilton, who with one daughter, Alta, survive shim. he is also survived by his aged father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben B. Aldrich of Norwich, and by two brothers and a sister; Cory J. Aldrich and Mrs. Rand H.B. Evans of Norwich, and Venner A. Aldrich of Chepachet. In the death of Mr. Tucker, Chenango county has lost one of her most enterprising business men and influential citizens, a man of whom nothing but good was known. The funeral will be attended at the Baptist church in Sherburne on Tuesday, Jan. 5, at two o'clock p.m. The remains will be placed in the vault at Sherburne awaiting interment in the spring.
Henry Olendorf Shepard
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 6, 1904
The news that Henry Olendorf Shepard, president of the Chicago publishing company which bore his name, was dead was received with a great shock by his many Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] friends. Mr Shepard visited Norwich in July last, and at that time was in quite poor health. He was seriously ill after returning to his home, 342 Ashland avenue, Chicago, but partially recovered. The immediate cause of his death has not been learned. Mr. Shepard is survived by his wife and one daughter, Clara, and by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Shepard, who reside at Aurora, Ill., and by two sisters. Henry O. Shepard was the head of the firm of The Henry O. Shepard company, president of the Inland Printer company, and was one of Chicago's representative business men. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Shepard, and was born in Eaton, Madison county, New York, where he resided until he was nineteen years of age, when the family removed to Norwich. By permission of the late James H. Sinclair, for many years editor of the Chenango Union, he was granted the privilege of setting type before and after school hours with the result that when he went to learn his trade in the office of the Chenango Telegraph, he was well up in the art with the other compositors on the paper. In 1871 he went to Chicago, entering the establishment of Church, Goodman & Donnelly, where he remained between four and five years. In 1876 he assumed the foremanship of Knight & Leonard's one of the best known printing houses in Chicago at that time, which position he retained until August, 1880, when he formed a co-partnership with William Johnston, under the firm name of Shepard & Johnston. Fortune smiled on their endeavors, and in a short time they were compelled to seek more commodious quarters. There they remained for five years, acquiring, during that item, a reputation second to that of no printing firm in the United States. The business still increased and in March, 1887, the firm again moved to larger quarters. In September of the same year Mr Shepard purchased the interest of his partner, William Johnston, since which time the business has been conducted with the phenomenal success under the firm name of The Henry O. Shepard company. In January 1892, the firm removed to 212-214 Monroe street. In the meantime the firm had not only acquired a local, but a national reputation, and became recognized as one of the most prosperous and best conducted of its kind in the United States. It has recently erected a model printing plant at 120-130 Sherman street. The equipment is of the most modern and up-to-date machinery, and each department is under the immediate supervision of tried and experienced workmen, and a casual inspection of its various workrooms impresses the visitor with the fact that order is there recognized as nature's first law. It is the boast of the house that its imprint is a guarantee of good work, no matter what its character. Mr. Shepard was an active, wide awake, agreeable man of business, devoting his undivided time and energy to the interests of this large and growing establishment. As a man he was courteous and affable; as an employer just and considerate, and willing at all times to listen to and remove any grievance; as a friend, genial and whole souled; as a printer an honor to, his profession. He was probably the best known and most popular printer in the United States; no one prominent in the graphic arts in foreign countries ever visited the United States without calling on him. He was prominently identified with Masonic interests, was a member of the Press club and a member of the National Typothetan. Mr. Shepard was widely known, not only to printers of the United States, but to those in other parts of the world through his connections with the Inland Printer, the leading trade journal of the world in the printing and allied industries. This typographic art magazine now in its thirty-second volume, has been successful from the start, and is recognized authority on matters pertaining to the trade.
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