APPHINDIX A. 
OBITUARIES. 
DAVID ANTHONY. 
Drep—At his. residence, on Saturday evening last, February 3d, 1878, of 
apoplexy, Davip ANTHONY. 
On Saturday morning last the business portion of our town was astonished at 
the intelligence that the above deceased was stricken with apoplexy, and that his 
life was despaired of. And many were thé anxious inquiries during the day, as 
to his condition, and a general feeling of sadness was expressed by all at the 
announcement of his death. 
Mr. Anthony was born in South Adams, Mass., in 1833. His parents moved 
to Cayuga county, N. Y., while he was an infant. He received a common school 
education only. His first introduction into business, was in the shop of the B. & 
A. R. R. at Albany, as book-keeper. He removed to Illinois in 1854, and pre- 
empted 160 acres of land.. In 1856 he returned to Massachusetts, and married 
his wife (the estimable lady who is now a widow) a daughter of D. A. Clary, an 
old and respected resident of Stockbridge. Together they returned to his farm, 
and together they worked to build up a home. For thirteen years they labored 
there, and he was successful in all his undertakings. He devoted much of his 
time to stock raising and selling in Chicago. During the latter part of his farm- 
ing his attention was directed to buying and feeding. In 1869, being out of 
health, he sold his farm, and came to Minnesota, and, after looking over the 
state, settled in Kasson. He commenced business here as a broker, loaning 
money on personal property. In the summer of 1871, he bought the books of 
J. A. Babcock, who had been doing a small banking business, purchased a good 
safe, and opened a bank of deposit and discount, in the store formerly occupied 
by Seevents & Stevenson. In the fall he built a small office on the present site 
of the First National building. He continued his business in the small office 
until the Ist of August, 1874, when he organized the First National Bank, of 
which he owned over one-half the stock. He had previously made arrangements 
for the erection of the building, and would have used it as a private bank had 
not the First National been organized. He was made president, and labored 
incessantly for the institution, his choice from the first, and was so successful 
that at his death its stock was held at 182. 
