Daniel Webster Bath
Feb. 11, 1940; Oregonian, p 13
Corvallis, Feb. 10

   "Thirty" was written here Thursday for Daniel Webster Bath, 90, a newspaperman nearly all his life and at one time secretary of the Oregon Press association.  He had worked on about a dozen newspapers in various part of the United States.
  On May 18, 1882, he was married to Imogene Birdsley in Madison, Wis.  The family moved to Oregon in 1904 and located at Hillsboro, where he purchased the Hillsboro Independent.  Later he became identified with the Cottage Grove Sentinel, the North Plains Sentinel and later with the Goldendale Sentinel in Goldendale, Wash.  Between newspaper activities he operated a job printing plant at Tacoma.
   When Mrs. Bath died in 1929 he came to Corvallis to live with his daughter, Mrs. W. C. Galloway.
   Besides Mrs. Galloway, he is survived by two sons, Irving S. Bath of Portland, Gerald H. Bath of Hollywood Cal, and five grandchildren.
   Funeral services were held here Saturday, with burial at the Riverview cemetery in Portland.