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Zionist Dies at New Year Watch MeetingMan Said to Have Been Most Expert Hair Worker in World Hurled From Election Booth and Hurt.(Leon P. Federmeyer, expert hair worker and ardent Zionist, died suddenly of heart disease at 4 o'clock yesterday morning while taking part in a watch meeting in Shiloh Tabernacle in Zion City. lie had just given testimony when he was seen to stagger and then sink inertly into his seat. lie w*as carried into the private office of Overseer Voliva and Voliva andtwo of the elders left the platform to aid him. But Mr. Federmeyer died just as they reached his side.The verdict of the coroner's jury in Zion City was that heart trouble had ended his I d life. . Witnesses testified that at the last! d general election in Zion City an independent threw Mr. Federmeyer from an election booth and he fell and struck his head on the sidewalk. This injury is thought to have augmented his heart trouble.Mr. Federmeyer was seventy-five years! old and is survived by a widow and eight £tlbcnttlt;children. His home in Chicago was at 3140 Cottage Grove avenue.In the November number of the Technical World Mr. Federmeyer was referred to as the greatest exponent of the bair-worker?s art in the world, llo also was an artist, lie produced life-sized portraits of statesmen made entirely of human hair. A landscape 4 by 6 feet in size, sent to the Paris Exposition in 1878, earned him a silver medal. He received another silver medal in 1880 for a picture exhibited at San Francisco.nofl:b:fiiai
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Jan 02, 1913
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