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CARTIER, one of Luding- ton's foremost citizens and benefactors, passed away at the residence on east Ludington avenue which has been his home for more than thirty years. Again we are forcibly reminded that - The hand of the Reaper Takes the ears that are hoary. While the death of our distinquished fellow-citizen was not unexpected, nevertheless announcement of the sad event caused a profound shock throughout the whole community, and the hearts of men and women of all classes and stations in life were saddened as by the loss of a dear personal friend. By all who know him he was loved for his homely virtues, his whole-souled friendship, his simple democratic manners and his generous public and private beneficences. He was essentially of and with the common people and they loved him for it. Man of Wonderful Vitality The wonderful constitution of our friend which for nearly three-quarters of a century endured the conflict- ing storms of a most strenuous and eventful life finally gave way under the weight of advancing years, and at the end, surrouned by his wife and children, after receiving all the rites of the church of his faith, he fell peace- fully into the last sleep. Death resulted from heart failure, the result of bladder and kidney trouble of several years standing. He was confined to the house, however, only during the last two months, another evi- dence of the wonderful vitality with which Ludington's deceased benefactor was endowed. He was concious until the last and fully realized that his end was near. Besides the wife, who has been his companion for more than half a century, MR. CARTIER leaves a fine family of eight grown-up children who will perpetuate the fam- ily name through many generations to come. They are: WARREN A., LOUIS A., WILL E., GEORGE R., DeZORA E., CHARLES E., MRS. IDA CARTIER TAYLOR and MRS. ROSALIE CARTIER SPEAR. One daughter born in Ludington in 1891 died in infancy. Three of the sons, WARREN, DeZORA and CHARLES reside in Ludington, LOUIS in California, GEORGE at South Bend, Washington, MRS. TAYLOR at Tacoma, Wash., and MRS. SPEAR at Northampton, Mass. All of the children will be here for the funeral except LOUIS and MRS. TAYLOR who are snow-bound in the west. Deceased, who was the third youngest of 14 children, is also survived by two brothers, JUDE of Ludington and OVID C. of Canada. An Early Day Michigan Pioneer MR. CARTIER was of French-Canadian extraction and the story of his life linked as it is with early day experiences of pioneer life in this frontier country, forms a thrilling narrative of adventure, hardship, frugality and industry. His whole eventful life was spent in the lumber woods on the river [transcriber note: says con't page 8, but it isn't. The following is from page 2.] Tribute to a Patriot It will be months, perhaps years, before the people of Ludington come to a realizing sense of the great loss this community has sustained in the death of Hon. A. E. CARTIER. His passing is not alone a blow to his immediate family, for MR. CARTIER was in many ways the patron saint of Ludington. He dearly loved this town of his adoption and he loved its people. Every act of the man, every charity and every benefaction bears evi- dence of his unfaltering loyalty to Ludington, and whether at home or abroad, he never tired of singing its praise. His intense patriotism is well illustrated by the following lines: The winds of Heaven never fanned The circling sunlight never spanned A fairer or a better land Than our own Michigan. The sentiment is both appropriate and expensive. There never lived a man possessed of greater home loyalty, of more generous impulses, or one, who being a millionaire, lived his daily life in closer touch and sympathy with the common people than ANTOINE CARTIER. He prized wealth not for the luxuries it might bring, but for the plain comforts he might en- joy, the charities he might bestow, and the opportun- ity it would afford him for rearing to useful manhood and womanhood the family of devoted children who were his pride and comfort in the declining years of his life. It is therefore with a feeling of peculiar tender- ness and reverence that the citizens of Ludington bare their heads at this time as a deep and earnest token of respect for a true patriot. In this community "JO" CARTIER, as his countrymen loved to call him, lived to gain the respect and love of every man, woman and child. And now that he is dead we hear of many of his private charities and acts of kindness that were not known be- fore. He lived long enough to achieve his heart's greatest desire which was to win the love and esteem of his fellow citizens. Possessed of a high sense of honor, his long business career presents a monumental record of unimpeachable honesty. He was never known to defraud or wrong any man and the people of Ludington need only to recall his one great sacrifice - the voluntary assumption of a $170,000 loss in order that every de- positor in the defunct Commercial & Savings bank might be paid dollar for dollar, to know that his honesty was inbred and invulnerable under the severest test. His death has cast a deep gloom over the whole city, but overshadowing it all is the bright recollection of his many good deeds, of a whole souled friendship that at once inspired confidence and won the affection- ate regard of all classes of people. ===========================================================================