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Class of 1858
GEORGE NEWMAN FALLEY
Mr. Falley was struck by a railway train, at a crossing in the outskirts of Chicago, on the evening of May 15, 1886, and so severely injured that he lived, only about two hours.
In later years he had become quite deaf, and it is supposed that this accounts for the accident.
Mr. Falley was born in Fulton, Oswego, Co., N. Y., January 2, 1837.
He entered the army at the breaking out of the civil war, and served three years as lieutenant and captain in the Fiftieth New York Regiment of Engineers.
After the close of the war, he was engaged in the banking business for some years in his native town. In 1874 he removed to Chicago, and made his residence there and in Evanston, Ill., from that time until his death, being engaged mostly in the business of a railroad engineer and contractor.
Mr. Falley
was a man most highly esteemed in church and society. His pastor, Rev. T. P. Marsh, writes of him: “He was a
quiet, retiring man, of large information, cautious to look
upon all sides of every question. Although slow in
coming to conclusions, he was immovable as a rock in
convictions once reached. He was earnestly interested
in all good reforms, being a very public-spirited man. In
the Church he had served, in almost every official capacity,
for years acting as Sunday-school Superintendent and class
leader. He lived an unusually consistent Christian
life; all his fellow church members are saying, ‘If any
one was prepared for sudden death, he was.' "
Source:
Obituary Record of Alumni of Wesleyan University for the
Academic Year Ending June 24, 1886, Middletown, Conn. 1886
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