Death
For six months during 1907, the South African writer, poet and medical doctor C. Louis Leipoldt was Pulitzer's personal physician aboard his yacht, the Liberty. As he was traveling to his winter home on Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1911, Pulitzer had the yacht stop in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. On October 29, 1911, Pulitzer said his last words while his German secretary read to him about King Louis XI of France. As the secretary neared the end, Pulitzer said in German: "Leise, ganz leise." (English: "Softly, quite softly"). He is interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
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