Funeral services were held here today for Kain Ellis, 55, founder and vice-president of Har Zion Temple and co-founder of the Jewish Student’s House at Temple University. Mr. Ellis, who was active in Jewish communal affairs, died Thursday night.
August Abrahamson founded at Naas, Sweden, in 1872 the famous Sloid School of Manual Training.
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