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CHAPTER X.

NECROLOGY.

AMERICAN, 1891.

SHERMAN, Miss MARION STANARD, born in Haddam, Conn., died in St. Louis, Mo., April 12, 1891. To a fine natural endowment and careful training she added the advantages of travel and acquaintance with prominent people in America and Europe. Her rest was turned into acquisition for her life work. Inheriting from her ancestry a taste for teaching, she began at fifteen in her native town a career that lasted for forty years and was terminated only by her death. There was nothing in her work perfunctory or time serving; she acted from the highest motives. Modest and unobtrusive, she did not only the work in her own hands, but held up the hands of others. She labored successfully in Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. For twenty years she was a power for good as a teacher in the St. Louis high school. Her religious consecration, most unobtrusive, was most complete.

1892.

AGNEW, DAVID HAYES, M. D., in Philadelphia, March 22, aged 74; was educated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., and Newark College, Delaware; received the degree of M. D., 1883, at University of Pennsylvania; connected with the Philadelphia School of Anatomy; 1854, founded the pathological museum in connection with the Philadelphia Hospital; in 1863 demonstrator of anatomy and assistant lecturer in clinical surgery, University of Pennsylvania; was professor at the Wills Ophthalmic Hospital; 1870, professor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania; was consulting and operating physician in President Garfield's case, 1881; made bequests for medical purposes to the University of Pennsylvania. AIKEN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, D. D., Ph. D., at Princeton, N. J., January 14, aged 64; a graduate of Dartmouth, 1816, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1853; professor of Latin, Princeton, 1866-1869; president of Union College, 1869-1871; from 1871 to 1882 was professor of Christian ethics and apologetics in Princeton Theological Seminary; 1882 till his death, professor of oriental and Old Testament literature and ethics; editor of Princeton Review.

ALDRICH, ANNE REEVE, in New York, June 29, aged 26; poet and author. ALLEN, Rev. J., D. D., Ph. D., LL. D., September 14; for twenty-five years president of Alfred University, New York. In accordance with his wish, his ashes were deposited in an urn 1,200 years old, said to have once contained the ashes of the first king of Cos, birthplace of Hippocrates; the urn was placed in the museum of the university.

ANDERSON, Rev. JOHN A., at Liverpool, England, May 18, aged 58; was born in Pennsylvania; graduated at Miami University, Ohio; 1866, trustee of California Insane Asylum; was in the service of United States Sanitary Commission, 1863-1867; president of Kansas State Agricultural College, 1873-1879; one of the Centennial judges, 1876; Member of Congress five terms; consul-general to Cairo by appointment of President Harrison.

AYRES, DANIEL, M. D., at Brooklyn, N. Y., January 18, aged 70; born in Long Island; graduated at Princeton, 1812; at the medical department, University of City of New York, 1814; for a long time professor in the Long Island Hospital and College, and at the time of his death professor emeritus; gave $275,000 to Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and $10,000 to the Hoagland Laboratory, Brooklyn.

BACKUS, WILLIAM W., at Norwich, Conn., October 22, aged 89; a benefactor to education and religious organizations.

BARROWS, CHARLES DANA, D. D., in Worcester, Mass., September 15, aged 48; was born in Maine; graduated at Dartmouth, 1864, and at Andover Theological Seminary 1871; master of high school, Portland, Me.; principal of Fryeburg Academy, Maine, 1865-1867; of Norway Academy, 1867-1868; editor of Overland Monthly, San Francisco.

BEACH, MOSES SPERRY, in Peekskill, N. Y., July 25, aged 70; was for many years sole proprietor of the New York Sun.

BEDELL, GREGORY THURSTON, in New York City, March 11, aged 75; Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, 1873-1889.

BEDFORD, Prof. PETER WENDOVER, at Bethlehem Junction, N. H., July 20, aged 56; was early identified with the New York College of Pharmacy, in which he was professor for twenty years, and emeritus professor at the time of his death; for eight years was editor of the Pharmaceutical Record; in 1881 was president of the Pharmaceutical Association.

BENNETT, LEMON, in Murray, Iowa, January 12, aged 69; was born in Vermout; graduated at Dartmouth, 1848; principal of Falls Branch Seminary, Tennessee; principal of Rotherwood Academy, Kingsport, Tenn.; taught in Iowa. BENTON, Rev. JOSEPH AUGUSTUS, D. D., at Oakland, Cal., April 8, aged 74; was born in Guilford, Conn.; graduated at Yale, 1812; studied theology at Yale Divinity School; after several pastorates, became editor in chief of The Pacific, San Francisco; in 1869, became professor of sacred literature in the Pacific Theolog ical Seminary, Oakland; was later professor of homiletics and natural theology; received the degree of D. D. from Yale, 1870.

