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LAS VEGAS AGE
5/30/1914

DOCTOR STUBBS DIES SUDDENLY

NOTED EDUCATOR QUIETLY SINKS TO REST WEDNESDAY AT HIS RENO HOME

Dr. Joseph Edward STUBBS, president of the University of Nevada, died 
suddenly at 8:45 Wednesday morning.  He had been suffering from a 
bilious attack since Monday but his condition was at no time considered 
serious.  Death came instantly and painlessly from heart failure. With 
him at the time were his wife, his daughter, Mrs. J. M. FULTON, and his 
physician.
    Dr. STUBBS had just returned from an extended and arduous trip 
through the east for the benefit of the university and his death was 
probably hastened by those labors. All the activities of commencement 
week were cancelled by the board of regents at once and Prof. Robert 
LEWERS was made acting president.
    Dr. STUBBS had planned at the commencement exercises on Wednesday to 
make several important announcements as to new faculty members and in 
addition to announce his retirement as president of the university in 
1915, after 20 years' service.  He would have been eligible for a 
Carnegie pension for 20 years service as a college president.
    Dr. STUBBS leaves a son, Ralph S. STUBBS, freight traffic manager of 
the Southern Pacific company, at New York; a daughter, Theodora STUBBS 
FULTON, wife of J. M. FULTON, assistant general freight and passenger 
traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company at Reno; a daughter Ruth 
Grace STUBBS, who resides at the family residence on University Hill, 
wife of Prof. Gordon H. TRUE, formerly director of the Nevada experiment 
station and university agricultural college, now professor of animal 
husbandry for the University of California, at Davis, Cal., and a son, 
John C. STUBBS, Jr. of Reno, a high school graduate.
    There is also a brother, John C. STUBBS, who was traffic director 
for the Harriman system, but is now retired, and lives at Ashland, O.
    It is probable that Dr. STUBBS' body will be taken to Ashland, O., 
for interment in the family plot.