OBIT: Daniel M. GILES, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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D.* M. GILES,

Father of Mayor E. F. Giles, of this city, died at 8 o'clock last
evening, at his home, 107 Fifteenth street.  He had been in poor health
but had only been abed for one day.  Last evening while talking to his
family he was suddenly seized with a hemorrhage of throat and expired
before medical aid had arrived.  The deceased was born at Mont Alto,
Franklin county, and was 69 years old on the 26th of last February.  In
June forty-three years ago, he was married in the town of his birth to
Miss Areshia* Donnelly, who survives him.  The first two years of his
married life were spent in Mont Alto.  He then removed to Orbisonia,
Huntingdon county, later to Petersburg, and to Altoona about ten years
ago.  In early life he was ordained as -----minister of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and afterward turned his attention to educational
work.  He was a quiet, unassuming citizen, a good man, a devoted
husband and a kind father.  To Mr. and Mrs. Giles nine children were
born, three of whom have preceded the father to the grave. The living
ones are: C. E. Giles, Hon. E. F. Giles, Frank B. Giles and Miss
Gertrude Giles, of this city; Lettie J., wife of Charles Bell, of this
city, and J. M. Giles, of Albuquerque, N.M.  Owing to the absence of
his son, the Hon. Ellsworth F. Giles, who is in Syracuse attending the
sessions of the League of American Municipalities, the time of the
funeral has not yet been decided upon.

Altoona Mirror, Friday, September 22, 1899, page 8

Note: Deceased is Daniel M. Giles, according to the 1860 and 1870
Huntingdon County, PA, census, and his wife's name is given as Eritia
(1860), Arishia (1870), and Arisia (1880).

FUNERAL NOTICE

The funeral services of the late D. M. Giles will be conducted at his
late residence, 107 Fifteenth street at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon. 
The interment will be made in Oak Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Saturday, September 23, 1899, page 8

FUNERAL OF D. M. GILES.

The funeral of D. M. Giles, father of the mayor, took place yesterday
afternoon from the house, 107 Fifteenth street.  The services were
conducted by Revs. D. S. Monroe and Horace Lincoln Jacobs.  The funeral
was attended by the city officials and the police force.  There were a
number of fine floral offerings.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, September 23, 1899