Deaths, City of Johnstown, 1910

Records from Health Officers Office Show That 286 Deaths Occured in 1910.

Source:  The Leader Herald, Gloversville NY, December 1, 1910.

  According to Statistics furnished The Leader Herald at the office of Health Officer John Edwards this morning, two hundred and eight-six persons within this city have passed into another world since January 1, 1910 up until yesterday afternoon.  In this list there are many prominent men and women of the city.  A review of the figures shows that the greater number of persons died in the months of March and April, when there were thirty-four deaths in each.  The last number, according to the figures, is shown in the months of February and October, when in each only 18 persons ceased to travel the paths of this life.  The correct average of deaths each month for the past eleven months is twenty-six.

  The first prominent man of the year to die was Dr. William C. McCulloch, who died suddenly early morning of January 8, at the home of a patient.  On April 13, William B. Murphy, a prominent politician and well known resident died.  Michael J. Kennedy, the former well known glove leather manufacturer, died on April 8.  Perhaps the best known woman to pass into the world beyond was Mary Wilder Adams Martin, wife of John Martin, of the firm Martin & Naylor, who died on June 1.  On August 4, John Scrivani, for a number of years, a well known mail carrier, died and following him, on the 24th of the same month, occurred the death of Ferdinand Kraus, a prominent glove manufacturer with a shop on Cayadutta street.  The last prominent man to die was Frank Carson, who died on the afternoon of September 13.  Mr. Carson had for a number of years been a prominent Democratic worker and held the distinction of being the first recorder of the city of Gloversville, holding the office when the village of Gloversville was granted a city charter.  

     The list of deaths up to and including yesterday, December 1, with their ages, follows: