The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-01
NEUROLOGY.
Prominent Deaths During the Yea,
1879.

JANUARY.-1. Judge Charles T. Sherman,
brother Of Secretary and Gene raj Sherman;
Cleveland; Ohio; 67....2. Caleb Cushing,
prominent American lawyer and politician;
Newburgport, Mass; 79....4. Juan Mon
casi, would-be assassin of Spanish king;
executed in Madrid; 22....6. Morton Nc.
Michael, ex-mayor OF Philadelphia and pub
Usher OF the North american; Philadelphia;
81; ....8. Julian Hartridge, Congressman
from Georgia; Washington, ID. c.; 46.
10. Gustave Schleicher, Congressman from
Texas; Washington; Sc; IL. Commo-
dore John Guest, U. s. navy; Portsmouth,
N. H; 57....20. John Blair Soribner, head
of well-known publishing house; New
York; 28....2l. George s.. Hilliard, Ameri-
can author of note; Longwood, Mass; 81
....27. DR.. Henry II. Linderman, director
United States mint; Washington; 81,
FEBRUARY. p. Richard Henry Dana, emi-
nent American author; Boston, Mass; SO
....3. General George Cadwalader, veteran
oil war with Mexico; Philadelphia, 73. -.
T. Thomas Lord, well-known New York
millionaire; New York, 65; ....ll. Henry
Goodyear, rubber manufacturer; Paris -.
IL. Miss Flandren. weighing 516 pounds;
on exhibition in a New York menagerie; Is
....2l. Shere Ali, ameer of Afghanistan;
55; ....23. Field Marshal Theodore Emil
Won Room, German minister of war; Berlin;
76.
English author; Rome, Italy; 87....6.
Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith; I"
New britain, Conn.,; 69....9. Rev. John
Weiss, noted lecture T and essayist; Boston,
Mass; 81 80. 16. Major-General T.. w.
Sherman, United States army; Newport,
r. l.; 66....l7. Ex-United States Senator
George Goldthwaite; Montgomery, Ala;
60....26. John M. Elliott, chief justice
Kentucky court OF appeals; Frankfort, Ky;
59.. ...29. II. Y. Riddle, member OF 18th
Congress, Lebanon, Tenn; 55.
APRIL.-3. Judge James A. Stewart, of the
Maryland court OF appeals; Cambridge,
Md; H....4. Madam Patterson Ronaparte,
wife of the brother OF the first Napoleon;
Baltimore, Md; 94....5. Prtt Henry Will
liam Dove, celebrated meteorologist and
writer; Berlin, Germany; rs. ...l2. Lieu
tenant,Genorai Richard Taylor, Confederate
army; New York; SO ...2l. Major General
John A, Dix, Ex-Governor, ex-United
States Senator, etc.; New York; 81. :. 25.
Bishop Edward r. Ames, OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church; Baltimore, Md: a..
80. Rush Clark, Congressman from Iowa;
Washington; =. Clinton L. Cobb, ex-Con-
gressman; Elizabeth City, NC; 36.
MAY.-l. Mrs. Sarah j. B. Hale, Tor more
than fifty years editor OF Godeys Ladys
BooE; Philadelphia; 90....5. DIR. Isaac
Butt, M. p. and leader OF the Irish Home
Rulers; Dublin; g.. Is. Jacob Staemp-
fiji, well known Swiss politician and MEM
her OF the Geneva Court OF Arbitration on
Alabama claims; Belne, Switzerland; So
....l7. Rear Admiral Sylvanus w. Gordon,
on retired list United States navy; Blois,
Frnnee. Judge Asa Packer, president
LcLigh Valley railroad and richest man in
Pennsylvania Philadelphia 72.....24,
William Lloyd Garrison, celcbrat ed anti
slavery agi,ator; New York; 75.. .3E
Eben G. Ingersoll, ex-member OF Congress
IRON Illinois and brother OF Bob Ingersoll; !;
Washington; 4S
JUNE Il. Prince Louis Napoleon Bona
purte, son of Napoleon III. and Eugenie;
Soulh Africa %. Major. General James
Shields, veteran of Mexican war, and U. ).
