1852 ▸ Born in Wooster, Wayne Co, OH.
1860 ▸ CENSUS. Wooster, Wayne Co, OH. Household includes Martin Lemb (46) with wife Caroline (28) and children August (8), Mary (6) and Fred. (6/12).
1864 ▸ June 11. Death of mother, Caroline Hartz.
1864 ▸ December 27. Father, Martin Limb, married to Margaret Schaible of Elyria, OH.
1870 ▸ CENSUS. Wooster, Wayne Co, OH. Household includes Martin Lunp (53) with wife Margareth (29) and children August (18), Mary (16), Frederick (10), Louisa (9), Caroline (7), Charles (Carl) (5), Harmon (3) and William (3). Machus, age 19 added by hand below last entry of printed form at bottom of page should be, I believe: Marcus (9/12). This would make the birth year of Marcus Limb 1869, rather than 1870.
1870 ▸ CENSUS. Occupation, clerking at a drug store in Wooster, age 18
1870-71 ▸ Directory of Akron, Alliance, Cuyahoga Falls, Middlebury, Kent, Canton, Ravenna, Massillon, Salem, Wooster.
pg 268: Limb, Martin, saloon, East Liberty street.
pg 268: Limp, Aug., clerk, East Liberty street.
1872-73 ▸ W.S. Robison & Co.’s Cleveland Directory
pg 295: Limp, August, clk, Louis Smithnight, bds. 135 Woodland av.
pg 448: Smithnight Louis, druggist, 155 Woodland av. r. 10 Burnham.
1880 ▸ CENSUS. Not found.
1880 ▸ September 26. Death of father, Martin Limb.
1882 ▸ Moved to Akron, OH.
1882 ▸ July. Opened a drug store, Limb & Justh.
1882 ▸ October 25. Married Kate A. Laubert in Akron, Summit Co, OH.
1883 ▸ July. Family reunion in Wooster of 11 brothers and sisters, including August Limb and wife (Akron), Fritz Limb and wife (Lima), and Mary Limb Nelson (Mt. Pleasant, MI).
1883 ▸ October 17. Birth of son, Raymond.
1884 ▸ July 3. Death of son, Raymond, of consumption. Buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Summit Co, OH.
1885 ▸ October 16. August died suddenly of consumption in Akron, Summit Co, OH. Buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Summit Co, OH.
1900 ▸ CENSUS. Stark Co, OH. Household includes Kate L. Limb (46) widow, and her mother and a roomer.
1910 ▸ December 7. Death of Kate Laubert Limb. Buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Summit Co, OH, with her husband and infant child, Raymond.
Additional information about Kate Laubert Limb, from Akron, Ohio City Directory entries:
1889 ▸ Limb, Mrs. Kate A. (wid. Augustus A.), saleslady, I.J. Frank, res. 109 Vine.
1904 ▸ Limb Mrs Kate A (wid August), rms 31 Franklin
1908 ▸ Limb Mrs Kate A (wid August A), res 10 Spruce
1880
NOTE: Upon the death of Martin F. Limb, legal notices were published to locate his children who had moved away from Wooster.
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 10 November, 1880
pg 2
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 17 November, 1880
pg 3
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 8 December, 1880
pg 4
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 15 December, 1880
pg 1
Legal Notice.
