The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-07
OBITUARY.

David Hoxter. one OF tho oldest hotel men in
this city died on Monday morning % acute
cystitis after an Illness OF ten days duration
Mr. HeXter was born in Germany seventy
seven years ago. When % years OF age no
came TO this country and started in the hotel
business in Philadelphia In ls4G he came to
New York and started tho Merchants IA
change Hotel, which stood at Chambers street
and College place. A few years later he opencd
the Continental Hotel at broadway and Twen-
tieth street. Mr.. lleXter was also the first
owner Of the Prescott House. lie was - years
old. Royal Arch Mason, and member Of the
Hotel Mems Association OF the City and State
OF New York. The funeral will take place this
morning from his late homo, l2l Fast Seventy
fourth street. The interment will be in Cypress
Hills Cemetery. Five children survive him.
David Belden died yesterday afternoon at
the home OF his daughter, Mrs. Louise Bost-
wick. 1924 West Forty-sixth street MIR. Belden
was II years old, ana an attack Of bronchitis "a
few days ago was too much for his strength.
He was born in East Haddaln, Conn. and came
TO this city at tho age Of 10. He went into the
wholesale grocery firm Of Denison & Co. as
partner while yet q young man. and u few
years later reorRanized the firm and it became
Denison. Belden & Co. Mr.. Bedena health
broke down in the early tlfties and he went to
the West Indies 10 regain it On his return the
firm dissolved. Mr.. Belden then became
member OF the grocery house OF George ".
Brainerd 4 Co. at l03 Murray street, u business
which continued until 1868, when Mr.. Bellen
retired. He leaves two children, Charles j.
Belden and Mrs. II. C. Bostwick.
Jonathan Muirheid died at his residence.
453 West Twenty-third street on Monday
night, lie had q stroke Of paralysis about two
months ago. He came TO New York from
Pennsylvania in 1874, and with his father
landt street. In ls49 he vent to farming at
lelminCton, New Jersey. In IS6s he returned
now a part oil the Hotel Metropole, at broad
way and Forty second street. He retired from
business IN 1875. He married Helen NJ. Strew,
time Superintendent, of Blackwells Island.
Three sons survive him: United states Com
of Bede. Muirheid K Mecca and J. S. md b.
Z. Murheid OF this city.
DR.. Samuel Rush Haven Of Chicago died sud-
lie ,' was distinenished nhysician and surgeon
He went to Illinois in 1884, and went out with
ne hrst troons as brigade surgeon under
division corps and general army surgeon in
the army Of the Iotomac, and served on tho
stuf Of Gems. Heint2eman. Hancock. and
Grant, He was born in Chsutauqua county,
y. " in 1927.
Augustus II. Flv died Yesterday morning
from complication OF pneumonia and heart
trouble. He was % years old. and lived AT 32l
Nest Twentieth stree, with his sisiorin-aw,
Miss Evelyn Watkins Mr.: Ely was formerly
ward dealt in real estate He retired from
active business u few years ago. lie leaves
son. Griswold Ely.
Hiram Gray. Il well-known lawyer died at
his home IN Elmira yesterday OF general de-
bility, aged ~ years; He had been Congress
man and Justice Of the supreme Court. and
appointed when the new Court OF Appeals was
created in ls69. He retired from that office
in 1875.
Duncan Campbell. Assistant. Adjutant-G Gem
eral under Cows. ing and Morgan; died at
Albany Yesterday. He was the sixth son Of
Secretary OF state, and brother, OF ex;Comp-
troller Allen Campbell OF New York. He was
Ct years old and a native OF Albany.
David Fierce OF Tarentum Pa. who helped
Col Drake SINK his famous pioneer oil well on
Watson Flats near Titusvi!le, in 1859 died in
Boone Ohio. Monday aged Is Years. He was
was obtained in the Allegheny valley at the
Tarentum wells.
Capt. Apdon X, Cove, one OF Boston's oldest
gagged by Gen. Butler to navigate his yacht
America on her cruise TO Greenland and Ice
and. In 1892 be was appointed navigator 81
the United States sChooshlp Saratoga for her
north Atlantic cruise.
Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Andrew Shuman OF Illinois
lied suddenly on Monday night lie was long
Chicago ErP,inO Journal The Republican
state Central Committee yesterday passed GU
OGlSLlc T6SOIutlOnS
Moses Is. Wider, one OF Bostons largest in
lividual real estate owners. died yesterday OF !
heart failure. aged Sc years. lie was the son !
q the former proprietor Of the Wilder Hotel N
days.
J. Dayton Mum. for over forty-ilve years one |,
u tho best-known PHYSICIANS Of herkimer |
county, died on Monday at Van llornelsville. |
lie was graduate OF the Albany Medical Col |
eye class OF 1874, and was a leading Free |
mason.
The remains OF the late F. W. Yerrincton.
champion trapshooter OF Connecticut were |
buried from HIS home Cd Laurel Hill. Norwich |
The Key. DR.. Leonard Woolsey |
3acon ofllciated
Freeman l. StaCg a well-Known bass ana
,luefsh angler on the Housatonic River, who ,
lad followed his occupation more than sixty
ears. died yesterday at strat;ord. aged s!
oars
nan. widely known Lebanon Conn NOR
hants, died yesterday. He had held many
ffices In his town,
BENJAMIN McALister Land Commissioner a.
he I Mon Pacific Railroad. died very suddenly !
{ his residence in Omaha on Monday Of fa!i-
re OF the heart.
Charles W. Tracy. cashier. OF the UncR-
'atioLal Bank Of Norwich. Conn. Tor eleven
ears, died yesterday, aged 81 years,
William Marchaut Of Rockpor' Mass, died
aged IS. He was member o: the
legislature IN 1870 and 1877.
T. l.. Griffith. prominent merchant OF Con-
ersville Ind died there last night
Ed NJ. Lewis Of Evansville, Ind, died on Mon
ay. aged "a years.