(September 17, 1902)

Col. H. R. Stoughton, who a few years ago was agent of the O. & L.C. R. R. at Norwood, died suddenly Sept. 17th, of heart disease, at Otsego, Mich., where he had gone to visit his brother. He was sixty-six years old and had been in failing health for about a year. Since leaving Norwood he had been agent of the C. V. R. R. at Barre, Vermont, where he was residing with his family at the time of his death. During a part of the time he resided at Norwood, he was superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School.

(From the Friday, October 3, 1902 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network).