Cronk, Samuel H



BORN IN: New York
DIED: 9/3/1903
AGED: 52
CAUSE OF DEATH: Chronic Dropsy
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Liveryman

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  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
  • 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
  • 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)

OBITUARY ---------------

SAMUEL H. CRONK

Redwood City Democrat

Sept. 10, 1903

Samuel H. Cronk is dead.

After months of suffering in the unequal battle with death, Samuel H. Cronk passed peacefully away to his long rest early last Thursday evening. Mr. Cronk, though desperately ill for the greater part of a year, remained in personal charge of his business almost up to the day of his death. To his strong will and determination are due to the fact that he clung to life long past the period when nature’s sustaining influences had become exhausted.

Although the struggle is at an end and the inevitable victory of the destroyer has been recorded, it still seems impossible to associate Sam Cronk with death. His cheery disposition, his rare humor and incomparable wit, so well known even the hours of his suffering were suggestive only of life in its sunniest phases. The funeral took place from the family home on Stambaugh Street. Short services were conducted by Rev. F. H. Mair and a choir composed of Mr. And Mrs. Marr, Miss Eva Cook, and Rev. Mr Marshall rendered appropriate music, appropriate to the solemn occasion.

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