Talk:Emily Warren Roebling

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[edit] Her Terminal Illness

While stomach cancer is reported in "The Great Bridge" (McCullough, 555), Washington Roebling notes that she died of "progressive muscular atrophy" from being struck by a motorcycle while traveling in Atlanta (MS Box 9, Folder 5, EWR to WAR, February 10, 1902, Roebling Family Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries). Emily's biographer notes that her physician, Dr. Clark, attempted to dispell the rumors of stomach cancer (Weigold, 137), and Washington mentions that she had no serious ulcerations of the stomach (WAR to JAR II, December 18, 1902, MS Box 16, Folder 8, Roebling Family Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries). Brian Mulholland 14:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC)