This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gRB.2ACE/2475 Message Board Post: 1916-02-14 Chicago Tribune (IL) Sheepskin Fatal to Man. Gloversville, N. Y., Feb. 13. -- Niles Reynolds, aged 53, died early today from anthrax which he contracted last Wednesday while working in a leather manufacturing plant here on sheepskins imported from South America.