The following information is posted for the sole purpose of family research within the Yahoo Group The Court House Gang. It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc. without prior written permission and guidelines from the group owner, to ensure that proper credit is given to the group and all of our volunteers that helped with this project. LUZERNE COUNTY IN 1933 Death removed a large number of Luzerne County's most prominent men and women during the year, among them clergymen, physicians, dentists, and lawyers. Among them were: DECEMBER 1932 Dr. C.E.Moore, physician; Rev Chrysostam Huegal; Bernard E. Holleran, superintendent of Florence Colliery; John Balint, Mocanaqua banker; Francis H. Kohlbraker, former superintendent of Susquehanna Collieries Company; Lea Hunt, Wilkes-Barre business man; Neil J. Ferry, of Hazleton, international board member of UMW of A; Henry Mills Harding; William J. Phillips, Forty Fort merchant and banker; Dr. W.S. Helman, Avoca physician; Rev. John N. Reseigh, retired P.M. minister JANUARY, 1933 Frank J. Innes, banker; Mrs. C.E. Stegmaier; Henry A. Mooney, undertaker; Mrs. Jonathan R. Davis; George Wolfe, propietor of Fort Durkee hotal; Rev James Truscott; Dr. W.B. Gearhart, dentist; Cuthbert W. Smiles, prominent Smithsonian; Dr. J.J. Kusker, Nanticoke physician; Falconer R. Gilbert, educator; Miss Henrietta Mack, business woman. FEBRUARY, 1933 Mayor Daniel L. Hart; Samuel M. Harrison, superintendent of Buttonwood Colliery; Willis A. Deisroth, Hazleton banker; Emil Malinowski, County Assessor and nationally known Polish-American citizen; Walter J. Williams, president of Wilkes-Barre School Board; Edwin S. Van Horn, business man. MARCH, 1933 Moses Ellowitch, sealer of weights and measures; Charles N. Klein,undertaker; Attgorney Anthony T. Walsh of Pittston; Louis Frank, school director and business man; Charles Parrish Hunt, retired business man; Rev L. Ton Evans, retired Baptist minister. APRIL, 1933 J.M. Stark, retired coal operator; William W. Ratchford, business man; Carl W. Finger, chief engineer of Vulcan Iron Works; Edgar Klipple, merchant; Mrs. Fred M. Kirby. MAY, 1933 C.E. Stegmaier, member of brewing firm; Rev. J.R. Lynch of Sugar Notch. JUNE, 1933 Dr. John B. Wolfe, physician; Benjamin C. Price, mining man; Charles Constine, retired merchant; Martin J. Gallagher, 105, oldest man in the county; Dr. Edward G. Heyer, chief surgeon at Nanticoke State Hospital; Rev. Charles H. Monroe; Dr. Joseph A. Flaherty, dentist; Thomas P. Santee, educator; Harry Stoddart, head of wholesale grocery firm. JULY, 1933 Theodore L. Welles, retired civil engineer; John Markle, former Hazleton coal operator and philanthropist; Prof. W.R. Bray, principal of Freeland M. and M. Institute; Rev. William M. Decker, retired Presbyterian minister; W.M. Berry, Pittston jeweler; Attorney Thomas M. Carr of Hazleton, Joseph L. Golden, cashier of People's Bank of Parsons. AUGUST, 1933 Councilman A. A. Redington of Pittston; George P. Steinhauer, Kingston manufacturer. SEPTEMBER, 1933 J. Gross Meyer, druggist; E.B. Carr, president of baking firm; Russell M. Frederick, undertaker; Dr. S.M, Wolfe, physician. OCTOBER, 1933 Attorney George R. McLean, banker and civic worker; James Bryant, Hudson druggist; William E. Smith, burgess of Plymouth; Dr. P.W. Greene, superintendent of Retreat Home and Hospital. NOVEMBER, 1933 Captain Lorenzo D. Whitney, commander of Conyngham Post, GAR; Joseph W. Whitenight, retired business man. Typed by John Jenkins, April 2003