DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS- Washington Post, February 16, 1890
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The Washington Post, February 16, 1890
Pages 2, 3, 1, 9


DIED.
   FLYNN—At Providence Hospital, February 15, 1890,
Edmund Flynn, aged seventy-six years.
   Funeral from 320 Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Requiem mass at St. Peter’s Church, Monday, February
17, at 8 a.m.

   KNEESSI—On Saturday, February 15, 1890, at 6 a.m.,
Kaspar Kneessi, beloved husband of Anna Kneessi, aged
sixty-four years.
   Funeral from his late residence, 1241 Eighth street
northwest, on Monday, February 17, 1890, at 2 p.m.
Relatives and friends invited to attend.

   DALTON—At her residence, No. 427 Massachusetts
avenue northwest, at 6:15 a.m., on February 14, 1890,
Carrie K., wife of Thomas W. Dalton, and daughter of
Mary A. and the late John Sessford.
   Funeral Monday morning, from her residence, at 9:30
a.m., thence to St. Aloysius Church, where a solemn
mass of requiem will be said at 10 a.m. Relatives and
friends are respectfully invited to attend.


KASPAR KNEESSI DEAD.
He Began Life with $17 and Amassed a Fortune.
   Mr. Kaspar Kneessi, one of Washington’s best
citizens, died yesterday morning at 5:45 o’clock,
after an illness of three weeks with typhoid fever,
which caused erysipelas in his right leg. Mr. Kneessi
came to this city in 1862 from Newark, N.J., and his
capital was $17 and the saddler’s trade. In a small
basement room at the corner of Second street and
Pennsylvania avenue he opened a small shop, and it was
not long before he received a contract to make Army
belts and saddles for the Government. The work was
done so promptly and in such a satisfactory manner as
to cause other and larger contracts to be made.
   Before the expiration of a year Mr. Kneessi had
moved his business to larger quarters in a store where
Lansburgh Bros.’ building now stands, on Seventh
street. When that firm bought the site, a few years
later, Mr. Kneessi moved his trunk and saddle
establishment directly across the street, where he has
since been. By close attention to business he built a
large trade, and at the time of his death the $17 with
which he began his business career here had grown to
many thousands of dollars.
   Mr. Kneessi was a quiet, unassuming gentleman and
had a host of friends. He was a member of several
benevolent and secret organizations—the Masons,
Schuetzen Verein, Gruter Verein, Arbiter, and others.
The family has requested that the funeral service be
private, and that none of the organizations take part.
Rev. Mr. Mueller, of the German Church, will conduct
the funeral services from the residence, 1241 Eighth
street northwest, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, and
the remains will be interred in Prospect Hill
Cemetery. The deceased was in his sixty-second year.


THE DEATHS OF A DAY.
   BALTIMORE, Feb. 15.—Miss Susanna Warfield has just
died at her home, Groveland, in her ninety-sixth year.
She was stricken with paralysis about two years ago
and never rallied. Miss Warfield composed the grand
inaugural march, rendered at the inauguration of
President William Henry Harrison forty-eight years
ago. Her brother, Dr. Charles A. Warfield, was with
the party which burned the Peggy Stewart and her cargo
of tea at Annapolis in 1775.
   BANGOR, Me., Feb. 15.—Capt. Alpheus T. Palmer, aged
sixty-nine, the only surviving officer in Maine, of
the Mexican war, died this morning. He was for years
in the Regular Army and was an intimate friend of
President Pierce and Jefferson Davis.


The Swordmaker of the Confederacy.
   Fisher, the deaf mute swordmaker of the
Confederacy, is dead. He passed away at Cove Spring,
Ga., Wednesday, at an advanced age. He was born in
England, but came to this country with his parents
when only a few years old. His family settled at
Harper’s Ferry, where he learned the art of
swordmaking. He was educated at Hartford, Conn., where
in 1840 he was married to a young lady, also a deaf
mute. At the outbreak of the war he went to Atlanta
and superintended the forging of weapons of warfare.
At the close of the war he became an instructor in the
deaf and dumb institution in Cove Spring.