Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dinsmore, John B. March 17, 1898
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Portland Library Scrapbook  -  March 1898

                T'WAS UNEXPECTED

  John B. Dinsmore had no Warning of Death's Approach

      A WELL KNOW CITIZEN AND BUSINESS MAN 
                  MARCH 22, 1898
      Born in Portland Fifty-six Years Ago

John B. Dinsmore's little shoe store on Bridge street was not opened Saturday 
morning. The proprietor, who had closed the place as usual Friday night, was 
lying dead at his home on Smith street.It was another sudden summons-the taking 
off of a prominent citizen so abruptly that people could scarce believe the 
first reports.

Mr.Dinsmore arose, Saturday morning apparently in his usual health.He did the 
chores around the house and had brought in a scuttle of coal.When he attempted 
to lift it to the stove he seemed to have been seized with a fainting spell and 
sank into a chair.His wife was quickly at this side and seeing his condition she 
at once sent for physicians, using hot water remedies in the meantime.Neighbors 
were notified and Asa Newman, R.P.Baldwin and Frank Chalker helped the stricken 
man to his bed.He gasped a few times and was dead before the arrival of 
Dr.Allen. Dr.Alton came a few moments later.Neuralgia of the heart was given as 
the cause.

Friday night Mr. Dinsmore was taken with a spell in his store. He was not known 
to have suffered from heart trouble but on this occasion complained of a pain 
near the heart and a feeling as of suffocation. It soon passed off.

Mr.Dinsmore was prominently identified with the universalist church and for 
years had been a member of the choir.Of late years he had been an active worker 
in the prohibition party, his name being on the ticket several times.When the 
silver question became an issue he identified himself with the silver party.He 
was one of those who were willing to look into the merits of new isms that he 
might pass upon them in the light of his own observations and had taken some 
interest in Spiritualism. He witnessed a seance recently and gave out a day or 
so after that he had done with manifestations which were made in the dark. He 
did not condemn the higher tenets of the faith but would not countenance what he 
believed to be a fraud.

For several years he was engaged in the harness business at the stand now owned 
by Lewis Wilhelm. After his retirement he opened a shoe store at the old 
postoffice building, Bridge and Maple street, and had built up a paying 
business. Most of his years were spent in farming, near the homestead, south of 
town.

All of Mr. Dinsmore's life had been spent in Portland.He was the son of Wm. 
Dinsmore, who served as supervisor of the township for many years.The elder 
Dinsmore was a shoemaker and farmer, owing 100 acres on the section of ____.

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