Charles F Falley
| Date of Interment or Death | 12/29/1907 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | A |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 1-2-2 |
Obituary
Charles Frederick Falley-1907
The community was shocked early Friday morning when it was learned that Fred Falley, editor of this paper had died suddenly at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs Freeman Orcutt in Minneapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Falley and son Morgan had left Wahpeton Tuesday evening to spend Christmas with the Orcutt family and Christmas and the day following were very enjoyably spent visiting friends and sight seeing. Mr. Falley was in the best of spirits all week and complained at no time of feeling ill. Early Friday morning he got up, went to the bathroom and in a moment returned and lay down again on the bed. Soon after his wife heard him cough slightly and called to him but received no answer. Feeling something was wrong, Mrs. Falley got up and called to her sister Mrs. Orcutt,
who came into the room and struck a light, when it was seen that the life of the loved one had quietly departed. A physician was hastily summoned, but it was of no avail, Mr. Falley had passed away without the slightest warning, passing from peaceful slumber into that long sleep which knows no awakening, doubtless little realizing himself that he was about to leave his loved ones. There could have been no more peaceful ending of a well spent life. The body was brot to Wahpeton Saturday evening on the Great Northern Flyer, accompanied by the grief stricken wife and little son and Mrs. Orcutt, Miss Helen Friedrichs of Red Wing and Wright Orcutt, and was taken immediately to the Masonic lodge where it rested until Sunday afternoon, when the funeral services were held in the Congregational church.
The services were very simple, consisting of the usual Masonic service and a short prayer by Rev. Gallagher and music by the choir, and the procession was then formed to escort the remains to its final resting place in Fairview cemetery. The Workman, Masonic and Knights Templar lodges attended the remains to the grave, and the following pall bearers marched behind the hearse, Theo Albrecht, W. P. Robbins, W. L. Carter, C. G. Bade, Aaron Stern, J. J. Hull, E. S. Babcock and R. J. Hughes.
Charles Frederick Falley was born in York, Clay county, Illinois, July 1, 1859, a son of Richard and Louisa (Scranton) Falley, native of Massachusetts and Illinois respectively. The father was a wagon maker by trade, removed to Illinois in 1842 and there died in 1877. The mother departed this life in the same state in 1868.
Mr .Falley was educated in the public schools of Illinois and Wisconsin and learned the printer’s trade at Lancaster, Wisconsin, under Edward Potlock, who was then publishing the “Grant County Herald”. Coming to Dakota Territory in 1890, he located in Wahpeton, where he worked at his trade for four years. In 1883 he founded the “Sargent County Teller” at Milnor, N. D. and conducted that paper until 1887 when he came to Wahpeton and in company with Ge. Fritz purchased the North Dakota Globe.” Later he bought out his partner, changed the name to the “Wahpeton Globe” and continued the publication of the paper until in June of this year when it was consolidated with the “Wahpeton Gazette” and he became the editor of the consolidated paper.
In 1885 Mr. Falley married Miss Clara Mitchell of Lancaster, Wisconsin, who died in 1892, leaving one son, Richard M. In 1896 he was married to Mrs. S. R. Pyatt in the city, by whom he had one son, Morgan, who is now eight years of age.
In politics Mr. Falley was a republican and since the admission of the state into the union he held a number of important state offices. He was Sergeant-at-Arms of the Constitutional convention, a fact of which he was very proud, and for two terms was secretary of the senate. In 1896 he was nominated for Secretary of state at the republican state convention and was elected. In 1898 he was nominated and re-elected, serving as secretary of state four years in all. He always took an active interest in state and county politics and during the years when he was most active gained a wide acquaintance thruout the entire state. He was a very able writer and his pithy editorials were widely copied. Perhaps no editorial column in the state was more carefully perused in the office of the larger dailies and weeklies of the state than his.
The numerous letters and telegrams which have been received at this office expressing deep regret at the news of his death, are indicative of the high esteem in which he was held by his friends thruout the county and state and his neighbors in Wahpeton.
Mr. Falley’s office associates will miss him almost as greatly as his own family and his place in the field of North Dakota journalism will be hard to fill.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.