OBIT: Joseph LEIB, 1906, Hanover, York County, PA

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Joseph Leib died in Hanover last Thursday from paralysis, aged 77 years, 7 
months and 15 days.  For more than two years he had been in declining health 
from paralytic strokes, death resulting from 3d stroke received several days 
previously.  He was one of the oldest railroad men in this section.  He was with 
the Northern Central Railway for 20 years at Baltimore.  Coming to Hanover he 
was joint freight and ticket agent for the Pennsylvania R. R. and W. M. R. R., 
general ticket agent, general freight agent and auditor, and finally division 
freight and passenger agent of the W. M. R. R. and from the time his health 
failed an assistant division freight agent.  Funeral on last Saturday, services 
by Rev. N. H. Smith, interment in Mt. Olivet cemetery.  He leaves one son. W. F. 
Leib, of Hanover.

Gettysburg Compiler – Wednesday, December 5, 1906