BLANCHARD, JONATHAN, D. D., at Wheaton, Ill., May 14, aged 81; was born in Vermont; graduated at theological seminary under Dr. Lyman Beecher; in 1843 was American vice-president of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention; in 1846 became president of Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; from 1860-1882, president of Wheaton College, Illinois.

BOWDITCH, HENRY INGERSOLL, M. D., in Boston, Mass., January 15, aged 83, was born in Salem; graduated at Harvard, 1828, and Harvard Medical College, 1832; studied medicine in Paris, 1833-1835; was professor of clinical medicine, Harvard, 1859-1867; chairman State board of health, 1869-1879; president of the American Medical Association in 1877; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 1876, delivered a lecture before the International Medical Congress, on "Public hygiene in the United States," which by vote of the Congress was sent to every governor in the United States and Canada.

BOYLE, CHARLES BARRY, in New York, November 21, aged 65; was born in Newfoundland; was scientist, architect, inventor, and author; his inventions include the binocular telescope, and a microscopic telescope; his model of the moon was exhibited at the American Institute; he made the first practical demonstration of the cause of mirage.

BRADLEY, JOSEPH P., in Washington, D. C., March 14, aged 79; a graduate of Rutgers College, 1836; was principal of Millstone Academy; admitted to the bar, 1839; in 1870 was nominated to the Supreme Bench; was a member of the Elec toral Commission, 1877.

BROWN, GEORGE, M. D., in New York City, May 6. aged 69; was born in New Hampshire; educated at Burlington, Vt., Jefferson Medical College, Pennsylvania, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; was a year at Bellevue Hospital; in 1851, became proprietor of a school for feeble-minded children, Barre, Mass., which is the largest private institution of its kind in the United States; was a member of the New England Psychological Society; of. the National Association of Superintendents of Insane Asylums, and president of the Association of American Superintendents of Institutions for FeebleMinded Youth.

BRUSH, Mrs. CHRISTINE CHAPLIN, at New Utrecht, L. I., February 3, aged 49; was a descendant of the first president of Waterville College, Maine, and was a teacher of drawing in the State normal school, Framingham, Mass.

BUCHTEL, JOHN R., in Akron, Ohio, May 23, aged 70; was born in Ohio; he gave nearly $500,000 to the Universalist college in Akron that bears his name, and made it his sole legatee.

BUEL, SAMUEL, in New York City, December 30, aged 77; was born in Troy; graduated at Williams College, 1833; 1867-1871 was professor of ecclesiastical history at Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn.; 1877-1888, professor of systematic divinity and dogmatic theology in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York; he received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College.

BUNGAY, GEORGE W., in Bloomfield, N. J., July 10, aged 73; was born in England; a journalist, author, and poet.

BUNKER, ROBERT, in Rochester, N. Y., March 6, aged 71; a naturalist, who gave the Rochester Academy of Science his valuable entomological collection. BURROUGHS, Rev. JOHN CHARLES, D.D., in Chicago, April 21, aged 73; was born in western New York; graduated at Yale, 1842; taught in the academy, Hamilton, N. Y., and studied theology; in 1855 was offered the presidency of Shurtleff College, Illinois, but in 1856 he resigned his pastorate in Chicago to aid the movement which resulted in Chicago University; was its first president, 18571873, and chancellor, 1873-1875; in 1880 was a member of the board of education, Chicago; in 1883 was appointed assistant superintendent of schools, which position he held till his death. He received the degree of LL. D. from Madison (now Colgate) University, and that of D. D. from University of Rochester. BUTTERFIELD, RALPH, M. D., in Boston, September 2, aged 74; born in Massachusetts; graduated at Dartmouth, 1839; received the degree of M. D. from University of Pennsylvania, 1813; bequeathed to Dartmouth his fine mineralogical and archæological cabinet and $180,000.

CALLUM, Gen. GEORGE W., U. S. A., graduate of West Point, in New York, Febru ary 25; author of a history of West Point and its benefactor to the amount of $225,000. CARPENTER, WALTER, M. D., in Burlington, Vt., November 9, aged 84; was born in New Hampshire; graduated at Dartmouth Medical College, 1830; professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the University of Vermont, 1853-1857; professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the same, 1857-1881, being deau of the medical faculty from 1871, was at one time president of the Vermont Medical Society.

CASTLE, ORLANDO L., LL. D., at Alton, Ill., January 13, aged 69; was born in Vermont; graduated at Dennison University; was one year a tutor there; superintendent of schools at Zanesville, Ohio; from 1858 till his death was professor of belles-lettres, rhetoric, and oratory in Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill. CHAPIN, AARON L., D. D., at Beloit, Wis., July 22, aged 75; was born in Hartford, Conn.; graduated at Yale, 1835; professor in the New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, 1838-1843; graduated at Union Theological Seminary, 1812; in 1850 became president of Beloit College; in 1886 became president emeritus and professor of civil polity; was member of the board of examiners of the United States Military Academy, 1872, and of the United States Naval Academy, 1873; was president of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, and president of the board of trustees of the State Institute for Deaf-Mutes.

