Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Da. Victor E. Loughmumib* Seldom has any death occured in Jasper County that has caused a more nnirrrsil feeling qf sorrow than has the early sasd untimely cutting off at the very beginning of what should have been « iong useful and happy life, of this promising young physician. ' ~Gn Friday March 6th. his tall and stately form walked our streets, in his usual apparent robust health. That night he went heme with a severe pain in his left groin. By the next morning the pain had shifted to the right leg, below the knee, and had increased to unendurable agony, which could not be controlled nor scarcely alleviated. In a few days his disease was diagnosed as Endarteritis, or inflamation of the arteries—a rare and most painful and dangerous disease. Eight days after the first onset of the disease the affected limb was amputated as the only but faint hope Of saving his life. But the hope was doomed to disappointment; the progress of his disease had permeated his system, and poisoned his blood and on Saturday morning, Mar. 21st. 1896, at 2 o’clock a. m. he expired, at the age of 32 years, 9 months and 22 days. Victor E Loughridge was bom in Rensselaer May 28, 1863. He was the only son of Dr. James H. and Candace L. Loughridge, and excepting one daughter, their only child. Hu father, one of the best known physicians in northern Indiana, died only last August, after a long and* useful life. Victor was educated in the Rensselaer public schools, completing the high school course as a member of its first class, that of 1880. In the fall of the same year he entered the Ann Arbor, Mich., high school, graduating in 1881; and the same year entered the class of 85’ of the Michigan University, of the same place. In 1888 he graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and immediately thereafter entered the practice of medicine in partnership with his father.

Oot. 10, 1888, he married Miss Allie Barnum, of LaPorte, Ind , and. whose death occured July 9th, 188S\, She left an infant daughter who did not long survive her. March 7th, 1894, he married Miss Fame Wilcox, of Surrey, who survives him, as does also an infant daughter, 7 months old. His other living near relatives are his mother and one sister Miss Blanch Loughridge. """“Doc Vic” as everybody called him, was a well read and successful physician. Personally and socially he was popular with all classes, and of such genial and friendly disposition that he literally had not an enemy in the world. He inherited his father’s taste for the natural sciences, and had he lived would have succeeded him as our great local authority on birds, animals, rocks and plants. He was a member of the Rensselaer Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the Uniform Rank, of the same order. Also of Piairie Lodge of Free Masons, and of the Independent Order of Foresters. His funeral was held Monday after--at- his mother’s residence, which adjoined his own, and was very largely attended. Brief religious services were conducted by Revs. M. R. Paradis and R. D. Utter, pastors, respectively of the Presbyterian and M. E. Churches. The burial services at the grave, in Weston cemetery, were con ducted by the Knights of Pythias. The pall bearers were C. C. Warner, Chas. G. Spltler, J. J. Hunt, B. F. Fendig, A. R. Hopkins and B. K. Zimmerman. The various floral tributes were beautiful and profuse in quantity.