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- Died at Mineola Hospital
Patchogue, L.I., August 31 - Joseph B. Silliman, principal of the Wilmot M. Smith school, died yesterday afternoon at the Mineola Hospital as the result of an automobile accident. He, with his wife and two children, Ida and Leland, were driving from Patchogue on the way to Coney Island. A large car, driven at high speed, crowded Mr. Silliman's car and to save himself Mr. Silliman ran his car into the ditch where it turned over. He was taken to the Mineola Hospital and died at 2 o'clock from internal injuries.
Mr. Silliman was 47 years old and leaves a widow and four children, Sergeant Arthur W. Silliman, Company L 325th Infantry, now in France; Helen, a teacher in her father's school; Ida and Leland. His mother, Mrs. Willard Silliman, of Brooklyn, was in Patchogue at the time of the accident.
Mr. Silliman was born in Penn Yan, a small village in New York, but grew up in Brooklyn. He was in business for some years and then graduated from Jamaica Normal School in 1904. After teaching in several Long Island towns he became principal of the largest school in Patchogue, which position he held at the time of his death. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, Masons, American Mechanics and the official board of the Patchogue Methodist Church.
(The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Saturday, August 31, 1918 - Page 3)
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1871 - 1918 (47 years)