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Hillquist, Nicholas A


BORN IN: Sweden
DIED: 5/13/1893
AGED: 40
CAUSE OF DEATH: Congestive chill
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Tanner

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

NICHOLAS AUGUST HILLQUIST

Redwood City Democrat

May 18, 1893

Last Saturday early in the afternoon, Nicholas August Hillquist, employed at Beeger’s Tannery, died after a very short illness. On the Sunday preceding, while witnessing the shooting match in this town, he was taken with a pain in his stomach and found no relief until his death. He was an upright and industrious man, a native of Sweden and aged 20 years and 5 months. The remains were interred in Union Cemetery last Monday.

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