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- Lived at 100th or 106th street and 3rd Ave, NYC, New York.
Worked as a diver in Boonton, NJ.
Published Newspaper Articles about his death.
The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois) April 13, 1904.
Trenton Times (Trenton, New Jersey) April 14, 1904.
The Post Standard (Syracuse, New York) April 16, 1904 (With his photo)
and The NY Times:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B04E4DF1F3AE733A25750C1A9629C946597D6CF
and The NY Times:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E5D7103DE633A25757C1A9629C946597D6CF
and
http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Utica NY Sunday Journal 1903-1904 - 0929.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Utica%20NY%20Sunday%20Journal/Utica%20NY%20Sunday%20Journal%201903-1904.pdf/Utica%20NY%20Sunday%20Journal%201903-1904%20-%200929.PDF
Newspaper Photo:
http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
NY Post Standard 1904 - 1610.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%202/Syracuse%20NY%20Post%20Standard/Syracuse%20NY%20Post%20Standard%201904.pdf/Syracuse%20NY%20Post%20Standard%201904%20-%201610.PDF
and
NY Saturday Globe 1904-1906 - 1109.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Utica%20NY%20Saturday%20Globe/Utica%20NY%20Saturday%20Globe%201904-1906%20pdf/Utica%20NY%20Saturday%20Globe%201904-1906%20-%201109.PDF
1907 DEATHS..June
Brooklyn Standard Union
John M. RICE, the diver who recovered the body of
"Bill" HOAR from the bottom of the reservoir at
Boonton, N.J. died on Monday at his home, 455
Fifty-fifth street, Bay Ridge. The cause of his death
was neuralgia of the heart. His death recalls the
efforts which were made to rescue HOAR from his
perilous position at the Boonton Reservoir.
While fixing a leak in the reservoir HOAR was
caught in a valve and was under a terrible pressure
of water, alive, for more than thirty-six hours. In
April, 1904, Mr. RICE was appointed a diver in the
Dock Department, in place of HOAR. Previous to
this he had been for more than fifteen years a
machinist and pressman on the New York "World".
Mr. RICE considered Friday a lucky day. He
started off by being born on a Friday, and the first
step of his adventurous career began on a Friday,
when he went up in a balloon at a country fair up-
State. It was on a Friday that he made his first
attempt as a diver. At that time of the Slocum
disaster he recovererd fifteen bodies. His know-
ledge of machinery made him the kind of diver so
often needed in setting aright pieces of machanism
that go wrong under the water. He leaves a widow
and three children.
NY Times article:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01EFDB1038E733A25755C1A9629C946597D6CF
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The H600 Project Genealogy DB
Abt 1872 - 1904 (32 years)