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Joseph Peter Fahnlender
BIRTH 29 Jun 1856Wellesley, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
DEATH 9 Apr 1915 (aged 58)Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, USA
BURIAL Calvary CemeteryGrand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, USA
PLOT Block 555; Lot 3; Grave 6
MEMORIAL ID 50804391
Grand Forks Herald: Saturday; April 10, 1915 - Obituary.

The funeral of the late Joseph P Fahnlender, aged 58, who died at his home at 420 Oak street at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, will be held from St. Michael's church on Monday morning at 9 o'clock, the procession leaving the home at 8 a.m. Mr. Fahnlender was the oldest newspaper man from point of service in North Dakota, and had worked at his trade in the job department of the Herald (3rd Street East, corner of Kittson avenue) until last October, when he was forced to cease because of illness with cancer of the throat. He bore his disease with wonderful fortitude, and his strong constitution allowed him to remain conscious until death overtook him.
(Grand Forks Herald - George B Winship, pres.; W M Scott, v-pres.; Cyrus R Hunter sec-tres.)

The newspaper and printing career of Mr. Fahnlender is one that has been closely identified with the development of the industry in the northwest. Among other features of his work was the establishment of the first newspaper published in the city of Devils Lake, where he resided a number of years ago.

Mr. Fahnlender also operated a newspaper plant in Brainerd, Minnesota; a job plant at St. Cloud, Minnesota; and he was employed at Crookston, Fargo, Wahpeton, Cando and numerous other cities and towns in this state and in Minnesota.

Mr. Fahnlender was also a conscientious worker, and a capable man in his trade. He served in many important capacities during his printing career, and acquitted himself creditably.

The ups and downs of the northwest of the early days, of course, had their effects upon the men who were pioneering -- and Joe prospered and suffered from time to time -- in about the same proportion as others who were engaged in the early work of building up the northwest.

Aged 58 years at the time of his death, Mr. Fahnlender had been engaged in the printing work from the time he was 15 years old -- or over a period of forty-three years. Mr. Fahnlender was born in St. Clémento, Canada, in 1856. He came to the United States with his parents in 1876.

His mother, three sisters and a brother survive him, in addition to his wife and two daughters, Gladys and Florence, and two sons, Eugene of Staples, Minn., and Edward of Moorhead, Minn. Mrs. Peter Wild of Osnabrock, and Mrs. J Marquart of Georgetown, Minn., and Mrs. M Hohnadel of Georgetown are the surviving sisters, and John Fahnlander of Georgetown, Minn., is the surviving brother. His aged mother also resides at Georgetown.
Family Members
Parents
Leonhard Fahnlender
1815–1899
Augusta Gulde Fahnlender
1830–1916
Spouses
Margaret Anna SebergerFahnlander
1854–1943 (m. 1880)
Mary Allis Fletcher Fahnlander
1869–1946 (m. 1899)
Siblings
John A Fahnlander
1858–1933
Katherine Fahnlander Wild
1860–1940
Phillip Leon Fahnlander
1863–1890
Elizabeth Fahnlander Hohnadel
1866–1952
Mary Genevieve FahnlanderMarquart
1871–1958
Children
John Joseph Fahnlender
1880–1941
Edward Peter Fahnlender
1881–1940
Eugene Benjamin Fahnlander
1890–1946
Osman Fahnlander
1892–1896
Margaret Vera Fahnlander St Pierre
1893–1986
Gladys V. Fahnlander Bratland
1900–1960
Florence Fletcher FahnlanderBoese
1905–1988
Created by: Douglas Fahnlander
Added: 7 Apr 2010
Find A Grave Memorial 50804391
Hide citationFind A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 January 2019), memorial page for Joseph Peter Fahnlender (29 Jun 1856–9 Apr 1915), Find A Grave Memorial no. 50804391, citing Calvary Cemetery, Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, USA ; Maintained by Douglas Fahnlander (contributor 47146320) .
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