Notes for George A Sheppard

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Notes for George A Sheppard

Death of George A. Sheppard

Well-Known Traveling Man Passes Away in Seattle.

The business community of the Northwest will be painfully surprised to hear of the death of that wholesouled, genial traveling man, George A. Sheppard.

Mr. Sheppard died last Saturday, April 9, at Seattle, of pneumonia, after a short illness, and his body has been brought to this city. The funeral will take place Friday from Holman's Chapel and the interment will be in Riverview Cemetery.

Mr. Sheppard was for many years in the employ of Murphy, Grant & Co., of San Francisco, as general manager of their business in the Northwest, and has a large number of friends who will sincerely mourn the loss of a true friend. The retailers will especially remember him as an earnest adviser as to the best business course to pursue, and also as a man possessing a genial and charitable disposition, which manifested itself at all opportunities.

Mr. Sheppard had not attained the age of the proverbial three score and ten, being only about 62 old at the time of his death. His death will be sincerely regretted and deeply mourned by his friends in the Wet.

Mr. Sheppard was born in Illinois, May 21, 1842. He crossed the plains to Oregon Territory with his mother, afterward the wife of S. K. Baelon, Clackamas County, and his sister, the late Mrs. George Jerome. In 1852, and settled with them at Canemah, where the later years of his boyhood and the early years of his manhood were spent. He leaves, besides his wife, two daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. Ralph Clark, of Spokane, and Miss Bessie Sheppard, of Barlow.

[The Oregonian, 13 Apr 1904, p14]