August Limb, whose place of residence is unknown, and Mary Limb, who resides at Castle, in the State of New York, will take notice that Jacob Stark as Administrator of the estate of Martin Limb, deceased, on the 9th day of November, has filed his petition in the Probate Court within and for the county of Wayne, and state of Ohio against them and others as defendants, alleging that the personal estate of said decedent is insufficient to pay his debts and, the charge of administering his estate, that he died seized in fee simple of the following described real estate situate in the city of Wooster county of Wayne and State of Ohio, to wit Lot number three hundred and eleven (311) on the revised plat of the town, now city, of Wooster, being the same premises that were deeded by William Larwill and wife to Isaac Baughman beginning at a post on the south side of the State road leading from Wooster to Canton, at the northeast corner of a lot sold and conveyed by William Larwill and wife to Ebenezar Pardee, and then occupied by Samuel Hemphill, east of the original plat of the town, now city of Wooster, and winding thence westward, parallel with and adjoining the lot aforesaid sold by said Larwill to said Pardee, to the southeast corner of said Pardee lot, thence eastwardly parallel with the south side of said Pardee lot, fifty-five (55) feet to a post; thence northwardly, parallel with the east line of said Pardee lot aforesaid, to the State road aforesaid, thence westwardly, with the State road aforesaid, to the place of beginning. Appraised at $3,800 [?]. Also lot number one hundred and ninety-seven (197) in Cunningham’s addition to the city of Wooster and numbered on the revised plat of said city as lot number fifteen hundred and twenty-nine (1,529). Appraised at $175. Also lot number one hundred and ninety-eight (198) in Cunningham’s addition to the city of Wooster and numbered on the revised plat of said city as number fifteen hundred and thirty. Appraised at $235 [?]. Also lot number six hundred and fifty-four (654) in Cunningham’s first addition to the city of Wooster. Appraised at $300 [?]. And that Margaret M. Limb, as widow of said decedent, is entitled to dower in said premises. The prayer of said petition is for the assignment of dower to said widow and for sale of said real estate, subject to such dower estate, for the payment of the debts and charges aforesaid. Said petition will be for hearing on the 31st day of January, A.D. 1881, and that said defendants are required to answer said petition on or before the 15th day of January, A.D. 1881. Jacob Stark,
Administrator of the estate of Martin Limb,
deceased.
By A.D. Metz, attorney for Petitioner.
Nov. 14th, 1880—?.
1881
The Democratic Press
Ravenna, Ohio
Thursday, 4 August, 1881
pg 3
Miss Kate Laubert is on a visit to her sister, in Iowa.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 November, 1881
pg 4
Miss Kate A. Laubert’s friends will be pleased to learn that she is able to attend to business after her long and serious illness of typho-malarial fever.
The Democratic Press
Ravenna, Ohio
Thursday, 1 December, 1881
pg 2
The schools of Randolph are in blast. W.E. Moulton of Brimfield teaches No. 10, and Miss Kate Laubert teaches the Hollow school.
1882
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 June, 1882
pg 1
Local Business Notes.
Limb & Justh is the name of the new firm that is starting a drug store in the room formerly occupied by Williams Bros., on South Howard street.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 19 July, 1882
pg 3
A Very Fine Drug Store.
Messrs. Limb & Justh on Saturday afternoon and evening opened their fine new drug store in Kelley’s block on South Howard street. The new firm enjoyed a very liberal patronage. The store is a handsome one. The counters and cases are ebonized wood and present a beautiful appearance. The door is covered with a pretty pattern of linoleum. In the front part of the room is a large and beautiful mirror. The front of the prescription case will be a mirror with about a one-inch bevel. In the windows of the new store are some of the choicest plants that can be seen in the city. The new firm are young men of large experience in the drug and prescription business and merit a liberal patronage.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 30 August, 1882
pg 3
Local Notes.
Mr. H.F. Wood, of Cleveland, is the new prescription clerk at the new drug store of Lumb & Justh.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 6 September, 1882
pg 5
A Complicated Case
Is Moritz Justh, of Akron, the Missing Julius Weinberger, of Vienna, Austria?
The Stock Will Not Cover The Claim.
From Saturday’s Daily Beacon
On Saturday, July 15, 1882, Messrs. Limb & Justh, opened at No. 183 South Howard street as fine a drug store as there is in the city. The room is very handsomely fitted up and the firm have been doing an excellent business, having but recently employed a prescription clerk from Cleveland. Everything went well and the young firm was gaining public favor both gentlemen being faithful workers and very attentive to business, conducting their affairs in a judicious and always cautious manner. Especially was this true of Mr. Limb, who has been a resident of this city about six months, and who left the employ of W.P. Davis to engage in the drug business with Mr. Justh, who came at that time from Cleveland. In view of this favorable condition of things and the fact that the young men had a most excellent social as well as financial standing, it was a matter of great surprise to all when Deputy United States Marshal John Odell, of Cleveland, served an order of attachment on this firm in the sum of $7,000. The store was at once surrendered to Marshal Odell by Messrs. Limb & Justh, and Mr. Chas. H. Edgerly of this city, placed temporarily in charge. W.A. Babcock, Esq., of Cleveland, is the attorney who represents the party to the attachment. Messrs. L. & J. at once employed counsel and affair was being arranged this afternoon.
