Age 29. 97 Miner Street, Providence, RI. Born on 1/14/1913, in Providence. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Jewelry salesman (death certificate). Had been visiting alone in Boston from Rhode Island since the previous Thursday evening. Was planning to stay over Saturday night at the local residence of a sister. Providence Journal, 11/30/1942: "His family knew the Grove was a favorite of his, and when they read of the fire in the early editions of the Sunday Journal...they called his sister and learned Harold had not been home." One of 60 "probable identifications" inventoried by Boston City Hospital on Sunday morning (8:00 a.m.) at Southern Mortuary, Boston (all male). Was raised in Providence. Attended Technical and Classical High Schools in Providence. Was a graduate of Providence College in 1935. Previously a collector, furniture business (1940 federal census). Was single. Medium build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 7," 150 lbs.). One of 256 males to lose their lives (including two outside passing rescue workers), along with 234 women killed (a total of 490 dead). One of five victims from Rhode Island (also Lieut. Edward Boylan, U.S. Army, age 25, Miss Mary Grady, age 25, Lieut. Harry Martin, U.S. Army, age 31, and Mrs. Harrilyn "Dolly" Taft, age 21). One of eight casualties interred in the Ocean State (also Miss Muriel Rogers, age 21, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl and Aurise Tattrie, ages 31 and 27, in addition to the four Ocean State resident-victims above). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis and Mollie (Semshers) Feingold, same address. Burial at Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick, RI. Was the lone fire death interred at Lincoln Park Cemetery, located one town from the site of a devastatingly similar fire 60 years later in February 2003 at "The Station" night club in West Warwick, RI, which claimed 100 lives.

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