OBIT:  VANASDLEN, J. Harvey; Cambria Cnty., PA; 1911

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 27 Jan 1911
Volume 45, Number 4


J. H. Vanasdlen Dead 

J. Harvey Vanasdlen, proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel here, died of 
dropsy at his apartments in the hotel Wednesday morning, aged fifty-three 
years. The deceased became suddenly ill almost four months ago while out 
driving in the vicinity of Carrolltown with his family and Mr. and Mrs. 
Gustave Rostert Jr. of Johnstown.  He was seized with hemorrhages of the 
stomach and from that on his health declined.

Harvey Vanasdlen was born in Lancaster County, this State, in 1857 and 
came to Cambria County and settled in Johnstown some years before the 
Great Flood of 1889.  He was employed at several hotels in Johnstown and 
later located at Wilmore where he was married about twenty years ago to 
Miss Emma Dopp of Summerhill Township.  Some years later Mr. Vanasdlen 
went into the hotel business at Greensburg but returned to Cambria County 
after a few years' residence there.  For four or five years the deceased 
conducted the Keystone Hotel, Cresson, coming to Ebensburg about two years 
ago to succeed the late William Kimball as proprietor of the Metropolitan.

The deceased is survived by his wife, who is a niece of Mrs. Gustav 
Bostert Sr., and Mrs. Dorothy Keiper, both of Johnstown; a son, George 
Vanasdlen, aged about eighteen years; and a daughter, Dorothy Vanasdlen, a 
little over a year old.

The funeral was held at the Metropolitan this afternoon with interment in 
Lloyd's Cemetery.  In politics Mr. Vanasdlen was a Republican and was well 
known all over the county.



Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 3 Feb 1911
Volume 45, Number 5


Card of Thanks

I desire to express my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the people of 
Ebensburg and vicinity who were so kind and helpful to me and my children 
during the recent illness and after the death of my husband, the late 
J. Harvey Van Asdlen.  I am especially grateful for the flowers.  

[Signed] Mrs. Emma Van Asdlen