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BACON - Henry Bacon, 58, famed architect; in Manhattan. [Monday, Feb. 25, 1924, Time Magazine]
BALDWIN
Leroy Baldwin, Head of Empire Trust Co., Dead
NEW YORK, March 7 (A.P.)-Leroy W. Baldwin, age seventy-three, a financier reported to have had one of the largest incomes In the nation, is dead here after an operation in Harkness pavilion. Baldwin founded the Empire Trust Company in 1901 and served as its president until his death. No official estimate of his wealth ever has been made public, but Baldwin paid $225,000 cash for his town home in October 1927, and last July the treasury ordered a refund of $135,000 as overpayment on his 1933 income taxes. His financial interests covered a wide field. In 1925, with the financial backing of the wealthy Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, he bought the Equitable building here for a reported price of $38,500,000, the highest that ever had been recorded in a New York realty transaction. He also served as chairman of the board of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad and director of the Boomer-Du Pont Properties, Inc. [The Indianapolis News March 7 1939, Submitted by A Friend of Free Genealogy]
BAXTER, John Crichton
At New York City, on Thursday, July 27, 1933, at 1 a.m., John C. Baxter, husband of Ollie W. Baxter. Funeral services at his late residence, 20 Vernon Drive, Mt. Lebanon [Allegheny County, Pa.], Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. ["Pittsburgh Press", July 29, 1933 - Submitted By: Allen Bankson]
BEEKMAN, Annie
At Harlem, on Monday, Sept. 28, Annie, twin daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Beekman, aged 20 months. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, without further invitation, from the house of her parents, foot of 117th st., East River, on Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. [New York Times, Sept. 30, 1857. Submitted by Amanda Jowers.]
CAMP - Walter Camp, 66, football expert, father of the "daily dozen"; in Manhattan, of heart disease [Mar. 23, 1925, Time Magazine]
CASEY -- 14 Sept. 1895 – 3 Apr. 1934
St. Louis Star-Times
Daniel J. Casey, president of the Western Watchman Publishing Co., which until recently published the Western Watchman, Catholic weekly, died of pneumonia at the City Hospital Tuesday night. He was 37 years old. Mr. Casey came to St. Louis in 1932 to join the Watchman staff. He was business manager until last fall, when he acquired the majority stock of the company. Publication ceased in December pending a reorganization and Mr. Casey had planned to issue the paper again, beginning in May. Mr. Casey is survived by his widow and small daughter, who are enroute here from Wisconsin. Pending their arrival funeral arrangements have not been made. The body is at the Cullivan & Riley chapel, 5007 Waterman avenue. Mr. Casey made his home here at the American Annex. He was born in New York, entered newspaper work there, and later became connected with Catholic publications. Before coming to St. Louis, he was associated with Joseph Quinn, editor of the Southwest Courier, a Catholic weekly at Oklahoma City, Okla. [Source: Colby Phonograph (Clark County, Wis.), 5 Apr. 1934 - MZ - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
Daniel J. Casey was born in New York City on Sept. 14, 1895, and graduated from high school at the age of fourteen. He then entered college conducted by the Jesuit Fathers in Boston, Mass. After graduation, he spent one year abroad. On the 11th of December, 1917, he was enlisted at Columbus Barracks, Ohio. He served as sergeant of the air service overseas and became a commission officer just as the war ceased. On his return to the United States Mr. Casey studied law and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. But the Catholic Press was the field of his choice. It mattered naught in what capacity he served. He worked with the same zest seeking advertising or selling subscriptions as he did with his pen. Mr. Casey went to St. Louis in 1932 and was perhaps best known to readers of the Western Watchman through his column, “Our Weekly Dozen.” His squibs were quoted by Catholic newspapers from coast to coast. Mr. Casey was married to Antoinette Will of Colby, Wisconsin, on February 2, 1930. His sudden passing, being sick with pneumonia but three days, is mourned by his wife and daughter, Mary Ann. Also his mother, two brothers, Joe and Jim, and two sisters, Beatrice and Margaret, of Boston, Mass. [Source: Colby Phonograph (Clark County, Wis.), 19 Apr. 1934 - MZ - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
The Southwest Courier prints:
“Thousands of our readers will recall a rather short, spry man who called upon them for subscriptions a few years ago. He was Irish and his name was Daniel J. Casey. Likely as not he stopped to chat a while with you and you enjoyed his wit and optimism. He died last week in St. Louis after a short spell of pneumonia.