The Story more in detail about this affair, as near as can be learned from parties interested, is that a few years ago a young man by the name of Julius Weinberger was engaged in business in Vienna, Austria, and that the young man made an assignment and a gentleman by the name of Wratislaw Filkeis was appointed assignee. The story further runs that Weinberger in a short time thereafter left Austria, taking with him about $22,000, and that he next turned up in New York under the name of Miller. The next he was heard of, as the report has it, was in Cleveland, where he made application for naturalization papers before Probate Judge Tilden, of Cuyahoga County, in the name of Moritz Justh. It is further claimed that in May last a claim of $4,000 was presented to Mr. Weinberger alias Justh, which he is said to have paid, denying, however, that his name was Weinberger. The order of attachment served this morning was at the instigation of the afore-said Wratislaw Filkeis, the assignee at Vienna, through his attorney, Mr. Babcock, and is for the sum of $7,000. As a matter of protection of property and to insure the collection of the amount of the attachment, the proceedings being to recover property, the various banks of the city were garnisheed as to any amounts they may have to the credit of the firm.
It is but just to Mr. Limb to say that, if Mr. Justh is guilty of any wrong, Mr. Limb does not share in such crime, and for the sake of the young men it is earnestly hoped that they may be able to continue their fine store.
Mr. Moritz Justh who was served with an attachment to the amount of $7,000 by Wrateslaw Filkeis, of Vienna, Austria, to-day, and whose right name is said to be Julius Weinberger, claims that this trouble is the cause of mistaken identity, and that the real Julius Weinberg looks so much like himself (Moritz Justh) that the papers have been served on him by mistake.
From Monday’s Daily Beacon
John Odell, Deputy U.S. Marshal, of Cleveland, arrived in this city this morning and at once secured and swore in Dr. A.M. Armstrong and W.W. Alexander to invoice the stock in Limb & Justh’s drug store which was on Saturday attached by Marshal Odell to satisfy a claim of $7,000 in favor of Wratislaw Filkeis, assignee of Julius Weinberger of Vienna, Austria. The story is brief, as related in the Beacon on Saturday is that Weinberger assigned in Vienna and subsequently assumed the name of Moritz Justh and on the 15th day of July, in company with a Mr. Limb, opened a fine drug store in this city.
Mr. Odell, in conversation with a Beacon reporter this morning said that so far as instituting criminal proceedings against Justh was concerned he knew nothing, and that probably no such proceedings would be begun, as there was no extradition treaty between this country and Austria.
The stock and fixtures now in the store will invoice at about $2,700, and it is said that but a small sum of money is on deposit in the banks, so that not to exceed $3,000 or $4,000 can be realized on the $7,000 claim. Just what amount of debts the firm had cannot now be ascertained, but in all probability they owe only a small amount on stock and fixtures. There are, however, some bills in favor of parties in this city that are unpaid.
His Cleveland Experience.
Cleveland Leader Sept. 3.
