Oliver H. Ormsby Dies at His Home in Huston Township.
Our Martinsburg correspondent sends the following:
Oliver H. Ormsby, a prominent resident and respected citizen of Huston township, residing about one mile north of town, died at his home Friday morning about 10 o'clock, aged about 58 years. Deceased was a native of Pittsburg and came to this county a number of years ago, engaging in various pursuits of life, principally that of insurance. Some four years ago he, with his family, moved to the eastern shore of Maryland, where he engaged in the business of raising oysters. Whilst there he contracted malarial fever, which later merged into walking typhoid fever. Several months ago he returned to his farm at this place, where his disease developed into a regular stage of typhoid fever. During the progress of this fever a foreign substance of this fever a foreign substance or growth, from some unaccountable cause, developed itself and grew in his right side, which was primarily the cause of his death.
Published in the Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania) - Saturday, December 24, 1904.
Our Martinsburg correspondent sends the following:
Oliver H. Ormsby, a prominent resident and respected citizen of Huston township, residing about one mile north of town, died at his home Friday morning about 10 o'clock, aged about 58 years. Deceased was a native of Pittsburg and came to this county a number of years ago, engaging in various pursuits of life, principally that of insurance. Some four years ago he, with his family, moved to the eastern shore of Maryland, where he engaged in the business of raising oysters. Whilst there he contracted malarial fever, which later merged into walking typhoid fever. Several months ago he returned to his farm at this place, where his disease developed into a regular stage of typhoid fever. During the progress of this fever a foreign substance of this fever a foreign substance or growth, from some unaccountable cause, developed itself and grew in his right side, which was primarily the cause of his death.
Published in the Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania) - Saturday, December 24, 1904.
Oliver H. Ormsby Dies at His Home in Huston Township.
Our Martinsburg correspondent sends the following:
Oliver H. Ormsby, a prominent resident and respected citizen of Huston township, residing about one mile north of town, died at his home Friday morning about 10 o'clock, aged about 58 years. Deceased was a native of Pittsburg and came to this county a number of years ago, engaging in various pursuits of life, principally that of insurance. Some four years ago he, with his family, moved to the eastern shore of Maryland, where he engaged in the business of raising oysters. Whilst there he contracted malarial fever, which later merged into walking typhoid fever. Several months ago he returned to his farm at this place, where his disease developed into a regular stage of typhoid fever. During the progress of this fever a foreign substance of this fever a foreign substance or growth, from some unaccountable cause, developed itself and grew in his right side, which was primarily the cause of his death.
Published in the Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania) - Saturday, December 24, 1904.
Our Martinsburg correspondent sends the following:
Oliver H. Ormsby, a prominent resident and respected citizen of Huston township, residing about one mile north of town, died at his home Friday morning about 10 o'clock, aged about 58 years. Deceased was a native of Pittsburg and came to this county a number of years ago, engaging in various pursuits of life, principally that of insurance. Some four years ago he, with his family, moved to the eastern shore of Maryland, where he engaged in the business of raising oysters. Whilst there he contracted malarial fever, which later merged into walking typhoid fever. Several months ago he returned to his farm at this place, where his disease developed into a regular stage of typhoid fever. During the progress of this fever a foreign substance of this fever a foreign substance or growth, from some unaccountable cause, developed itself and grew in his right side, which was primarily the cause of his death.
Published in the Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania) - Saturday, December 24, 1904.
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