Sunday, September 14, 2008

William Silsbe Becomes Insane.

New York, 1895

William Silsbe, 32 years old, unmarried, the only son of Bryant Silsbe, a shipbuilder of Patchogue, was removed to the Yaphank insane asylum on Friday, a raving maniac. Silsbe has been very ill for a year, from a sunstroke received last summer, and had a disease of the eye which affected his brain.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, July 5, 1895, p. 1.

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