TEMPERANCE WORKER
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Miss Puella Dornblaser Passes
Peacefully Away
After a Prolonged Illness
Miss Puella Dornblaser died yesterday, at the Lock Haven Hospital, aged 54 years. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Saint Johns English Lutheran Church. At the conclusion of the services the remains were taken to the home of Pierce Dornblaser, a brother of the deceased at Clintondale, and on Monday afternoon services were held in the Mount Bethel Church and interment was made in the cemetery at that place.
During her last illness loving friends ministered to her every want and all that could be done for her comfort and welfare and she passed peacefully away.
Although she suffered greatly, her patience and fortitude was remarkable.
Miss Dornblaser was for many years prominently identified with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and at one time was president of the Clinton County organization.
She had been a life-long member of the Lutheran Church, and her whole life was spent in doing good deeds. She was a prominent and efficient worker in the temperance cause and was state superintendent of the work among foreigners.
For the past 5 or 6 years she had lived in Williamsport where she was engaged in charitable work and also did considerable work for the Young Woman's Christian association of that city. She was kind and charitable and helpful to humanity in every way. Expressions of regret at her death being received from all parts of the country is evidence her death is not only a great loss to the W.C.T.U. of Clinton County but wherever the W.C.T.U. is known.
~The Evening Express—Lock Haven, PA—Saturday, March 5, 1904 Page 1~
(Note: Burial Location Is In Error. She Lies In St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Porter Township, Clinton County, PA, Less Than one Mile From Mount Bethel)
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Puella E. Dornblaser (October 7, 1851 – March 17, 1904) was an American newspaper editor and temperance activist based in Pennsylvania. Her temperance education and missionary work were focused especially in immigrant and mining communities.
Puella E. Dornblaser was one of eight children born on a farm in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, to Peter Dornblaser and Elizabeth Shaffer Dornblaser. She attended Susquehanna University.
Her older brother Thomas Franklin Dornblaser (1841-1941) was a Civil War veteran and a longtime Lutheran minister in Chicago.
In 1875, she lived in Valley Falls, Kansas with her older sister Amanda J. Townsend, and edited a department of the Oskaloosa Independent. In 1876, she was sworn in as First Assistant Enrolling Secretary of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Back in her home state, Dornblaser became Clinton County president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. She was vice-president of the Pennsylvania WCTU for eight years, and served a superintendent of the organization's mission among immigrants and miners. She was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church for ten years, president of the Women's Mission Society of Central Pennsylvania, and worked in various capacities with the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society. She was also a vice president of the Ladies' Aid Society of Lock Haven Hospital.[2] She was in charge of the Girls' Industrial School at Williamsport, and superintendent of the Board of Charities in that city. She sometimes used the pen name "Maud Muller" in newspaper writings.
A contemporary observer described Dornblaser as "universally acknowledged as the wittiest and most original woman in the W. C. T. U. ... being eminently fitted for this work by her bright, vivacious manner."
Puella E. Dornblaser died in 1904, aged 52 years, after several months' illness. Her remains were buried in a Dornblaser family plot at St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
Dornblaser Field in Missoula, Montana is named for her nephew Paul Logan Dornblaser (1887-1918), who died in World War I and was awarded posthumous Silver Stars for valor.
~Puella Dornblaser: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia~
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Obituary From: The Lutheran Observer, Volume 72
Dornblaser. Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died in Lock Haven, Pa. She is survived by two brothers, one of whom is Rev. Thomas F. Dornblaser, of Chicago, and one sister. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work. As she grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work, and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the Union. Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport, where she had charge of the Girl's Industrial School for a time, and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of that city.
Service was held in the St. John's Lutheran church, which were largely attended, and conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. E. Rupley. The remains were taken to St. Paul's Lutheran church, near Clintondale, for burial. Revs. Samuel Creighton and B. B. Uhl conducted the final services.
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Puella is a prominent worker in temperance and philanthropic lines. This family is one of which any parent might well be proud, and Miss Puella Dornblaser's work deserves especial mention. Her education was begun in the district schools near her home, and later she took a course in Susquehanna University. For some time she was successfully engaged in teaching, and at present she is the State lecturer and organizer for the W. C. T. U. and one of the State Superintendents of the same Society, in which she also represents the missionary department of the State. For eight years she was a vice-president in the State W. C. T. U., and her earnest and efficient work in these various positions has won her a wide reputation. Her gifts as a speaker are notable, and she is a valued worker in religious and educational meetings. For ten years she was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church, embracing seven counties and one hundred Churches. Ever since the organization of the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society she has been closely associated with its work, and during the meeting of 1897 she had charge of the devotional services, and assisted in the publication of their daily paper.
