Gunnison Colorado Review 30 April 1883
Death of Wm. W. Holroyd
The public will be pained to learn of the death of Mr. Wm. W. Holroyd of typhoid fever, which occurred in this city at Newport this morning at one o clock.
The deceased came to Colorado from Lawrence County, Ohio, early in the spring of 1880, and with the excitement in regard to the Gunnison country at that time at a high pitch, he crossed the range via Alpine Pass and, early in June, found himself in this city.
He had been brought up on a farm but was possessed of a good, common school education and, we understand, had taught a term or two in his native county. But schools at that time in Gunnison County were something almost unknown.
During the first four or five months here, he turned his hand first at one thing, then at another, not being ashamed to work at anything that promised him employment and the necessities of life.
In the month of November 1880, he made his way into The Review office, then located at the corner of Tenth Street and San Juan Avenue, and expressed a desire to come and learn the “Art preservative of all Arts.”
He went to work, remaining without losing a day until the last of June 1882, when he went to Crested Butte to take a position as a compositor on the Republican, which he held until he was obliged, by sickness, to throw up a few weeks ago.
He arrived in Gunnison on Monday morning, April 9th, and went to the Newport, in charge of Mrs. A. Morgan, where he had been confined to his bed until his death.
Mr. Holroyd’s disease was a severe case of typhoid fever. He was apparently getting along nicely and yesterday morning felt more cheerful and bid fair to recover speedily, conversing freely with his friends, but inflammation of the bowels set in during the afternoon, and he soon began to sink rapidly and for several hours before the Grim Monster claimed him he was most of the time unconscious.
Mr. Holroyd was aged 25 years and was a young man universally esteemed by all who knew him. His father, who lives on a farm at Russell’s Place, Lawrence Co., Ohio, has been advised by telegraph, and at this writing, it is not known what disposition will be made of his body.
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