Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-08

Smith Ely of NcrShirp. whose death has
been announced. was born in Livingston.
y. j.. in lNuO. and removed to NrW York
city i'm lN!5. to- begin business for himself
in manufacturing furniture. His venture
was Il successful one. and he continued in
the furniture trade for u years. until 1886.
when he established It paper warchousc
This business also proved prosperous. aud
Mr.. Ely continued in it for over 80 years.
Mr. Ely for several years resided Oh Staten
Island. and during this period was elected
to he offices of county supervisor and
member of assembly. the only public posi-
tiun he cvcrhcld. He took little active
part in politics, but devoted himself earn
cstlN to his business, and his reputation Us
il merchant was very high, In $50 Mr..
Ely became interested in cooper mines.
WAL made president Of the Vermont Coop
cr company, and removed to Ncrshirc.
where he continued to live until his death.
The funeral was held at Livingston. y. j..
where the body was inferred in the family
vault.
Henry Arthur Elkins, the artist who
died at Colorado Springs last week. was
the son OF Il Vermont farmer, John q. FL
kinS and was born in NcrShirc. Orange
county. May 30. 1871. He attended pub
lie school in Vermont and Hft"rWard in
Chicago where he went with his parents
drawing and painting. His artistic feel
ingS could not be controlled, and he neg
lected his other studies forthose of nature
He did not receive much instruction in
drawing, and from early youth he could
only devote his leisure time to the prac-
tiCc of his art. After he left school he did
duty as clerk in various mercantile houses
but all the time labOrcd earnestly to be
come IL painter. In lNjG. when but eigh-
teen years old he produced his first pic
ture. IL landscape. Morning in the Val
ley. (which was purchased by Hon Schuy-
Ter COltaN. as it was the spot where the
latter proposed marriage to the lady who
atterWard became his wife This picture
has been twice engraved From that time
his brush was Il busy one, and he well
earned Il conspicuous place in the studios
of Chicago His forte was landscape and
mountain scenery. Many of his pictures
may be found in the homes of the promi-
nent men throughout Chicago. one of his
productions, large canvas representing
the Shasta mountain peak in Northern
California, was exhibited as Il specimen of
the art of Western America in the inter
national exhibition at Vienna in 1873.
Among his other noted works of art were
storm in COlOradO." "NeW Eldurado'
and "CroWncd the Continent Mr.. FL
kins leaves Il widow and two children.
Thomas Dickson, president of the Della
ware and Hudson Canal company. died
Thursday night at his home at Morrstown.
y. j. Born in Bcrwickshirc, Scotland. ON
March %, 1894, he was brought by his
family to Canada in lS:}2, and in 1894 they
went To Susquehanna county. Pennsyl-
wanna. starting as Il driver of the mules
III the Canal company's mines, he served
as clerk in the country store for some
wears In 1916 he removed to Scranton and
established the Dickson Manufac-
turing company. In 1860 he be
came superintendent of the coal
business of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company, in 1864 its general super
intcndent in 1861 its vice president and in
SGD It's president In 1872 he organized
the Crown Point Iron company, later be
coming Interested in the ChatcaIguay and
the Hudson River Ore and Iron Companies
lie was director of the Erie RailwayfrOm
the time Hugh j. ,Jewett became president
MI Dickson owned a large tract of real
estate near scranton, and was prominent
IN the business development of that city
lie leaves wife, two married daughters
ana two sons in business.
\ London despatch announces the
deaf of Rev Mark Patison, the dstin-
gushcd csSayiSt and teacher. He was
born AT ilOrnhy, Yorkshire, in 1873, and is
the authOrOf "TcndencirS of Religious
Thought In England, lGNN-li1O,' in" ESSAYS
ana Reviews, 1860 Report ON Ecmcn-
larN Education in Protestant Germany, ="
1850 Suggestions ON Acadcmical Organ
lIation, with especial reference to OK
ford, lNjS; "Popc'S Essay ON Man. with
notes, 1869, and "pupc's Satrcs and Eps
ties, ~ with notes, 1Ni3; Isaac Cusaubon
ll5!-l6li, biography $50, and Review
of the Situation" in Essays ON the En-
doWmcnt of Research 1876 Mrs Patti
son, who was for some time the fine art
critic of the Academy, published in 1873
an important work, in two volumes, illus
lrated by herself, entitled, THE French
Renaissance
Royal Phelps, who died ON Wednesday.
was an old resident of New York, and
line representative of the traditional
school of metropolitan merchants He