Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-01
The Death RolI-lsS4.

The death-roIl of 1884 includes MANY
illustrious names. Among the more
prominent Americans who hare passed
away during the year are Wendell
Phillips, the philanthropist; Secretary
of the Treasury Folger, Senator III. b.
Anthony, of Rhode Island; Judge Noah
Swayne. Bishop Clarkson. of Nebraska
and Bishop Simpson, of Pennsylvania,
Jane Gray Swissholm the woman's
rights advocate; Charles 0'Conor, the
New York lawyer, and Mary Clemmer
Ames.
The army and navy have lost Com
modore Timothy A. Hunt, Gen. w. I'll.
IL. Terrell, Com. B. Gregory and L.
S. Fillebrown, and Rear Admit Alex
ander Murray and Brighten Afford,
OF Judges: Nelson Hoe, of Orphans
court, Maryland; Judges Brady and
Porter, of Indiana; Amos Morrill,, of
Texas; Judge matches, of Colorado;
Robert Il. Chambers, of the Eighth
Indiana district, are all gone.
The church has lost, besides Bishops
Clarkson and Simpson, Bishops Kava-
naugh, of Mississippi. Toebbe. of KEN
lucky, and Smith, of New York.
journalism loses Wilbur +. Storey,
editor of the Chicago Times; Mr..
Chenery, of the LondonTimes; John j.
Neyin. editor of The Pittsburg Leader;
Thomas Kinsella. editor of the Brook
Ign Eagle. and Frederick S. Nichols,
eGitor-in-chief of The Memphis Ava
lanche.
The business world counts among the
dead of the past year Cyrus Ii. McCor-
mick, the Chicago manufacturer; John
w. Garrett, the Baltimore railroad
magnate; Reuben f. Springer, the Gin
cinnati philanthropist; Robert Hoe, the
inventor of the printing press; Richard
Campbell, the millionaire paper-maker:
John j. Cisco, the banker, and Ralph
Sellew, of st. Louis.
Among the politicians of lesser note
Kentucky; Ex-Goy. II. ID. Hubbard, of
Connecticut; Gen. James X. Morehead,
of Pittsburg; Lieut.. Gov. Fitch, of Ohio;
Gen. William McCandless, of Phiadel-
phia; Fx-Congressman l. S. Smith, of
Oregon; William Ii. Hunt, United States
minister to Russia.
Charles Reade, the novelist, died in
London, in April; Prince Leopold, the
Youngest son of Queen Victoria, ut
Cannes, in March; Marie Taglioni, the
famous dancer, at Paris. in April: ex-
empress Anna, at Prague, in MAY;
Arthur Richard Wellesley, second duke
of Wellington, at Brighton, Eng, in
August; Hans Makart, the great Ger
man artist. at Vienna, IN October; viii
liam |, duke of Brunswick, at Berlin,
in October; Cardinal Aaranzon, bishop
of Calvi, at Rome, in October; jacques
Auguste Adolph REGIMES. the French
philogian, at Paris, in October. The
list includes also Alex. NJ. Sullivan, the
Irish leader.
The stage has lost: Brignoli, the
operate singer, and Chanfrau, the
actor; Chevalier Wykoff. Gen. Tom
Worthington, John Egers, old scenic
artist; Col. j. +. H. Claiborne,
historian of Mississippi; VIM. A. Beach,
Tilton's lawyer in the great Beecher
| libel SUIT; z. Hamilton, son of Alex
ander, the statesman. Postmaster-Cien
Fawcett, of England, and Bohn, the
publisher, have also joined the great
unknown in the past year; also Henry
L. Byron, the dramatist.
Among the other deaths of interest
are those of Dr. Edward Lasker, the
German statesman; Charles Delmonico,
the noted New York caterer; the Rev.
Louis +. Hostlet, rector of the American
college at Rome; Allen Pinlerton, the
head of the famous detective agency;
Samuel Checat, chief of the Creek
nation; William Sherman ex-United
States sub-treasurer, at San Francisco;
Jerry McAuley, the famous missionary
of New York; Mary V. Young, the
Sc seventeenth wife of Brigham Young;
Alexis Achard, a distinguished French
painter; Mat O. Reardon, well-known
variety minstrel; James Wormley, the
colored proprietor of famous Wash
ington hotel, and Capt. DAWN l.. Payne.
the Oklahoma boomer"