Last spring it became the painful duty of a Leader reporter to detail a part of the history of Moritz Justh, or Julius Weinberger, as he seems to be known. Again he is found posing in a public position, and once more it becomes necessary to devote a column to him. The gentle Justh is, as his name and alias world indicate, a foreigner. His life in this country has been short, but prolific of occurrences. He struck New York soil last October, staggering under the name of Miller, which he swapped for that of Justh, immediately subsequent to his arrival. He presently came to Cleveland, and in partnership with a West Sider, opened a wholesale liquor store on Pearl street. The firm met with indifferent success from the start, and last spring closed the establishment and hung out on the door a placard bearing the suggestive legend “succumbed to the Pond law.” Upon looking over the books Justh’s partner discovered that he had been pinched by his associate, and invoked the stalwart arm of the law in his protection. Justh was made to settle for $500, which he gave up with many a murmur. That was but the beginning, for in less than a week Justh was induced to leave his comfortable quarters at a down town hotel, by means of a warrant and danced around a lawyer’s office for a day and a half, eventually settling for $2,700. This case was one in which it was claimed that Julius Weinberger, while doing business in Vienna, Austria, had defrauded a firm of Manchester, England. Justh made a frightful and frenzied kick against paying the money, protesting that he was not Julius Weinberger, but, as he held himself out, plain, virtuous Moritz Justh. However, he gave up the money, and that night took a close carriage and left the city. A few days ago, Mr. W.A. Babcock, a well-known attorney of this city, received documents from Vienna, calling for Weinberger’s arrest. The parchment was a formidable affair, covering six pages. One page was devoted to the warrant for arrest under the seal of the Imperial Royal Court of Commerce, at Vienna, Austria. The other five pages contained the certificates of the officers of the court, each of whom certified for the other, the whole court being endorsed by James Riley Weaver. The following is the warrant, as it appears from the translation from which accompanies the original writ:
Warrant of Caption.
“Weinberger, Julius, 28 years of age, born at Vienna, lately merchant at that place; Jew, more than middle size, with oblong face, long nose, black hair, usually curly short; similar whiskers, large dark brown eyes, which are very short-sighted, without, however, his using an eye-glass until now. When speaking, protracting a little his upper lip and not able purely to pronounce the letter s. Has fled from Vienna on the 22d of October last, after having committed a criminal fraud, and is, if found out, to be delivered over to this writ.
January 26, 1882”
The description to the minutes and particulars tallies with that of Justh. It is charged against Weinberger that he was in the yarn business in Vienna and failed. He had previous to his commercial explosion turned nearly all of his possessions into corn, so that all the assignee in bankruptcy, Dr. Wratislaw Fikeis, received as assets, were a few worthless billets of exchange and the office furniture, and Julius was not. He had pocketed $22,340 and fled. Upon receiving the papers Mr. Babcock make inquiries for Justh, and found that his mysterious journey above referred to had terminated at Akron, and that he had there entered into the drug business with one Mr. Limb. Two suits were at once begun in the United States Court, one in equity for $22,340, and one in law for $7,000. In the latter suit the Akron banks were restrained from paying over to Justh any money, and yesterday the drug store of Justh & Limb was taken in charge by Deputy Marshal Odell. The defendant wept and wailed, protesting that it was a case of mistaken identity, that he was a Bavarian by birth, had never been in Vienna. He could give no reason, however, for his action in settling for “Weinberger’s” liability to the Manchester firm, and there is but little doubt that he is the man wanted. His chances for making the journey back to Austria are first-class, as the government insists on his extradition. Mr. Babcock returns to Akron tomorrow and will take further steps in the case.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 1 November, 1882
pg 3
Local Notes
At the residence of the bride’s parents on Vine street, 6 a.m. Wednesday August A. Limb, of the late firm of Justh & Limb, and Miss Kate A. Laubert were married, Rev. Jacob Dahlmann officiating. They left for Detroit on a bridal trip.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 1 November, 1882
pg 5
Marriage Licenses.
A.A. Limb and Katie A. Laubert.
1883
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 11 April, 1883
pg 3
Mr. August Limb, of Akron, visited his Wooster relatives and friends last week. He is a very clever young gentleman and an expert druggist.
The Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 18 July, 1883
pg 3
Local News.
