OBIT: John R. CUNNINGHAM, 1887, formerly of Huntingdon County, PA

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Shocking Death of John R. Cunningham.

  A telegram from Philadelphia on Friday morning announced the 
startling intelligence that our fellow-townsman, John R. Cunningham, 
had died in that city during the early hours of the same morning.  It 
was impossible to learn the cause of his death until the arrival of the 
Philadelphia papers, and from Friday's Times we gather the following 
particulars of the sad affair:
  "Sub-Officer Bonsall was standing at Sixth and Arch streets at half-
past one o'clock this morning, when he heard a crash and saw a man drop 
to the sidewalk from a fourth story window of the Mansion House, on 
Arch street, next door to the Arch Street Theatre.  The man was John R. 
Cunningham, a boarder, and was clad in his night-clothes.  One side of 
his head was crushed.  The officer quickly rang for Patrol No. 1, and 
Cunningham was driven at galloping speed to the Pennsylvania Hospital.  
The injured man partially recovered consciousness and called for his 
mother, but soon sank into a dying condition, and the physicians said 
he could not live twenty minutes.
  For a number of years the deceased had been employed as a salesman in 
several Philadelphia wholesale houses, and for the past three years 
filled the position of shipping clerk in the tobacco store of his 
uncle, A. B. Cunningham.  He was attending to business late on the 
afternoon preceding his death, and to all appearances enjoying good 
health.  We understand that he was subject to heart trouble, and it is 
believed that while suffering from an attack of the disease he went to 
the window to get air, and losing his balance, fell out.  He was kind-
hearted and generous, and his unfortunate death has brought sadness to 
his bereaved relatives and acquaintances.  This is the third sad 
fatality in the family, Alexander having been drowned in the canal in 
1868, and William in the Juniata river, in 1880.  Deceased was aged 
about 32 years.  The remains were brought here on Saturday morning and 
taken to the residence of his brother and sisters, and on Sunday 
afternoon, followed by a large concourse of citizens, were laid to rest 
in the City of the Silent.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, October 7, 1887