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Epidemic Fatal To Viehmann. State Chamber President and Former New Brunswick Mayor Dies. The funeral of former Mayor George A. Viehoutan of New Brunswick, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, who died Saturday of pneumonia super induced by influenza, will take place tomorrow afternoon from his residence at Overlook, New Brunswick. The Jersey City Chamber of Commerce will be represented at the funeral. It was after he had returned from a business trip to Chicago that Mr. Viehmann was stricken last Thursday. The end came suddenly shortly after his wife had reached his bedside at Briar Cliff, New York, his country home. Mr. Viehmann was born in New Brunswick on November 29, 1868. He received his education at Rutgers College and the Columbia Law School. In 1897 he married Mary Abbott, daughter of Franklin Abbott and Asenath Dow of Concord, New Hampshire. Besides his law practise, he was interested in politics, fire insurance, banking, agriculture and poultry raising. In 1900 he was elected Mayor of New Brunswick. In 1903 he purchased a controlling share in the New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company and was made its president. In 1915 he was elected president of the New Jersey Fire Insurance Company of Newark, and at the time of his death was also president of the Middlesex Title Guarantee & Trust Company, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Perth Amboy Trust Company, the Federal Trust Company of Newark and other corporations. He had been recently appointed a member of the new created State Advisory Board of the United States Employment Service. While Mayor of New Brunswick, Mr. Viehmann was responsible for many public improvements, including the systematic paving of streets and the elevation of the railroad tracks entering the city. He was chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1907, and in the following year was mentioned prominently as the party's nominee for Governor, but the nomination in 1910 went to Woodrow Wilson. He was the stanch advocate and principal organizer of the State Chamber of Commerce, which under his presidency became a prominent factor to New Jersey. Mr. Viehmann's country estate of Overlook, between New Brunswick and Bound Brook, was well known for his breeding of fancy poultry, and his fowls had won numerous prizes at poultry exhibits. Besides his wife, three children and three sisters survive him.

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