Casey was a soldier of fortune in many ways. He came to Oklahoma in 1929, carefree, buoyant, ready to do our bidding. He solicited in every town and city of Oklahoma. Then we sent him to the diocese of Lafayette upon the invitation of Bishop Jeanmard. He obtained more than 1700 subscriptions among the French people of that section, then went north to the Diocese of Alexandria where he wrote 1200. Crossing over into Texas, he solicited in Amarillo and other Panhandle cities and added 1050 more names to our mailing list. Then back to Oklahoma to write or rewrite additional thousands. Not once did he fail to send in a listed name. And he obtained the subscriptions of practically everyone with whom he talked.
His work done here, Casey went to the Kansas City Catholic Register and later to the Western Watchman of St. Louis. Here he blossomed out as a writer with a keen, trenchant pen and sharp wit. We understand he became president of The Western Watchman Publishing Co. which was in process of re-organization at the time of his death.
Few men were so enthused over the Catholic press as was Daniel Casey. His Catholicity was as solid as a rock and he was thoroughly grounded in Catholic doctrine. He wrote as highly as eighty subscriptions a week, among Catholic and non-Catholic people, and he was an exponent of Catholic beliefs wherever he went. Fearless, militant, he went about doing great good in sections where the Catholic church was little known. Many of our subscribers in far-off places owe him a debt of gratitude, as do we, for seeking those isolated by a great distance. May his soul rest in peace.”
COCKRAN - W. Bourke Cockran, 69, member of the House of Representatives from New York, in Washington. [Mar. 10, 1923, Time Magazine, Sub. by K.T.]
CORCORAN, John
POVERTY CAUSES SUICIDE -- Dispossessed and Unable to Find Work, Corcoran Drank Poison.
New York, Dec. 15.—After trudging through the snow from one end of the city to the other in the vain hope of securing employment, his wife and six children without food and ordered to leave their home, in an upper East Side tenement house, because of nonpayment of rent, John Corcoran, a clerk, to-day ended his life by drinking carbolic acid. [The Washington Post, (Wash., D.C.), December 16, 1904 ]
CRONAN, Cornelius
Rev. C. J. Cronan Dies; Pastor of All Saints; Cardinal Hayes to Preside at High Mass of Requiem Monday, Divine Office Sunday.
The Rev. Corneall J. Cronan, pastor of All Saints` Roman Catholic Church, 47 East 129th Street,
died of heart disease yesterday as he was reading in the library of the rectory after luncheon.
He was 58 years old. Divine office will be chanted by a choir of priests in his church at 8 o`clock
Sunday evening. Cardinal Hayes will preside and give absolution at the high mass of requiem, also at All Saints, at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Burial will be in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Father Cronan was born in Mount Morris, N.Y., on March 22, 1872. After preparing for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary in Troy he was ordained in 1893 by Bishop McQuay of Rochester. His first appointment was as assistant at the Church of the Sacred Heart in this city. In 1894 he went to St. Mary's Church in Rosebank, S.I., where he was assistant pastor for twenty-four years and pastor for eight years. On June 14, 1926, he succeeded Mgr. Power, who had died a few months before, as pastor of All Saints. [New York Times, May 2, 1930 - Submitted by Nan Starjak]
same paper, Deaths section: Cronan --Suddenly, May 1, 1930, Rev. Corneall J. Cronan, pastor of All Saints' Roman Catholic Church, Madison Av. and 129th St. The Divine Office will be chanted Sunday, May 4, at 8 P.M. Solemn mass of requiem Monday, May 5, at 10 A.M.
[New York Times, May 2, 1930 - Submitted by Nan Starjak who adds: "Fr. Cronan's first name was actually Cornelius"]
DICKERMAN - 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. [Apr. 14, 1923, Time Magazine, Sub. by K.T]
DORR
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 (Batavia, Kane County, Illinois), 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. [Batavia Herald, Kane County, IL, 25 January, 1894 - Sub. by K.T.]
