TANNER- On Sunday, January 24, 1892, at Albert Lea, Minn., Sanford Tanner, mostly of old age.

Sanford Taner was born in Rensselaserville, Albany county, N. Y., in 1798. He made his start in life by hard work; made fanning mills and peddled them, laid miles of stone fence, laid wall in the construction of the Erie canal.

He came to Lyle, in Mower county, in the spring of 1858, and for a time made his home with his cousin, Mrs. Alanson Beach, but has usually been on the move through the district where his loans were made, Mower and Freeborn counties and adjacent parts of Iowa. It was not too often that an assessor caught him for taxation.

When he died his clothing were probably not worth $5 all told. It is doubtful if it ever exceeded that much in value at any one time. He made his appearance in the county, a gray headed man, in plain weatherbeaten clothes and a cotton umbrella under his arm. He preferred walking to riding and expended nothing for stage fare. He [illegible:?] around with those to whom he had loaned and spent nothing for board except his own labor and he was fond of physical exertion. He aided materially in keeping the breath of life in some of the early settlers when their crops were destroyed by hail and wet. The rate of interest he asked was large, but less than of some other loaners.

When the legislature limited the rate he confined himself to the 12 per cent, allowed. When reduced again to ten percent, he went around and took new notes at the ten per cent, not waiting for the old to expire at 12 per cent, as he might have done. He never foreclosed if possible to keep a man along till he paid up.

About a week before Christmas he was found by the Burlington section men lying beside the track two miles below Albert Lea, in an unconscious state and removed to a hotel in Albert Lea. When thawed out and restored to partial consciousness, in reply to the question "will you have supper?" he replied, "no, I have just 50 cents, and want to keep it for lodging and breakfast." That was all he had up his person, but as he did not rally to get about again, a young man was engaged to take care of him.

He leaves one brother and one sister living and descendants of four other brothers. He made a will some ten years ago, but is said to have destroyed it. Whether another has been made is not known.

He has been robbed several times and some think his present property amounts to less than $100.00. Corporal Tanner is a son of his cousin. He will be buried at Lyle, unless his relatives east have his remains sent on there today.