Death
Einhorn died at age 69 on November 2, 1879, at his home on East 64th Street of old age. He had become increasingly debilitated and was forced to stay in his room for some time. His funeral was held before a packed house at Beth-El on November 6, 1879, where his plain coffin was carried into the congregation by 12 pallbearers and placed before the pulpit, which included such gathered rabbinic notables as Richard James Horatio Gottheil of Congregation Emanu-El, Einhorn's son-in-law and successor Kaufmann Kohler of Beth-El, another son-in-law Emil G. Hirsch of Louisville, Kentucky, along with representatives of the congregations he served in Baltimore and Philadelphia. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery. Kaufmann Kohler carried on many of the efforts that Einhorn had initiated, collecting Einhorn's sermons and published them in book form, playing a major role in formulating the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885 and helped develop the Union Prayer Book using material that Einhorn had developed decades earlier in Olat Tamid.
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