The Washington herald., 1918-01-02
CLAIMS
MANY OF NOTE
DURING 1917
Army and Navy Heroes
Among Those Called
by Grim Reaper.

During the war year Of 1917, which
has passed into history. death claimed
many men whose names was power in
Washington's Industrial world Others
whose names will go down in history's
pages as the first Sacrifices of Wash
ington on the altar OF civilization and
humanity, were borne away by death.
OF these latter, four were officers
of the army or navy. The names Of
these men indelibly inscribed on the
roll of American honor who died at
their posts on board ship follow:
Lieut. Stanton Frederick Kalk. we'll
known in Washington, n native Of
Omaha. Nebr., who went down
with the Jacob Jones. the destroyer
which was torpedoed and sunk by a
German submarine in foreign waters.
December 6. He was the first man
from the District to lose his life in a
naval action since the United States
entered the war.
Lieut.. BENJAMIN 8. walcott, the 81
year-old son Of Charles d. Walcott.
secretary of the Smithsonian 1nsti-
tuition. who was reported in an off,
cial message early in December killed
In the service. Only meager reports
reached Washington.
First Lieut.. George NJ. Anderson
of Alexandria, who spent much time
in Washington. died on board a United
States transport in the early part
OF December.
Ensign Phillips W. Page. U. s.
N. r. c., son of Mrs. Anna NJ.
Page, of this city. was killed in Eng
land. December II, while experiment
ing with a sea plane.
Besides men killed in the war
abroad, whose losses will be keenly
felt by Washington families and
friends, two large merchants, cap
tains of industry. passed out of this
world together in the same year.
s. Walter Woodward, philanhropist.
civic worker. and founder and senior
partner in the firm of Woodward
& Lothrop, died at Stockbridge.
Mass. August ?.
Henry Lansburgh. local merchant
! and civic worker. member of several
fraternal organization. died at his
home. 25ll Fourteenth street north
west, on the morning OF October %
These men had fought side by side.
while the little town in which they
laid their foundations for great in
dustries. went within the space of
three months of each other to face
in the great unknown.
Mr.. Woodward had been identified
with business in Washington since
| 1880. He was born in 1SiS in Maine.
He left four children. three daughters
and a son. He was a prominent MEM
ber of the Calvary Baptist Church.
and was identified with Masonic ac-
tivitles, the knights Tempiar. and
Almas Temple, Order of the Mystic
Shrine. He was buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery, August
Henry Lansburgh died at the age
of a. He was a thirty-third degree
| Mason, a member of the Washington
| chamber of Commerce. the Board of
! Trade. the Retail Merchants Associa-
! ton and the Association of Oldest
! Inhabitants.
He left his wife. Mrs. Hanna Lans-
burgh, one son and three daughters.
| Funeral services were held from his
home on the afternoon of October 81.
He was buried in the cemetery of
the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton.
Admiral George Dewey, for years
idol of America, and the backbone of
the American navy, died at his home
in Washington on January Il, 1917, at
the age of 70 years.
After lying in state in the rotunda
of the Capitol three days, he was
buried in Arlington Cemetery on jan
uary 2l- Lines of Washingtonians,
crowding the curbs of the city as the
hearse bearing all that was mortal of
the great admiral on that date paid
tribute to his memory.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood. the only
woman candidate for President OF the
United States, also died during 1917.
She passed out of this life in George
Washington University Hospital on
May 10. She was buried from Wesley
Chapel on Tuesday. May p. She was
lawyer, peace advocate, and suf-
fragist
Edward Minor Gallaudet, founder of
, Kendall Green, Gallaudet College, the
educational institution for the deaf,
died at his home in Hartford, Conn,
on September 2S. He resigned his
presidency at Gallaudet in 1911 and
had remained in Hartford since that
time. His father was the first man in
America to found a college distinctly
for the deaf. He was buried in Hart
ford.