From: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF-Central Pennsylvania, INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder, CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES. ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO; J. H. BEERS & CO1898.
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Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died at the Lock Haven Hospital yesterday afternoon at o'clock. She is survived by two brothers, Reverend Thomas F. Dornblaser of Chicago, Pierce M., of Porter Township, Clinton County, and one sister, Mrs. Amanda J. Townsend, of Valley Falls, Kansas.
Miss Dornblaser was the daughter of Peter Dornblaser and was born and reared in Porter Township near Clintondale. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work and was frequently heard in debate in literary societies and in discussion of scriptural themes at Sunday school and at religious meetings. She always took an active part at social gatherings and for many year3, while at her father's home she was local correspondent to the Democrat under the non-de-plume of "Maud Muller" She grew to be a genuinely good woman, always using her talents and efforts for the upholding and betterment of the people with whom she came in contact. She had firm convictions of justice and right and her religions nature and christian character was impressed upon friend and stranger alike. As She grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the union. In her goings in and out among the people (and she traveled much) she never failed to drop a word of encouragement to the doubting or to extend an expression of sympathy to the afflicted . Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport where she had charge of the Girls Industrial School for a time and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of this city. On the 7th day of last October, her birthday, she became an inmate of the hospital in the city, afflicted with an ailment from which she knew she could not recover, yet her sunny disposition and hope for heaven shone forth as long as her strength and reason lasted, as bright as if she was there for only a day.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock her remains will be taken to the St John's Lutheran Church of this city where Reverend D. E. Rupley will hold short funeral services, after which her body will be taken to the home of her brother near Clintondale from which she will be buried on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Reverend Samuel Creighton of Mackeyville, will preach the funeral sermon and Reverend B. B. Uhl, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church in Porter Township, of which Miss Dornblaser has been a life long member, will assist. Interment at St Paul. Lock Haven (Pa.) Democrat.
~The Valley Falls New Era--Valley Falls, Kansas--18 Mar 1904, Friday--Page 4~
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Miss Puella Dornblaser Passes
Peacefully Away
After a Prolonged Illness
Miss Puella Dornblaser died yesterday, at the Lock Haven Hospital, aged 54 years. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Saint Johns English Lutheran Church. At the conclusion of the services the remains were taken to the home of Pierce Dornblaser, a brother of the deceased at Clintondale, and on Monday afternoon services were held in the Mount Bethel Church and interment was made in the cemetery at that place.
During her last illness loving friends ministered to her every want and all that could be done for her comfort and welfare and she passed peacefully away.
Although she suffered greatly, her patience and fortitude was remarkable.
Miss Dornblaser was for many years prominently identified with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and at one time was president of the Clinton County organization.
She had been a life-long member of the Lutheran Church, and her whole life was spent in doing good deeds. She was a prominent and efficient worker in the temperance cause and was state superintendent of the work among foreigners.
For the past 5 or 6 years she had lived in Williamsport where she was engaged in charitable work and also did considerable work for the Young Woman's Christian association of that city. She was kind and charitable and helpful to humanity in every way. Expressions of regret at her death being received from all parts of the country is evidence her death is not only a great loss to the W.C.T.U. of Clinton County but wherever the W.C.T.U. is known.
~The Evening Express—Lock Haven, PA—Saturday, March 5, 1904 Page 1~
(Note: Burial Location Is In Error. She Lies In St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Porter Township, Clinton County, PA, Less Than one Mile From Mount Bethel)
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Puella E. Dornblaser (October 7, 1851 – March 17, 1904) was an American newspaper editor and temperance activist based in Pennsylvania. Her temperance education and missionary work were focused especially in immigrant and mining communities.
Puella E. Dornblaser was one of eight children born on a farm in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, to Peter Dornblaser and Elizabeth Shaffer Dornblaser. She attended Susquehanna University.
Her older brother Thomas Franklin Dornblaser (1841-1941) was a Civil War veteran and a longtime Lutheran minister in Chicago.
In 1875, she lived in Valley Falls, Kansas with her older sister Amanda J. Townsend, and edited a department of the Oskaloosa Independent. In 1876, she was sworn in as First Assistant Enrolling Secretary of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Back in her home state, Dornblaser became Clinton County president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. She was vice-president of the Pennsylvania WCTU for eight years, and served a superintendent of the organization's mission among immigrants and miners. She was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church for ten years, president of the Women's Mission Society of Central Pennsylvania, and worked in various capacities with the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society. She was also a vice president of the Ladies' Aid Society of Lock Haven Hospital.[2] She was in charge of the Girls' Industrial School at Williamsport, and superintendent of the Board of Charities in that city. She sometimes used the pen name "Maud Muller" in newspaper writings.
