Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-14
Death Tolls in Army, Navy,
Church. Medicine and
Finance
1T. ]. T. EDWARDS DIES
Influenza Claims Number OF
City's Prominent Men as
Victims i'm Last "a Hours

/ the list of prominent residents of
the city claimed by epidemic influenza
In the last twentyfour hours.
| Senior Lieutenant Joseph +. Edwards.
! son Of Mrs Rosalie G. Edwards 21l9
Locust street died late yesterday in New
York of double pneumonia following in
fuenza
He was commissioned in the construc-
! tion corps of the navy about eight
/ months ago and was stationed In New
| York. His mother and his wife. who
was Miss Marie Able of Baltimore, were
with him when he died,
He was taken III a week ago and early
in the week pneumonia developed. He
! died at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
He was a brother of Lieutenant Com
mander W Atlee Edwards a member
Of Admiral Sims staff and now on for
oign service and of First Lieutenant
/ T.. Baldwin Edwards who Is in France
with the engineering corps under Major
General Atterbury, He was cousin
| OF First Lieutenant George Il. Fetter-
man. of the 3l3th Infantry, and of First
Lieutenant wilfred u. Fetherman. of the
medical corps who was recently award
! ed the Croix de GuerTe for bravery un-
der fire.
Graduate Of De Lancey School '
Lieutenant Edwards was graduated by
De Eancey School and Fordham Jn'-
versity. His education was completed
In Paris At one time he was connected
with Henry a West. bankers and brok-
ers of this city. and later with the du-
Pont Powder Company, at Wilmington.
Del. He was widely known for his
ala tod .,,tn rttAef
grand opera.
lie was the son Of the late DR. Joseph
e. Edwards. widely known sanitary
expert of this city. who died about
twenty years age. and of Mrs. Edwards.
who was Miss Rosalie Combs. He was
the grandson of the late George w. Ed
wards one of the first vice presidents
, of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
wav. He was thriy-siy years old.
! He is survived by widow and three
children. who are now at their summer
, home al Bayhead n. j.
Funeral services will he held in st.
patrick's Csthodic cathedral. New York.
r tomorrow nj . n. IN. lnterment viii be
d. private and will be in the New Catholic
! Cemetery. Darby.
! Germantown Deaths
. u. English Dalnm. Jr.. Wssahickon
died yesterday of pneumonia developing
from influenza. Tie is survived by his
= parents widow. one daughter and a
brother. The funeral will be held We'd
nesday
Mr.. Dallam was graduate of the
Germantown Academy and the tnivel
sity of Pennsylvania. class of 1907 Hc
\ was the presenter of sis lass lie wdt
associated with his father In the real
estate business and was member 81
:he Manufacturers club and IN" Union
League
a Mrs. Frances Policy Is dead at hei
home, 72I Locust avenue. Ge mantowr
ar,' her husband. irwin Policy. an I'M
structor at the Germantown Friends
school. is seriously ILL., Mrs. Poley''
death was due to pneumonia which
:. developed from influenza Mr.. Policy IL
= suffering from the malady.
n Mr.. Policy was stricken ten days age
, and it is believed his wife contracted thu
= disease by visiting the sick room Sh'
is the daughter of David II. Ross, %
Consho hohocken, and was married yea
" ago.
y tieuts.' Dr. John Forsyth Little, %
n Gawrenceville y. j.. contracted the dis
ease and died last Saturday. Docto
lie Little was n graduate of the Jefferson
d, Medical College, and after his Fradu
Df alton was identified with Jefferson. IL
l. laos he married Miss Edith j. Tddd,
l. lprominent artist living at Thirty-slNti
4 and Chestnut streets, Doctor Little nae
been a resident of LawrenceNilie II"
several years and had built up large
nractice Besides his widow he leaves
one son and two daughters lie wa
thirty-cight years old.
- Th. latest medical man to give hi
Il life in the struggle against the 'epidem''
was Conrad Engel an osteo3ath 2Si'
Fairmount avenue. He succumped u
pneumonia following an attack OF in
p luenza contracted while attending
plague sufferers His vitality had beef
so sapped by his efforts to perform TN
work of two men that he proved al
easy prey to the disease Arrangement
for the funeral have not neeh completeo
Ai.atian Priest succumbs
)r After an illness Of only a few days
n the Rev Henry J. Herrbrecht, curat
70 of ST Ludwig's Church. Twenty-elght
inI and Master streets, died yesterday Q
s. pneumonia following an attack or inhu
enza He was thirty-six years. old
ID Father Herrbrecht was born In Alsac
mt and his theological education was OF
to tained at Lyons, France, where he wa
D. ordained in 1904 He was then sent
H. ireland for three years, where he STUD
led the English language. He wa
h then sent to labor among the negroes
N the sol..hern part of this country, bl
e. ,ame north after two years and wa
It. admitted to this archdiocese in l9l
at being assigned to the church of the Ho
ch Ghost. in South Bethlehem, where
a remained six years, being transfers.
1, ST Ludwig's Church just one yei
' ago.
Father Herrbrecht had no relatives
'rs this country. His Alsatian birthpla
OF was destroyed by the retreating de
10 mans several weeks ago He had r
ceiyed no word since then from his ag'
ic' mother and father
&c Rev. Emelius Duser assistant
o. charge at st. Bonifacius's Church, Ho'
M ard and Diamond streets, died late Sa
me urday night of pneumonia superinuuc'
rts by influenza He had worked unceasin
H. ly among his parishioners untii he WI
I've himself stricken and taken TO st. MARY
lu- Hospital Father Duser was born
ces Germany in 1870. came to this coun,
In 1887 and was ordained In 1901.
art was in charge OF a church In Baltimo
as before his transfer to this city.
al Army Man a victim
The IJeuteaant Ellis Louis Griffith. Unit
ate States army. motor service, died
Dn- pneumonia saturday night at the hol
OF his mother Mrs. Elizabeth :. Mehr
to I26 Jefferson avenue. Cheltenhsm'
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