The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-31

list of eminent persons who have fallen before
his relentless scythe. 1t includes men renowned
in statesmanship, war; science, literature, med
icine, law, trade and the fne arts. The year will
be specially notable in history as one in which
many iliustrious Americans ended their busy
and useful careers. 1t Is doubtful IL ever before
q single twelvemonth witnessed the entombing
OF four citizens Of the Republic whose names
were conspicuously interviewer with the his
tory of their country as Grant. Colfax. McClel-
Ian, and Hendricks
JANUARY.
Abner Coburn ex- Governor of Maine. died ut
Skowhegan, aged So his last illness con-
tracted at the session OF the Electoral College.
Other notable persons who left this busy,
breathing world" during January were Russell
Hancock, son of NAL Gen. Hancock at his plan
tation near Clarksyille. Miss Col. John NJ
Frye father of u. s. Senator Frye, of Maine.
II. II. Chalmers, Associate Judge OF the supreme
Court of Mississippi. Rev. DIR. Noah Hunt
Schenck of Brooklyn. Ex-Lieut Gov james
M. Bingham, of Wisconsin. Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines, the famous litigant, ut New Orleans,
aged So Capt. Isaiah Rynders who figured
In his 7sd year. Thomas Farrell, of st. Paul,
MIMI aged Ill years. Rear Admiral Powell at
Washington. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in a pas
senger depot at saltwater, Mimi. heart disease.
Prof. Benjamin Snliman, Of Yale College. Ed
mond About, French journalist and novelist.
Mrs. Julia A. Roberts, n sister of Gen. Phil
hedfnty Wcll-hnOWn WOIkef among INC poor,
found dead in bed ut Washington. At Newburg,
N. Y, Charles Downing, noted horticulturist,
aged 50. Hon. Flamen Ball, at Glendale, o.;
formerly law partner of Hon. Salmon p. Chase.
In battle with FL Mahdis forces, Lieut.. Col.
Fred Burnaby, who made the famous Ride to
Khiva." George kunkle. one OF the pioneers
Of Gen. U. s. Grant, at st. Adams,
w. Va; aged IS. In exile near st.
Andrews, Can, Thomas Craig Fields, of Tweed
ring notoriety. VIM. Leonard, native of Ire
land, aged l00. died ut Portland. Ore. leaving
widow aged So.
FEBRUARY.
Gen. James Chestnut, who was U. s. Senator
from South Carolina at the outbreak Of the re-
bellion, died at Charleston. Other distinguished
persons who passed away during February were:
Baron Thomas O'Hagan, the hrst Catholic to be
made Lord Chancellor Of Ireland under British
rule Col. John w. Phelps, ut Guilford VT, first
officer to arm slaves in the rebellion. DIR. c. @.
Graham. famous practitioner OF Louisville,
KY, aged 100 years months At Allentown, Pa,
DIR. John Romig, who in 1896, established in that
city the first homeopathic school in America.
Pinkney III. Walker, senior member Illinois Su-
preme Court. Geo w. Bowen, who vainly claimed
the mmenses state of Nine. Junrel as an illegiti-
mate son at Providence aged 81. Joseph Grin
nell, who secured reduction OF letter postage
to s cents, while in Congress n generation ago;
at New Bedford, aged g. In battle with the
False Prophets adherents in the Soudan, Mai.
Gen VIM. Earle, Of the British army. Judge
Undertook, n. Y, in 1903. On his plantation in
Louisiana, Alexander Mouton, son of one Of
the Acudlan6 driven from NOVA SCOTIA DIV the
British was Senator and Governor of Louisiana
in early days, and President of the seces-
sion convention in 1851. In Kentucky
lunatic asylum, Colonel Thomas Buford, who
murdered Judge Elliott because of an ad-
verse legal decision Dr. Leopold Damrosch,
the distinguished musician. Francis A. Drexel.
well-known Philadelphia banker. At Whining
ton Ill, at the extraordinary age OF 116 years,
Mrs Nancy Cass Wilmore, native Of North
Carolina. At London, Mrs. James Russell Low
ell wife of the American Minister to England.
OF wounds received at the battle of Abu-Kiea,
Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, the hero of that
bloody field. Francis $. Drake, eminent littera-
teur of Boston. In great poverty, mt Chicago,
Lady Ellen Fortesque, widow of Sir William
Fortesque, of England she was known in the
Garden City as Ellen c. Williams. DIR. Joseph
II. ID. Rodgers, of Madison, Ind, who partici-
pated in the Texan war for Independence. An
drew ID. Potter, of Plattevile Wis, who helped
to drive the Mormons from Nauvoo. Ill, in 1eio.
