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Hi, Peggy...You are welcome. I also printed off the one for Mr. Tigue. It was front page
news the day after he died, plus it continues on an inner page. It's a little
lengthy, but very interesting. There was a picture, also.
In his niney-sixth year, Michael G. Tigue, lifelong Lafayette resident, and son of Mrs.
Nancy Tigue who lived to be 107, died Monday evening. Long ago, he was police chief;
later, Fairfield township trustee and after that, city sealer of weights and measures.
MICHAEL TIGUE, NATIVE SON OF CITY DEAD; 95
sub-heading: Continuous Resident Since 1847; Pioneer Police Head; His Mother Lived to
107; Father Helped Build Canal
Michael G. Tigue, local patriarch died at the age of 95 at 5:15 o'clock Monday
afternoon at St. Elizabeth hospital. He had been taken here a short time before from his
apartment at 819 Ferry street. On his ninetieth birthday five and a half years ago - Mr.
Tigue expressed a wish to live as long as his mother, the famous Mrs. Nancy Tigue, who
died here in 1906 at the age of 107.
He had been in failing health for several months, but never allowed his interest in
current events to wane. As a member of the Tippecanoe County Historical society he was
highly revered as the oldest pioneer linking Lafayette's present with the days of the
city's infancy. All over the community the news of his death brought sorrow.
BORN IN INFANT CITY
Michael Tigue, originally spelled "Tighe," was the son of Patrick and Nancy
Tigue, and was born on the present site of St. Ann's Catholic church, on Wabash
avenue, Jan, 3, 1847. Lafayette had been founded just 22 years before. His father helped
dig the missing link-Lafayette to Terre Haute - in the Wabash-Erie canal.
When 12 years old, the boy began working for the Studebaker, Lamb, Ball and Sleeper
distillery. It closed in 1861, and he did various jobs until 1869 when he began learning
the ornamental stone cutting trade at the John Robinson stone yard, Fourth and Union
streets. During this time, he helped cut the stone for Purdue hall, the first building of
its kind on the Purdue campus.
Following this trade until 1877, Mr. Tigue was elected city marshal on the democratic
ticket, serving until May, 1879. He was also chief of police during his tenure of office.
He was next elected Fairfield township trustee, taking office in 1880 and served through
1883, and then returned to his stone-cutting trade. Mayor George R. Durgan appointed him
city weighmaster and scale inspector in 1907 and he served until 1914.
(to be continued)
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