Charles Hackley Edgcomb (1875 - 1933)

Born 30 Jul 1875 in Muskegon, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Died 28 Oct 1933 at age 58 in Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan, United States

Obituary from the Saugatuck Commercial Record.

From Find A Grave Posted by Chris Yoder ^[1]

Charles H. Edgcomb

Charles Hackley Edgcomb was born in Muskegon Michigan, July 30, 1875, and departed this live October 28, 1933, in Mercy Hospital in Benton Harbor as the result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident two days previous.

He was united in marriage to Miss Irene Dowling of Chicago in the year 1900. To this union one son was born who lived to the age of four years. He lost both his wife and son in the year 1909.

He had been in business in Saugatuck for the past few years and since the death of his mother two weeks before had made his home with his brother, Morgan Edgcomb, who with another brother, William Edgcomb of Chicago, survive.

Another Aritice in the Saugatuck Commercial Record regarding the life of Charles Hackley Edgcomb

Concerning a Saugatuck Boy

The following notice appeared in the Chicago Tribune of Sunday February 17. The reporter who wrote up the affair evidentally drew on his imagination for some of the details.

Mrs.Jennie M Dowling, 137 East Pearson Stree, discovered last evening that her 19 year old daughter Irene and 22 year old Charles edgcomb, assisted by Miss Lollie Dowling had "found a way" after a troubled courtship of eight months, and had been married almost under the maternal eye. The two young people were wedded in the Holy Name Cathedral on Wednesday morning and the secret was not allowed to leak out till last night, nearly two days after they had departed on their honeymoon. Though Mrs. Dowling had objected to the marriage, at preesent she says the couple have her blessing. The wedding was the climax of a romantic courtship. Mr Edgcomb graduated from the University of Michigan last summer and immediately came to Chicago. He is the son of a Saugatuck Michigan Banker, and the nephew of Charles Edgcomb, Dearborn Avenue and Schiller Street. The young man fell in live with Miss Dowling who is the daughter of the late John Dowling but her mother demurred to the marriage proposition and at last declared against Mr. Edgcomb's further attentions. The couple then began a correspondence in which notes for the appointing of trysts were confided to druggist S A Read, Chicago Avenue and State Street. Last Wednesday morning Miss Dowling's younger sister, Lollie, drove the couple to Holy Name Cathedral, a few blocks from the family residence and the ceremony was performed. Hustand and wife then separated till Friday morning when they secretly left on their honeymoon. Miss Lollie Dowling sans excuses for her sister's absence all that day and night to her mother, but last night she soccumbed to pressure and told all.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 March 2020), memorial page for Charles Hackley Edgcomb (30 Jul 1875–28 Oct 1933), Find A Grave: Memorial #22697057, citing Riverside Cemetery, Saugatuck, Allegan County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Chris Yoder (contributor 46942788) .