Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — Death of Henry S. Travis [ARTICLE]

Death of Henry S. Travis

Mrs, Mary E. Thompson received Monday the news of the death of her brother, Henry 8. Travis, whom many of our older people will remember. He wrote a few weeks ago of being afflicted with a kidney disease, but bis condition was not tbongbt to be alarming. Henry S. Travis was born in Armstrong Co. Penn, Sep*. 4, 1848, and died in Portland, Oregon, April 24, 1904. He came to Rens* eelaer as a boy soon after the war, and attended school here and in Bloomington, 111. He practiced law here in partnership with Dwiggins Bros, until about 1873, when he went to Benton Co, living in Oxford until the county seat was moved to Fowler. He practiced law in Benton Co. with T. L. Merrick, and served one term as prosecuting attorney. He was also the Republican candidate for state senator, from Benton, Jasper and Newton <OOOII6B, in 1884 During the Harrison administration be received an appointment as supervisor of public lands in Oregon, and since then has lived in or near Portland. In 1871, he married Josie Halstead, daughter of Elder D. T. Halstead, of our city. She and four grown sons survive him.