The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-03-20


ALEXANDER DALLAS BAcHR.-Prof Bache,
Superintendent of the United States Coast
Survey, died at Newport, Rhode Island, yes
erday morning, after long and painful sick
ness, the direct maady being softening of the
brain. Born in Philadelphia, on the 18th of
July, 1906, he was the great grandson Of Dr..
Benjamin Franklin. Mr.. Bache entered the
Academy at West Point, from the State of
Pennsylvania. in 1884, and graduated there
from in 1895, at the head OF his class, being
at once advanced to a first leutenancy in the
corps of Typographical Engineers. In all of
his career at the National Academy, it is re-
corded that he never received a single mark
of demerit. In 1897, Mr.. Bache was chosen
TO the chair of mathematics in the University
Of Pennsylvania, and filed the position with
eminent credit until he was elected the Presi-
dent Of Girard College in 1889, which had
then but an embryo existence. Pending the
permanent establishment Of the institution,
Professor Bache visited Europe to inspect the
schools Of learning there, with view to an
application Of their best features to the one
over which he had been called to preside in
this country. Returning to the United States
soon after, and finding Girard College still I'M
opened, Prof. Bache accepted lle principal
shig of the Philadelphia High School, then
just established, but in 1843 resigned the post
to accept the sUperintendency Of the United
States Coast Survey, whose duties he up to
his final illness discharged with a wisdom that
has been fruitful not only of practical benefit
to navigation, but source Of valuable contsi-
button 10 geodetic and physical science The
fame Of the results is more than. NATIONAL it is
world wide. In the personal relations of life
the attachment with which Professor Bache
was by all regarded WAS equaled only BY the
renown Of his scientific labors. He traced
his descent from Dr.. franklin, through Sarah
Bache, the later's only daughter, married to
Richard Bache, merchant OF Philadelphia,
in 1867, and whose son, Benjamin Franklin
Bache, was the father of Professor Bachc,
and the publisher of the Aurora, the most
considerable opposition journal in the States
during the administration of Washington and
the elder Adams. N. Y. World, 18th.
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