The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911Pennsylvania Prison Society
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Charities -- Periodicals; Prisons -- Periodicals
_President_: Judge T. F. Garver, Topeka, Kan.
_Vice-President_: William R. French, Chicago, Ill.
_Secretary and Treasurer_: O. F. Lewis, New York.
_Executive Committee_: General E. Fielding, Chicago, Ill.; F. Emory
Lyon, Chicago; E. A. Fredenhagen, Kansas City, Ore.; R. B. McCord,
Atlanta, Ga.; and A. H. Votaw, 500 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
IN MEMORIAM.
JOHN H. DILLINGHAM.
John H. Dillingham, whose death occurred in Third Month, 1910, joined
the Prison Society in the Fifth Month of the year 1882. He was elected
a member of the Acting Committee a few months after joining the
Society, which position he held until he was called to another and
higher field of usefulness in the world beyond.
Our brother was always much interested in the humanitarian labors of
the Society, and was a valuable visitor at the Eastern Penitentiary
until, owing to his many other duties, he was obliged to discontinue
that service.
As an evidence of his interest in and desire to help the objects of our
care, it may be stated that a short time before his death he said it
was his intention to resume his visits to them, but the Lord, “whose he
was and whom he served,” willed otherwise, and the service will have
to be performed by others. His genial disposition, loving nature and
conspicuous goodness endeared him to all who knew him.
DAVID SULZBERGER.
David Sulzberger, a member of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, and a
member of the Acting Committee since 1903, was born in the Duchy of
Baden, in 1838, and died in March, 1910, at the home of his sister in
this city.
Reared by pious parents of the Jewish faith, and following the
teachings of Jehovah, as manifested to one who sought earnestly to know
the Divine Will, he devoted much of his life and means to practical
philanthropy. It has been said by a member of his own denomination
that his crowning achievement was his splendid service to the cause
of humanity in visiting the Jewish and other prisoners confined in
the penal institutions located in this city. He brought to them the
consolation of religion whenever they were amenable to its influence,
the moral strength that emanated from a firm yet a kindly nature, the
instruction that would give them a new start in the battle of life.
Scarcely a week passed for many years without his visits to these
prisoners, and at no time was he too busy to give his thought and
attention to anything that would help the prisoners with whom he came
in contact. Sometimes his kindness was abused, but that did not deter
him from the work. He was possessed of the saving grace of a keen
sense of humor that enabled him to take disappointments of that kind
philosophically, as a part of the day’s work, and furthermore he was
not hunting excuses to justify him in stopping. He was simply seeking
to lend a helping hand in a field from which all but the stoutest of
hearts are apt to be repelled.
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