Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-17
MORE NOTED MEN
DIE OF INFLUENZA
John p. Gibbs. Prominent
Lawyer and Democrat.
Is Dead
WAR BRIDE A VICTIM
Epidemic Continues to Take
Death Toll Among Well
Known Persons i'm City

Epidemic Influenza still continues its
death toll among men and women oi
prominence In this city
John y. Gibbs n member OF the Phi a
delphIa bar. died at the Polytechnic Hos
pital. He was III only a few days. Born
in Dublin In 1888. Mr.. Gibbs came IA
this country at the age of twelve years.
He WIS admitted to the bar In 1876
lie was prominent IN Democratic politics
and during the Cleveland Administration
was deputy in the internal revenue
office. He was also prominent in Irish
American clubs. His law Office was in
the Penn Square Building His home
address was 14l North Nineteenth street
lie is survived by two sons and Il
daughter
During the cleveland Administration
Mr.. Gibbs served as deputy in the Of
flee of the Internal Revenue Collector
He served in the same capacity for. few
months of the Wilson Administration.
Real Estate Man Dies
Albertson Hurley Pdncoast died after
weeks Illness at his home, lO6 Allen
lane, Mount Airy. lie was thirty eight
years o'd and was engaged in the real
estate business
Mrs. EdNthe chapman, bride oi
seven months, died Of influenza Wednes.
Cay at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas l.. I.awton, $500 Morris
street, Germantown Her husband
, Lieutenant Walter II. chapman, is fight.
4 ing in France.
/ Lieutenant Chapman and Miss Lawtor
were married on March ~ last, in the
First Methodist Church Germantown
/ Mrs. Helen Hawman Foulkrod. wifi,
/ of Lieutenant Raymond Foulkrcd. nov
! in France with the Twenty-sixth En.
( Rineers. died in the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs Charles H. Hawman
& NynnewOOd The young couple wcr,
married in August. 1917.
After one weeks illness. De Witt Clin
/ ton Smith. thirty-siN years cid, of Glen
: side. local manager of the Detroi
Graphite Company, with offices in tn,
/ Land Title Building, died at his hom
last nigh: from pneumonia devclopinI
/ from influenza.
Mr. Smith. who was member of th
! Manufacturers, the Engineers and tn
North hin Country Clubs IL s.rvivet
by his widow. Mrs. Eva McMullei
smith. and two children.
\ brother, Howard Smith. who live
in Germantown, Is just recovering from
I influenza Another brother, the Rev
Stewart Martin Smith, is a director o
I Y. NJ. 6. \. work in France, while ,
third brother, Ensign Warren n. Smith
is in the naval aviation service, at pres
ent stationed at the Philadelphia Nav,
Yard
Mrs Anna Hess Hayward wife o
Lieutenant Commander A. b. Haywar rd
died in the home of her mother, Mrs
3 II. j. Hess, 4222 Pine street. Com
mander Hayward is suffering from In
fuenza and is in the Naval Hospital
He returned recently from service
abroad Besides her husband and moth
er Mrs. Hayward leaves three children
the Oldest ten years old.
Another Nun Dies
Eva st. john Annette. in religion
Mother AlOysus. died yesterday at tn
Convent Of the Holy child Jesus, 3sS
chestnut street. after two days Hines
Of pneumonia. She was thirty-six year
old and took the VOWS seventeen year
ago. For FIVE years she had been
member OF the teaching force at tn
convent in West Philadelphia. He
mother, Mrs, B. NJ sherman. lives /
New York
Karl Brooks crawford of Marion. y
e.. senior medical student at the Uni
versty of Pennsylvania. died Tuesda
II ght IN the University Hospital. of in
fuenza His death was the third anon
the student body. crawford first wa
treated at the students emergency hos
pital. at 3639 Locust street and the
was transferred TO the University IIo,
pital He iH believed to have contracte
the disease while helping to fight IL
Z the hospitals here. The other Pen
students to die of influenza were Franci
Croke dental student. and Benjami
Disharoon, student in the college de
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