Contributed by Paul Lemasters

We much regret having to announce the sudden death of Mr. M.H. ALLARDT, of Port Huron, Michigan. The sad and unexpected event occurred on Thursday, but further particulars have not yet come to hand.  Mr. ALLARDT was known in Rugby, as he was not unfrequently here on his way to the CLARKE lands in Fentress County, for which he was immigration agent.  In that capacity he had had large and long experience, and for years had been one of the Commissioners of Emigration for Michigan, and esteemed a reliable and responsible man.  During the relief measures for the sufferers from the forest fires in Michigan, last year, he energetically filled an important executive post. He was expected in Fentress County some time during the next few weeks to assist in arranging for the settlement of new comers, but, we are informed, no arrangement will be seriously affected by his unlooked for death, although those who were personally acquainted with Mr. ALLARDT cannot but regard the absence of his presence among them. [Source:  Rugbeian, Rugby, Morgan Co., TN, Sat., 2 Sept 1882, Vol. II, NO. 150, p1.] 

Mr. M.H. ALLARDT, of Port Huron, Mich., who [sic] death we referred to last week, was born in Silesia, 1829. He came to this country with his parents when he was only four years old. In 1849 he published in Detroit the first weekly German newspaper started in that city. He later on studied law in Cleveland, O.  In 1869 he was Commissioner of Emigration and spent some time in Germany.  In September last year he was secretary to the relief committee on behalf of the sufferers by the forest fires in Michigan. Recently he has been largely engaged in selling land in Fentress county, East Tennessee.  He was a vigorous and healthy man, and his death was a startling blow to his family.  His sickness
was typho-malarial fever. [Source:  Rugbeian, Rugby, Morgan Co., Tn, Sat., 9 Sept. 1882, Vol. II, No. 51, p2.]