The Limb family had a reunion in Wooster last week. Among those present from abroad were August Limb and wife of Akron; Fritz Limb and wife of Lima; Mr. D.H. Nelson, nee Mary Limb of Mt. Pleasant, Mich. All told there were eleven brothers and sisters together.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 25 July, 1883
pg 3
Wooster Democrat: The Limb family had a reunion in Wooster last week. Among those present from abroad were August Limb and wife of Akron; Fritz Limb and wife of Lima; Mrs. D. H. Nelson, nee Mary Limb of Mt. Pleasant, Mich. All told there were eleven brothers and sisters together.
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 1 August, 1883
pg 3
Personals.
Akron Times.
Miss Lou Limb, of Wooster, is visiting her brother, A.A. Limb, No. 109 Vine street.
NOTE: The first printed reference to a son, named Raymond, born to August and Kate. Raymond died in infancy on July 3, 1884 (see below) and was buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Summit Co, OH.
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 17 October 1883
pg 3
Akron Times.
Mr. August Limb smiles. It’s a 9 lb boy.
1884
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 January, 1884
pg 3
Real Estate
City Property Transfers.
Fourth Ward — Fredrick Bittman, to Louis Wilhalm, part of lot 11, Thornton addition, $275; Patrick Carey, to Thomas Walsh, all of lot 215, Thornton addition, $1; Jacob Lambert, to Augustus A. and Kate A. Limb, part of lot 6, Howe addition $930; …
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 9 July, 1884
pg 3
Died.
LIMB — In Akron, O., July 3, 1884, at 109 Vine street, Raymond B., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Limb, aged nine months and four days.
1885
August Limb died suddenly and was buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Summit Co, OH.
The Daily Democratic Times
Lima, Ohio
Tuesday, 20 October, 1885
pg 3
Fred Limb and wife returned from Akron last night, where they had been attending the funeral service of his brother.
Akron City Times
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 21 October, 1885
pg 3
Rakings.
August A. Limb, a druggist, while walking along Howard street last Friday evening, dropped to the pavement from Hemorrhage of the lungs. He was carried into a store room where he expired before medical aid could reach him. He leaves a young wife.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 21 October, 1885
pg 3
Fragments.
About 9 o’clock Friday evening Mr. Augustus A. Limb, clerk of John Grether’s drug store, left for his home having finished his work at the store. When he had reached the sidewalk in front of Mr. Laskaris, “The Greek’s” fruit depot a short distance on the opposite side of the street, he was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and ruptured a blood vessel and soon died.
Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 21 October, 1885
pg 3
Death of August Limb
A dispatch to Wooster relatives and friends from Akron last Friday sadly announced that Mr. August Limb, druggist, aged 33 years, had dropped dead from hemorrhage of the lungs, while walking along the street. The deceased was born and raised in Wooster. he learned the drug business with J. Zimmerman & Co, became a skillful chemist, and a most courteous clerk. A dozen years ago he left Wooster and followed his profession in the eastern cities. Three years ago, he established himself in the drug business in Akron, where he married not long since. He was a clever gentleman, well esteemed. The funeral took place at Akron on Monday, and was attended by his step mother and brothers and sisters of Wooster.
The Jacksonion
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 22 October, 1885
pg 4
Local News.
August A. Limb dropped dead on the streets of Akron last Friday night caused by hemorrhage. August was a native of Wooster, having been born here in August, 1852. He was a druggist by profession, and left this city about ten years ago, and has lived in New York, Brooklyn and several other eastern cities since. He located at Akron about three years ago where he engaged in the drug business. He was a young man held in high esteem by those who knew him. His mother and several brothers and sisters reside in this city. He had been married but a short time. His mother and other members of the family went to Akron Monday morning to attend the funeral which took place at 10 a.m.
The Summit County Beacon
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 4 November, 1885
pg 4
Local Notes.
Mrs. A.A. Limb and her mother have removed to their former home, 109 Vine street.
1887
Akron City Times
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 March, 1887
pg 3
New Common Pleas Cases.
No. 3423. Louise Limb vs. Kate A. Limb. Foreclosure.
1888
Akron City Times
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday, 21 March, 1888
pg 2
Court Cullings.
Louisa Limb vs Kate A. Limb et al. Foreclosure. Dismissed without record.
