The Ottawa free trader., 1872-01-06
The Dead of lhe Year.

MIR. DecQuetel, electrician, Normandy, during
the siege of Paris, aged 50.
Charles Babbage, mathematician. ENGLAND. Oc.
tober, aged 70.
Dr. Schultzsnsteiu, botanist, Germany, aged
% years.
ased71
N. Claparde. zoologist, Italy, July, aged 80.
March 20, aged 65.
Professor William Chauvenet, st. Paul, Mimi,
December 1870, aged so.
AUTHORS.
Henry Longueville, England, July 81, aged
81 years.
Alice Carey, New York, February 70, aged so.
Phoebe Carey, Newport July 81, aged 45.
George Tickaor, Boston, January, aged so.
Henry Afford, England, January, aged 61.
Princess Belgiojoso Christina Frivulsia) Mi
Charles Buxton, NJ. p, England, August 70.
Alexander Dumas, novelist France, December
IL. 1870.
Charles Paul de Kook. novelist, France, aged
~ years.
George Gottfried Gervinus, historian, Heidel.
berg, March, aged 66.
Charles H.go. journalist and dramatist, Bor-
deaux, March 13.
George Grote, author OF the "History of
0IocCes AIuEiaAu, vuuc IC, hSeu
Emile Deschanps, poet, France, April, aged
Count de Gasparin, Geneva, Switzerland, May,
aged 81.
Henry D. Tuckerman, essayist, New York, De-
cember II.
John George Kohl, traveller and author, Bre.
men, June 6, aged 63.
PUBLISHERS.
Richard Bently, London, October, aged so.
Robert Chambers, Edinburgh, March H. aged
60 years.
David n. Chambers, Lee, England, March q,
aged 52
Charles Scribner. head of the firm of Charles
Scribner & Co., New York, Lucerne, Swirzer.
land, August 26, aged 20.
ARTISTS.
Felix Claude Theodore Aligny, landscape
painter, Lyons, February 20, aged 75.
Peter Won Hess, painter, Germany, April.
MILITARY CELEBRITIES.
General Louis Benedek, Austrian army, Wen.
na October 49, aged 67.
Sir James Yorke Scarlette, brigadier general
in the British army, England, December 8,
aged 73.
General Juan Prim, assassinated in Madrid
December 81, 1870.
General James Totten, United States army.
Sedalis, Missouri, October g
General Robert Anderson, Nice, October 2.
General Thomas s. Rodman, United States
army, Rock Island, Illinois, aged so. Inventor
of the Rodmsn gun.
General Louis Nathaniel Rossel, shot by order
Of the French Government, November %, aged
% years.
Omer Pacha Michael Lattas) Turkey.
Samuel Schamyl chief of the Circassians, Rus.
sia, March, aged "A.
NAVAL OFFICERS
Josiah I'atnall, commodore United States navy.
Savannah, June Is, aged GA.
Baron Won Tegethof, admiral of the Austrian
navy, Vienna, April G. aged 43.
CLERGY.
Right Reverned Davis w. Clark, bishop of the
Methodist church, Cincinnati. May 90, aged So !
Father" Edward T. Taylor, sailors chaplain,
Boston, April 4, aged IS.
DR.. Ezra s. Gannett killed in railway collis.
ion at Revere, Mass, August %, aged 79
DR.. Edward Y. Higbee, assistant minister of
Trinity church, New York, December 10.
Right Reverned Osman G. Baker, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church, Concord, N. H.,
December, aged 60.
Rev. Albert Barnes, Philadelphia, December |
1870, aged n.
DR.. Robert ]. Breckenridge Danville Ken.
tucky, December ~.
COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS.
Daniel Francois Esprit Auber, composer, |
France, Nay, aged SO.
Mercsdante, composer, Florence, January3.
Sigismund Thalberg, pianist London, April |
aged SO.
William R. Denpster, composer and vocalist.
England, aged 62.
Harry s.ndersOn, pianist New York, septem.
Carl Ansohatz, New York, January /. |
Walter Montgomery London, September |
aged A.
Peter Richinss, Media, Pennsylvania, Janu. |
sry 18.
Thomas H. Robertson, dramstist, London |
February 2.
john q. Haetstt, Jamiaca Long Island, De. |
cember "a, aged 40.
JOURNALISTS, PUBLIC MEN, ETC.
Edward Croswel, Princeton, New Jersey, June
l3, aged 78.
Jacob NJ. Howard, cx.Uuted States senator |
from Michigan. Detroit, April 1. aged G5.
Clement L. Vslandigham. Accidentally shot |
at Lebanon Ohio, June 16.
John Siidell, London, July
James NJ. Mason, Cleren.. Virginia, April.
X.doc Pratt Bergen, N. j., April 6.
Thomss Ewing, Lancaster, Ohio, October 90, |
aged 81.
John Covode, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Janu.
ary II. ......
Francois Delsarte. Paris, August 2.
jules lires, banker, France, June, aged 62!
Earl OF Chesterfield, England December.
Prince Henri dc Ia Tour d'Auvergne, France
April, aged 4S.
Horace Webster. ex.President of the College
Of N. Y, Geneva, N. Y, July 12, aged co.
Joseph G. Coggswell, ex-Librarian of the Astor
Library, M.ss., November 2G.