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- from "The Janesville Daily Gazette", 30 Dec 1878 (newspapers.com)
The editor and proprietor of the Beloit Graphite, Mr. Frederick E. Filmore, died at his home in the city Saturday evening the 28th inst., of inflation of the bowels. Mr. Fillmore had been a resident of that city less than three years, but during that time by an upright and manly course and by untiring industry and his chosen profession, as a journalist, had won for himself a large circle of friends, who to-day mourn that his young life and the promise it gave of so much usefulness in the world has been so suddenly cut short. One week ago he was summoned to Janesville, to testify on the Mack trial, and taking a severe cold he was, on the following Monday prostrated with the disease, which so quickly terminated his life. Mr. Fillmore was married to Miss Eva Tuttle, a most estimable lady out of Beloit, only three months ago, and the happiness which seemed to fill each life by this Union was of Mark significance; and the grief which now fills to overflowing the cup of the trusting young wife, widowed before the dawn of wifehood was hardly realized, it's too deep and sacred, and fitting word, to be told. The tender sympathy of many hearts goes out to her today, as well as to the mother, the father, the brothers and sisters, whose family circle has now for the first time been entered by the stern messenger – death. Mr. Filmore's remains will be taken to Marengo Illinois, his former home, today for interment. What will be the future of the Graphic we cannot predict. Mr. Fillmore had labored hard to make his paper a success, and had more than met the expectations of his friends. The Fraphic has been a live, spicy local paper, and if dropped out of sight now it will be a matter of regret to many.
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1854 - 1878 (24 years)