Person:Danforth Coonradt (1)

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Danforth Joy Coonradt (1877-1912)

Danforth was born 24 Mar 1877 in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, USA. He married Anne Marie Nielsen in 1899, they had six children. He worked as a pressman for 'The Advertiser', a Honolulu newspaper. He died 4 May 1912, at the age of 35, at home in Paumalu, Koolauloa, Hawaii.

Obituary dated 5 May 1912 in 'The Advertiser', a Honolulu newspaper: "Danforth Joy Coonradt, for many years pressman on THE ADVERTISOR, died at his home at Paumalu, Koolauloa, at four o' clock yesterday afternoon. The funeral, the date for which has not been set, will be held under the joint auspices of the Knights of Pythias and the Eagles, of which orders he had been a member. He leaves a wife and five small children, together with a mother. Mr. Coonradt was thirty-five years old.

During his several years with The Advertiser, Mr. Coonradt made himself a strong favorite among the members of The Advertiser staff and corps of workers through his never failing good temper, his pride in his work and his faithfulness to his paper. He left The Advertiser about a year ago because of his failing health, tuberculosis having marked him down as a victim. He took up farming at Paumalu, in the hope that work in the open air would restore his health and up to within a short time ago he spoke with confidence of the time when he would be able to resume his regular occupation as pressman.

The news of his death yesterday came as a shock to his former fellow employees in The Advertising office, although the hope that he would ever be back on 'the night shift' had been given up."

1880 US Census lists him as Jary D. COONRADT

1. ↑ 1880 United States Census (2)
   FH Library Film 1254388 - NA Film T9-0388 - Page No. 143C.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 State of Hawaii, Dept of Health, Office of Health Status Monitoring. Danforth Joy Coonradt death certificate, City of Honolulu, Village of Maunawai, page no. 145, year 1912. (1912, certified copy in possession of Robert D. Young)
   Death Certificate.