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Subject: [CASISKIY] DR. B.M. GILL PASSES AWAY
Date: 13 Nov 2006 15:25:45 -0700

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Surnames: Gill, Devondorf, Trudgeon
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DUNSMUIR NEWS
January 6, 1900

DR. B.M. GILL PASSES AWAY

After many months of illness and suffering daily from last April, Doctor Benjamin M. Gill, prominent Dunsmuir physician and Southern Pacific surgeon, passed away at his Dunsmuir home Thursday December 29, 1899. For some time before the beginning of his last illness, his health had been gradually failing. Born in New York, he was 59 years 4 months and 27 days of age. Graduating from Rush College of Chicago, in 1879, he practiced in Wisconsin. He and Marcie D. Devondorf were wed in New York November 23, 1864, who died in 1880. Five children were born to them, with two, Miss Myrtle Gill and Waldo Gill, surviving.
In 1861 he enlisted in the 10th Pennsylvania Reserves, servivng until end of the Civil War.
In 1882, Dr. Gill and his present wife, Florence A., were wed in Wisconsin. She also survives him.
In 1883 the family came to West Coast, and a few years later, after the sawmill townsite known as Klamathon was started in 1888, he was the Doctor there annd also first Postmaster of that place.
In 1891, he and his family came to Dunsmuir residing here since. Dr. Gill was also prominent in business circles of this area, and always had welfare of young people in mind.
Funeral services were held at the Gill home on Sacramento Avenue Friday afternoon with Rev. Trudgeon officiating. and a choir singing. Interment was in Masonic section of Dunsmuir's Cemetery, under auspices of members of that order.

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