Augustine M. Antrobus
Born: May 4th, 1839
Died: January 17th, 1925
Obituary
Augustine M. Antrobus, well known Burlington attorney, and historian of southeastern Iowa, died suddenly at his home 402 South Gunnison street, about 10 o'clock last night from an attack of heart failure. He was in his eighty-sixth year.
Mr. Antrobus was born in Greensboro, Ind., May 4, 1839 and came to Iowas with his parents, Hamilton and Elizabeth Antrobus, at the age of four years. His parents settled in Danville, Ia., where Mr. Antrobus attended the rural schools and after finishing the course of learning these, he entered Iowa Wesleyan college at Mt. Pleasant.
He was graduated from the Mt. Pleasant college in 1865 and was admitted to the bar at Iowa Wesleyan in 1868. After teaching at iowa Wesleyan one year, when he was principal in the preparatory department, he came to Burlington and became a partner in the law firm of Power & Antrobus, Judge J.C. Power was Mr. Antrobus' partner at that time.
Mr. Antrobus practiced with Judge Power for many years, but while envaged in work at the bar he maintained his interest in educational affairs by serving on the school board for fifteen years.
On January 23, 1873 he was married to Miss Arpin Ross, a Burlington girl, and the couple lived pratically all of their 51 years of married life in the same house in which Mr. Antrobus passed away last night. Mr. Antrobus left a monument to himself by compiling the most complete and comprehensive history of Des Moines county and its people that has ever been written. It was published by the S.J. Clarke Publishing company of Chicago in 1913.
During the past few years, mr. Antrobus had been unusually active for a man of his age and had been actively engaged as referee in bankruptcy in the First Iowa district for the last twenty years. During the past few weeks he had made numerous trips to small towns in southeastern Iowa, where he duties of his office called him.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, all of whom died while small. Mr. Antrobus is survived by his widow, and she is the only near relative. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.