Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-20
JANUARY.

JANUARY.
Apner Coburn, Ex-Governor of Maine died at
6koWhegan, aged 80 his last Illness was con-
Gacted at the session of the Electoral College
Other notable persons who left @this busy
Drea1h1ng world" during January were: Russell
hancock, son of Maj. Gen. Hancock at his plan
I Talo near near Ciarksyille, Miss: Col John NJ
RYE father of q. s. Senator Frye, of Maine
d. d. Chalmers Associate Judge of the Supreme
Court OF Mississippi. Rev. DIR. Noah Hunt
Schenck, of Brooklyn. Ex-Iieut Gov DANES
M Bingham, of Wisconsin. Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines, The famous Htigant, at New Orleans
aged 30. Capt. Isaiah Rynders, who figured
In his 73d year. Tho1nas Farrell, of ST. Paul
MIMI, aged Ill years Rear Admiral Powell at
Washington Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in a pas
senger depot at Saltwater MINI. heart disease
Prof Benjamin Sillman of Yale College Ed
mond About, French journalist and novelist.
MRS Julia A. Roberts, a sister of Gen. Phil
heafney; Well-known worker among the poor :
found dead in bed at Washington At Newburg.
N. Y, Charles Downing, noted horticuIturist.
aged 81 Hon. Flamen Ball, at Glendale, o. !;
formerly law partner of Hon Salmon P. Chase.
In Dattle with El Mahdis forces, Lieut.. Col.
Fred Burnaby, who made the famous ride to
a II W. George Kunkle, one of the pioneers
W. Va; aged 49, In exile near ST.
andrews, Can, Thomas Craig Fields of Tweed
ring notoriety. VIM Leonard, native of Ire
land, aged JOG, died at Portland, Ore, leaving
widow aged 90.
FEBRUARY.
6eH JHIHeS CneSnut, who 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 first Catholic to be
made Lord Chancellor of Ireland under British
rule Col. John W. Phelps, at Guilford VT first
of1cer to arm slaves in the rebellion. DR. c. G..
Graham, q famous practitioner of Louisville
ny, aged 100 years months At Allentown Pa
Or. John Romig, who, in 1886, established in that
city the first homeopathic school in America
Pinkney II. Walker, senior member Illinois SUI
Bowen -hn oiy1Ix o1a oo1
the immense estate of Nine. Jumel as an i'll egiti-
mate son; at Providence, aged 81. Joseph Grin
nell, who secured reduction of letter postage
60 cents, while in Congress O generation ago
at New Bedford, aged &c. In battle with the
raise Prophets adherents in the Soudan Mai
Gen. VIM. Earle, of the British army judge
Evart Van Buren,, of Chicago who was born 9t
Undertook, N. Y, in 1903 On his plantation in
Louisiana, Alexander Mouton son of one of
the Acadians driven from Nova Scotia by the
British; was Senator and Governor of Louisiana
IN early days, and President of the seces-
sion convention in 1861. In @ Kentucky
lunatic asylum, Colonel Thomas Buford who
murdered Judge Elliott because of an ad-
verse legal decision. DIR. Leopold DaInrosch
the distinguished musician. Francis A. Drexel
wel-known Philadelphia banker. At Whining
ton, IL, at the extraordinary age of 116 years,
MRS. Nancy Cass Wilmore, a 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-Klea
Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, the hero of that
bloody field. Francis S. Drake, eminent lit5era-
Lady Ellen Fortesque, widow of Sir William
Fortesque of England; she was known in the
Garden City rs Ellen G. Williams DIR. Joseph
IL. ID. Rodgers, of Madison, Ind, who partici-
pated in the Texan war for independence. An
drew d. Potter, of PlattevilIe, Wis, who helped
to drive the Mornlons from Nauyoo, ILL.,, Ia 1870
Ex-Gov. Patton, Of Alabama. Ex-Gov. Beriah
Magofin, of Kentucky.
