Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-04-28
PROMINENT DEATHS.

Recent notable deaths include Mrs Mar.
care, Emmett, niece Of Robert Emmett, dying
in New York city, aged ninety; John Brown,
the devoted body servant Of Queen Victoria /;
lanes Clinton, an old and prominent residen,
Of California; Mrs Mary IIalleck, last suryiv.
ing daughter Of Major John Paulding Of revo.
luIicnary fame Postmaster.G General Howe, Of
the United States Cabinet, Of whom the fol
lowing brief biography has been taken from an
exchange: "IIon. Timothy o. Howe o
Green Bay, Wis, was born at Livermore,
Me, February 40, 1916. lie received an
| academic education, studied law and was adj.
mitted TO the bar In IS4s he was a member
| Of the Legislature Of the State Of Maine, and
in the latter part Of the same year he removed
to Wisconsin. In 1850 he was elected a Judge
Of the Circuit and Supreme Courts Of Wiscon.
sin, holding the Office till 1855, when he re.
signed. lie was elected to the United States
Senate as a Union Republican to succeed Chas.
Durkee, and took his seat in 1861. lie was re.
elected " 1867, and again in 1873, his term
expiring March 3, 1879 lie was not per.
mitted, however, to remain long in retirement,
for he was rendered by President Garfield an
appointment as member Of the Board OF
Commissioners sent by the United States to
represent this government in the international
Monetary Congress at Paris, his associates be.
ing ex-senator Thurman Of Ohio and William
NJ. Evarts Of New York. He remained abroad
about six months, and after his return began
to be prominently mentioned as possible
member Of President Arthur's Cabinet In
December, 1881, he was rendered the Post.
master Generalship, which he accepted, and
to the duties Of which he has since devoted his
attention. lie strongly favored the reduction
Of postage made by the last Congress, and has
been largely instrumental in securing improved
mail facilities throughout the country" vii.
liam Depeystcr Stage, one Of the founders Of
Astoria, Oregon; Lorez Diefenbach, distin.
guished scholar Of Darmstadt; Rev. Dermon,
Coleridge, son Of the elder poet II. b. Tiche
nor of San Francisco, builder Of the first ma.
rine railway in that city, and director Of the
California Insurance Company; Lieutenant
Colonel Franklin Harwood of the United
States Engineer Corps; Alfred Clint, the cee
bra,ed English landscape and marine painter
Frederick Holden, the oldest American mis-
sionary in Greece; Monsignore Gastadi Arch
bishop Of Turin; Lord Haldon, an English
peer; Captain Carey, who commanded the
detachment with which the Prince Imperial
was, when killed in Zululand w. G. Moss
founder of the San Francisco Examiner
Thackambau, late ex-King of Fiji Chief
Justice William White OF the Supreme Cour,
Of Ohio; Herr Won Wongenheim, German
Counsel of State and Minister Of Worship
and the young Prince Kwacho- No Mya, Of
Japan; and Prince Gortschakof, long the mos,
prominent statesman of Russia; John Richard
Green, author of The History of the English
People '; James Miller, prominent New
York publisher Peter Cooper, the New York
philanthropist, aged 90 Baron Werthelm, the
wealthest manufacturer in Austria, and the
celebrated lubricant Of iron safes General
Joseph X. Barnes, late retired Surgeon Gen.
eral Of the United States Army Rear.Ad.
miral McDougall of the United States Navy
Louis Venillot, noted French journalist and
critical writer Thomas II. Blythe one Of the
largest property.owners Of California.