Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — Hugh Gamble Funeral Held at Lake Forest Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

Hugh Gamble Funeral Held at Lake Forest Wednesday.

Mrs. H. J. Kannal and Hugh Kirk went to Lake Forest, 111., Wednesday to attend the funeral of Hugh L. Gamble, the well known Rensselaer civil engineer, who died there Monday evening. Burial was made in Graceland cemetery, Chicago, beside Mr. Gamble’s first wife and child, Wednesday afternoon. Hugh had been in poor health for several months, and was taken from Rensselaer to Lake Forest’ a few weeks ago by ltis brother-in-law, Mr. Hun toon, where he was being treated. He continued to gradually tail however, and ids death resulted ai about (>;3O o’clock Monday evening. His age was about 55 years. He was twice married, his first wife and child dying many years ago. Mr. Gamble came to Rensselaer some twenty years ago anil married -Mis Cl life Alter, a daughter of Dr. M. B. Alter, deceased, for his second v < i “. She died in the fall of 1904. They had no children. Mr. Gamble was a very capable engineer and had done a -great Meal or surveying work on large ditches iu Jasper county, among the more prominent 'being that oi Hie Kankakee river or Marble ditch and the Borntrager ditch, ill' was well known all through central and northern Jasper and was the Progressive candidate for surveyor in the 1914 campaign. Ilis death was caused by What is commonly known to medical men as Riggs’ disease.