A contemporary observer described Dornblaser as "universally acknowledged as the wittiest and most original woman in the W. C. T. U. ... being eminently fitted for this work by her bright, vivacious manner."
Puella E. Dornblaser died in 1904, aged 52 years, after several months' illness. Her remains were buried in a Dornblaser family plot at St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
Dornblaser Field in Missoula, Montana is named for her nephew Paul Logan Dornblaser (1887-1918), who died in World War I and was awarded posthumous Silver Stars for valor.
~Puella Dornblaser: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia~
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Obituary From: The Lutheran Observer, Volume 72
Dornblaser. Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died in Lock Haven, Pa. She is survived by two brothers, one of whom is Rev. Thomas F. Dornblaser, of Chicago, and one sister. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work. As she grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work, and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the Union. Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport, where she had charge of the Girl's Industrial School for a time, and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of that city.
Service was held in the St. John's Lutheran church, which were largely attended, and conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. E. Rupley. The remains were taken to St. Paul's Lutheran church, near Clintondale, for burial. Revs. Samuel Creighton and B. B. Uhl conducted the final services.
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Puella is a prominent worker in temperance and philanthropic lines. This family is one of which any parent might well be proud, and Miss Puella Dornblaser's work deserves especial mention. Her education was begun in the district schools near her home, and later she took a course in Susquehanna University. For some time she was successfully engaged in teaching, and at present she is the State lecturer and organizer for the W. C. T. U. and one of the State Superintendents of the same Society, in which she also represents the missionary department of the State. For eight years she was a vice-president in the State W. C. T. U., and her earnest and efficient work in these various positions has won her a wide reputation. Her gifts as a speaker are notable, and she is a valued worker in religious and educational meetings. For ten years she was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church, embracing seven counties and one hundred Churches. Ever since the organization of the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society she has been closely associated with its work, and during the meeting of 1897 she had charge of the devotional services, and assisted in the publication of their daily paper.
From: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF-Central Pennsylvania, INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder, CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES. ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO; J. H. BEERS & CO1898.
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Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died at the Lock Haven Hospital yesterday afternoon at o'clock. She is survived by two brothers, Reverend Thomas F. Dornblaser of Chicago, Pierce M., of Porter Township, Clinton County, and one sister, Mrs. Amanda J. Townsend, of Valley Falls, Kansas.
Miss Dornblaser was the daughter of Peter Dornblaser and was born and reared in Porter Township near Clintondale. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work and was frequently heard in debate in literary societies and in discussion of scriptural themes at Sunday school and at religious meetings. She always took an active part at social gatherings and for many year3, while at her father's home she was local correspondent to the Democrat under the non-de-plume of "Maud Muller" She grew to be a genuinely good woman, always using her talents and efforts for the upholding and betterment of the people with whom she came in contact. She had firm convictions of justice and right and her religions nature and christian character was impressed upon friend and stranger alike. As She grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the union. In her goings in and out among the people (and she traveled much) she never failed to drop a word of encouragement to the doubting or to extend an expression of sympathy to the afflicted . Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport where she had charge of the Girls Industrial School for a time and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of this city. On the 7th day of last October, her birthday, she became an inmate of the hospital in the city, afflicted with an ailment from which she knew she could not recover, yet her sunny disposition and hope for heaven shone forth as long as her strength and reason lasted, as bright as if she was there for only a day.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock her remains will be taken to the St John's Lutheran Church of this city where Reverend D. E. Rupley will hold short funeral services, after which her body will be taken to the home of her brother near Clintondale from which she will be buried on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Reverend Samuel Creighton of Mackeyville, will preach the funeral sermon and Reverend B. B. Uhl, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church in Porter Township, of which Miss Dornblaser has been a life long member, will assist. Interment at St Paul. Lock Haven (Pa.) Democrat.
~The Valley Falls New Era--Valley Falls, Kansas--18 Mar 1904, Friday--Page 4~
TEMPERANCE WORKER
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Miss Puella Dornblaser Passes
Peacefully Away
After a Prolonged Illness
Miss Puella Dornblaser died yesterday, at the Lock Haven Hospital, aged 54 years. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Saint Johns English Lutheran Church. At the conclusion of the services the remains were taken to the home of Pierce Dornblaser, a brother of the deceased at Clintondale, and on Monday afternoon services were held in the Mount Bethel Church and interment was made in the cemetery at that place.
