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AMERICAN NECROLOGY

ABBEY, Edwin Austin, England, Aug. | Public Library and many other notable 1, aged 59; artist and illustrator. buildings.

ABRAHAM, Abraham, Brooklyn, June CARSON, Hiram, Ithaca, N. Y., June 28, aged 68; merchant and philan- 15, aged 82: professor emeritus of thropist. English literature at Cornell.

ANDRADE, Cipriano, New York, June 19, aged 70; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

ASHMORE, Sidney G., Schenectady, N. Y., May 22, aged 59; professor of Latin at Union College.

ATWILL, Edward F.. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 24, aged 70; Protestant Episcopal bishop of Western Missouri.

BAIRD, Julian W., Boston, June 26, aged 52; chemist, and dean of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.

COLMAN, Norman J., Nov. 3, on train near St. Louis, aged 84; appointed by President Cleveland first Secretary of Agriculture.

CROWELL, Edward Payson, Amherst, Mass., Mar. 26, aged 81; professor emeritus of Latin at Amherst College.

CURTIN, John J., Jan. 1, aged 72; Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired.

CURTIS, Edward L., New Haven, Conn., Aug. 26, aged 57; professor of Greek at the Yale Divinity School.

CURTIS, William Eleroy, Oct. 5, aged

BAKER, George Hall, New York, Mar. 27, aged 60; librarian emeritus of Co-60; journalist and author of historical lumbia University.

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BOGERT, Wm. Strong, Feb. 16, aged 74; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

BONACUM, Thomas, Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 4, aged 64; Roman Catholic Bishop of Lincoln.

BRADFORD, Gamaliel, Boston, Aug. 21, aged 80; banker, and author of works on political economy.

BRADY, Francis Xavier, Baltimore, Mar. 13, aged 51; president of Loyola College, Baltimore.

BRINCKERHOFF, Dr. Walter Remsen, Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 2, aged 37; an authority on leprosy and smallpox.

DE BROUGHILLIER-CHAVIGNY, Charles Marie Claude, Marquis, July 11, aged 54; lecturer, and professor of French literature and politics at Harvard.

BULLIS, John L., San Antonio, Tex., May 26, aged 70; Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired.

BURKE, Daniel W., Portland, Ore., May 30, aged 70; Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired.

CARRERE, John M., New York, Mar. 1, aged 52; architect of the New York

works.

DEVINS, Rev. John Bancroft, New York, Aug. 26, aged 54; editor of the New York Observer.

DRYDEN, John F., Newark, N. J., Nov. 24, aged 72; founder and president of the Prudential Insurance Co.

DUDLEY, Edgar S., Johnstown, N. Y., Jan. 9, aged 66; Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired.

DUDLEY, Irving B., Baltimore, Md., Nov. 27, aged 50; United States Ambassador to Brazil.

DUDLEY, William Russell, June 4. aged 62; author and emeritus professor of systematic botany at Stanford University.

EARLE, Alice Morse, New York, Feb. 16, aged 57; author of many books on Colonial history.

EASTMAN, Julia Arabella, Wellesley, Mass., Jan. 1, aged 74; founder of Dana Hall School for Girls, and writer of children's books.

EGGLESTON, George Cary, New York, Apr. 14, aged 72; author and former newspaper editor.

EHRICH, Louis R., London, Oct. 23. aged 62; art collector and dealer, and author of books on economic questions.

ELKINS, Stephen B., Elkins, W. Va., Jan. 4, aged 69; U. S. Senator from West Virginia and Secretary of State in Pres. Harrison's cabinet.

EMMONS, Samuel Franklin, Mar. 28, aged 70; an eminent geologist, for many years connected with the U. S. Geol. Survey.

EVANS, Mrs. Elizabeth Edson, Germany, Sept. 14, aged 79; novelist and contributor to reviews.

FITZGERALD, Oscar Penn, Aug. 5, aged 82; editor and author, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. FLEMING, Williamina Paton,

Cam

HUNT, Chas. Wallace, New York, Mar. 27, aged 70; inventor and manufacturer of coal-handling apparatus.

bridge, Mass., May 21, aged 54; as- aged 57; U. S. Senator from Colorado. tronomer and curator of astronomical records at Harvard University. FLUEGEL, Dr. Maurice, Baltimore, Feb. 15, aged 78; historian and scientist.

FOREST, John Anthony, San Antonio, Tex., Mar. 11, aged 73; Roman CathoMic Bishop of San Antonio.

Foss, Sam Walter, Somerville, Mass., Feb. 26, aged 53; poet and librarian. FOSTER, Dr. Frank P., Aug. 13, aged 69; editor of the New York Medical Journal.

