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Chicago Daily Tribune
Saturday, 14 December 1912

        F. W. GILCHRIST, LUMBERMAN
         AND VESSEL OWNER, DEAD.

        Pioneer Business Man of Alpena, Mich.,
         Passes Away at Son's Residence in Memphis.

        FRANK WILLIAM GILCHRIST of Alpena, Mich., for many years prominent
     in the lumber business, north and south, and owner of extensive vessel
     interests on the great lakes, died in Memphis yesterday from uraemic
     poisening.
        MR. GILCHRIST was born in Concord, N.H., Feb. 9, 1845. He went to
     Alpena in 1867, where he engaged in the lumber, timber, and vessel
     business. In that year he erected a sawmill at Alpena, which he
     operated continuously until Dec. 4, 1912, when the mill was closed
     down permanently, having completed cutting all the GILCHRIST timber
     tributary to it. It is a peculiar fact that on that day MR.
     GILCHRIST's illness began, and his health steadily declined until the
     end. He was visiting his son, WILLIAM A. GILCHRIST, at Memphis, when
     his illness became too serious for him to be removed. He was the
     president of several lumber companies and the GILCRHIST Transportation
     company, operating a fleet of seventy vessels on the lakes. Other
     interests included banking, cement, and beet sugar.
        MR. GILCHRIST's wife died several years ago. Surviving are three
     sons, FRANK R. of Laurel, Miss; WILLIAM A. of Memphis, and RALPH E. of
     Alpena, and a daughter, GRACE, who resides at Alpena.
        Funeral services will be held on Monday, Dec. 16, at Detroit.

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