The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
Some of the Most Prominent People
Who Died During 1876.

Some OF the Most Prominent People
Who Died During 1876.
The death-roll of the year just closed
includes the names of many prominent
political leaders at home and abroad.
Notable among them were keverdy
Johnson, the great constitutional lawyer,
of Maryland; Henry A. Wise, of Vir-
ginia Robert Barnwell Rhett, of South
Carolina; Michael G. Kerr, Speaker OF
the House Of Representatives; Allen L.
Caperton, United States Senator from
West Virginia; II. II. Starkweather,
member of Congress from Connecticut
Edward Young Parsons, member of Con-
gress from Kentucky; Ex-senator Geo.
+. Pugh, of Ohio; Ex-Governor John ii.
Clifford, of Massachusetts,; Ex-Governor
Thomas, of Maryland, and Ex-Governor
Dixon, of Kentucky. In England the
Earl of Sheffield's name is among the
prominent of those known chiefly as
politicians. In France there is quite a
long list, embracing HippOlyte Dussard,
the Marquis de Rechette, Richard, Min
lister of the Interior, Casimir Perier and
Hippolyte de Tocqueville, member OF
the Senate. Other prominent men who
died during the year were Francis Deak,
the great Hungarian leader; the Grand
Marshal Tully, of Denmark; Won
Prinsterer. a leading public man OF Hol-
land the BaronVon Osten, the Austrian
diplomatist, and Sir Anthony de Roths-
child, one of the great money men OF
Europe.
The Duchess of Aosta, the Ex-Queen
of Spain; the Princess Isabella, of Por-
tugal; Duke George, of Mechlenburg-
Strelitz; Earl Howe, Lord Clanmorris,
the Earl of Leven, the Marquis of
Conyngham, the Countess of Beauchamp,
the Dowager Countess of Derby, the
Countess Of Malmesbury, ViscOunt Gal
way, Viscount of Exmouth and Lord
Melville make up group OF titled per-
sonages deceased during 1876.
DEATH ON THE BENCH.
Of those whom death has taken from
the bench may be noted Walter h.
Lowrie, formerly Chief-Justi of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Chief
Justice Nicholson of Tennessee, Chief
Justice Gilpin, of Delaware Chief-J Jus-
tice Fisher of Mississippi; Ex-Chancellor
Green of New Jersey Justice Thomas D..
Judge, of the Supreme Court OF Ala
bama; Justice l. l.. Harris, of the Su-
preme Court of Georgia; ChiefJustice
Mcneil, of the Supreme Court of New
York; Justice Boulden, of the Supreme
Court of Virginia, and Judge James
Lynd, of the Court Of Common Pleas OF
Philadelphia. Abroad the list is headed
by John Taylor Coleridge, of the Court
of Queens Bench, after whom followed
Sir I. ID. Archbold and Sir John Quain,
of the same Court; Sir John Stewart, a
noted Vice Chancellor, and ChiefJustice
Hanson, of South Australia.
MILITARY HEROES.
| Among noted military men may be
named General George A. Custer, In
spector-G General Hardie, General J. ID
Webster, and General Cross, of the
United States Army; the Marquis o.
Tweedale, Lieutenant General Alex
ander, Major. General Margary, Genera
Sir Fl. G. A. Taylor, and Major Genera
Bristow, of the British Army; 'Fielt
Marshal Won Zonn, Chief of the Genera
staff of the Austrian Army; Genera
Pei, commanding the Dutch forces II
Acheen; General Won Renker, of th'
Prussian Army, and General Eiio, .
Carlist leader in Spain. The United
States Navy has suffered heavily, among
] its dead during the year being Rea
Admirals Stringham ard Pennock, ant
Commodores Decatur, Pope, Grafton
, Babcock, and Randolph.
DEPARTED DIvINEs.
In the peaceful walks of life we recall
r the names of number of distinguishes
clerpymen and divines who have gOn
within the year. Among them wer
, Bishop Johns, of Virginia Bishop Cum
, minis, Bishop james, and De. Durbin, @
: the Methodist Church; DIR. Bushnell, an
{ Vicar General Lynch, of Hartford; ID
Crawford, of Chambersburg; Dr. Mac
| Donald, of Princeton; Bishop Melman
: of Calcutta; Bishop Serrano, OF Havana
r Bishop Butch, of Meath Cardinal An
A tonelli and Cardinal Patrizzi.
$ LITERARY MEN.
!, OF literary men there were John Fo
). ter, the biographer OF Landor and
!. Dickens; Pierre NJ. Irving, the bioi
! rapher of his uncle, Washington Irving
: William B. Reed, Harriet Martineau
= Freiligrath, the German poet; Palach.
the Hungarian historian; Mortimer Co
:. Inns, an English novelist; Count Fedr
i J, the father Of Polish come dy, and Edwai
=" Lane, the translator o. the Arabs
=, Nights" To these we may add tn
IL IL partial list OF deaths victims amor
- journalists: James Anthony, editor
J" the Sacramento Union A. ii. Holbrook
editor of the New Orleans Picayun
ut John S. DuSolle, of the New York Su
day Mercury Isaac w. Frye, assista'
n, editor of Journal of Commerce, Bostoi
!: Leontien, editor of the Moscow Russi
as Gazette James Alexander M0wat
r. editor of the Commonwealth, Ne
ne Haven, Conn. Henry S. Randall, assoc
I'd ate editor of the Rural New Yorke
IN julius Wuerzberger, one of the edito
be of the New York Stats Zeitung; JOSEF
~ Warren, editor of the Buffalo Courle
ey John Fitch Cleveland, of the New 70
en- Tribune; William Swan, editor OF was
ce ington County Review and Examine
is- Charles S. Hunt, of the Tribune, M
". York, and Daniel j. Kirwan, OF N
n York Herald.
IN DRAMATIC ARTISTS.
Ter From the stage death mas taken ma
he shining marks. The first eminent &C
fiji that made his final exit in the past "
tor was Frederick Lemaitre, the founder
I'D the school of romantic mel0-
he in France. He was followed by Thon
ed Rarry. an old actor and stage managel
red this country; Charles Hale, noted in
nat day as personator of old men; Geo
Vincent, an eccentric comedian, q or
tle- fayorite in London; James Milne
md leader of the Australian stage; Will
Rogers, of the Haymarket Thea'
ian London; Charlotte Cushman, who
mis-. wears held undisputed command Of
lch American stage in certain charact'
am w. w. Whalley, melo-dramatic at
, in of a certain amount of rude force Bar
do Williams, one of the most popular Il
the comedians that ever appeared either
ote this country or England; Owen N
the lowe, a fine actor in high comedy