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Show BROTHER OF SALT LAKE WOMEN DIES Salt Lake, Feb. 13 Prof Samu'-l Leonard Herrman. widower of tho woman who originated Mother s day, and brother of Mrs Rose Baumgarten and Miss Hanna Herrmann of Sail Lake, died suddenly in Philadelphia yesterday, according to a dispatch from the Quaker city He was one of the best known organists and choir directors in the eountrj Miss Herrmann Herr-mann will leave on the Los Angeles Limited today for Philadelphia. Prof Herrmann was placing on hia organ in his apartment at the Hotel lyorraine when he collapsed, presum ably from heart failure Three noun? later he expired While he had not been well for a long time, his sudden deatfa was a great shock to his slstern in Salt Take, who live at the Crltch" low apartment house Mrs Banmgar ten Is the wife of Joseph Baumgarten. real estate dealer. The organist has been here on visits vis-its to his sisters several times He was in Salt Lake last summer. He was born In Philadelphia fifty-four ears ago. Last Saturday he celebrated celebrat-ed his 3oth anniversary as organist for Synagogue Rodeph Shalom. He was organist for tbe First Unitarian church of Philadelphia and musical dl MCtor of the treble clef for the ?.lan-helm ?.lan-helm club and Mat-nnerchor society. Having been graduated In earlier life from the Imperial conservatory at Leipzig, Germany, for several years ho was capermelster In several German Ger-man cities His wife was Adele Von Gilsa Herr mann She originated tbe Idea of Mother's day, which was afterward taken up and the holida founded by Anna Jarvls of Philadelphia. Mrs Herrman was bora In Detroit She w-as a musician and poetess and author au-thor of tbe celebrated poem, "To Mother's Day." |