During her last illness loving friends ministered to her every want and all that could be done for her comfort and welfare and she passed peacefully away.
Although she suffered greatly, her patience and fortitude was remarkable.
Miss Dornblaser was for many years prominently identified with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and at one time was president of the Clinton County organization.
She had been a life-long member of the Lutheran Church, and her whole life was spent in doing good deeds. She was a prominent and efficient worker in the temperance cause and was state superintendent of the work among foreigners.
For the past 5 or 6 years she had lived in Williamsport where she was engaged in charitable work and also did considerable work for the Young Woman's Christian association of that city. She was kind and charitable and helpful to humanity in every way. Expressions of regret at her death being received from all parts of the country is evidence her death is not only a great loss to the W.C.T.U. of Clinton County but wherever the W.C.T.U. is known.
~The Evening Express—Lock Haven, PA—Saturday, March 5, 1904 Page 1~
(Note: Burial Location Is In Error. She Lies In St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Porter Township, Clinton County, PA, Less Than one Mile From Mount Bethel)
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Puella E. Dornblaser (October 7, 1851 – March 17, 1904) was an American newspaper editor and temperance activist based in Pennsylvania. Her temperance education and missionary work were focused especially in immigrant and mining communities.
Puella E. Dornblaser was one of eight children born on a farm in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, to Peter Dornblaser and Elizabeth Shaffer Dornblaser. She attended Susquehanna University.
Her older brother Thomas Franklin Dornblaser (1841-1941) was a Civil War veteran and a longtime Lutheran minister in Chicago.
In 1875, she lived in Valley Falls, Kansas with her older sister Amanda J. Townsend, and edited a department of the Oskaloosa Independent. In 1876, she was sworn in as First Assistant Enrolling Secretary of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Back in her home state, Dornblaser became Clinton County president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. She was vice-president of the Pennsylvania WCTU for eight years, and served a superintendent of the organization's mission among immigrants and miners. She was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church for ten years, president of the Women's Mission Society of Central Pennsylvania, and worked in various capacities with the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society. She was also a vice president of the Ladies' Aid Society of Lock Haven Hospital.[2] She was in charge of the Girls' Industrial School at Williamsport, and superintendent of the Board of Charities in that city. She sometimes used the pen name "Maud Muller" in newspaper writings.
A contemporary observer described Dornblaser as "universally acknowledged as the wittiest and most original woman in the W. C. T. U. ... being eminently fitted for this work by her bright, vivacious manner."
Puella E. Dornblaser died in 1904, aged 52 years, after several months' illness. Her remains were buried in a Dornblaser family plot at St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
Dornblaser Field in Missoula, Montana is named for her nephew Paul Logan Dornblaser (1887-1918), who died in World War I and was awarded posthumous Silver Stars for valor.
~Puella Dornblaser: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia~
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Obituary From: The Lutheran Observer, Volume 72
Dornblaser. Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died in Lock Haven, Pa. She is survived by two brothers, one of whom is Rev. Thomas F. Dornblaser, of Chicago, and one sister. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work. As she grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work, and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the Union. Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport, where she had charge of the Girl's Industrial School for a time, and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of that city.
Service was held in the St. John's Lutheran church, which were largely attended, and conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. E. Rupley. The remains were taken to St. Paul's Lutheran church, near Clintondale, for burial. Revs. Samuel Creighton and B. B. Uhl conducted the final services.
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Puella is a prominent worker in temperance and philanthropic lines. This family is one of which any parent might well be proud, and Miss Puella Dornblaser's work deserves especial mention. Her education was begun in the district schools near her home, and later she took a course in Susquehanna University. For some time she was successfully engaged in teaching, and at present she is the State lecturer and organizer for the W. C. T. U. and one of the State Superintendents of the same Society, in which she also represents the missionary department of the State. For eight years she was a vice-president in the State W. C. T. U., and her earnest and efficient work in these various positions has won her a wide reputation. Her gifts as a speaker are notable, and she is a valued worker in religious and educational meetings. For ten years she was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church, embracing seven counties and one hundred Churches. Ever since the organization of the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society she has been closely associated with its work, and during the meeting of 1897 she had charge of the devotional services, and assisted in the publication of their daily paper.
From: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF-Central Pennsylvania, INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder, CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES. ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO; J. H. BEERS & CO1898.
