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Death of Levi Putnam. 
We announced last week the danger- 
■ ous illness of County Commissioner 
, Putnam. The worst fears of his friends 
were realized, and he died about mid- I 
night Saturday night at Spencer 1 hos- , 
pital, in the presence of his family 
. and other friends. Those who met 
Mr. Putnam within two weeks of his 
, death were not surprised to hear of his 
. illness, though no one expected the 
■ dread summons to come so soon. His 
1 appearance has indicated for some 
weeks that he was a sick man whose , 
1 indomitable energy kept him at work 
i when he should have been resting. He 
j was active in the performance of ins 
duties on Tuesday of last week; on 
Tuesday of this week he was laid away 
to rest in Evergreen cemetery, at Ilar- 
monsburg, of which he was trustee for 
eighteen years, and in which he took ■ 
s great interest and pride. 
Mr. Putnam was born in Summit i 
township May 18,1830, and was a direct 
descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam?'of 
the Revolutionary war. He was a man 
of unusual physical strength and en- I 
durance, and cleared from the forest 1 
Ttreariy'tlTB-wiidir’bf 'EisTfarth’trrSuIh^ 
'"mit township. He was strictly tem¬ 
perate, a man of excellent judgment, 
and of strict integrity. As has been re- 
-marked many times in our hearing 
since his death, “wEefi’XevT'pTilaam 
told you anything you could depend 
upon its being the truth.” 
In politics Mr. Putnam was a Demo¬ 
crat. He took an active interest in his 
party’s welfare, and in 1890 he w»o i 
elected as county commissioner, and ( 
re-elected in 1893, leaving six months j 
Of his second term unexpired. It is ( 
freely conceded on all hands that he ! 
was one of the best commissioners the 
county has ever had, and his death at j 
this time is a Berious loss, not only to | 
his party, but to the county. At the i 
request of friends of all political par- \ 
ties he had announced his name as a 
candidate for renomination. 
Mr. Putnam - leaves a wife, one son, 
one daughter, three brothers, and a < 
sister. Xenophon, the son, and Bessie, i 
, the daughter, are still at home, while 
the brothers and sister all live in Sum- ^ 
mit township. The funeral took place ( 
from his home at eleven o’clock on j 
Tuesday, and was largely attended, ? 
many of his political and social friends J 
from this city being present. The re¬ 
ligious exercises were conducted by 
Rev. D. E. S. Perry. The pall bearers 
were O. P. Blakeslee, Spartansburg; 
Hon. John Porter, G. W. Phillips, A. 
J. Hatch, and County Commissioners 
J". T. First and L. M. Sayre. 
OBITUARY. 
? County Commissioner Levi Putnam 
died at 11:40 Saturday night at Spen¬ 
cer Hospital, in- the presence of his 
family and other relatives. His death 
was not unexpected, although his ill¬ 
ness was of short duration. He con- 
e tinued to discharge the duties of his 
1 office long after he began failing, and 
3 energy and ambition—characteristics 
of his life—w,ere exercised at a time 
when he should have rested.from his 
labors. The body was taken to the 
undertaking rooms of L. D. Dunn. 
Levi Putnam was born in Summit 
, township, Crawford county. May 18, 
1830, and was a descendant of General 
j Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. 
I Young Levi was submitted to the hard 
work of the early days, and possessing 
the heritage of a sound body, coupled 
with a desire and ambition to make 
something of his life, his earthly ex 
j istence was not a failure. With his 
I own hands he cleared most of the 
land of the large farm which he pos¬ 
sessed. He was a man of strictly 
temperate habits, never using intoxi 
cants of any kind. He was a member 
of the order of Good Templars, and at 
one time a prominent member of the 
Grange. Politically Mr. Putnam was 
a Democrat, always evincing a deep 
interest in the welfare of his party 
since he attained his majority. In 
the year 1890 he was nominated for 
the office of County Commissioner, 
and was elected. In 1893 he was re¬ 
nominated and re-elected. He was 
conscientious in the discharge of the 
duties of his office, and men of all 
parties regarded him as a model 
County Commissioner. At the urgent 
request of friends of all political par¬ 
ties, Mr. Putnam had announced as a 
candidate for nomination for a thirfi 
term. 
Wherever he was, Mr. Putnam was 
' always at work. He believed that 
man should have no idle moments. 
His home life was of the most happy 
character. No husband and father 
could have been more devoted to his 
family. He was one of the men who 
organized and laid out the beautiful 
Evergreen cemetery at Harmonsburg, 
and held the position of trustee for a 
period of eighteen years. 
Mr. Putnam leaves a wife, son and 
daughter. He is also survived by 
three brothers—William, Stillman and 
James—and a sister, Miss Cynthia, all 
residing in Summit township. 
The funeral services will be held at 
the late home of the deceased at 11 
o’clock a. in. Tuesday. Interment at 
Harmonsburg. 
i- - 
Tribute to a Worthy Man. 
Perhaps no more conclusive evidence 
of the late Commissioner Putnam’s 
ability and worth can be given than is 
shown by his popularity among his 
associates. At the Poor Directors’ 
Convention which met in Philadelphia 
last October, he was one of the com¬ 
mittee to nominate officers for the en¬ 
suing year.' He had been for three 
years a member of the Executive 
Committee, of the State Convention of 
Commissioners, a position which he 
held at the time of his death. Regard¬ 
ing his decease, Chairman Antlers of 
Norristown recently said: “He was 
one of the first members I wanted to 
see when we held our next meeting. 
If Levi Putnam had been one of my 
near relatives the shock could not 
have been greater.” Joseph Moore of 
Wilkesbarre, for three years one of his 
associates on the Executive Committee, 
says: “At every one of our meetings 
he was active in furthering the work 
in hand and always performed his part 
with sound judgment and practical 
common sense such as is rarely met 
with and which won for him the friend¬ 
ship of all who came in contact with 
him I feel as though I had lost an old 
friend for whom I am indeed, very 
sorrowful.” W. W. Griest, of Lancas¬ 
ter, says:, “He was a very useful man 
on our Executive Committee and his 
death will be sincerely regretted, not 
I only by the Committee but by the en- 
! tire association.” 
