Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — ERNEST GOWLAND KILLED IN FALL [ARTICLE]

ERNEST GOWLAND KILLED IN FALL

SON OF HENRY GOWLAND KILLED IN CHICAGO TUESDAY FOLLOWING FALL --r • < Word was received here * today of the death' of Ernest B. Gowland of 10,215 Vernon Ave., Chicago, who was killed Tuesday afternoon :in a fall through a skylight at the I Swift & Co. plant where he was ' employed. Mr. Gowland . Was repairing a roof at the plant at • Justine and Forty-second streets 'when the accident which resulted in ’ his death occurred. His death was j instantaneous. •_ Mr. Gowland is the son of Henry Gowland and nephew of Mrs. Thos. Redgate of this city, and resided in this city until he had completed his school career, having left here about fifteen years ago, being employed in Nebraska and Kansas before taking up his residence in Chicago. Mr. Gowland attended Rensselaer high school, giving up his school [life in his Senior year. His marriage to Miss Hazel Hurd, <ormen* ly a resident of this city, occurred a short time later. . The deceased is survived by his wife and three children, 10, 9 and 4 years. - The funeral arrangements have not been completed but it is thought that burial will be made in’ Chicago. Mr. Gowland was employed as a traveling auditor by-Swift & Co., । and was about thirty-foiy years of age. / ‘p