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Mr. Thors Passes Away. Louis Thors, one of the oldest, best, and most highly esteemed of the local photographers, passed away, Saturday evening, June fourth, at a sanitarium in Oakland, to which he had been removed a few days before from his home in this city. Cancer of the stomach was the primary cause of his death. He was seventy-two years of age; and, except for an absence of about two years following the fire, during which period he operated a studio in St. Louis, Mr. Thors had been identified with the photographic business of this city for some forty years. Of French descent, Mr. Thors came to this country from Amsterdam, Holland; and his skill as a painter at once secured him employment with Bradley & Rulofsen, then the leading photographers on the Coast. His skill as a retoucher, an art which he rapidly acquired, decided his future; and his success with a studio of his own was most gratifying, despite the presence in the field of such masters of the camera as Tabor, Morse, and others. Mr. Thors was loved and respected by all who knew him, not only for his skill as a photographer, but for his charming personality, his unvarying courtesy, his high moral character, and his keen and cultivated mentality. His loss is one that is deeply felt by a host of friends, who valued most highly that warm friendship which he so freely gave in exchange for the friendship which he so universally compelled from those who came within his sphere of acquaintanceship. (Source: Camera Craft, Volume 17, published in 1910)

His mother was born in France according to the 1910 US census.

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