Individual Details

Lyman Oliver Rumery, Sr
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Birth:  Apr. 28, 1827
Calais
Washington County
Maine, USA
Death:  Mar. 17, 1913
Oshkosh
Winnebago County
Wisconsin, USA

The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI) 17 Mar 1913:
Lyman Oliver Rumery, one of the last of the lumbermen of the old school, passed away at his residence at 53 Merritt street at 12:30 o'clock this morning. Had he lived until April 28, next, he would have been eighty-six years of age. Since last fall his advanced years had begun to tell heavily on his remarkable constitution, eighty-five years of a life that was more than usually active. During the winter he had been confined to his bed more or less of the time, and each day for the last two weeks he exceeded the time allotted him on this earth by the physicians in charge. Death was due to a natural decline, there being no ailment, no organic trouble, merely the long expected approach of the inevitable. When death came this morning all of the seven living children were at the bedside, J. P. Rumery of Chicago, Miss Carrie Rumery, Mrs. Charles A. (Susan) Wakeman and L. O. Rumery Jr., all of Oshkosh, Mrs. J. Howard (Lydia) Clement and Mrs. Francis S.(Daisy) Underwood, both of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Lewis Hamilton(Josephine) Gunnell of Arlington, NJ. There are surviving besides these sons and daughters, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A resident of Oshkosh since 1854 and one of the most active and successful of the city's earlier business men, the deceased was long one of the prominent figures about town. Over a generation ago he was elected as alderman from the Fourth ward, the Democrats of that district voting him into an office which he accepted, and in which he served faithfully for one term. He was a staunch Democrat, and one of his last trips downtown last fall was for the purpose of casting his vote for Woodrow Wilson, now President. The Oshkosh Lodge of Elks, No. 292, mourns the loss of its oldest member, oldest in point of years of age, he having formerly been a member of the old Union club. Many of the men who are fond of hunting and fishing trips such as those which Mr. Rumery had taken year after year, owed their excellent sport to him for originally stocking Evergreen stream, a tributary of the Wolf river, with the trout that afford such excellent sport there.
Lyman O. Rumery was born at Calais, ME, April 28, 1827. On December 9, 1851, he was married to Miss Nancy Smith, at Balleyville, ME, and after fifty years of a happy married life the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at the present residence, December 9, 1901. Mrs. Rumery passed away nine years ago, in the month of May. Mr. and Mrs. Rumery came west in 1854. Settling at Oshkosh, Mr. Rumery was one of the first to engage in the logging business, a part of the time independently and at other times with others. Mr. Rumery became president of the Wolf River Boom Company, which handled vast quantities of timber for sawmills here and at other points below the Wolf. The company was organized with a capital of $50,000 but met with reverses. In 1871 it reorganized with L. O. Rumery as manager, and the next year all outstanding obligations were fully paid, for under Mr. Rumery's practical guidance the company enjoyed the most prosperous year of its career, handling some 207,000,000 feet of logs. Mr. Rumery continued at the head of this company practically until the logging business "played out" in this section of the state. From 1870 to 1880 he was a member of the firm of Kellogg, Rumery & Co., and later interested in the Loper & Rumery firm, which owned large tracts of valuable timber in Minnesota. He was also a member of the Sawyer Cattle company which conducts a cattle ranch in Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Rumery resided at the corner of Mount Vernon and Merritt streets since about forty yeas ago. More recently a handsome residence was erected. Mr. Rumery was a man of quiet, retiring disposition and of few words. He was always active and solicitous of the welfare of his family and friends. His family received the bulk of his attention. He was charitably inclined, doing many kindly acts of charity in his quiet, unostentatious manner. The funeral is to be held Wednesday afternoon. There will be services for the family and friends at the home, 53 Merritt street, at 2 o'clock. Rev. W. N. Jamieson of the First Methodist church will be the pastor in charge. The burial at Riverside cemetery will be in private. The family requests that flowers be omitted.

 
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  Parents:
    Robert Edgecomb Rumery (1797 - 1869)
    Martha S. Lamb Rumery (1808 - 1884)
 
  Spouse:
    Nancy Smith Rumery (1831 - 1904)*
 
  Children:
    John Porterfield Rumery (1853 - 1937)*
    Frank Rumery (1855 - 1857)*
    Emma Rumery (1857 - 1865)*
    Carrie Rumery (1860 - 1951)*
    Lydia Rumery Clement (1862 - 1938)*
    Josephine Rumery Gunnell (1864 - ____)*
    Lyman Oliver Rumery (1867 - 1933)*
    Susan Rumery Wakeman (1870 - 1942)*
    Horace Rumery (1874 - 1879)*
 
  Sibling:
    Lyman Oliver Rumery (1827 - 1913)
    John P. Rumery (1830 - 1908)*
 
*Calculated relationship

 
Burial:
Riverside Cemetery
Oshkosh
Winnebago County
Wisconsin, USA

Birth	28 Apr 1827	Calais, Washington, Maine, United States
Marriage	9 Dec 1851	Baileyville, Washington, Maine, United States - Nancy Smith
Residence	1910	Oshkosh Ward 4, Wisconsin
Death	17 Mar 1913	at his residence at 53 Merritt street at 12:30 o'clock this morning., Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States
Burial	19 Mar 1913	Riverside Cemetery plot: block 50, Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States

Spouse	Nancy Smith (1831 - 1904)
Child	John P. Rumery (1853 - 1937)
Child	Carrie Rumery (1860 - )
Child	Lydia Alive Rumery (1862 - 1938)
Child	Josephine Rumery (1866 - 1938)
Child	Lyman O. Rumery (1867 - 1933)
Child	Susan Rumery (1870 - )
Child	Daisy Rumery (1872 - )

Father	Robert E. Rumery (1797 - 1869)
Mother	Martha Lamb (1808 - 1884)
Sibling	Elizabeth Betsey Rumery (1792 - )
Sibling	Eugene Henry Rumery (1848 - 1912)
Sibling	Belle Rumery (1850 - )

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