ECKFORD
The New York Mercantile states that a most melancholy event occurred on Wednesday night the 23d ult in the family of Henry Eckford, Esq. His daughter Henrietta, a young lady aged about 19 years was so dreadfully burnt by her clothes taking fire, that she expired on Thursday morning. It is said that she was watching for the night with a sick sister, and fell asleep while sitting by the fire. During her sleep, the fire communicated to her clothes and before relief could arrive, she was so badly burnt that she survived but a few hours. The sister, who was so much indisposed as to be unable to move was obliged to witness the distressing scene without being able to render assistance - and a brother, who was alarmed by the cried and came to assist, was badly burnt in endeavoring to afford relief. - Balt. Amer. [Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, Pa., February 6, 1828]
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FEARN
New York Man, T. C. Fearn, Dies - Succumbs to Injuries Received in Auto Smashup Near Montoya (TX)
T. C. Fearn, mining engineer, who was injured in a collision between his automobile and a wagon near Montoya, Monday morning, died Tuesday morning at Hotel Dieu, where he was taken immediately after the accident. His right arm sustained a compound fracture, and his head was crushed. Mr. Fearn, accompanied by Mrs. Fearn, were returning from a weekend stay at Dripping Springs, when they attempted to pass a wagon loaded with furniture near Montoya. How the accident happened has never been explained, as no one saw it but the persons injured. But the automobile driven by Mr. Fearn was turned completely over, catching both Mr. Fearn and his wife. The wagon with its load of furniture was completely demolished, and L. L. Kyle, of Anthony, who was driving it, had his left leg broken in two places. The three victims were taken to Hotel Dieu immediately. Mrs. Fearn is injured about the spine, and may have sustained internal injuries. Mr. Fearn is well known in the southwest as a mining engineer, and is interested in mining property at Kingston, N. M. His home is in New York City, and at the time of the accident was a guest at the Paso del Norte hotel. Mr. Kyle had recently purchased the Ferlet ranch near Anthony. He was bringing the load of furniture into El Paso at the time of the accident. [El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, April 16, 1918 - transcribed as written by D. Donlon]
FISH - Stuyvesant Fish, 71, banker and railway official, in Manhattan. [Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine]
FUND - Chinese Bride Is Laid To Rest; Imposing Funeral Ceremonies Over Young Wife of Almond-Eyed Thespian In Gotham.
New York, N. Y., Feb. 25 – The funeral of May Llyn, bride of Sung G. Fund, an actor in the Chinese theater in Doyers street, has been held with pomp and ceremonies unusual for New York’s Chinese colony. The body was dressing in gorgeously embroidered Oriental garments, golden dragons winding their protecting folds about the slight form. No ray of sunshine was admitted to the mourning room, but the decorations of the death robe glittered in the light of innumerable candles which, with tinkling bells, kept at bay the harm of the devils ever ready to rush in and bear away one so young and fair. The close air was burdened with the heavy perfume of burning eastern incense. A wreath of wax flowers lay on the coffin, a tribute of an Occidental mourner. As the funeral service drew near the room became filled in Chinamen, friends and acquaintances of the bereft husband, who chanted the story of his bride. As refreshment for the still lingering spirit of May Llyn, so that is might be sustained on its trip to the cemetery, where the devil’s onslaught would be most desperate, chickens, and rice balls were placed conveniently near the coffin. Coins were placed in the garment for use in the other world. When the body of May Llyn was lowered into the grave presents were placed beside the coffin to serve her spirit be disinterred and taken back to China, when her earthly tribulations will be at an end.
