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Hon. JONATHAN H. WALKER

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)

May 5 1824

Died on the 23d of March, at Homachita, near Natchez, aged 61 years, the Hon. Jonathan H. Walker, of Pittsburgh, President Judge of the United States’ District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania – a whig and soldier of the Revolution. [Donated by Nancy Piper]

WILLIAM WHITE

SUICIDE--In Pittsburg, Pa., this day, William White, Cashier of the Freight-Department of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, entered the cellar of his residence, on Pitt Street, between Liberty and Penn, and deliberately introduced the barrel of a revolver into his mouth, which he fired, and inflicted a wound that caused his death. In his pocket was found the following brief note:--

May 13th, (1860)
I took the pistol from McKibbin's store.
William White.

For several days previous White had been remarked to be in a state of great mental depression; but this day he appeared to have regained his usual buoyancy. In company with his wife, he visited his brother-in-law, in the upper part of the city, with whom in social communication he spent some time, returning, at about six P.M., with Mr. Joseph White and several children. The rest of the party, when near home, paused to allow the little folks, who were straggling behind, to come up; and in the interval White walked forward, entered his house, descended to the cellar, and immediately committed the ill-judged deed which caused his death.
[Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register: A work in which The Principal Events of Every Half-Year Occuring in The United States are Recorded, Each Arranged Under The Day of its Date. This volume contains The Events Transpiring Between The 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. Edited and Published by Francis Vincent]

Mrs. LOUIS WURTZ

On Saturday, November 9, 1889, at 3:30. P. M., Mrs. Louis WURTZ, aged forty-five years. Funeral Tuesday, November 12, at 2 P. M., from No. 45 North street, Allegheny. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. [Donated by Ruth Sprowls - November 12, 1889, The Pittsburgh Post]

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