In New York's Bellevue Hospital, songwriter Stephen Foster dies suddenly, aged thirty-seven

Stephen Collins Foster, perhaps America's most famous popular song writer at the time, died in Bellevue Hospital after being admitted for injuries in a fall at his New York boarding house three days before.  He was in very poor health in any case due largely to his rising alcohol intake and probably died of a heart attack or stroke.  His remains were transported by rail to Pennsylvania where he was buried in Lawrenceville.  He was 37 years old.  (By John Osborne)  
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Ken Emerson, Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 299. 
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