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Dr Samuel Peter Orth

Birth
Capac, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA
Death
26 Feb 1922 (aged 48)
Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Burial
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Orth was a son of the Rev. John and Katherine Troeller Orth. He was the husband of Jane née Davis. They married August 17, 1899. She was an author and lecturer in her own right. She died November 21, 1951, New York City, with burial in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Samuel P. Orth. 45, professor of public law at Cornell University, died at Nice, France, yesterday, according to cable advices received here.

Prof. Orth who was injured in an auto accident at Ithaca about nine months ago, made the trip to France in the hope that it would be beneficial to his health. He leaves a widow, Jayne Davis Orth, who is a sister of the late State Senator Henry W. Davis.

Orth was born at Caplac, Mich. He graduated from Oberlln college and studied law at the University of Michigan. He held the political science chair at Buchtel college, Akron, for five years. Following graduation from Columbia he practiced law at Cleveland.

He was a lecturer on international law, economics and applied science at Case, Oberlin and Western Reserve colleges.

He was assistant U. S. district attorney 1905-O8, a member of the American political science association and accompanied the Cook expedition to Greenland in 1894.

As an author he wrote several books, among them being "Centralization of Administration in Ohio," a history o Cleveland, "Socialism and Democracy in Europe," and the "Boss and the Machine."

Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, February 28, 1922, page 2
Dr. Orth was a son of the Rev. John and Katherine Troeller Orth. He was the husband of Jane née Davis. They married August 17, 1899. She was an author and lecturer in her own right. She died November 21, 1951, New York City, with burial in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Samuel P. Orth. 45, professor of public law at Cornell University, died at Nice, France, yesterday, according to cable advices received here.

Prof. Orth who was injured in an auto accident at Ithaca about nine months ago, made the trip to France in the hope that it would be beneficial to his health. He leaves a widow, Jayne Davis Orth, who is a sister of the late State Senator Henry W. Davis.

Orth was born at Caplac, Mich. He graduated from Oberlln college and studied law at the University of Michigan. He held the political science chair at Buchtel college, Akron, for five years. Following graduation from Columbia he practiced law at Cleveland.

He was a lecturer on international law, economics and applied science at Case, Oberlin and Western Reserve colleges.

He was assistant U. S. district attorney 1905-O8, a member of the American political science association and accompanied the Cook expedition to Greenland in 1894.

As an author he wrote several books, among them being "Centralization of Administration in Ohio," a history o Cleveland, "Socialism and Democracy in Europe," and the "Boss and the Machine."

Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, February 28, 1922, page 2


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