1897
This story comes about 12 years after the death of August Limb.
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Tuesday, 13 July, 1897
pg 8
A Gold Ring.
Many Years Ago the Owner Lost It.
Now It Is Found.
It Is the Property of Mrs. Kate A. Limb.
In Life Her Late Husband Had Worn the Golden Band.
The finding of a ring, in itself, is not such an unusual thing as to attract general attention, but the circumstances which surround the discovery of one in this city a few days ago are so peculiar that an additional interest appears.
Previous to the marriage of Mrs. Kate A. Limb, the well known Christian Scientist of this city, to her late husband, August A. Limb, she presented him with a heavy gold band ring. On the inside of it were engraved the initials of the donor and the recipient. This was many years ago. A short time after this the two young people were married.
Mr. Limb was a druggist in this city. It was only a short time after the marriage that he lost the ring which his wife had given him. A careful search was made but no trace of it could be found. A few years later, or more than ten years ago, Mr. Limb died.
They resided on Vine street then, in the same house now occupied by the widow. She had quite forgotten about the lost piece of jewelry. A few days since, her mother, who lives with her, was in the yard raking the lawn. She noticed something bright in the grass. It appeared to be a brass ring, such as is used in advertising gum or candy. She carried it into the house, however.
When Mrs. Limb reached home she noticed the ring and picking it up, she cautiously examined it. Finally she commenced to polish it and soon discovered that it was gold. She then determined to give it a thorough cleaning. As the dirt was washed from the inside she noticed it was engraved, and on examination was delighted to find that it was the same keepsake she had given to her husband and which was lost years ago.
It was found in a portion of the yard which was passed over many times each day.
1898
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Monday, 17 January, 1898
pg 8
Christian Scientists.
The Annual Meeting of the Sunday School Well Attended.
The first annual meeting of the Christian Science Sunday school was held Sunday evening in the Doyle block on Main street. It was a public meeting and was well attended. The room was nicely decorated with flowers and potted plants and the meeting was interesting.
The superintendent of this school is Mrs. Kate A. Limb and Mr. C.B. Randolph is the assistant superintendent. The teachers are Mrs. Limb and Miss T. Nickson. Miss Cook, the secretary, read a report showing that the school started one year ago with seven members and now has 16 members. The children took part in the Scripture lesson and references and Miss Nellie Shepard rendered a pleasing solo.Remarks were made by Mr. Randolph, the assistant superintendent, relative to Christian science and mind healing.
1900
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Tuesday, 12 June, 1900
pg 5
Receiving Members.
Semi-Annual Services in Christian Science Church.
The Uniform Services.
Which Are Held In Every Church in the Land.
Mrs. Eddy’s Book the Key-Note of All.
Sunday, at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which holds regular meetings in its reading rooms, Arcade building, South Howard street, holy communion services were held, at which members were received into the church. The service is a simple, but very impressive one with little ceremony, not using the material symbols, bread, wine or water, but a silent self-examination, and an earnest resolve to take more of that “bread which came from heaven, which is truth.”
Communion services are held annually in the first or mother church in Boston, Mass., and twice a year in all the branch churches. The service differs from that of other denominations in this particular. No sermons are written or delivered after the fashion of other churches, but the impersonal pastor, ordained by Mary Baker Eddy, in 1894, reads citations from the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, which form a lesson-sermon, teaching the omnipotence and omnipresence of God. These lesson-sermons are delivered by two readers alternately from the Bible and the Christian Science text-book. The subjects are selected by Mrs. Eddy, and a committee from the mother church prepares the lesson from these subjects, selecting references from the Bible and their correlative passages from “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” The subject for this service was “Sacrament.”
A Uniform Service.
The Christian Science service is a uniform service, the lesson-sermon being the same in all Christian Science churches, both in this and foreign lands. The Wednesday evenings are devoted to testimonies and experiences and general remarks on Christian Science.
The services in this city were conducted by Mrs. Kate A. Limb, first reader, and Mrs. Georgia B. Simmons, second reader. The organ was presided over by Mrs. Mary Shepard. The order of exercises was as follows:
Organ voluntary.