Ex-Gov. Patton, of Alabama. Ex-Gov. Beriah
Magoffin, Of Kentucky.
MARCH.
Among those who passed away during the
month were: Rear Admiral George Henry
Preble, U. S. n. George J.. Davenport, born ut
Rock Island, Ill., in 1917, and whose father was
the founder of that city. Mrs. Eliza Walker
Blaine, only sister of James q. Blaine at Balti-
more. L. S. Arthur, of Philadelphia, writer and
publisher, aged "a. Henry Stul, los years, at
Batavia, q. served in the war of 1912 at Lundy's
Lane and Chippewa ID. Is. Sacket, Inspector
General U. S. A. In London, Eng Sir Curtis
Miranda Lampson, native of Vermont and trus-
tee of the Peabody fund, aged 49, Gen. Jos. II.
TAYLOR, u. s. A., Adjutant General Department
of the Platte. Sir Henry Parlles, British Minis
ter to China A daughter OF j. Fenimore Cooper,
aged 6s, at Cooperstown, n. Y. Near Boston, of
Bright's disease, Joe Goss, pugilist, born In
WolverhGmPton, Eng 1895. AT Memphis, Tenn,
Hon Jacob Thompson, who was Secretary of the
Interior under President Buchanan aged rs.
Gen. Arson Stager of Chicago, aged 60 during
the war had charge of the Government military
telegraph lines. Perry II. Smith, ex-Vice Presi-
dent n. w. II. r., one Of Chicagos most sub
stantial citizens. Prince Orloff, Russian diplo-
matist.
Eminent people who babe farewell to earth
during the showery month Of April were: Mrs.
Ezekiel r.. Cox, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio mother of
Hon. ;. s. Cox Minister to Turkey. Richard Grant
White Shakspearean scholar and literary and
art critic aged 63. Rear Admiral John Marston,
u. S. N, at Philadelphia, aged 90 At Boston,
Emmons Hamlin, noted organ manufacturer.
Rev. Henry Whitehead, who settled in Chicago
when it was only military post, and with his
own hands erected the earliest Methodist
Church in the Western metropolis, aged u.s. q.
Henry Shaw, Representative in the Illinois
Legislature from the Thirty-fourth District,
making the third death during the session, and
the second ON the Democratic side. Admiral Sir
George Rose Sartorius, X G. B., who received
the thanks of President Tyler and Congress for
his efforts to save u. 5. B. Missouri from de-
struction by fire in Gibraltar Bay in 1S42 aged
o. Christopher Bradford who died OF Pitts
burgh, was one of three brothers who have
cued 532 persons from drowning the family had
life saving station ut Atlantic City. Dan Mace,
OF New YORK, famous trainer and driver of trot-
ting horses, aged 81 Brights disease. Rev. DIR.
Taylor, of New York, whose centennial birthday
was celebrated in December, 1884, and who
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1909.
Rev. Leonard Wilmington, Of Newbury, Mass,
the oldest Congregational Clergyman in the
United States. Hon. Conrad Baker, Indian
apolis, who defeated Thomas A. Hendricks for
Governor Of Indiana in 1868; for several
years he had been law partner of Mr..
| Hendricks. Isaac W. England, for seventeen
| years the partner Of Mr. Dana In the publication
Of the New York Sum-
Among the people of note who went 10 thoir
| reward during May were Prince Karageorge-
| WITT, claimant to the throne of Servia- Maj
| Gen. Irwin Mcdowell, u s. A., mt San Francisco
| aged 67. Queen Dowager Emma Of the Sand
Virginia, aged 81. Mrs. Catherine Main, of
years. Sergt. Leffeman at Youngstown, N. "
aged IS n veteran of Waterloo and served nifty
| four years in tho United States army. Hon.
| Frederick IT. Frelnghuysen, Newark, N. j., ex-
Secretary of State, aged 6S. On the odd, at Paris
In his stth year, Victor Hugo the great poet and
| novelist; on his deathbed he declined the offer
| of spiritual consolation rendered by the Arch
| bishop of Paris his funeral, at the expense Of
| the state, such France had not witnessed
| for n century, and the day Of his burial was de-
clared one Of national mourning.
| JUNE.
On the LIST day of the month Judge Josiah Me-
Roberts reelected Judge of the Ninth Jul
dicial Circuit of Illinois, and on the morning of
tho I'd was found dead in bed mt his home in