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Grand Haven News
Wednesday, 24 August, 1859

         Drowned - The Grand Rapids Daily Eagle, 19th inst.,
       informs us that a boy aged about sixteen years, a son
       of JACOB FINKLER, of Wright township, was drowned in
       a little lake near the residence of his father, on
       Wednesday, 17th inst. The boy, with several others -
       none of whom could swim - went out on this occasion
       as they were wont to do, the shore being muddy, in a
       boat to bathe. The guard against accident they boys
       used ropes, fastened to their bodies, thus enabling
       themselves to play in the water, however deep it might
       be. Young FINKLER, becoming bold concluded to go in
       without his usual security and went to the bottom to
       rise no more alive. His body was recovered yesterday.
       
       Transcriber's Note: The 1860 Census Mortality schedule
       of Ottawa County, MI., gives his name as PETER FINKLER,
       age 16.
       
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