Arthur - William E.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 2 Dec 1898
Last Wednesday afternoon B.L. Ornbaun received a telegram from his daughter, Mrs. W.E. Arthur of Pasadena, Cal announcing that her husband had suffered a paralytic stroke and was sinking rapidly. In the evening a second message arrived stating that Mr. Arthur had died at 3 o’clock. He was buried there by the side of a child who died several years ago. It is not unlikely that Mrs. Arthur, her little daughter and her sister, Miss Clara, will return to this city for at least a temporary residence. W.E. Arthur was about 34 years of age and was one of the most brilliant and promising young attorneys on the slope. He was a prominent man in the Republican party in California and it is thought that the arduous work of the recent campaign had much to do with his death. He was stricken a week before his demise as the relatives here learn from a letter received Wednesday and he never regained consciousness. Mr. Arthur came to Crawfordsville in 1882 as a student of Wabash College and here he met Miss Minnie Obaum to whom he was married about 10 years ago. They went at once to California to reside and there Mr. Arthur scored a success. At the time of his death he was corporation attorney for the city of Pasadena. - kbz