OBIT: William K. RAHM, 1888, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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Death of William K. Rahm.

  Mr. Wm. K. Rahm, one of the oldest resident of this city, who died at 
his residence, on Sixth street, at six o'clock Wednesday morning, in 
his 84th year, had been confined to his room for over a year with 
dropsy.  During that time he grew gradually weaker and his death was 
not unexpected, although he still maintained an extraordinary clear 
mind and good memory to the last.  The deceased was born in Harrisburg, 
April 1, 1804, and learned the tailoring trade and followed the 
business of merchant tailoring in Bellefonte, Blairsville and 
Huntingdon, Pa., for a number of years, locating in Huntingdon in the 
year 1829.  Mr. Rahm was the only surviving member of a family of six 
brothers and six sisters, children of Melcher Rahm, of Harrisburg, and 
a grandson of Conrad Rahm who came from Metz, Germany, with the 
Mullenbergers.  His father was sheriff of Dauphin county in 1804, also 
a member of the Legislature which met in Philadelphia.  There is 
preserved to this day by friends a letter written by George Washington 
to Melcher Rahm on some official business.  Gen. Green Berry Rahm, of 
Washington, D.C., is the only nephew of Wm. K. Rahm living.  Nine 
children, twenty-one grand children and two great-grand children 
survive him, nearly all of whom live in Huntingdon.
  During his life he had three partial paralytic strokes.  The deceased 
was a consistent member of the Lutheran church of this place for many 
years and esteemed by all who knew him.  The funeral services will take 
place Friday morning at 10 o'clock, in the Lutheran church.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, February 10, 1888