OBIT: Sol BLUMENTHAL, 1918, formerly of Blair County, PA

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SOL BLUMENTHAL

  Sol Blumenthal, a former well known Altoona shoe merchant, died at 5 
o'clock Tuesday morning at his summer home at Far Rockaway, L.I. of heart 
trouble superinduced by rheumatism with which he had suffered for sometime.  
Deceased was born in Germany and was past 60 years of age.  He came to 
America when a boy and subsequently located in this city.  He embarked in the 
shoe business where the L. Z. Replogle store is now located, selling out to 
George Streit many years ago.  While here he resided at Lexington avenue and 
Ninth street and also at the Logan House.  He moved to New York more than 
twenty years ago and was the owner of the Harvard Knitting mills, 
manufacturers of ladies sweater coats and other garments.  He was prominent 
in Mason and Shrine circles and was a charter member of the old Juniata club 
that had its home in the old Plack home on Chestnut avenue.  He is survived 
by his wife, two sons and one daughter, Joseph, with the U.S. army in France; 
Myron, in the ordnance department at Washington and Miss Helen, engaged in 
Red Cross work.  He is also survived by two brothers and two sisters, 
Barthold Blumenthal, of Altoona; August Blumenthal, of Newark; Mrs. A. 
Rosenberg, of Denver and Mrs. Rudolph Schreiver, of Brooklyn.  The late 
Julius Blumenthal, of this city, was a brother.  Interment will be made in 
New York.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday morning, August 8, 1918, page 7