Hymn, “Out of Self and Into Thee.”
Scripture reading, 1 Cor. 11: 23-30; Col. second chapter.
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s prayer, with its spiritual interpretation from the Christian Science text-book.
Communion hymn, “Saw Ye My Savior,” written by Mrs. Eddy.
The first reader announced the number of members and said as follows:
The First Reading.
“To unite with the Church of Christ, Scientist, one must understand and know for a certainty that God, the Divine Mind, is the only power that ‘healeth all our diseases.’ In uniting with the church we confess before men that we have accepted Christian Science and its organizations, which are necessary to its growth and prosperity at the present time. We have ‘chosen whom we will serve.’ To serve means to obey, to bestow the labor of body and mind in the employment of another. I repeat, we have chosen to serve God, Good. We ‘seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness,’ that all good may be added unto us. The Bible teaches ‘if ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.’ Therefore every member is willing and obedient to fill his place at the Sunday and Wednesday evening services; to us it is a privilege rather than a duty to be laborers in the cause of Christian Science which frees from sickness as well as sin! We each and all want health, strength and prosperity, and this can be gained only in obeying the commands of our Master, who said to His followers: ‘Preach the gospel and heal the sick.’ We have chosen to live the life of a Christian Scientist. Our text-book teaches, on page 447, that the Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness, and the allness of God or Good. This understanding is gained by faithfully reading the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,’ by Mary Baker G. Eddy, and putting the teachings into practice hourly. We can think good and be honest whatever our work may be. The question is oft-times asked, ‘Is a man or woman a Christian Scientist who willfully follows old habits and does wrong things?’ Our text-book says, on page 445, ‘It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right doing has any claim to the name.’ Are persons to be found in our churches who do wrong in speech and action? We answer, ‘yes,’ we do not find any that are without sin, spot or blemish. Jesus came to save sinners. We take in sinners who are willing to strive, watch and pray for that mind to be in them which was, also, in Christ Jesus. We claim for the teaching of Christian Science that it awakes the sinner and causes the wicked to forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Christian Science gives us a better understanding of God, and our relation to Him than we have ever had before, which enables us to prove this passage of Scripture, ‘Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.’ As we kneel in silent communion we examine ourselves as to whether we are following the teachings of Jesus, namely:
Self-Examination.
“Do I bless them that curse me? Do I do good to them that hate me? Do I serve two masters: God and Mammon? Do I seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness? Have I come out from the world and separated myself from all error, evil speaking, evil thinking, selfishness, swearing, and all habits which would keep me from having the same mind which was also in Christ, Jesus? They silently resolve to ‘press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,’ and to partake more and more of the ‘bread which cometh down from heaven,’ which is truth, and which ‘giveth life unto the world,’ and frees from sin, sickness and death; they resolve to drink the cup of persecutions for righteousness sake, and to let ‘harmony, health, unselfishness, goodness, mercy and justice form the mind picture,’ even as the Christian Science text-book and the Bible teach, Science and Health, 144-31. ‘Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there by any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.’ Phil. 4:8”
The tenets were then read which are signed by those uniting with the church. After the offertory the lesson-sermon was read and the services were brought to a close by the congregation kneeling in silent communion; all visitors were invited to join in this communion. The benediction was Second Cor. 13:14.
1902
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Saturday, 5 July, 1902
pg 6
[Most of the page is a long letter from a Jennie M. Wunderlich and responses from various religious people including Kate A. Limb.]
Akron, Ohio, Friday, 2 p.m.
My Dear Miss Wunderlich — Yours of the 21st was received and read on my return from the reading room last evening.
I shall be glad to see you any time whenever you feel that principle leads you in that direction. Am rejoiced at the efforts you are making to bring this “pearl of great price” to their waiting thought. The words which have been spoken in this city since 1888 and more especially since 1891, “shall not return unto me void but shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent them.” I have cast my bread (truth) upon the waters and it shall return though it be after many days.
