OBIT: William Henry SCHWARTZ, 1919, native of Williamsburg, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAM HENRY SCHWARTZ.

  William Henry Schwartz, son of George W. and Susan Reed Schwartz, who died 
in the Altoona hospital on Saturday evening last, was born in Williamsburg 
this county, November 18, 1864, so that he had attained the age of 54 years 
and 2 months when he passed into the invisible world.  He spent his boyhood 
in Williamsburg, and in due time was indentured to O. A. Traugh, of the 
Hollidaysburg Democratic Standard, in whose office he learned the art 
preservative of all arts.  He did some work in the newspaper offices of this 
city but had been absent from this section for many years, having been 
employed in various parts of the union working at his trade or editing 
newspapers.
  The deceased was not only thoroughly well acquainted with the printing 
business, but was also a writer of much vigor and charm.  For some time he 
published a small weekly in Croton, Ohio, edited jointly by himself and his 
wife, Mrs. Daisy Eddleblute Schwartz.  His wife died in June, 1917, and some 
time later he went to Portland, Indiana, where he was employed on a 
newspaper.  At the beginning of the winter of 1917-18 he was attacked by 
inflammatory rheumatism in its most violent form and when he rose from his 
bed, five months later, his heart was hopelessly diseased.  He came east, 
worked awhile at the Williamsburg paper mill, his fingers having been so 
badly drawn and twisted by his disease that he found it difficult to follow 
his regular calling.  Later he went to the national capital and was employed 
in a small office near Washington until he became too ill to work.  He was 
admitted to the hospital at Alexandria, Va.  There he was found by his 
brother, the editor of the Tribune, by whom he was brought to his home in 
this city on the last day of November, 1918.  A week ago he was removed to 
the Altoona hospital, where he grew worse steadily until death came to his 
relief, at 7:10 Saturday evening.
  He was twice married.  His first wife was Miss Della Maughamer, of 
Hollidaysburg, who became the mother of his only son, Howard Wesley, now a 
resident of Pittsburg.  Later on they were divorced.  A few years ago he 
married Miss Daisy Eddleblute, a brilliant young newspaper woman of Ohio, who 
died in June, 1917.  His parents died many years ago; one brother survives, 
Wesley H. Schwartz, editor of the Tribune.
  The funeral will take place from 835 Twentieth avenue, at 2 o'clock 
tomorrow afternoon.  The interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, January 20, 1919, page 5