FRANCIS, Charles Spencer, Troy, N. Y., Dec. 1, aged 58; ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1906-10.

FREEDEN, John Pierre, St. Louis, Dec. 2, aged 67; president of St. Louis University.

FREEMAN, John C., Madison, Wis., Apr. 10, aged 69; head of the department of English at the University of Wisconsin.

FREMONT, John Chas., Washington, Mar. 7, aged 61; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N. FRYE, William Pierce, Aug. 8, aged 79; U. S. Senator from Maine.

FYLES, Franklin, New York, July 4, aged 64; playwright and critic.

GATES, John W., Aug. 9, aged 56;

inancier.

GIBSON, William C., Brooklyn, May 10, aged 73; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N.,

retired.

GOURLAY, Major William,

War.

Glendale,

L. I., Dec. 29, aged 71; in charge of the Union secret service during the Civil GREENLEAF, Chas. R., Sept. 3, aged 73; Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired; an authority on medical hygiene.

GRIERSON, Benjamin H., Jacksonville, Ill., Sept. 1, aged 85; major-general of volunteers at the close of the Civil War.

GRIFFIN, Martin I. J., Philadelphia, Nov. 10, aged 69: historian, and founder of the American Catholic Historical Society.

GUILD, Curtis, Boston, Mar. 12, aged 84; formerly prominent as a journalist. HARLAN, John Marshall, Washington, Oct. 14, aged 78; justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.

HARRIGAN, Edward, Brooklyn, June 6, aged 65; the veteran comedian.

HASTINGS, Thos. Samuel, New York, Apr. 2, aged 83; former president of the Union Theological Seminary.

HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth, Cambridge, Mass., May 9, aged 87; historian and essayist.

HITCHCOCK, Edward, Amherst, Mass., Feb. 16, aged 83; professor in Amherst College; a pioneer advocate of physical education.

HUGHES, Chas. J., Denver, Jan. 11.

INCH, Richard, Washington, Apr. 21, aged 67; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

IVES, Halsey Cooley, St. Louis, Mo., May 6, aged 64; director of the St. Louis Museum of Art.

JANEWAY, Dr. Edward G., Summit, N. J., Feb. 10, aged 69; medical practitioner and teacher.

JOHNSON, Tom L., Cleveland, Apr. 10, aged 57; four times mayor of Cleveland. KEITH, William, Apr. 13, aged 72; the California landscape painter.

KENDRICK, Rt. Rev. John Mills, Los Angeles, Dec. 16, aged 75; Episcopal Bishop of Arizona and New Mexico.

KILDARE, Owen, New York, Feb. 4, aged 46; novelist.

KINNICUTT, Leonard P., Worcester, Mass., Feb. 6, aged 57; expert on sewage disposal and water supply.

KNAPP, Dr. Seaman A., Apr. 1, aged 78; organizer and director of the Farmers' Coöperative Demonstration work in the South.

LAMBDIN, Alfred Cochran, Philadelwriter of The Philadelphia Ledger. phia, Nov. 8, aged 65; chief editorial

Peter,

Feb.

June 19, aged 61; Colonel, U. S. A.;
LARNED, Chas. W., West Point, N. Y.,
dean of the U. S. Military Academy.
LEARY,
13, aged 70;
Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired.
Oct. 24, aged 72; "the American Grace
LEWIS (Wilson), Ida, Newport, R. I.,
Darling," for over 50 years keeper of

the Lime Rock Light.

LIPPINCOTT, Craige, Philadelphia, Apr. 6, aged 64; publisher.

LITTLE, Chas. Joseph, Mar. 11, aged 70; president of the Garrett Biblical Institute of Northwestern University. LOOMIS, Charles Battell, Sept. 23, aged 50; author and humorist. LORD, Nathaniel Wright, May 23, chemist aged 57; and professor of mineralogy and meteorology at Ohio State University. James, McCook, John New York, Sept. 17, aged 66; lawyer, conspicuous for gallantry during the Civil War.

MCDONALD, John B., New York, Mar. 17, aged 66; contractor; builder of the New York subway.

MACKAY-SMITH, Alexander, Philadelphia, Nov. 16, aged 61; Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania.

MACOMB, David B., Washington, Jan. 27, aged 84; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

MALLALIEU, Rev. Dr. Willard Francis, Auburndale, Mass., Aug. 1, aged 83; Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Springfield, Oct. 2, aged 72; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N.,

MALLORY, R. De Witt, Mass., Jan. 29, aged 60; president of retired. the American International College.

MARCH, Francis Andrew, Easton, Pa., Sept. 9, aged 86; professor of English language and comparative philology at Lafayette College.

