Iron River,
Bayfield County, Wisconsin. Thursday, March 10, 1932.
Clinton A. Ferguson
Clinton A. Ferguson, who was one of the pioneer homesteaders
in the Iron River
district, died last Saturday morning, March 5th. He was employed as an oiler at the Minnesota
Steel Plant and had been at work about a half hour when his lifeless body was
discovered by a fellow worker. His death
was due to a heart lesion.
Mr. Ferguson was born 65 years ago last October 10th
at Plainfield, Wisconsin,
where he grew to manhood, where he grew to manhood, when he moved with his
parents to Ashland. He came here in the year 1892 and took a
homestead and for more than twenty years thereafter made his home here. He moved to Lake
Nebagamon and later went to Duluth,
where has been employed in the steel mill for more then ten years.
He is survived by his wife, six sons, Clarence of Jefferson,
Ore; Clinton, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Robert, Penley and Charley, of Chicago, Dick
of Gheen; three daughters, Mrs. Josephine Erickson, Duluth; Miss Ella Ferguson,
Chicago, and Mrs. Alfred Nelson, of Tacoma, Wash.,; two sisters, Mrs. Calvin D.
Rogers, of this city, and Mrs. Mary Haskins, of Raymond, Wash., also one
brother, Lester Ferguson, of Iron River, (since died).
Funeral services were held at the Methodist
Church, at Duluth,
conducted by Rev. Barr, the pastor and interment was in this city, where the
deceased father, the late Nelson Ferguson, and one son who died in infancy, are
buried
All of the family except two older
ones who reside in the far west were able to attend the funeral services, as
did Mrs. Rogers and Lester Ferguson, of this city.
Mr. Ferguson followed sawmill and woods work for many years
after quitting farming, and operated a portable mill in partnership with John
Lane for several years in the Iron River territory.