Minnesota Communities

	Red Wing: James Lawther

Source

News 1

Type

Newspaper Article

Year

1916

Source

Litchfield Independent

Size

44K

This announcement of Lawther's death appeared in the Litchfield Independent in 1916.

James Lawther Dead.

James Lawther, one of the pioneers
of Red Wing, and a member of the
old Camp Brog camping party at
Lake Koronis, which included C.H.
Strobeck, T.G. Crump, Dr. Bacon,
Per Ekstrom, Judge Wilder of Red
Wing is dead. Mr. Lawther
bought the tract of land on which the
party camped, and it is still owned
by his estate. Mr. Lawther was a
native of County Down, Ireland, and
has lived at his old Ireland home for
a number of years, and here his
death occurred last Tuesday. He
was rated a millionaire and had given
Red Wing over a hundred thousand
dollars in public buildings and real
estate.