I too, have felt for some time that the awakening will soon come or is now at hand. Not being abundantly supplied in this world’s goods (but always the needs met), I have sacrificed and toiled and struggled to have this beautiful gospel of peace established in Akron. Jesus came to save that which was lost. What was lost? Why this: The true idea of God and of the saving principle. The science of the Christ teaching Christian Science reveals it and we who accept the call and lay hold, are saved from sickness and sin. The idea that man has dominion over everything had vanished from our spiritual training. See S.H., 282-10, 511-7: it is spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion over the whole earth that casts out evil and heals the sick. S.H. 320-7.
“Let us raise and go hence.” That is, let us raise our thoughts into the spiritual realm and away from the material sense. May your efforts be blest and may suffering humanity know that the same God is with us now to heal and save as in the days of our dear Master, when He presented the saving doctrine.
Yours in the cause of Christian Science,
Kate A. Limb
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Saturday, 5 July, 1902
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Church News.
First Church of Christ, Scientist: Services Sunday, 10:30 a.m.; children’s Sunday school, 9 a.m.; Wednesday evening, testimonial and experience meeting, 7:30 p.m.; rooms open Thursday and Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.; subject for morning services, “God,” southwest room adjoining Universalist church, entrance Mill street. All are welcome. After sojourning in Boston, Mass., for several weeks, the first reader, Mrs. Kate A. Limb, has returned and her duties will again be resumed as usual.
1903
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Thursday, 15 October, 1903
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Real Estate.
Property Transfers In City and County.
Kate A. Limb and Elizabeth Laubert to Cordelia E. Buckman 57 ft Vine st. $2,600.
1910
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Monday, 31 January, 1910
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Transfers of Real Estate In Summit County, Reported by Henry c. Wilcox, Abstractor of Titles, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 130 South Main Street.
Kate A. Limb to Agatha M. Olnhausen, 30 ft., Spruce st., $1.
NOTE: August Limb, Katie Laubert Limb and their 9-month old son, Raymond, are buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Ohio.
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Tuesday, 10 December, 1910
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Mrs. Limb’s Funeral Was Held Friday
Founder of Local Christian Science Church.
The funeral of Mrs. Katherine A. Limb, who died at Kent Wednesday, was held from her late residence, 31 Franklin street, Friday. The services were simple, but impressive, and were in perfect keeping with her quiet and unpretentious life. The remains were then taken to Mt. Peace cemetery for burial.
Mrs. Limb was the daughter of John Jacob Laubert and Elizabeth L. Laubert, and was born October 11, 1854. She was married to August A. Limb in October, 1882. Mr. Limb died in 1885.
It was about 1888 that, after having lost father, husband and small son, who were the victims of consumption, Mrs. Limb herself was given up by physicians to die of the same disease. It was then that she heard of Christian Science. She investigated it and was afterwards healed.
She then continued her study of Christian Science, and in 1897 organized the Christian Science church, of which she was the active head until about five years ago. She then devoted her entire time to teaching and healing in Christian Science. She was a graduate of the Massachusetts Metaphysical college and a successful practitioner.
She was a devout lover of mankind, and had the highest respect for all who seek to destroy the woes and sufferings of mankind.
1922
The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Tuesday, 11 July, 1922
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Remember The Time in 1897
Governor Atkinson of West Virginia was in town.
Jacob Pfeiffer entertained with a fish fry at Young’s.
No. 4 engine house was being renovated.
Straw hats were ordered for the police.
William H. Rook patented an improved press for making earthenware crocks.
Mrs. Nellie Haas, living at Old Forge, was suffering from sun stroke.
J.A. Moody was elected president of the local horseshoers union.
Mrs. Kate A. Limb found in her yard a gold ring which she had given to her husband many years before.
Frank Mitchell, 104, Akron’s oldest resident, was working as a farm hand.
Mayor Shaw of Barberton reported that the town was prospering and few houses were to be found for rent.
Stockholders of the Blue Pond company were to be assessed 67 per cent in addition to their regular stock subscription.