The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-10
NUMBER 40.
Deaths in 1877 of Distinguished People.

January L. Epn. dOTI, mlIstTel,
aged 81, at New York. 4. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, President New York Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroads, at
New York City. II. Lucille Western,
actress, aged A, at Brooklyn; Vice Adj
miral James A. Paynter, r. N, at Bath,
England, aged 81; Hon. w. R. Bark
dale, ex-member of Congress, Jackson,
Mississippi: Alexander Balm, essayist,
aged 81, at Glasgow, Scotland. 5. Hon.
Ethan Shipley, aged 81, ex-United
States Senator, from 1882 to 1886, and
father of General Shipley, Military Gov
ernor of Louisiana, at Portland, Maine
II, Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, aged
So, at Washington, d. c.; General JAS
J. Mcdowell, at Hillsboro, Ohio, ex-
member of Congress, from 1S43 to 1S47,
aged 76 is. Princess Marie Louise
AIexandrine, wife of Prince Charles
Frederic of Prussia, aged 50, at Berlin
%. Signor Antonio Blitz, prestidigita-
teur, aged 81, at Philadelphia.
February 6. Rear Amiral Jas. Alden,
at San Francisco. s. Rear Admiral
Charles Wilkes, aged 76, at Washington,
D. G. 10. Rear Admiral "heodorus
Bailey, aged Y, at Washington, D. G.
IA. Nicholas Changarnier, Senior Gen
eral of the French army, aged 81, at
Paris. Is. Rear Admiral Charles III.
Davis, aged II, at Annapolis, Maryland.
20. Rear Admiral Louis NJ Colds
borough, aged 72, at Washington, d. c..
Il. John Oxenford, dramatic author,
and critic of London Times, aged 81, at
London. %. Major General Amos B.
Eaton, at New Haven, aged II. %.
Francisco Vicente Aguilera, Vice Presi-
dent of Cuban Republic, at New York,
aged Sc.
March 8. Joel T. Hart, sculptor,
at Florence, Italy, aged 67. Z. Matilda
Agnes Heron, actress, at New York
City, aged Al. 9. Baron Nathaniel
Mayer de Rothschild, at London. 13.
Imam Manuel de Rosas, ex-Dictator of
Argentine States, at Swathing. England.
49, Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Fletcher,
commander of expedition in search of
Sir John Franklin, 1852, at London,
aged IS. 10. Samuel P. Stickney, Oldest
circus rider in the world, at Cincinnati,
aged 20. q. Sir John Foster Fitzger-
aid, Field Marshal of the British army,
at Tours, France, aged 81. %. Prince
Antoine Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon
I, at Florence, aged 81; Rev. S. B. Neat,
Secretary of the American Board of
Foreign Missions, at Boston, aged 73.
April %. Captain George Barker,
oldest Freemason in the United States,
aged 80, at Hudson, New York. a.
VIM. F. Ritchie, editor of Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer, at Lower Brandon, Vir-
ginia. 20. Hon. w. G. Brownlow, ex-
member Congress, at Knoxville, Tennes-
see, aged Y. -.--.-..-
May 2. Colonel John Forsythe, edi-
tor Mobile Register, aged &c, at Mobile,
Alabama; w. w. Newcomb, negro min
strel, aged So, at New York. 9. Com
nodore Benjamin F. Totten, U. S. N,
aged II, at New Bedford, Massachusetts,.
10. DR.. Ezra Reed, surgeon in duel of
General A. S. Johnston and Sam. Hous-
ton, aged 66, at Terra Haute. 16. Com.
modore Edward w. Carpenter, United
States Navy, age 80, at Shrewsbury,
New Jersey. 90. w. H. G. Hosmer,
poet, at Avon, New York, aged SO. rs.
Hon. r. Halves, ex-member of Congress
from 1887 to 1S4l, and Ex-Governor of
Kentucky, at Paris, Kentucky, aged 80.
30. John Lothrop Motley, American
historian, at London, aged So; Fletcher
Harper, of Harper & Brothers, publish
ers, at New York. aged 20.
June 8. Mrs Eliza F. Elicit, author
ess, at New York. IA. General G. F.
Henningson, Confederate, at Wash
if1gton. D. c., aged 62. l5. Lady Stir
ling Maxwell (AIfs. Norton, authoress
of Bingen on the Rhine " In England,
aged SO. II. Rev. John S. G. Abbott,
author, at Fair Haven, Connecticut,
aged IL; ex-United States Senator Hon.
D: d. Pratt, and Commissioner of In
| ternal Revenue, at Logansport, Indiana,
aged Ga; Hon. John Petit, exUnited
States Senator, at Lafayette, Indiana,
aged 20. 20. G. F. Briggs, {" Harry
Franco''), author, at Brooklyn, New
York, aged 81. 25. Robert Dale Owen
Spiritualist and Author, at Decatur's
Point, Lake George, New York, aged 76
July 25. George w. Matsell, eX-Chiei
of New York Police force, at New York
aged II. 26. Ex-President Michele
Dominique, of Hayti, at Jamaica, ageG
rs. %. Hon. George Ward Hunt, FRS
Lord of Admiralty, at Hamburg, aged 81
Governor of British tolumbia, at Vic
erick Won Steinmetz, at Landeck, Silesia
aged so. 2S. Ben DeBar, actor. at St
Louis, Missouri, aged "a. 30. Brigham
Young. Mormon President at Salt LAX
City, aged 76. go Raphael Semmes, a
Port Clear, aged 81; Ex-Governor VIII
son Shannon, Ex-Governor of Ohio from
1912 to 1914, at Lawrence, Kansas, age
70. 81. E. L. Davenport, tragedian
near Minequa Springs, Pennsylvania
aged 61
September 1. Alvin Adams, founde
of the Adams Express Company, a
Watertown, New York, aged 73. 8. E1
President Louis Adolph Theirs, at 81
Germain, France, aged 80; Colone
Arthur Macarthur Eastman, construt
tor of direct ocean cable which lande
at Rye Beach, July, 1874, at Manchester
New Hampshire, aged 81. 5. Graz
Horse, Indian chief, at Red Clou
Agency u. Rev. Father John Nee
roy, Oldest Catholic priest in the Unite
States, at Frederick, Maryland, aged 90
Una Hawthorne, daughter of Hav
thorne, novelist, at Clewey, England
20. United States Senator Lewis Y
Bogy, at St. Louis, aged "a; H. V. Ia
bot, discoverer of photography, at LoI
don, aged II. %, Urban Jean Josep
LIE Verrier, astronomer, at Paris, age
67. 26. Commodore James M. Fraill,
at Philadelphia, aged 60.
October H. Mrs. John Bell, wido
of Hon. John Bell, at Maury Count,
; Tennessee, aged so. "a. George L. Fo:
pantomimist, at Cambridge, Mass
chusetts, aged 81. 2S. Edwin Adam
! actor, at Philadelphia; Miss Julia Ka
anaugh, novelist, at Nice, Italy. 2
l General Bedford Forrest, Confedera
Cavalry General, at Memphis, Tenne
: see.
November 1. Hon. O. P. Morto
). United States Senator, at Indianapoli
aged 81. 26. Bishop E. Nj. Marvi
Methodist Episcopal Church, st. Lou
n December 8. DR.. Albert I. Bledse
5 editor Southern Recie,o, at Alexandri
i Virginia, aged 6S. 10. Commodore All
$ S. Betfeld, at Elizabeth, New Jerse
y aged rs. 10. Hon. Charles Clark, e
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