OBIT: William P. FUREY, 1881, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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William P. Furey Deceased.

  Yesterday afternoon Mr. Ward, of the White Hall Hotel, received word 
that William P. Furey, late of this city, had died in San Antonio, 
Texas.  Only two weeks since Mr. Furey started from Altoona for the 
warmer clime, believing that change of air would prolong a life which 
was being rapidly wasted with pulmonary consumption.  After a year 
since the deceased came to this city and embarked in newspaper life as 
editor of the Altoona Daily Sun.  He was a good writer and an unusually 
fluent speaker and was frequently called upon on public occasions to 
make presentation speeches, introduce a speaker, or make a speech 
himself and he always appeared at home.  At different times in his life 
he has been connected with a number of newspapers and was at one time a 
clerk to a committee of Congress.  When he left here he seemed slightly 
improved in health, but some fever seems to have set in which his frail 
constitution could not stand, and now a wife and little daughter are 
left in a strange land to mourn the loss of husband and father.  It is 
not known what disposition will be made of the remains.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, January 4, 1881