Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-13
RICHARD A. PROCTOR DEAD.
The Noted Scientist q Victim OF tho
Southern Scourge.
BLACK voMlT SPARES NO ONE.
He Expires in a New York Hospital
While En- Route From His Flo
ida Home to London
The Details.
A Noted Mans Demise.

New York, Sept. l2.-Prof. Richard A.
Proctor, the noted astronomer, dice of yell
low fever in Willard Parker's private hospi-
tai in this city at 7:15 tonight. He had been
in the hospital since Tuesday night but as
late as nightfall to-day the health authori-
ties were reluctant TO admit the true char
acter of his ailment. The professors death,
however, at 7:l5 was preceded by the char
| acteristic black vomit which set all doubts
at rest. Prof. Proctor arrived in this city
on Monday straight from Florida by rail and
put up at the Westminster hotel. He had
| spent the summer at his place called Orange
Lake, Marion county, Florida, and was not
| known to have been exposed to the disease.
He was en- route for England where
he was to lecture this fall and winter
and had left his wife and certain members of
his family in Florida. He had engaged
passage by the Umbria for Saturday.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Sept. l2.-[Special Tele-
gram to The BEE. The news of Prof.
| Richard A. Proctor's death reached this city
this afternoon. When IA reporter called at
the residence of his father-in-law, Captain
c. NJ. Thompson, at Thirteenth and Francis
street this evening no information as to his
death had reached him. II am not sur
prised however to hear it, remarked Cap
tain Thompson, land although | do not
know the cause of his death | suppose
it is apoplexy. He was the most
interchangeable worker l have ever known, and
during his four years stay in this city he
completed two works on astronomy, besides
contributing to the North American Review
and a syndicate of newspapers. He was
married in the fall of 1854 to Mrs. Robert Q.
Mallory, my daughter, who was a widow
with two children. He met her on the ocean
in 1850, while both We're passengers from
Australia to this country. He had by his
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Richard Proctor, is bookkcoper for the
wholesale drug house of Nannatta & Lind.
BY his second marriage he had two children,
both of whom are dead. Six months ago he
moved with his family TO Orange Lake,
Fla, on account of the climate not agreeing
with him. ] have had letters from him
every week since his removal and the last
one was written at , O'Clock in the morning.
In it he told that he was engaged for six lec-
turers at the st. James Academy in Lon
don, and said, The six lectures l have mem
toned will be good business in every way.
/ am the only scientific lecturer who has
ever ventured a course there. / did this at
with splendid results and now the
owners of the hall moved by
my success have arranged the lectures.
The pubic know nothing of such things and
the general effect with them is that | am
venturing what neither Tyndall nor Huxley
have ever ventured once | believe he mar
ried his first wife in England. He had few
callers while in st. Joseph. Knowing his
fondness for company l frequently invited
my friends up to see him. He was always
courteous and polite to the few callers
he did have. He was glad to
have them call. He still owns
the home at Thirteenth and Francis street IN
which he lived. He was to have sailed on
the steamer Umbria for Liverpool Saturday,
September u, and had written for two young
ladies in this city who were friends to accom-.
pany him. His wife is at Orange lake and
he requested one of my daughters to visit
her and remain until his return. After the
st. James academy engagement he intended
making another visit to Australia