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Baron de Reuter, founder of the great news agency, died at Nice on the 25th February. The great work of his life was the establishment of a system for the collection and transmission of news which brought all the world into close touch and communication. Born in Cassel, Hesse-Cassel, he was the descendent of a verv old Jewish family. His grandfather Loeb Witzenhausen, ‘enjoyed a great reputation and was highly respected in Hesse-Cassel on account of his great learning and his great prestige with the Government. He was the judicial advisor of the Jewish community of Witzenhausen, where he resided. He had three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Samuel, was the father of the late Baron de Reuter. His mother, Betty, nee Saunders of Cassel, died in Halberstadt in 1858, at the age of eighty-seven. She had resided with her eldest son, the late Rabbi Gerson Josaphat, a widely known Talmudist and great scholar. The Baron’sfilial attachment to his mother is one of the manv•*excellent traits of his character. There were many very gifted and learned men in the Baron’s family, but the Baron himself was undoubtedly the most gifted and renowned. He was married in Berlin to Clementine Magnus, his surviving widow, a niece of Town Councillor Magnus, by whom he had three sons and four daughters, two of former and one daughter, the Countess Steenbock, surviving him. His eldest son, Baron Herbert de Reuter, is the managing director of the agency, having assumed that office on his father’s retirement from the post.
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Richmond Jewish South
Richmond, Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 24, 1899
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