Akron Register Tribune Obituaries, 1903
Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa

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1903 Obituaries from the Akron Register Tribune in Akron, Plymouth County Iowa.

CALLENDER, Darius F., Obituary

Darius F. Callender, a prominent Des Moines lawyer and one of the few men of Iowa who have had conferred upon them the highest rites of Masonry, died of Bright's disease at the age of 02 years Sunday morning in Mercy hospital, where he had been confined for two weeks.

Mr. Callender had never married. Home life had been substituted by the lodge and club and he swas an earnest worker among both Masons and Elks. From boyhood he worked his way, teaching school to earn money with which to pay his way through college. Persistently he clung to his work until he was graduated. Once he had entered Masonry, he did not cease his study until he had entered the Scottish Rite and taken the thirty-third degree.

The news of his death will be received with the deepest regret by the Masonic and other fraternities throughout the entire state. [Akron Register Tribune, (Akron, Iowa), Thursday, June 18, 1903]