Among those who passed away during the
month were: Rear Admiral George Henry
Preble, U. S. N. George L. Davenport, born at
Rock Island, Ill, in 1917, and whose father was
the founder of that city. Mrs. Eliza Walker
Blaine, only sister of James G. Blaine at Balti-
more T. s. Arthur, OF Philadelphia, writer and
publisher, aged "a. Henry StulI, los years, at
Batavia, o.. served in the war of 1912 at Lundy's
Lane and Chippewa ID. 3. Sacket, Inspector
General U. S. A. In London, Eng Sir Curtis
Miranda Lampson, native of Vermont and trus-
tee of the Peabody fund, aged 70. Gen. JOS H.
Taylor, U. S. A., Adjutant General Department
of the Platte. Sir Henry Parkes, British Minis
ter to China. A daughter of j. Fenimore Cooper
aged 68, at Cooperstown, N. Y. Near Boston, of
Bright's disease, Joe Goss, pugilist, born in
Wolverhampton, Eng, 1886. At Memphis, Tenn,
Interior under President Buchanan; aged U.s.
Gen. Arson Stager, of Chicago, aged co; during
the var had charge of the Government military
telegraph lines. Perry IL. Smith, eXVice Presi-
dent N. w. II. r., one of Chicago's most SUBJ
stantial citizens. Prince Orlof, Russian diplo-
matist
Eminent people who babe farewell to earth
during the showery month of April were: Mrs.
Ezekiel T. Cox, of GAINESVILLE Ohio, mother of
Hon. S. S. Cox, Minister to Turkey. Richard Grant
Whlte, ohaksPearean scholar and literary and
art critic, aged GO. Rear Admiral John Marston
U. S. NJ at Philadelphia, aged 90 At Boston,
Emmons Hamlin, noted organ manufacturer
Rev Henry Whitehead, who settled in Chicago
own hands erected the earliest Methodist
Church in the Western metropolis, aged rs. G.
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 IT. s. S Missouri from de-
struction by fire in Gibraltar Bay in 1912 aged
IS. Christopher Bradford who died ct Pitts
burgh was one of three brothers who have res
cued 532 persons from drowning the family had
life saving station at Atlantic City. Dan Mace,
OF New York, famous trainer and driver OF trot-
ting horses, aged 81 Brights disease. Rev. DR..
Taylor, of New York, whose centennial birthday
was celebrated in December, 1884, and who
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 1858; for several
years he had beer law partner of Mr.
Hendricks. Isaac w. England, for seventeen
years the partner of Mr.. Dana in the publication
OF the New York sam.
Among the people of note who went to their
reward during May were Prince Karageorge-
WITT, claimant to the throne of Servia. Maj
Gen; Irwin Mcdowell, U. S. A., at San Francisco,
aged 81. Queen DOwager Emma of the Sand
wich Islands. Ex-Gov. Gilbert c. Walker of
Virginia aged SO. Mrs. Catherine Main, of
Kalamazoo, Mich, at the advanced age of 116
years. Sergt Leffeman at Youngstown N. Y,
aged So veteran of Waterloo and served fifty
four years in the United States army. Hon.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Newark, N. J., ex-
Secretary of State aged GO. On the 22d, at Paris,
IN his 94th year, Victor Hugo, the great poet and
novelist; on his deathbed he declined the offer
or spiritual consolation rendered by the Arch
blshop of Paris; his funeral, at the expense of
the state, was such as France had not witnessed
for a century, and the day of his burial was de-
clared one of national mourning
On the LIST day of the month Judge Josiah Nc
Roberts was reelected Judge of the Ninth Ju-
dlcial Circuit of Illinois, and on the morning of
the I'd was found dead in bed at his home in
Joliet. Other distinguished persons who joined
the silent majority" in the sixth month of the
year We're: Prince Charles Antoine of Hohen-
zollern, father of the Hohenzollern whose cam
dldature for the Spanish throne brought about
the Franco PrusSian war, Robert Treat PaVne