Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Frederick January 1852
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Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853: January 22, 1852
The Allegheny Enterprise of last Friday week, gives an account of the death of
Frederick Miller, a young lad who formerly worked in the " Argus office" of this
place, and whose parents reside some three mile west of Greensburg. 
It says: " It is our painful province to record the death of Frederick Miller, an
estimable and worthy lad who came to work as a compositor in this office three
months since. His disease, lead fever, was one of rarity, seldom seizing any save
printers and painters. He had contracted a practice, which all new beginners are
cautioned against, that of putting type in his mouth while "spacing out" lines, and
recently swallowed, accidentally, some small pieces. This and the frequent
application of type to his lips, combined, was the cause of his death. We cannot but
join in condolence with his afflicted parents residing at Greensburg, who arrived
here last night, but too late to witness his death. On Tuesday morning he was at
work, last night at nine o'clock he was a corpse. Thus we are admonished of the
uncertainty of life; we know not when the icy hand of death may be laid upon us."

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