Smyrna times., 1925-10-21
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
A. f. Jardine, Who Years Ago Was
Identified With Smyrna Steamboat
interest, Dies in Atlantic Citv NJ

| - +NiiN"H SIedIlOOdC man OF
Smyrna, died in Atlantic CITY. N. J
thursday afternoon after a lingering
illness. Last May be was victim ot
an automobile accident and never re-
covered. Mr.. Jardine was a son ot
General Edward Jardine, of Civil Wa,
record, and Ophelia Kreemer and was
born in New York City December %.
1894. Mr.. Jardine received the an
] polntment to the L. S. Naval Acad-
emy from President Grant. From the
Academy he graduated in 1876 and
joined the Asiatic fleet. While in the
service ne was blinded by powder
from a cannon at Mystic Island. Conn.
While an operation restored him to
partial sight he could not follow the
sea and was forced to resign from the
Navy. In 1885 he became secretary
and treasurer of the PHILADELPHIA &
smyrna Transportation Company and
later the Smyrna Steamboat Com
pany. In those days before the auto
mobile truck carried so much freigbt
navigation on Smyrna Creek was
llvely industry and Smyrna Landing
a fruit and produce shipping center.
Mr.. Jardine was in several boat war
contests for supremacy, the most no
table of which was the fight with the
late George F. Brady of Middletown.
who put In a competing line. His
boat ventures finally fell thru in
Smyrna and he left for Tampa, Flor
ida, where he ran a boat line. later
going to Atlantic City where he be-
came active in a proposed Philadel-
phia, New York and Atlantic Citv
steamboat proposition. This too, fail
ed and in recent years Mr.. Jardine
has been engaged in one occupation
and another until his recent accident
lncapacitated him. In 1894 Mr.. Jar
dine married Miss Mary B. Fell. /
daughter of William Fell, a hotel man /
and proprietor of the Delaware House.
She survives him with one son. Ed |
ward Jardine Of Atlantic CITY. Inter
ment took place Saturday in Green
wood cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sudden DEATH of Isaac S. Taylor
Isaac S. Taylor, aged rs, brother
1f the late George w. Taylor, Samuel
Taylor and Abel Taylor of Smvrna
and the last of his generation, died
Saturday night at six o'clock follow
ng a stroke of paralysis from which
le never regained Consciousness. His
sudden death was a shock to his
nends for up until the time he was
stricken he seemed in his usual
health. Mr.. Taylor was a son of the
ate James Taylor and was born. rails
ID and spent practically his whole life
n Smyrna. He was the youngest of
light children-four brothers and four
listers. In the days when the bio.
inn of George w. & S. TAYLOR flour
she'd in Smyrna, Mr.. Isaac Tavlol. {
vas one Of their chief machinists. =
ocatlon he followed to more or less
egree all his life. When the Tavlor
rm went out Isaac Taylor moved TO
iolmesburg, Philadelphia and became
uperntendent Of the Holmesburg
ater Works. His love for Smvrna |
'as ever keen and after about ten
ears IN Holmesburg, he moved back {
Smyrna where he has been ever
nee. He had been a machinist in 6
le J. H. HOffecker Canning Factory =
i summer. A good citizen, quiet, !
nobtrusive and Industrious, Mr.. Tav- :
r was esteemed by a host of friends. i
e belonged to a number of fraternal i
'ders at Holmesburg and in Smyrna h
as a member and closely identified :,
lth Asbury NJ. (. Church. Besides T
s wiodw, who before her marriage \
as Miss Hannah Kerr, he is survived .
two children: Mrs. Charles w n
anratty Of near Clayton, and vii. q
am j. Taylor of this town, who rec \
lily returned from a summer at n
cean City, N. J. Funeral services N
ok place yesterday, Tuesday after 6
ION at Asbury NJ. E. Church in L
arge of Rev. R. K. Stephenson and e
terment was in the family lot at n,
enwOOd Cemetery. G
. H. PiersOn Drops Dead at Odessa N
William H. PiersOn, 65 years old, n
i dead in his home at Odessa We'd a.
sday morning in the presence of his
fe, who was preparing breakfast.
rs. Pierson said that her husband
Is singing when he arose in the p,
'rning and that he come down stairs -,
d was standing in the livingroom
len he fell to the floor. Mrs. Pier
n ran to the street and stopped the e
ver of a Freebooter Baking Company en-
lck, who called DR.. H. w. Palmer, ie
10 pronounced the man dead. DR.. ~
liner notified Deputy Coroner Hir- I'd I'd
, who went to Odessa and held an -, -,
luest over the body. The jury re- -
ned a verdict of death due to ~
art attack. Mr.. Pierson is survived WI
his wife, Jennie F., and three ny