Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1908 — TRUSTEE FELDMAN DIED SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

TRUSTEE FELDMAN DIED SATURDAY

Keener Township Trustee Unable To Withstand the Rigors of Typhoid - Pneumonia, Dies After Long Illness. Henry F. Feldman, trustee of Keener township, and a man quite well known in Rensselaer and over Jasper county, succumbed to the rigors of typhoid-pneumonia last Saturday evening. He had been sick for four or five weeks and feeling poorly before that time, but it was understood here that he whs getting better, and the news of his death was a great shock to his acquaintances and many friends in this city. Mr. Feldman was in Rensselaer at the November meeting of the board of trustees, and said at that time that he was not feeling at all well. He was taken to his bed soon after, and, as soon as his sickness waj diagnosed as typhoid fever, the services of a professional nurse were secured and every effort made to restore him to health. Pneumonia, it is thought, was a later complication and the tax on his strength was too great to withstand. Mr. Feldman was of German extraction and had become a well-to-do-farmer through his industrious labors. He resided northeast of DeMotte, where he owned a farm of about 200 acres. He was about 55 years of age and leaves a widow and five children, the youngest of whom is about 14 years of age. The funeral will be held at the residence Wednesday morning, Dec. 23, at 10 o’clock, and will be attended 1 toy County Superintendent Ernest Lamson, former County Superintendent, Louis Hamilton, and Miss Grace . Warren, the latter being a close friend of Miss Flossie Feldman, daughter of the deceased. Mr. Feldman would have completed his four year term of office on Dec. 31st, having been elected four years ago. His successor will be Tunis Snipp who was elected at the general election in November. Mr. Snipp was appointed this, Monday afternoon, by the Auditor to fill Mr. Feldman’s unexpired term.