[Brownsville Daily Herald, Brownsville, Texas, March 4, 1903 - Sub. by Dale Donlon]
HINES -- Died, in New York City on 26th March, 1866 while on a visit with his family, after a brief but that patience and fortitude of which his life was characteristic, David P. Hines. M. D., in the fortieth year of his age. Born in Laurens county, of this State, he graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, in 1847, with the highest honors of Decatur county which he has since followed assiduously and successfully. When the tocsin of war was sounded, and his native State became involved in the common calamity, he yielded a prompt obedience to the demand made upon his patriotism, and was no less eminent as a Surgeon in the army than attentive as a physician. In the early history of the unfortunate struggle, be went with his company—the Bainbridge Independents, Capt. John Evans—and was attached to the 1st regiment Georgia volunteers, Col. Ramsey, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of that regiment; was with the regiment at Pensacola, and went with it to Virginia, where he shared with them the trials and glories of Laurel Hill and Cheat Mountain—endearing himself alike to the officers as well as the privates by his attention, gentlemanly bearing, uniform kindness,and solicitude for their well-being.
In his death, this county and community have suffered an irreparable loss—the profession, a disaster. To know the spirit that actuated him, to meet him in the common walks of life, was to love him. A heart endowed with the noblest virtues—generous to an error; in his profession, a shining light—in his loss, a void scarcely to be filled. To his bereaved family, brothers and relatives, we tender our sincere sympathies, and may his example be their guiding star through this vale of tears. [Unknown newspaper/date -- Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
LEEDS - 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. [Apr. 6, 1925, Time Magazine]
METCALF - Willard L. Metcalf, 66, artist; in Manhattan, of heart disease [Mar. 23, 1925, Time Magazine]
MURPHY - Charles Francis Murphy, 66, Sachem of Tammany Hall, Manhattan; of heart disease, in Manhattan. [Monday, May 5, 1924, Time Magazine - Sub. by K.T.]
PABOR, Mary Ann -- At Harlem, on Saturday, Sept. 26, after a lingering illness, Mary Ann, wife of Alexander Pabor, aged 47 years, 6 months and 19 days. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, this (Monday) afternoon, at 3 o'clock, from the Presbyterian Church on 127th st. near 3d av. [New York Times, Sept. 28, 1857. Submitted by Amanda Jowers.]
PULITZER - Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, 35, wife of the second son of the late Joseph Pulitzer, in Manhattan, as the result of an automobile accident. [Mar. 23, 1925, Time Magazine]
REICK - William C. Reick, 60, one-time owner of the New York Sun, New York Evening Sun; in Manhattan after a lung illness. [Dec. 15, 1924, Time Magazine]
ROSPIGLIOSI - 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. [Nov. 17, 1924, Time Magazine]
SHANKLIN - 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. [Oct. 20, 1924, Time Magazine:]
SMITH - Thomas H. Smith, for 23 years Secretary of Tammany Hall, run down near Union Square by a New York taxicab. [Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine]
STOREY - Editor of Harper's Young People Dead.
New York, Aug. 8. — Alfred Butler Storey, editor of The Harper's Young People, died at St. Luke's hospital of typhoid fever. He had been in the hospital two weeks. He was taken ill with typhoid fever three weeks ago. Mr. Storey was born in Nottingham, England, about thirty-five years ago. He was graduated from Oxford and shortly afterward came to this country.
[08 Aug 1893, "Rockford Daily Spectator" - Sub by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
STRAVINSKY -- Composer Stravinsky dies at 88 NEW YORK (AP) -
Igor Stravinsky, called "the Einstein of musical art" and considered the foremost composer of the 20th century, died Tuesday. He was 88.
"The greatest composer of this century ... the last musical genius of the 20th century ... great enough to cast his shadow over all of 20th century music... One of the great giants of the century."
These were among eulogies his contemporaries pronounced upon Stravinsky, following his death at his Fifth Avenue apartment. Russian Orthodox funeral services will be held here Friday, with burial later in the Russian corner of the Cemetery of San Michele in Venice. Stravinsky had been in failing health for several years, with circulatory and lung problems. Released from Lenox Hill Hospital a week ago, his death was attributed simply to the failure of a tired and over-burdened heart.
Russian-born into the realm of music June 18.1882, Stravinsky was the son of a leading basso at the St. Petersburg opera. He studied under Rimsky-Korsakov. composer and orchestrator.
At Stravinsky's birth, Richard Wagner was still alive, although he was to die the following year. His had been the dominant influence on 19th century music. Said Alexis Leger, French Nobel Prize winner and diplomat, in an assessment of Stravinsky: "Europe was under the spell of Wagner. We had to be liberated, not so much from Wagner as from Wagnerism. Stravinsky appeared as a man great technical genius, and the mysterious instinct of the creator. We have been taking Stravinsky for granted for a long, long time. He is a giant, a great keystone and a far-reaching influence."
