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.