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FatalityOutcome: FatalDrowning

Fatality — Mount Washington, Oct 4, 1869

·Mount Washington·Peabody River

Glen House proprietor

J.M. Thompson, proprietor of the Glen House, drowned in the flooded Peabody River near the eastern base of Mount Washington.

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