OBIT: Edgar O. L. STOTLER, 1914, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Stotler, Edgar O. L.

THREE PROMINENT PEOPLE ARE CALLED BY DEATH - The Grim Reaper Has Been Unusually 
Active in Meyersdale the Past Week - Those Who were Called Were Well and 
Favorably Known. The Community sustained a sever shock when the intelligence 
spread that E. O. L. Stotler was seriously ill and not expected to live. Edger 
O. L. Stotler was born September 21, 1854, and died February 24, 1914, aged 59 
years, 5 months and 3 days. He was born in Alleghany County, Maryland. Since 
1897 he lived in Meyersdale and was engaged in mine operating. Mr. Stotler was 
an authority on coal, having spent his entire life in mining and marketing of 
coal. He was president and general manager of the Randolph Coal Company, main 
office neat Boswell; secretary, treasure and general manager of the Meyersdale 
Fuel Co., office at Meyersdale, and president of the Harrison Coal Co., and 
office near Grafton, W. Va. On Tuesday morning he complained of suffering with 
neuralgia. The members of his family urged him not to go to the mine, but 
leaving at about 6:45 for the Yoder Mine and arriving there about 8:00 o'clock, 
and while engaged in unhitching his horse he fell over - death coming in a few 
minutes time. Dr. Rowe of Meyersdale and Dr. Swank of Salisbury were hastily 
summoned but death had done its work and without regaining consciousness, he 
passed away. Mr. Stotler had not been in his normal health. Sometime ago the 
family physician made an examination and pronounced his condition that of heart 
trouble. He kept his real condition from his family. A few weeks ago he and Mrs. 
Stotler took a trip to Atlantic City, returning west, they spent several days at 
Cumberland and returned to Meyersdale last Friday evening. He was married to 
Kate Long of near Frostburg, Md., April 2, 1877. To this union was born a family 
of nine children, two of whom died in infancy. The following are closely related 
to the deceased and are left to mourn his departure: His aged mother, Mrs. J. J. 
Stotler, his widow, and the following children: Galloway, Frank, Edgar, Clade 
(Clyde?), Leslie and Wilbur, and Miss Mary. The brothers and sisters are Clayton 
Stotler of Salisbury, W. H. Stotler, Mrs. A. T. Hamill, and Mrs. P. W. Geidt of 
Meyersdale, and Mrs. Demetrius Compton of St. Paul. The funeral service will be 
held on Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the family residence. The pastor, 
Rev. G. A. Neeld, will officiate. Interment will be made in the Union Cemetery. 
As a business man, Mr. Stotler had the confidence of the business fraternity 
socially he was well liked and popular. The circles to which he belonged will 
greatly miss him.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 26, 1914