A 71 year old man, living in Panama. He died on September 24, 1948 in Santa Clara, was cremated and buried at the Corozal American Cemetery.
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Crusade-Publisher, Hinsdale Native Dies
The body of the late Nelson Rounsevell, crusader-publisher, was cremated Saturday (September 25, 1948) at Panama City, Panamá. Mr. Rousevell died Friday night (September 24, 1948) in a hospital at Agua-dulce. He was seventy-nine years of age.
A native of Hinsdale, N.Y., Mr. Rounsevell became one of the most colorful figures in Panamá newspaper circles. He went to the Isthmus in 1925 from the United States and founded the newspaper, the "American", with which he waged many crusades.
He and his paper were publicized internationally in 1935, when a criminal libel suit was brought against him by two Army officers over the paper's denunciation of alleged mistreatment of soldiers. He was acquitted on four of five counts. On the fifth he was sentenced to ninety days in jail and fined 8500, but sentence was suspended. He wrote his autobiography under the title of "Forty Years of Rambling, Gambling, Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing".
It was published in column form and later in a book. It told of episodes in the United States and Peru, where he ran a newspaper and gambling house. He sold the "American" in 1938 and retired to Santa Clara where he operated a real estate business.
He is survived by two daughters-Mrs. Claire Ellwood and Mrs. Howell Manning of Tucson, Ariz.
Rounsevell left express instructions that he was to have no funeral.
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Published in the Olean, NY "Times Herald", 27 Sep 1948, Pg. 3
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Crusade-Publisher, Hinsdale Native Dies
The body of the late Nelson Rounsevell, crusader-publisher, was cremated Saturday (September 25, 1948) at Panama City, Panamá. Mr. Rousevell died Friday night (September 24, 1948) in a hospital at Agua-dulce. He was seventy-nine years of age.
A native of Hinsdale, N.Y., Mr. Rounsevell became one of the most colorful figures in Panamá newspaper circles. He went to the Isthmus in 1925 from the United States and founded the newspaper, the "American", with which he waged many crusades.
He and his paper were publicized internationally in 1935, when a criminal libel suit was brought against him by two Army officers over the paper's denunciation of alleged mistreatment of soldiers. He was acquitted on four of five counts. On the fifth he was sentenced to ninety days in jail and fined 8500, but sentence was suspended. He wrote his autobiography under the title of "Forty Years of Rambling, Gambling, Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing".
It was published in column form and later in a book. It told of episodes in the United States and Peru, where he ran a newspaper and gambling house. He sold the "American" in 1938 and retired to Santa Clara where he operated a real estate business.
He is survived by two daughters-Mrs. Claire Ellwood and Mrs. Howell Manning of Tucson, Ariz.
Rounsevell left express instructions that he was to have no funeral.
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Published in the Olean, NY "Times Herald", 27 Sep 1948, Pg. 3
A 71 year old man, living in Panama. He died on September 24, 1948 in Santa Clara, was cremated and buried at the Corozal American Cemetery.
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Crusade-Publisher, Hinsdale Native Dies
The body of the late Nelson Rounsevell, crusader-publisher, was cremated Saturday (September 25, 1948) at Panama City, Panamá. Mr. Rousevell died Friday night (September 24, 1948) in a hospital at Agua-dulce. He was seventy-nine years of age.
A native of Hinsdale, N.Y., Mr. Rounsevell became one of the most colorful figures in Panamá newspaper circles. He went to the Isthmus in 1925 from the United States and founded the newspaper, the "American", with which he waged many crusades.
He and his paper were publicized internationally in 1935, when a criminal libel suit was brought against him by two Army officers over the paper's denunciation of alleged mistreatment of soldiers. He was acquitted on four of five counts. On the fifth he was sentenced to ninety days in jail and fined 8500, but sentence was suspended. He wrote his autobiography under the title of "Forty Years of Rambling, Gambling, Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing".
It was published in column form and later in a book. It told of episodes in the United States and Peru, where he ran a newspaper and gambling house. He sold the "American" in 1938 and retired to Santa Clara where he operated a real estate business.
He is survived by two daughters-Mrs. Claire Ellwood and Mrs. Howell Manning of Tucson, Ariz.
Rounsevell left express instructions that he was to have no funeral.
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Published in the Olean, NY "Times Herald", 27 Sep 1948, Pg. 3
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Crusade-Publisher, Hinsdale Native Dies
The body of the late Nelson Rounsevell, crusader-publisher, was cremated Saturday (September 25, 1948) at Panama City, Panamá. Mr. Rousevell died Friday night (September 24, 1948) in a hospital at Agua-dulce. He was seventy-nine years of age.
A native of Hinsdale, N.Y., Mr. Rounsevell became one of the most colorful figures in Panamá newspaper circles. He went to the Isthmus in 1925 from the United States and founded the newspaper, the "American", with which he waged many crusades.
He and his paper were publicized internationally in 1935, when a criminal libel suit was brought against him by two Army officers over the paper's denunciation of alleged mistreatment of soldiers. He was acquitted on four of five counts. On the fifth he was sentenced to ninety days in jail and fined 8500, but sentence was suspended. He wrote his autobiography under the title of "Forty Years of Rambling, Gambling, Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing".
It was published in column form and later in a book. It told of episodes in the United States and Peru, where he ran a newspaper and gambling house. He sold the "American" in 1938 and retired to Santa Clara where he operated a real estate business.
He is survived by two daughters-Mrs. Claire Ellwood and Mrs. Howell Manning of Tucson, Ariz.
Rounsevell left express instructions that he was to have no funeral.
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Published in the Olean, NY "Times Herald", 27 Sep 1948, Pg. 3
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