Cumberland Evening Times; Cumberland, Allegany Co, Md
Saturday, February 19, 1916 - pg 20, col 2
ISRAEL REIDEL DIES AT HOSPITAL
In Charge of Emergency Hospital Nursed and Cheered Patients
Following an illness of about a week when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, Israel Reidel. 2 Hay street, died yesterday afternoon at the Allegany hospital. Mr. Reidel was about 74 years of age. He followed the trade of baker but for several years past he and his wife had been in charge of the Emergency Hospital The deceased was a member of Company A, Ninety-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and served from October 16, 1861 until the end of the war. The Emergency Hospital of which he was superintendent was unique in that it was the one of its kind in the country. It owed its existence to the broad and generous humanitarian spirit of County Commissioners, the late William Thompson, John G Merbach and Walter T Parker. It was first opened in the old "pest house' as a refuge for a tuberculosis patient in the advanced stage, who had been turned out of the house, and from that day its doors were always open to human derelicts whom others would not receive, regardless of their race. color, creed, disease, or domicile. To all these poor outcasts Mr. Reidel was uniformly and cheerfully kind and attentive, no matter how loathsome the disease of the patient. Later when the pest house had to be used for smallpox patients, the Emergency Hospital was removed to another building on the county farm, where its usefulness was continued by the county commissioners till the close of 1915. The body of Mr. Reidel was removed to the Stein undertaking establishment. Funeral arrangement have not yet been made.
Death from Paralysis
Single grave
Saturday, February 19, 1916 - pg 20, col 2
ISRAEL REIDEL DIES AT HOSPITAL
In Charge of Emergency Hospital Nursed and Cheered Patients
Following an illness of about a week when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, Israel Reidel. 2 Hay street, died yesterday afternoon at the Allegany hospital. Mr. Reidel was about 74 years of age. He followed the trade of baker but for several years past he and his wife had been in charge of the Emergency Hospital The deceased was a member of Company A, Ninety-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and served from October 16, 1861 until the end of the war. The Emergency Hospital of which he was superintendent was unique in that it was the one of its kind in the country. It owed its existence to the broad and generous humanitarian spirit of County Commissioners, the late William Thompson, John G Merbach and Walter T Parker. It was first opened in the old "pest house' as a refuge for a tuberculosis patient in the advanced stage, who had been turned out of the house, and from that day its doors were always open to human derelicts whom others would not receive, regardless of their race. color, creed, disease, or domicile. To all these poor outcasts Mr. Reidel was uniformly and cheerfully kind and attentive, no matter how loathsome the disease of the patient. Later when the pest house had to be used for smallpox patients, the Emergency Hospital was removed to another building on the county farm, where its usefulness was continued by the county commissioners till the close of 1915. The body of Mr. Reidel was removed to the Stein undertaking establishment. Funeral arrangement have not yet been made.
Death from Paralysis
Single grave
Cumberland Evening Times; Cumberland, Allegany Co, Md
Saturday, February 19, 1916 - pg 20, col 2
ISRAEL REIDEL DIES AT HOSPITAL
In Charge of Emergency Hospital Nursed and Cheered Patients
Following an illness of about a week when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, Israel Reidel. 2 Hay street, died yesterday afternoon at the Allegany hospital. Mr. Reidel was about 74 years of age. He followed the trade of baker but for several years past he and his wife had been in charge of the Emergency Hospital The deceased was a member of Company A, Ninety-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and served from October 16, 1861 until the end of the war. The Emergency Hospital of which he was superintendent was unique in that it was the one of its kind in the country. It owed its existence to the broad and generous humanitarian spirit of County Commissioners, the late William Thompson, John G Merbach and Walter T Parker. It was first opened in the old "pest house' as a refuge for a tuberculosis patient in the advanced stage, who had been turned out of the house, and from that day its doors were always open to human derelicts whom others would not receive, regardless of their race. color, creed, disease, or domicile. To all these poor outcasts Mr. Reidel was uniformly and cheerfully kind and attentive, no matter how loathsome the disease of the patient. Later when the pest house had to be used for smallpox patients, the Emergency Hospital was removed to another building on the county farm, where its usefulness was continued by the county commissioners till the close of 1915. The body of Mr. Reidel was removed to the Stein undertaking establishment. Funeral arrangement have not yet been made.
Death from Paralysis
Single grave
Saturday, February 19, 1916 - pg 20, col 2
ISRAEL REIDEL DIES AT HOSPITAL
In Charge of Emergency Hospital Nursed and Cheered Patients
Following an illness of about a week when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, Israel Reidel. 2 Hay street, died yesterday afternoon at the Allegany hospital. Mr. Reidel was about 74 years of age. He followed the trade of baker but for several years past he and his wife had been in charge of the Emergency Hospital The deceased was a member of Company A, Ninety-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and served from October 16, 1861 until the end of the war. The Emergency Hospital of which he was superintendent was unique in that it was the one of its kind in the country. It owed its existence to the broad and generous humanitarian spirit of County Commissioners, the late William Thompson, John G Merbach and Walter T Parker. It was first opened in the old "pest house' as a refuge for a tuberculosis patient in the advanced stage, who had been turned out of the house, and from that day its doors were always open to human derelicts whom others would not receive, regardless of their race. color, creed, disease, or domicile. To all these poor outcasts Mr. Reidel was uniformly and cheerfully kind and attentive, no matter how loathsome the disease of the patient. Later when the pest house had to be used for smallpox patients, the Emergency Hospital was removed to another building on the county farm, where its usefulness was continued by the county commissioners till the close of 1915. The body of Mr. Reidel was removed to the Stein undertaking establishment. Funeral arrangement have not yet been made.
Death from Paralysis
Single grave
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