CHAPIN, Rev. J. H., in Norwalk, Conn., March 14; was born in 1832 in Indiana; was for many years professor of mineralogy and geology in St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y.; was an active member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

CHASE, THOMAS, in Providence, R. I., October 5, aged 65; was born in Worcester, Mass.; graduated at Harvard, 1848; studied at the University of Berlin and College of Paris; in 1855 became professor of Greek and Latin in Haverford College, Pennsylvania; was its president, 1875-1886; served at times as classical professor at Brown University; was a member of the American Committee on New Testament Revision, and of the Philological Congress held at Stockholm. CHESTER, Rev. ALBERT T., D. D., at Buffalo, N. Y., August 7, aged 80 years; was born in Norwich, Conn.; educated at Hobart and Union colleges, at which latter he graduated; became tutor there; entered the Presbyterian ministry; for twenty-seven years was president of Buffalo Seminary; was for many years president of the Buffalo Historical Society, curator of the Gallery of Fine Arts, and secretary and treasurer of the Jesse Ketchum memorial fund.

COLE, JOSEPH FOXCRAFT, in Boston, May 2, aged 54; artist.

COOKE, Mrs. ROSE TERRY, in Pittsfield, Mass., July 18, aged 65; was born in Connecticut; graduated at Hartford Female Seminary, 1813; married R. H. Cooke, 1873; was well-known as the author of New England stories.

COONS, Prof. HENRY B., at Catskill, N. Y., March 25, aged 26; was a graduate of Clavarack Academy and Wesleyan University; was superintendent of schools, Catskill, at the time of his death.

CRANCHI, C. P., in Cambridge, Mass., January 20, aged 78; was born in Alexandria, Va.; graduated at Columbian University; an artist and poet.

CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, at Livingston, Staten Island, New York, August 31, aged 68; was born in Providence, R. I.; was designed by his father for a business career; he attended school at Jamaica Plain, Mass. ; in 1842 joined the Brook Farm Community; traveled abroad and gathered material for his books afterwards published; was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune; 1852 became editor of Putnam's Monthly Magazine; from 1857 was editorial writer of Harpers' Weekly, and always identified with the Harpers, especially as conductor of the "Easy Chair"; in 1860 was delegate to the convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President; in 1862 declined the office of consulgeneral to Egypt; in 1867 was delegate-at-large to the constitutional convention of New York, in which he was chairman of the committee on education; in 1868 was Republican Presidential elector; in 1869 declined the nomination for secretary of state of New York; was chairman of the Civil Service Commission, appointed by President Grant; he was a member of the board of regents and president of the Metropolitan Museum, chancellor of the University of the State of New York president of the Unitarian Conference and vice-president of the Unitarian Association.

CUTTING, HIRAM A., M. D., at Lunenburg, Vt., April 18, aged 60; was a member of scientific and medical societies; former State geologist; secretary of the State board of agriculture and member of the Smithsonian observation corps; made numerous discoveries in microscopy.

DAVIS, JAMES H., in Amesbury, Mass., November 18, aged 73; was born in Amesbury; graduated at Dartmouth, 1841; principal of Amesbury Academy, and taught in the academy and high school thirty-one years; was principal of Barnard Academy, South Hampton, N. H.; was for many years member of the school committee of Amesbury.

DILLON, SIDNEY, in New York, June 9, aged 80; a noted financier and railroad builder. DOUGLAS, JOHN HANCOCK, M. D., in Washington, D. C., October 2; was born in 1824; was for some time editor of the American Medical Monthly; was General Grant's attending physician in his last illness.

Dow, JOHN M., Ph. D., in New York City, November 4; was born in New York in 1821; a naturalist; through his labors were discovered and named 200 new fishes and a new species of tapir; received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Göttingen.

DOWLING, JOHN WILLIAM, M. D., in Goshen, N. Y., January 14, aged 56; born in New York City; educated at Lewisburg College, Pennsylvania; received the degree of M. D. from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia; was professor in the New York Homeopathic Medical College; in 1871 was elected its registrar, and till 1884 was dean; occupied the chair of physical diagnosis and diseases of the heart and lungs in the college; was in 1880 elected president of the American Institute of Homeopathy; through his efforts, largely, the New York Surgical Institute was established.

DRAKE, CHARLES DANIEL, LL. D., in Washington, D. C., April 1, aged 71; was born in Cincinnati; educated at St. Joseph's College, Kentucky, and the military school at Middletown, Conn.; was United States Senator from Missouri; chairman of Committee on Education, warmly sustaining the Bureau of Education; appointed in 1870 Chief Justice of the Court of Claims in the District of Columbia.

