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OBITUARIES / DEATH NOTICES

COCKRAN / DICKERMAAN / DORR / FISH / SMITH / BEECHER / BACON / YOUNG / SHANKLIN / ROSPPIGLIOSI / REICK / PULITZER / CAMP / METCALF / LEEDS / TOWLEY / POSEY

Saturday, Mar. 10, 1923, Time Magazine:

W. Bourke Cockran, 69, member of the House of Representatives from New York, in Washington. (See p. 2.)

Saturday, Apr. 14, 1923, Time Magazine:

Watson Bradley Dickerman, 77, former President of the New York Stock Exchange, in Manhattan. He retired in 1909 and devoted himself largely to breeding race horses. He is survived by his wife and a five-year-old son.

Batavia Herald, Kane County, IL, 25 January, 1894
Another Old Resident Gone.
J. E. DORR Passes Away After An Illness of Seven Months.
Mr. J. E. DORR, died at his home in this city, Sunday, January 21st, 1894, at 9 o’clock a.m., after an illness of seven months, aged 63 years. Deceased was born in New York City, Jan. 17th, 1831, and married Miss Uretta WEBB of that city, Nov. 23d, 1852. In 1857 they came west and settled at Blackberry, and from there moved to St. Charles, after which he spent several years in Kentucky, coming to Batavia (Kane County, IL)  in 1861, where he has made his home for the past 33 years.

He was an Ornamental painter and House decorator by trade; having followed this business from some years in the East with his father, and since his residence here has continued in his chosen profession, and it was while completing some work last June, that he fell from a ladder and sustained injuries which eventually caused his death; having been confined to his home ever since, and a greater part of it to his bed.

Deceased was a very intelligent gentleman and a great reader, and has many warm friends with whom he has associated these many years; was a follower of the Swedish Borgian faith, and lived an honest and upright life. Besides the wife, five children are left to mourn a father’s death. The funeral took place from the home Wednesday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. J. E. Bissell.

Saturday, Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine:

Stuyvesant Fish, 71, banker and railway official, in Manhattan.

Thomas H. Smith, for 23 years Secretary of Tammany Hall, run down near Union Square by a New York taxicab.

Saturday Jun 4, 1923, Time Magazine:

Mrs. Mary Howell Beecher, 69, author, descendant of Elihu Yale (founder of Yale University), and through her husband related to Henry Ward Beecher, in Brooklyn.

Jun 25, 1923

Monday, Feb. 25, 1924, Time Magazine:

Henry Bacon, 58, famed architect; in Manhattan. 

John W. Young, 79, son of the late Brigham Young, Mormon leader; in Manhattan.

Monday, Oct. 20, 1924, Time Magazine:

Dr. William Arnold Shanklin, 62, President Emeritus of Wesleyan University (Middleton, Conn.); in Manhattan, on the steps leading from the Grand Central Terminal to the Lexington avenue subway station, of heart failure. Under Dr. Shanklin's administration, Wesleyan University doubled in number of students, trebled in income.

Monday, Nov. 17, 1924, Time Magazine:

Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi, née Ethel Bronson, daughter of the late Isaac Bronson of Manhattan; in Rome. The house of Rospigliosi, one of the oldest in Italy, dates back to 1330, was once headed by Pope Clement IX. 

Monday, Dec. 15, 1924, Time Magazine:

William C. Reick, 60, one-time owner of the New York Sun, New York Evening Sun; in Manhattan after a lung illness.

Monday, Mar. 23, 1925, Time Magazine:

Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, 35, wife of the second son of the late Joseph Pulitzer, in Manhattan, as the result of an automobile accident.

Walter Camp, 66, football expert, father of the "daily dozen"; in Manhattan, of heart disease

Willard L. Metcalf, 66, artist; in Manhattan, of heart disease  

Apr. 6, 1925, Time Magazine:

Warner M. Leeds, 57, tin-plate man, brother of the late William B. Leeds, "Tin-plate King"; in Manhattan, of tuberculosis of the lungs. The bulk of his estate, valued at several millions, will go to Joy Leeds, twelve-year-old adopted daughter. Two years ago, Mrs. Leeds died from a fall from the fifth-story window of their home.

TOWLEY
New York, Dec 28. - Dr. Towley, business manager of the Grand Opera House and a well known journalist, died this morning. [Transcribed from The Quincy Daily Herald; Date: Dec 31, 1872; Section: None; Page: 2 by Debbie Lee.]

POSEY
KILLED BY FALLING WALLS
New York, July 22 – Two persons were killed and three injured by the falling in of the rear wall of a tenement house at One Hundred and Twenty-second street and Fourth avenue. The tumbling of the wall was caused by a premature blast. [Transcribed from The Quincy Morning Whig, July 23, 1893 by Debbie Lee.]

HARLEM SHAKEN BY DYNAMITE
TWO PERSONS KILLED OUTRIGHT AND SIX INJURED
Terrible Havoc Wrought by an Overloaded Blast - Masses of Rock Were Hurled High in Air and Through a Building, Carrying Death with Them - Heavy Charges in Twelve Holes Were Fired at One TIme - The Contractor in Charge Fled - Five Workmen Arrested.
     A careless rock blast yesterday wrecked the house 61 East One Hundred and Twenty-second Street. Two persons wer instantly killed. Six others were injured, and of these two will probably die. The entire neighborhood where the accident occurred was driven wild with panic.

KILLED
POSEY, MARIE F., colored, thirty-five years old.
POSEY, MARIE ADELE, colored, her daughter, eight years old.

INJURED
GRAHAM, ALBERT S., twenty-seven years old, 128 Easat One Hundred and Thirteenth Street, sprained ankle.
McADAMS, Mrs. MARY, twenty-six years old, skull fractured and injured about the spine and body.
POSEY, MARY, colored, sixty years old, head crushed and bruised.
POSEY, IRMA C., colored, thirteen years old, cut about the head and body.
POSEY, AUSTIN, colored, ten years old, bruised about the head and body.
POSEY, REGINALD, colored, nine years old; leg broken .

     All the persons except Albert Graham lived in the wrecked house.
[Transcribed from the New York Times, July 23, 1893 by Melissa Rodriguez.]

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