Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 80, "dean of German philosophers," professor at Jena University, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for literature; at Jena, Germany, of pneumonia...
...Inventor Edison referred to was Charles Albert Coffin, who founded the General Electric Co. (1892), who sold new uses for electricity, who in less than half his own lifetime helped considerably to change the character of civilization. Last week, at the age of 81, he died of pneumonia, after four years of retirement from business. By 1883, the year Charles Albert Coffin turned from his profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used...
Died. Charles Albert Coffin, 81; at his home at Locust Valley, L. I., of pneumonia...
Died. Cleveland H. Dodge, 66, President of the National Y. M. C. A., philanthropist and financier; at his home in Riverdale, N. Y.; of pneumonia...
When the curate of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Bridgeport, had administered the sacrament of extreme unction, John T. King, 51, formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator...