Obituaries and Death Notices of Hudson County, NJ
Obituaries and Death Notices of Hudson County, NJ
George H. Boyd
January 8, 1882? - George H. Boyd, the night ferrymaster at the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry house in Jersey City, died on Monday of last week at his home. He was 55 years of age, and had spent the greater part of his life in the service of that ferry. He began as gateman. [submitted by Shauna Williams]
Dr. Leverett Bradley
Dr. Leverett Bradley died recently, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in the 77th year of his age. For a number of years past Dr. Bradley has been well known as an electrician of considerable ability; but he is best known from the invention which he patented in 1865, for winding helices with uncovered wire. In 1859 he secured a patent for an automatic telegraph apparatus with which, on a short circuit, he succeded in recording about 15,000 words per hour, but he was unable to practically work the apparatus on a telegraphic line of ordinary length. In 1878 he obtained a patent for an apparatus for electric measurement, being a combination of a tangent galvanometer and rheostat, which proved very successful, and is now being much used in colleges and other institutions of learning, as a means of instruction and experiment. [The Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia, Oct 23, 1875. D.G. Brinton, M.D., Editor - Sub. by Linda Rodriguez]
Mrs. Rose Bridges
Mrs. Rose Bridges, aged 24, wife of Ross Bridges, died at a local rooming house last night of influenza. The body will be sent to Jersey City, N. J., this evening on the Texas and Pacific.
El Paso Herald El Paso, Texas October 18, 1918 - Contributed by Dale Donlon
Mrs. Fink
January 8, 1882? - On Monday Mrs. Fink, aged 30 years, of Jersey City, while crossing West street from the Hoboken ferry with her child in her arms, was run down by a heavy truck, the child being killed and herself probably fatally injured. [Submitted by Shauna Williams]
Alexander Hamilton
Fate of Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, was killed in a duel on the exact spot where his son had been killed three years before. Hamilton was slain by Aron Burr at Weehawken Heights, New Jersey on July 11, 1804 (Source: DeWitt Era-Enterprise, March 26, 1942 - Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
Martin Kinkowski
January 11, 1882 - Martin Kinkowski, who was convicted last October of the murder of Philomena Muller in the woods at Guttenberg, was hanged last Friday morning in the Hudson county jail, at Jersey City. At the last moment he declared he was a martyr, and not a criminal. [submitted by Shauna Williams]
Oliver H. Perry
Commodore Perry's Grandson Dead.
New York.—Oliver Hazard Perry, a grandson of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the battle of Lake Erie, died Friday at his home in Jersey City of apoplexy. [Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyeer]
George W. Sherman
January 18, 1882 - George W. Sherman, President of the Hoboken Savings Bank, died on Thursday night week. Twenty seven years ago he invested his little savings in Hoboken real estate. The fortune he leaves is estimated at over a $1,000,000. [submitted by Shauna Williams]
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