Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Leslie Mortier Shaw, 83, twice Governor of Iowa (1898-1902), Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury (1902-07); of double pneumonia; in Washington...
Died. Tom Bacon Rind, 84, onetime Chief of the Osage Indians; of cancer and pneumonia; in Pawhuska, Okla. Towering 6 ft. 4 in., he adhered strictly to the old-time tribal customs, deplored the "civilization" of his oilrich braves. Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed...
Died. Mrs. Delia Claiborne Buckner, relict of General Simon Bolivar Buckner; of pneumonia; in Louisville, Ky. A Captain in the Mexican War, her husband was the Confederate Brigadier-General who surrendered Fort Donelson to his old friend General Grant. Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, he was nominated for Vice President by gold-standard Democrats when they bolted William Jennings Bryan's free-silver ticket...
Died. Dr. Frank Wesley Warne, 77, retired Methodist Episcopal Bishop of India (1900-28); of pneumonia and nephritis; in Brooklyn. Once while in Mesopotamia, he learned unexpectedly that no ship sailed in time for him to attend a church conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Undaunted, he radioed a U. S.-bound oil tanker for passage, was told that he would be taken aboard only if he signed on as an engine-room wiper. For three torrid weeks, 66-year-old Bishop Warne wiped engines, was still in greasy dungarees when met at the docks...
Percy Langdon Wendell '13, Freshman backfield coach last fall, and captain of the 1912 undefeated eleven, died yesterday of pneumonia. Arrangements for the funeral, to be held Wednesday, will be announced...