Rabbi Louis A. Mischkind of Temple Beth Emeth, Wilmington, died on Wednesday at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, of meningitis, contracted after being thrown from a horse in March.
Rabbi Mischkind was 32 years old and a native of Louisville, Ky. He came here in September 1925 from Chicago. Previously he had charge of congregations in Wheeling, W. Va. and New York City.
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