Sena; or from three States; Ottumwa, Ia. !;
69....3. Baron Lionel Nathan De Roths-
child, head OF famous London banking
house; London; 71....4. James Woodi uff
protector Woodruff scientific expedition
around the world; New York; 39....10. :.
Commodore Foxhall A. Parker Command
ant United States Naval Academy; Anna
polls, Ind. 57....25. Albert Weber, lead
ing New York pianoiorte maker; New
York; 40.
JULY. IL. William Allen, Ex-Governor oi
Ohio; Chillicothe, Ohio; 73....lS. Ma or.
General William j. Barry, commander ol
Fort McHenry; Baltimore, Nd; 6l....
2S, Baron Frederick Won Gerolt, privy
councillor 10 the Emperor OF Germany and
ex-minister to the United States Bonn
Germany; S0....29. Bland Ballard, dis
tr;ct Judge OF the United States Court o.
Kentucky; Louisville, KY; 80.
AUGUSr.-Charlcs Fechter, famous actor,
Richland Centre, Pa; 81. Inianta Maria
del Pillar, sister OF the Spanish king; Spain
lS....25. Hon. John C. Ton Eyck, cx
United States Senator from New Jersey
Mount Holly, n. j.; 65....27. Sir Row
land Hill, originator OF the cheap postage
system; England; $3.50. General j. b
Hood, Confederate army, New Orleans; 4S
SEPTENBER.-7. VIM. NJ. Hunt, cminen
American aitist; Isle OF Shoals, Me-; 81
go. Count Amadee de Noe, known a
"Cham," the celebrated French caricatur
list; Paris; 60 .... IA. Suleiman Pacha
prominent Turkish general; Dagdod; 81
| ....l6 Bernhal DIT Gotta, eminent German
geologist; Germany; So -. Is. DAME
NV York; 50 80. 20. Rev. Joseph
Thompson, noted American divine; Berlin
Germany; 60....30. Francis Gillette, ex
United States Senator from Connecticut
| Hartford, Conn. ~.
| OCTOBER,-l3 Henry g. Carey, celebrate
American political economists; Philadel
phia; S6....l4. DIR. f. Julius lie Mcyne
ia her OF cremation in the United States
Washington, Pa; Silly. Carl Eckhar
|
tingham, ID. d., LID, Protestant Episco
pal bishop OF Maryland; Orange, N. j.; 7
....20. Herr Won Bulow, German diplc
mat; Berlin; 6i -. 81. Major Generl
Joseh Hooker, distinguished officer of tn
Federal army; Garden City, Long Island
"a.
NOVEMBER,-l. Hon. Zachariah Ohandle
United States Senator from Michigan
Chicago, ILL.,; Co.'s. Margaret i EatoI
widow Ct President Jackson's secretary G
war; Washington; SO. . .. 10. Richard Sche
a prominent Wall street fnancier; Me-
York; 69.,..ll. Rear Admiral Augustr
II. Kitty, United States navy; Baltimore
73....l6. Colonel Frederick Won Verde
veteran of Waterloo and Moscow; Bait
more; 100 ....2l. Peter Goelet, eccentr
New York millionaire; New York; 80...
%. Mrs. Charles Dickens, widow of I'll
novelist; London. -. 23 Countess de MOI
tito, mother of ex-Empress Eugenie
Madrid, Spain; 70.
DlCEMBER.-l. Maior-General Jeffersc
G. Davis, United States army; CLicag
ILL.,; 6ls...6 Hon. Winthrop w. Ketchan
Judge of the U. S. district court ior Il
western district OF Pennsylvania; Pitt
burgh, Pa; SO. William John Scott Ben
wick, fifth Duke OF Portland; England
70....8 Hon. A. Morrison Lay, Congress
man from Missouri; Washington; a.,
IT, Ca'enit, the notorious English han
man; London.