Irving Kolodin, music critic and associate editor of the Saturday Review, said Stravinsky conceived "a world of rhythmic, sonorous and harmonic combinations which effectively bypassed almost all Wagnerian associations."
In 1908, Stravinsky wrote "Fire-works" for the marriage of Rimsky's daughter, it came to the attention of Serge Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. He commissioned the 27 year old Stravinsky to write the score for a ballet based upon a Russian Legend.
The result in 1910 was "The Fire-bird." which led Diaghilev to remark of Stravinsky: "Mark him well. He is a man on the eve of celebrity."
The following year, Stravinsky scored the ballet "Petruchka"' for Diaghilev. In 1913, came "The Rite of Spring" an innovative score which proved to be slightly ahead of its time. At its premiere in Paris, the savage primitiveness of the music caused members of the audience to fall upon one another with flailing canes, while boos and catcalls drowned out the orchestra. Stravinsky fled the theater. However, "The Rite" won acceptance the following year as a break with the romanticism and sentimentality of the past.
Stravinsky went on to write upwards of 100 more pieces of music. His "Agon", commissioned by the New York City Ballet, premiered on his 75th birthday. His first television score, "The Flood." was shown four days before his 80th birthday.
At the age of 79, Stravinsky went on a conducting tour of Africa. And a few months later he toured America, Israel, Russia and other countries of Europe. The visit to Russia was Stravinsky's first since he left there in 1914. He became a citizen of France in 1934. In 1940, Stravinsky came to the United States, settling in Beverly Hills. He became an American citizen in 1945.
[The Augusta Ga. Chronicle April 7, 1971 - Submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
TORRIANI -- Angela Torriani, Sr., of New York, who was known as the father of Italian opera in America, died suddenly of heart disease at Red Bank, N. J. He was born in Milan April 27, 1829.
[29 Aug 1893; "Muskegon Chronicle" - Sub. by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
TOWLEY - New York, Dec 28. - Dr. Towley, business manager of the Grand Opera House and a well known journalist, died this morning. ["The Quincy Daily Herald", Dec 31, 1872; Page: 2 by Sub. by Debbie Lee.]
WARD - New York, NY, Dec. 17 – Beverly Ward, Jr., a young man well known to New York Society, was found dead in bed at the club house of the Baltusrol Golf Club, near Short Hill, N. J., yesterday. He had been poisoned himself. He had been in low spirits for some time, owing, it was said, to the announcement of the engagement of a young lady of this city to whom he had been paying attention. ["The Guthrie Leader"; Guthrie, OK; December 18, 1897 - Sub. by Dale Donlon]
WATTS, Franklin Mowry
Franklin Watts, publisher of books for children and adults for more than 36 years, died Sunday [May 21, 1978] in Doctors Hospital. He was 74 years old and lived at 10 Waterside Plaza.
Mr. Watts was the founder of Franklin Watts Inc. of New York and of Franklin Watts Ltd. of London. At his death, he was president of the Franklin Book Corporation in New York City.
He began his career with books in 1925 as a bookseller and as a department store book buyer. In 1932, he became a sales representative for a group of publishers. He founded a book-publishing company under his own name in 1942.
In 1957, he sold Franklin Waats [sic] Inc. to Grolier, the encyclopedia publisher, and worked for Grolier's new division. Retiring in 1969, he moved to London to establish Franklin Watts Ltd., a joint venture with Grolier. In 1976, he retired from that concern and returned to New York City to found the Franklin Book Corporation.
Mr. Watts graduated from Boston University and was a member of the Publishers' Lunch Club.
He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Hoke, an author and editor who was associated with her husband in his publishing ventures; a stepson, John Hoke.
[New York Times, May 23, 1978 - Submitted By Allen Bankson]
YOUNG - John W. Young, 79, son of the late Brigham Young, Mormon leader; in Manhattan. [Monday, Feb. 25, 1924, Time Magazine]
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