Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1908 — ADDISON PARKINSON DIES ON TRAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADDISON PARKINSON DIES ON TRAIN

President of First National Bank Dies on His Way Home From Burnett, California. > A telegram was received here at about 3:30 o’clock this Thursday afternoon stating that Addison Parkinson, president of the First National Bank, had died at 11 o’clock this morn ing, on a train due to reach Chicago at noon. Although Uncle Ad’s h ealth was very bad and it was against the express advice of hs physician at Burnett Cal., where he has teen spending the winter, he was determined to try to get back to Rensselaer. Mrs. Parkinson was with him wi en he died. The body will probably reach here tonight.

ADDISON PARKINSON, President of the First National Bank, whose death occurred at 11 o'clock Thursday morning.