D. A. McMichael, aged about 19, a son of Mr. H. McMichael, of Dodgeville, in this county, met his death by drowning on Tuesday, the 17th inst., at DeSoto, Minnesota. The young man was on board the steamer Northerner, on his way to attend to some business in Minnesota, and fell overboard at the place above named. He was a young man of good habits and highly esteemed by his friends, and his untimely death will fill them with sorrow. At last accounts his body had not yet been recovered.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1
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