Jacob Riis' Death
Born (Birthday) May 3, 1849
Death Date May 26, 1914
Age of Death 65 years
Cause of Death N/A
Profession Photographer
The photographer Jacob Riis died at the age of 65. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Danish American journalist and photographer who tried to alleviate the bad living conditions of impoverished New Yorkers through his writing and photography. Throughout New York there are several parks and buildings named after him.
His second wife, Mary Phillips, outlived him by 53 years.
Quotes
"Some defeats are only installments to victory.
"The slum is the measure of civilization.
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
"I’d look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.