People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Dr. Victor E. Loughridge. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Victor E. Loughridge.

After an illness of about two weeks death came to relieve the suffering of Rensselaer’s talented and highly respected young physician, Dr. Victor E. Loughridge, on the morning of Saturday, March 21, 18$6 at the age of 32 years, 9 months and 22 days. . The year is but half gone since the esteemed father, Dr. J. H. Loughridge was laid to rest on Weston Hill, and this double affliction falls heavily on the devoted family. Dr. Vic, as he was familliarly called was really an excellent physician and surgeon, having had the advantage of his father’s ripe experience and thorough training during all the years of his medical preparation and early practice. Victor E. Loughridge graduated from the Rensselaer high school in 1880, and from Ann Arbor, Mich., high school in 1881. He then attended the Ann Arbor university for several months, after which he read medicine under his father for several years before entering Rush' Medical College, from which institntion he was graduated in 1888. He at once began the practice of his profession with • his father. He married Miss Alice Barnum, of La Porte, Ind., Oct. 10, 1883, but she died the followinß year. He was again married March 7, 1894, to Miss Farrie Wilcox, who survives him. Their only child is an infant girl. The K. P. lodge Jiad charge of the obsequies, Rev. Paradis and Dr. Uttero fficiated at the ceremonies. The floral tributes were elaborate and choice. The funeral occured from the house at 2 p. m. Monday, and the cortege was one of the largest ever seen in Rensselaer.