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...Some onetime newsboys: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Roy Wilson Howard, Henry Latham Doherty, John Haydock Carroll, Thomas Alva Edison, William Wrigley Jr., Adolph Simon Ochs, Edward William...
Left, By the late Thomas Alva Edison: an estate estimated at $14,000,000; to his six children (save for $28,000 to three old employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John...
Died. Thomas Alva Edison, 84; of uremic poisoning, Bright's disease, diabetes and stomach ulcers; in Llewellyn Park, West Orange...
president of Bowman Biltmore Hotels Corp., in Manhattan, following an operation for gallstones; William Henry Meadowcroft, 78, longtime assistant and confidential secretary to the late Thomas Alva Edison (see p. 52), in West Orange, N. J.; Brand Whitlock, 62, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, in Brussels, of pleurisy; Charles A. Penn, 62, vice president of American Tobacco Co., in Manhattan, of a gall bladder complication contracted at Reidsville, N. C., whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland...
...Thomas Alva Edison died last week. His practical intelligence was a monument in his century. Thousands of obituaries were published. Some facts about Thomas Alva Edison...