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Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died at the Lock Haven Hospital yesterday afternoon at o'clock. She is survived by two brothers, Reverend Thomas F. Dornblaser of Chicago, Pierce M., of Porter Township, Clinton County, and one sister, Mrs. Amanda J. Townsend, of Valley Falls, Kansas.
Miss Dornblaser was the daughter of Peter Dornblaser and was born and reared in Porter Township near Clintondale. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work and was frequently heard in debate in literary societies and in discussion of scriptural themes at Sunday school and at religious meetings. She always took an active part at social gatherings and for many year3, while at her father's home she was local correspondent to the Democrat under the non-de-plume of "Maud Muller" She grew to be a genuinely good woman, always using her talents and efforts for the upholding and betterment of the people with whom she came in contact. She had firm convictions of justice and right and her religions nature and christian character was impressed upon friend and stranger alike. As She grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the union. In her goings in and out among the people (and she traveled much) she never failed to drop a word of encouragement to the doubting or to extend an expression of sympathy to the afflicted . Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport where she had charge of the Girls Industrial School for a time and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of this city. On the 7th day of last October, her birthday, she became an inmate of the hospital in the city, afflicted with an ailment from which she knew she could not recover, yet her sunny disposition and hope for heaven shone forth as long as her strength and reason lasted, as bright as if she was there for only a day.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock her remains will be taken to the St John's Lutheran Church of this city where Reverend D. E. Rupley will hold short funeral services, after which her body will be taken to the home of her brother near Clintondale from which she will be buried on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Reverend Samuel Creighton of Mackeyville, will preach the funeral sermon and Reverend B. B. Uhl, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church in Porter Township, of which Miss Dornblaser has been a life long member, will assist. Interment at St Paul. Lock Haven (Pa.) Democrat.
~The Valley Falls New Era--Valley Falls, Kansas--18 Mar 1904, Friday--Page 4~
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Miss Puella Dornblaser Passes
Peacefully Away
After a Prolonged Illness
Miss Puella Dornblaser died yesterday, at the Lock Haven Hospital, aged 54 years. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Saint Johns English Lutheran Church. At the conclusion of the services the remains were taken to the home of Pierce Dornblaser, a brother of the deceased at Clintondale, and on Monday afternoon services were held in the Mount Bethel Church and interment was made in the cemetery at that place.
During her last illness loving friends ministered to her every want and all that could be done for her comfort and welfare and she passed peacefully away.
Although she suffered greatly, her patience and fortitude was remarkable.
Miss Dornblaser was for many years prominently identified with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and at one time was president of the Clinton County organization.
She had been a life-long member of the Lutheran Church, and her whole life was spent in doing good deeds. She was a prominent and efficient worker in the temperance cause and was state superintendent of the work among foreigners.
For the past 5 or 6 years she had lived in Williamsport where she was engaged in charitable work and also did considerable work for the Young Woman's Christian association of that city. She was kind and charitable and helpful to humanity in every way. Expressions of regret at her death being received from all parts of the country is evidence her death is not only a great loss to the W.C.T.U. of Clinton County but wherever the W.C.T.U. is known.
~The Evening Express—Lock Haven, PA—Saturday, March 5, 1904 Page 1~
(Note: Burial Location Is In Error. She Lies In St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Porter Township, Clinton County, PA, Less Than one Mile From Mount Bethel)
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Puella E. Dornblaser (October 7, 1851 – March 17, 1904) was an American newspaper editor and temperance activist based in Pennsylvania. Her temperance education and missionary work were focused especially in immigrant and mining communities.
Puella E. Dornblaser was one of eight children born on a farm in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, to Peter Dornblaser and Elizabeth Shaffer Dornblaser. She attended Susquehanna University.
Her older brother Thomas Franklin Dornblaser (1841-1941) was a Civil War veteran and a longtime Lutheran minister in Chicago.
In 1875, she lived in Valley Falls, Kansas with her older sister Amanda J. Townsend, and edited a department of the Oskaloosa Independent. In 1876, she was sworn in as First Assistant Enrolling Secretary of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Back in her home state, Dornblaser became Clinton County president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. She was vice-president of the Pennsylvania WCTU for eight years, and served a superintendent of the organization's mission among immigrants and miners. She was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church for ten years, president of the Women's Mission Society of Central Pennsylvania, and worked in various capacities with the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society. She was also a vice president of the Ladies' Aid Society of Lock Haven Hospital.[2] She was in charge of the Girls' Industrial School at Williamsport, and superintendent of the Board of Charities in that city. She sometimes used the pen name "Maud Muller" in newspaper writings.
