McCRUM

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 09:23:35 :

Sausalito News
Saturday, July 5, 1902
Page 3

Work of the Grim Reaper

Last Friday afternoon, Hugh McCrum, one of Mill Valley’s prominent citizens, died at his San Francisco residence after an illness extending over a considerable period. Mr. McCrum was a large property holder in Mill Valley, and his death is mourned by a large circle of friends who assembled in San Francisco Sunday to pay their last respects to the memory of the departed. For many years, Mr. McCrum was a partner in the wholesale liquor house of Schroff & McCrum, but of late years he turned his attention to mining properties and accumulated considerable wealth, which by the terms of his will is left to his widow, a disposition of his property which is manifestly just. The life of the deceased was thrilling in the extreme, and the account of his experiences in Arizona would make reading as rich as the experiences found in the yellow colored novels. Mr. McCrum was 65 years old.