John Sundquist

John Sundquist (b. c. 1837 - d. August 9, 1898) was a Swedish itinerant worker who was reported to have committed suicide at his boarding house in Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois after having become "demented over his unsuccessful effort of years to invent a perpetual motion machine." The owner of the house he lived in, George Swanson, said he knew nothing about the man's family or background, and little about what he even did for a living, except that he travelled extensively and in "first-class style." No details of the alleged machine were provided.

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 * &mdash; this seems to be a misreading of an earlier article that stated $2.50 was found in the pocketbook.
 * &mdash; this seems to be a misreading of an earlier article that stated $2.50 was found in the pocketbook.