DWIGHT, THEODORE WOOLSEY, LL. D., at Clinton, N. Y., June 29, aged 69; graduated at Hamilton College, 1842-1816; was professor there of law, history, civil polity, and political economy, 1816-1858; in 1858 was elected professor of municipal law in Columbia College, of which chair he became professor emeritus in 1891; was also warden of the law school of the college; was one of the greatest teachers of law in the country.

EASTMAN, EDMUND TUCKER, M. D., in Boston, November 10, aged 71; was born in New Hampshire; graduated at Phillips, Andover, and Harvard; received the degree of M. D., 1850; was eleven years member of the school committee, Boston, and three years of the board of overseers for the poor.

EASTMAN, GEORGE BURDER, in Fond du Lac, Wis., October 20, aged 81; was born in Vermont; graduated at Dartmouth, 1836; principal of an academy, Detroit, Mich.; taught at Kalamazoo, Mich., and Troy, N. Y.; superintendent of schools, Fond du Lac.

EARLE, PLINY, M. D., at Northampton, Mass., May 17, aged 83; was born in Leicester, Mass.; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1837; was medical superintendent Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, New York.; professor of materia medica at Berkshire Medical Institute, Pittsfield, Mass.; one of the founders of the American Medical Association, and of the Association of Medical Superintendents of Institutions for the Insane, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New England Psychological Society; was one of the insanity experts to examine Guiteau.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES, D. D., in Easton, Pa., February 15, aged 77; was born in Scotland; graduated at Lafayette College, 1840; 1843-1845, principal of an academy at Xenia, Ohio; 1845-1849 was professor at the Western University of Pennsylvania; for fourteen years was professor of Greek at Miami University; 18631882 was professor of Biblical literature and exegesis at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago (then the Presbyterian Seminary); since 1887 professor of Hebrew and cognate languages at Lafayette College. He published several studies of the Bible.

FIELD, CYRUS, in New York City, July 12, aged 73; was born in Stockbridge, Mass.; a financier to whose untiring efforts for thirteen years is due the success of the first telegraphic connection between Europe and America.

FRY, BENJ. ST. JAMES, in St. Louis, February 5, aged 67; was educated at Woodward College, Cincinnati; president of Worthington Female College, 1856-1860; chaplain 63d O. V. I.; editor Central Christian Advocate since 1872.

FURMAN, Rev. THOMAS BAKER, at McMinnville, Tenn., January 17; was a teacher for thirty-eight years in commercial and literary colleges in Santiago, Buenos Ayres, and Montevideo, South America, and in classical schools at Mont Eagle, Tenn., and McMinnville; was the son of Wood Furman, A. M., a prominent educator.

GARRISON, JOSEPH FITHIAN, M. D., D. D., at Camden, N. J., January 30, aged 69; an authority on canon law and liturgics and professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School.

GIBSON, RANDALL LEE, at Hot Springs, Ark., December 15, aged 70; was born in Kentucky; graduated at Yale in 1853; educated for the bar; Confederate general. United States Senator two terms, and member of the Senate Committee on National University; a trustee of the Peabody fund and Tulane University. GILMORE, PATRICK S., in St. Louis, September 24, aged 61; was born in Ireland; leader of Gilmore's Band and conductor of the peace jubilees in Boston, 1869, 1872. GOULD, JAY, in New York City, December 2, aged 56; a noted capitalist and railroad financier; gave $20,000 to education.

GREEN, GEORGE FLEMING, in Kalamazoo, Mich., June 7, aged 60; invented the first wire and cord binder used for harvesting, the cash railway system used in stores, electrical dental instruments, and an electric car.

GREENE, Rev. HARRIS R., at Wickford, R. I., August 18, aged 62; was at one time principal of Worcester high school.

HALE, JOHN GARDNER, at Redlands, Cal., March 23, aged 67; was born in Vermont; graduated at University of Vermont; licensed to preach; founded Bellevue Academy in Lugonia (now Redlands); was town superintendent of schools in Poultney, Chester, and Stowe, Vt.; was a contributor to Bibliotheca Sacra, the New Englander, and other periodicals.

HAMILTON, J. H., M. D., in Salt Lake City, April 13, a physician and surgeon of note; a graduate of Rush Medical College.

HARE, Rev. GEORGE EMLEN, D. D., LL. D., in Philadelphia, February 18, aged 81; was born in Philadelphia; graduated from Union College, 1827, and studied theology at the General Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York; 1844-15, assistaut professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania; principal of an Episcopal academy, Philadelphia; in 1857 opened the training school for Young Men of Holy Orders, which, in 1862 became the Philadelphia Divinity School, where for twenty-five years he was professor of Bible learning and exegesis; was one of the best Hebrew scholars in the Protestant Episcopal Church; served on the American committee on the revision of the Bible; received the degree of D. D. from Columbia College, and that of LL. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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