Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1908 — William Augustus Churchill. [ARTICLE]

William Augustus Churchill.

Wm. Augustus Churchill, eldest son of eight sons born to Wm, H. and "Louisa Churchilij was born in Crawford county, Ohio, on the first day of October, 1862. Moved with family to Jasper county, Indiana, in 1869 and graduated from public school in 1879, Commenced teaching and going to school alternately until he graduated in the Scientific Course at Valparaiso, Ind., In 1886. Then he w nt to Kansas, one term. Then he went to Los Vegas, N. Mex., clerked iu the office of the Santa Fe railway then went to Old Mexico, and from there to San Francisco spending some time at each of said places. Then he went to Seattle, Wash., and with a partner, took up civil engineering. Platting a portion of Seattle and several other towns on the Pacific coast, and also working for the government in its surveys in Washlgton and after about twenty years returned home and has now gone to rest, dying at the St. Elizabeth hospital at Lafayette, Ind., on the sixth of October, 1908, at the age of 46 years and 6 days. - v.

Deceased was a poor talker but a hard worker, both mentally and physically. In politics and religion was leberal and in finance was liberal to a fault, divinding with any one in need his last dollar. .I=--' -I ,v.. His brothers are: Marquis Austin Churchill, Randall, Minn.; Thomas Corwin, Churchill, Siloam Sp ings, Ark.; Fenton Orris Churchill, Rensselaer, Ind ; Luther Ellsworth Church ill, Fremont, Neb.; Marlon A'wood Churchill, Randall, Minn.; Cheney Oscar Churchill, died in Infancy, and Herman Hoyt ChurchPl, R ns el er, ind.