Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Kuhn, George C. B.  October 29, 1885
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Latrobe Advance Wed, Nov 04, 1885
On Friday last, the sad intelligence reached Latrobe that George C. B. Kuhn,
formerly a well-known and highly respected citizen of this place but later a
resident of Cumberland, Md., had drowned while on a fishing excursion. Mr. Kuhn
was raised in Latrobe, and for many years was one of our leading business men,
he being engaged in the drug business. For several years prior to his departure
he filled the position of clerk in D. C. George's drug store. The particulars of
Mr. Kuhn are not generally known, and the following from the Cumberland Daily
Times, of October 30th, will be read with interest: Again was our community
shocked by the sad and startling intelligence received here last evening, about
10 o'clock, that George B. Kuhn, brother of A. J. Kuhn, of the St. Nicholas
Hotel, had been drowned in the canal at Newtown. The deceased, in company with
Prof. G. R. Daisyy, G. H. Gilpin, William Walker, and T. L. Coulehan, Jr., left
here yesterday morning on a fishing trip down the canal on the steamer
"Endeavor." Nothing was beard of them until A. J. Kuhn received, about 10
o'clock last night, a telegram from Messr’s Gilpin and Daisy stating that Geo.
Kuhn had fallen in the canal and been drowned and asking what they should do.
Mr. Kuhn immediately telegraphed them to bring the remains up on the boat, which
was done, arriving here about nine o'clock this morning…
The news of his drowning spread rapidly here, where during his residence of a
little over a year he has made many friends by his genial temperament and
gentlemanly manners. He was stout of person, full of life and health, and it was
hard for his friends to realize that he who had left them early yesterday
morning on a trip of pleasure was to be brought back this morning a corpse. The
sad intelligence was telegraphed to his wife, who left about two weeks ago for
Baltimore, where, with her five children, she is visiting her father, and to the
aged mother, who is residing at Latrobe, Pa., upon whom the blow will fall
heavily and with whom George was a favorite. The deceased was a native of
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and was 33 years of age. He was, for many years, engaged
in the drug business in that town, and came from there to this place about one
year ago. The sorrowing relatives will have the sympathy of the entire community
in their sudden affliction. The funeral services over the remains of Mr. Kuhn
were held at St. Patrick's Church, Cumberland, Saturday morning at 7 o'clock,
after which they were taken to Baltimore and interred at Bonnie Brae Cemetery,
in that city. 

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