MATTHEWS, Edmund O., Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 30, aged 75; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

MORGAN, Michael R., St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16, aged 78; Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired.

MORTON, Paul, New York, Jan. 19, aged 54; president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and Secretary of the Navy in the Roosevelt cabinet. NASH, Francis Philip, Geneva, N. Y., Feb. 5, aged 75; professor emeritus of Latin in Hobart College.

SCUDDER, Samuel H., Cambridge, Mass., May 17, aged 74; naturalist and

author.

SHALER, Gen. Alexander, New York, Dec. 28, aged 84; Civil War veteran. New SHEPARD, Edward M., York, July 28, aged 61; lawyer, and prominent leader of the Democratic party. SMITH, Joseph Rowe, Feb. 11, aged U. S. A., re80; Brigadier-General,

tired.

SOLEY, James Russel, New York, Sept. 10, aged 60; lawyer and author of works on naval history.

SPERANZA, Carlo Leonardo, June 17, aged 70; professor of Romance lan

guages at Columbia.

SPERRY, Charles Stillman, Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 1, aged 63; Rear-Admiral, NAZRO, Arthur P., Feb. 16, aged 63; U. S. N., retired; commander of the

Rear-Admiral and former Medical Director, U. S. N., retired.

NORTON, Chas. Stuart, Westfield, N. J., June 24, aged 74; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

PARET, Wm., Baltimore, Md., Jan. 18, aged 85; Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Maryland.

PARKMAN, Dr. Thos. Dwight, Sept. 8, aged 67; professor of anatomy at Harvard.

PHILLIPS, David Graham, New York, Jan. 24, aged 43; novelist.

world cruise of the Atlantic fleet 1908-9.

SQUIERS, Henry Goldsmith, London, Oct. 19, aged 52; former U. S. minister to Cuba and Panama.

STETSON, Charles Walter, July 2, aged 52; an American artist resident in Rome.

TAYLOR, John Yeatman, Washington, Nov. 16, aged 82; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

TERRY, Silas W., Washington, Feb. 9, aged 68; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

PIERSON, Rev. Dr. Arthur Tappan, Brooklyn, June 3, aged 74; authority THOMPSON, Denman, Apr. 14, aged on missions and editor of the Mission-77; actor, for many years in "The Old ary Review.

PULITZER, Joseph, Charleston, S. C., Oct. 29, aged 64; proprietor of the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

PYLE, Howard, Florence, Italy, Nov. 9, aged 58; artist and author.

REED (McCullough), Myrtle, Aug. 17, aged 37; novelist.

REEDER, Wm. H., New York, Jan. 24, aged 62; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

RICHARDS, Ellen H., Jamaica Plains, Mass., Mar. 30, aged 68; expert in sanitary chemistry.

ROBIE, Edward D., Washington, June 7, aged 79; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

ROBINSON, Wm. C., Washington, Nov. 6, aged 77; dean of the law school of the Catholic University, and former dean of Yale's law department.

RYAN, Patrick J., Philadelphia, Feb. 11, aged 79; Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia.

SANDS, James Hoban, Washington, Oct. 27, aged 67; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

SCHLEY, Winfield Scott, New York,

Homestead."

TRIPP, Bartlett, Yankton, S. D., Dec. 8, aged 69; ambassador to Austria 1893-7.

VANDERPOEL, John H., Chicago, May 2, aged 53; teacher of drawing and painting in the Art Institute of Chicago.

VINTON, Alexander H., Springfield, Mass., Jan. 19, aged 58; Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Western Massachusetts.

VINTON, Frederick Porter, Boston, May 20, aged 65; portrait painter. WARD, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Newton, Mass., Jan. 28, aged 66; author.

WEBB, Gen. Alex. S., Riverdale, N. Y., Feb. 12, aged 76; General, U. S. A., retired; former president of the College of the City of New York.

WELLS, Davis C., Hanover, N. H., June 12, aged 53; professor of 80ciology at Dartmouth.

WHITAKER, Ozi W., Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 9, aged 80; Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania.

WHITEHOUSE, Frederic Cope, New York, Nov. 16, aged 69; Egyptologist. WHITNEY, Edward Cornwall,

B.,

Conn., Jan. 5, aged 53; Justice of the
Supreme Court of New York State.

WILDE, George H. H., Boston, Dec. 3,
aged 66; Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., retired.

WYMAN, Walter, Washington, Nov.
21, aged 63; Surgeon-General of the
United States Public Health and Ma-
rine Hospital Service.

FOREIGN NECROLOGY

AIRD, Sir John, London, Jan. 6,
aged 77; builder of the Assouan Dam.
BEGAS, Reinhold, Aug. 3, aged 80;
the eminent German sculptor.