A contemporary observer described Dornblaser as "universally acknowledged as the wittiest and most original woman in the W. C. T. U. ... being eminently fitted for this work by her bright, vivacious manner."
Puella E. Dornblaser died in 1904, aged 52 years, after several months' illness. Her remains were buried in a Dornblaser family plot at St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
Dornblaser Field in Missoula, Montana is named for her nephew Paul Logan Dornblaser (1887-1918), who died in World War I and was awarded posthumous Silver Stars for valor.
~Puella Dornblaser: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia~
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Obituary From: The Lutheran Observer, Volume 72
Dornblaser. Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died in Lock Haven, Pa. She is survived by two brothers, one of whom is Rev. Thomas F. Dornblaser, of Chicago, and one sister. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work. As she grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work, and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the Union. Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport, where she had charge of the Girl's Industrial School for a time, and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of that city.
Service was held in the St. John's Lutheran church, which were largely attended, and conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. E. Rupley. The remains were taken to St. Paul's Lutheran church, near Clintondale, for burial. Revs. Samuel Creighton and B. B. Uhl conducted the final services.
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Puella is a prominent worker in temperance and philanthropic lines. This family is one of which any parent might well be proud, and Miss Puella Dornblaser's work deserves especial mention. Her education was begun in the district schools near her home, and later she took a course in Susquehanna University. For some time she was successfully engaged in teaching, and at present she is the State lecturer and organizer for the W. C. T. U. and one of the State Superintendents of the same Society, in which she also represents the missionary department of the State. For eight years she was a vice-president in the State W. C. T. U., and her earnest and efficient work in these various positions has won her a wide reputation. Her gifts as a speaker are notable, and she is a valued worker in religious and educational meetings. For ten years she was president of the Synodical Society of the English Lutheran Church, embracing seven counties and one hundred Churches. Ever since the organization of the Eagle's Mere Chautauqua Society she has been closely associated with its work, and during the meeting of 1897 she had charge of the devotional services, and assisted in the publication of their daily paper.
From: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF-Central Pennsylvania, INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder, CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES. ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO; J. H. BEERS & CO1898.
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Puella E. Dornblaser, after a lingering illness, died at the Lock Haven Hospital yesterday afternoon at o'clock. She is survived by two brothers, Reverend Thomas F. Dornblaser of Chicago, Pierce M., of Porter Township, Clinton County, and one sister, Mrs. Amanda J. Townsend, of Valley Falls, Kansas.
Miss Dornblaser was the daughter of Peter Dornblaser and was born and reared in Porter Township near Clintondale. When quite a young girl she developed a taste for literary pursuits and church work and was frequently heard in debate in literary societies and in discussion of scriptural themes at Sunday school and at religious meetings. She always took an active part at social gatherings and for many year3, while at her father's home she was local correspondent to the Democrat under the non-de-plume of "Maud Muller" She grew to be a genuinely good woman, always using her talents and efforts for the upholding and betterment of the people with whom she came in contact. She had firm convictions of justice and right and her religions nature and christian character was impressed upon friend and stranger alike. As She grew to womanhood she devoted much of her time to church, charitable and temperance work and her voice has been heard in public meetings on these subjects in many states of the union. In her goings in and out among the people (and she traveled much) she never failed to drop a word of encouragement to the doubting or to extend an expression of sympathy to the afflicted . Her goodness of heart and intentions are impressed upon the memory of hundreds of her friends who will read with regret the announcement of her death. For several years she was a resident of Williamsport where she had charge of the Girls Industrial School for a time and again was superintendent of the Bureau of Charities of this city. On the 7th day of last October, her birthday, she became an inmate of the hospital in the city, afflicted with an ailment from which she knew she could not recover, yet her sunny disposition and hope for heaven shone forth as long as her strength and reason lasted, as bright as if she was there for only a day.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock her remains will be taken to the St John's Lutheran Church of this city where Reverend D. E. Rupley will hold short funeral services, after which her body will be taken to the home of her brother near Clintondale from which she will be buried on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Reverend Samuel Creighton of Mackeyville, will preach the funeral sermon and Reverend B. B. Uhl, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church in Porter Township, of which Miss Dornblaser has been a life long member, will assist. Interment at St Paul. Lock Haven (Pa.) Democrat.
~The Valley Falls New Era--Valley Falls, Kansas--18 Mar 1904, Friday--Page 4~
