Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Poe, George February 2, 1914
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark February 3, 1914

                    PROF. GEORGE POE PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY
         He Was a Cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, The Distinguished Poet

Professor George Poe, a cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, the poet, and himself a 
distinguished Confederate soldier, chemist and an inventor, died at 3:30 
o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home in Holly Avenue, South Norfolk.  He 
was 69 years old.
For the past nine years Professor Poe has been an invalid, as the result of 
an attack of paralysis.  He was born in Hanover County, Virginia, graduated 
at the Virginia Military Institute where he received the degree of Ph. D.  
He served through the Civil War under Stonewall Jackson.
After the war he resumed his work in chemistry as demonstrator in that 
science at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.  After two years there he became 
associated with a dental firm in Philadelphia and was the first to compress 
nitrous oxide into cylinders for anesthetic purposes.  For two years he was 
assistant State chemist of Maryland.
Professor Poe moved to South Norfolk about ten years ago and devoted his 
time to inventive work.  He invented an artificial respirator for the 
resuscitation of gas, smoke and drowning victims.  Even after he was 
stricken with paralysis he did not give up his work but invented an oxygen 
generator, an oxygen helmet for fire fighters and miners.  He sold his 
inventions to a Chicago company about a year ago for a small sum.
He married a Miss Ellicott of Washington and is survived by her and four 
children, Miss Mayme Poe, Mrs. George P. Hart, Mrs. Rose Wilson and George 
Poe, all of Washington.
Professor Poe was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of a 
Springfield, Mass. lodge.  Mrs. Poe, his widow, has been living with her 
children in Washington for several years.  She and the children will arrive 
this morning to attend the funeral.  It will take place from the residence 
at 3 o'clock this afternoon.  The services will be conducted by Rev. E.W. 
Cowling, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church.  Interment will be in 
Magnolia Cemetery.

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