BELL, Chas. Frederic Moberly, Lon-
don, Apr. 5, aged 64; managing di-
rector of the London Times.

BELL, Joseph, Oct. 4, aged 74; an
eminent Scotch surgeon, the original of
"Sherlock Holmes."

BERTEAUX, Henri Maurice, Issy-les-
Moulineaux, May 20, aged 59; French
Minister of War.

BRUN, Gen. Jean Jules, Feb. 23, aged
61; French Minister of War.

BUNTING, Sir Percy William, London,
July 22, aged 75; editor of the Con-
temporary Review.

CLARKE, Sir Caspar Purdon, London,
Mar. 29, aged 65; director of the South
Kensington Museum, and later of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.

CLOTILDE, Princess, June 25, aged 68;
daughter of King Victor Emmanuel II
of Italy, and aunt of the present king.
CROFTS, Ernest, London, Mar. 19,
aged 64; painter of battle scenes.

CRONJE, Gen. Piet A., Kerksdorp, S.
A., Feb. 4; Boer leader in the war with
England.

DICEY, Edward, July 7, aged 79;
journalist, and author of historical
works.

DILKE, Sir Chas., London, Jan. 26,
aged 68; a prominent leader of the
Liberal party.

FOGAZZARO, Antonio, Rome, Italy,
Mar. 6, aged 68; novelist and advocate
of liberal Catholicism.

FOWLER, Henry Hartley, Viscount
Wolverhampton, London, Feb. 25, aged
81; a member of many British cabinets.

GALTON, Sir Francis, London, Jan.
17, aged 89; explorer and author, and
founder of a chair of eugenics at the
University of London.

GILBERT, Sir William Schwenck, May
29, aged 75; comic opera librettist.
GIROUARD, Desire, Ottawa, Can., Mar.
22, aged 75; senior judge of the Su-
preme Court of Canada.

GORST, Sir Eldon, July 12, aged 50;
British Agent and Consul-General in
Egypt.

GUILMANT, Felix Alexandre, France,
Mar. 30, aged 74; organist and com-
poser.

HART, Sir Robert, Sept. 20, aged 76;
the British expert on Chinese finance.

VAN'T HOFF, Prof. Jacobus Henricus,
Holland, Mar. 2, aged 59; an eminent
chemist, author of an elaborate treatise
on physical chemistry.

HOOKER, Sir Joseph, London, Dec. 11,
aged 95; surgeon and naturalist.
ISRAELS, Josef, Aug. 12, aged 87; the
eminent Dutch painter.

KOMURA, Marquis, Tokio, Japan, Nov.
24, aged 56; Japanese diplomat and
administrator.

LEWIS, Sir George, London, England,
Dec. 7, aged 78; eminent criminal law-
yer.

MAHLER, Gustav, May 18, aged 50;
composer and late conductor of the or-
chestra of the Philharmonic Society of
New York.

MARIA PIA, July 5, aged 63; formerly
Queen Dowager of Portugal.

NERUDA, Mme. Norman (Lady Halle),
Apr. 15, aged 71; violinist.

NIZAM-UL-MULK, Asaf Jan, Aug. 29,
aged 45; premier prince of the Indian
Empire.

NORTHCOTE, Baron, Sept. 29, aged
65; former governor-general of Aus-
tralia.

PAGET, Rt. Rev. Francis, England,
Aug. 2, aged 60; Bishop of Oxford.

PIERANTONI, Augusto, Mar. 12, aged
70; the eminent Italian authority on
international law.

ROBERTSON, Rt. Hon. Edmund, Baron
Lochee, Sept. 14, aged 66; a British
authority on American affairs.

VON ROTHSCHILD, Albert, Vienna, Feb.
11, aged 67; banker and financier.

ROUVIER, Maurice, France, June 7,
aged 69; twice Premier of France.

RUSSELL, William Clark, London,
Nov. 8, aged 67; writer of sea stories.
SAYID ABDUL AHAD, New Bokhara,
Jan. 5; Emir of Bokhara.

SPIELHAGEN, Friedrich, Feb. 25, aged
82; the eminent German novelist.

STANNARD, Mrs. Arthur ("John
Strange Winter"), London, Dec. 14,
aged 55; novelist.

STOLYPIN, Peter A., Kiev, Russia,
Sept. 18, aged 50; Premier of Russia.
STRETTON, Hesba, England, Oct. 9,
aged 70; novelist.

SVENDSEN, Johann Severin, June 14,
aged 70; composer.

VON UHDE, Fritz, Feb. 25, aged 63;
the German historical and genre
painter.

ZIEM, Felix, Paris, Nov. 10, aged 90:
celebrated painter of Venetian scenes.

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