George Edwin Dearborn
Abt. 1846-Sept. 4, 1875
Niles Democrat, Saturday, September 11, 1875, page 3, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
Death of G.E. Dearborn
Died, in this city, on Saturday last, of consumption, after a lingering and painful illness; Mr. GEORGE EDWIN DEARBORN, in the 29th year of his age.
Mr. Dearborn was born in Kensington, New Hampshire, and subsequently removed with his family to New York City. When 16 years of age he responded to his country's call and joined the thousands who went forth to battle beneath the stars and strips. Since the war he has been engaged in various enterprises, being at one time connected with one of the prominent Eastern Insurance Companys. While residing in Brooklyn, he had a severe attack of pneumonia, that nearly proved fatal, and from the effects of which he probably never fully recovered. Finding his health impaired, and expecting to derive benefit from adopting a more active life, he made an engagement with a music establishment in Baltimore, for which he travelled until compelled to give up in consequence of declining health and strength.
Some five years since, Mr. Dearborn became acquainted with and married Miss Emma Auld, a daughter of Mrs. H.N. Sterling, of thiscity, who was then visiting in Brooklyn. After being compelled to relinquish his business engagements, Mr. Dearborn came to this city, where he remained until his death. He had travelled extensively and acquired a large and varied experience. Being possessed of rare conversational powers, a genial and social desposition[sic] and prompted by generous impulses, he had during his brief sojourn among us of a few months, formed many sincere attachments. His friends noticed with anxious solicitude the daily wasting of his once fine, manly form, and the weak step, growing weaker, as he passed in and out among us and when at last disease had laid him prostrate, still he was cheerful and hopeful, and held on firmly to the belief that would recover, until within a few hours before the drop curtain fell, which shut out the world from his sight. If faults he had, we were ignorant of them, and his friends will only cherish those qualities of head and heart which endeared him to them.--a kind fther arrived in time to assist Mrs. Dearborn and other friends in their last offices of love, and his presence contributed much to sooth the last few hours of his life. His wife has the sincere sympathy of the community in her bereavement.