Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-05

AANNAAN - ANsAAAAH
One Of the oldest, if not the oldest inbabi-
tants of Cuyahoqa county has passed away,
Mrs. Rhoda Fay, wife Of Benaiah Fay, Of Par
ma, died on tho 2sth ult, eyed 81. Her father,
the late Rodolphus Edwards, moved from Can
ada and landed az Cleveland, June 10th, 1923
aud settled in Newburgh, the daughter being but
three months old.---Mr. Geo. Wilson, Editor
Of the Ontario Repository, died at Canandaigua
~ Y, on the 2sth ult For about two year,
Mr. W was a resident of Cleveland, in charge
of select school, Mrs. w. being connected
with the Female Seminary. Some three years
ago they returned to Canandaigua. Mr. Will
son was an accomplished scholar and gentle
man.---Mr John DEMO, veteran Of the
New York press died at Albion last week Hs
was the oldest printer and editor in the State
having been engaged as such for over half q
century. lie commenced learning the printing
business in l793 and became an editor in Yer
mont in 1900. He subsequently edited in Al
bany, Rochester, &c.---Gen. Jacob Eyster diet
at Harrsburgh on the 25th ult aged 76. II,
participated actively in the last war with Eng
land and filled the office Of Auditor General foi
fifteen years. .--Robert Warrick, Agent of th,
Great Western and Grand Trunk Railroad al
Chicago, died in Detroit last week He was
good business man and an estimable gentleman
flames w. Marsh, a son of President Marsh
of Burlington, " died at Honolulu in Janua
ry He went to the Sandwich Islands ir
1854, established a newspaper, and had become
a leading member OF Parliament DR. VIM
A. Acott, the we'll known physiological writer
and lecturer died at Auburndae, Mass, on The
29th ult. He was q rigid vegetarian lived
wholly ON fruits and vegetables formany years
and experimental freely upon his own person
in order to establish his principle At one
time he abstAned from the use of water for an
entire year TO prove that water was not ess Ell.
| tial to life. He was cOnsumptiye, and though
he kept back the disease by his manner of liv-
ing, finally dying of pleurisy at the aye of 81.
| The Oldest Ohio nhabtant is dead Mrs
Phebc Christian, coored women, died in
Stock township, Harrison County, on the
Goth ult at the reputed age of ll8. She was
one Of the fourteen Slaves who were brought
from Virginia to Ohio about the year 1920
Their master liberated them by will, and d.
rected his Executor to bring them to Ohio, and
purchase land for them, which he did, Mrs
| Christian had been feeble for some years, and
her hair had become perfectly white The
Hon. Jno w Spencer, of Rising Sun, Indiana,
died in Erie county, Pa, on the 10Th ult. He
was an able man, and Judge of the first adj
cial Circuit ofIndiana.-Nathan H Blossom,
AN old and much esteemed citizen of Rochester,
n. Y, died on the 9th ult.-Mr Fayelte
Robinson, one OF the victims of the poison ad-
ministered to the family Of Mrs Beetham, in
New York, was a newspaper and Magazine
writer OF considerable note. lie died on the
29th ult, after great suffering Jeremy War
riner, one the most widely known men of
Springfield, Mass, died last week aged 76. He
was the Host of the BATES House" away back
to 1912, and in later time Of the famous "Unit-
ed States Dir Gordon Spencer, one of the
Oldest and most popular physicians of Water
town, n Y died on the Goth ut. aged 69 years
Hon Charles Q. Stratton, formerly Gov
omor of New Jersey aged g. He was a Wing
member of Congress for two terms.-Co
Jaques a gentleman distinguished for many
years past, in Massachusetts, as an agricultur-
ist and horticulturst died near Boston on the
eth ult.-Judge Calvin Skinner, Of Jeifer
son county, N. Y died at the Sherman House,
Chicago, last week He was 55 years of age,
and one Of the most prominent members of the
legal profession in Western New York -
Karl Ungling, printer blnished from Baden
Germany for participating in the revolution of
1913, died in Detroit few days ago. After
serving in the Mexican war as a volunteer, he
commenced the first German paper in San Fran
CISCO subsequently joined theatrical company
in Cincinnati, and in all his wanderings over
the world was known as a scholar, poet, musi
clan and wit