Love this obituary!

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Persistence....wasn't one of the virtues of Jerome Palmater, who died
on the Spencer farm in the town of Kossuth the other day at the age
of 103. In 1849, at the age of 12, Jerome started for Green Bay. He
stopped at Spencer's overnight. He never left-never even set his foot
off the farm for the next 91 years. But even if he didn't have
persistence, Jerome had one quality that most of us lack-he didn't
allow his goals to blind his love of just plain living. He liked the
Spencer farm, and stayed awhile. He knew Green Bay wasn't going to
move away. It would be there for him any time he decided to move on.
Of course that sort of acquiescence to the present doesn't build
railroads or dig harbors or conquer empires, but it does bring
enjoyment. It's good, in these days when ambition is the stock in
trade of every Tom, Dick and Harry, to see someone who is willing
to let others do the world's work while he goes about the day to
day business of living.

I should have left the year of the obituary in..it would make more sense then. It was written in 1940.