Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-28
4 YEARS DEATH ROLL
WORK or THE KING OF TERRORS
IN 1894.
q Busy Time For the Grim Messenger.
How He Entered the Ranks of States
men, Soldiers, Poets, Financiers, Clergy
men, Social Leaders and Royalty.

men. Soldiers, Poets. Financiers. Clergy
men, Social Leaders and Royalty.
JANUARY.
l. DR.. D. B. Cheney, an old Baptist minister
Of Chicago, in Chicago; aged "A.
2. Col. Floyd ClarSson, well known g. A. r.
veteran, in New York aged Co.
William P Earle, an cid New York hotel
keeper, in New York; aged 81.
Elizabath Peabody, educator and reformeH
i'll Boston; aged 81.
5. Benton j. Hall, prominent Iowa lawyer.
at Burlington, Ia; aged 80.
10. Rear Adnliral'Donala Mcneil Fairfax, U. S.
N, retired, at Hagerstown, Md; aged 70.
II. Isabella Shave Thaclzeray, widow of the
author, at Leigh, England; aged rs.
10. John Haley Spears, an associate of Lincoln.
at JacksonvIGie; aged so.
EX-Gov. William Castor of Massachusetts,. in
Boston, aged a.
TO- Helen A. Shafer, president of Wellesley col
lege, at Wellesley, Mass. aged 81.
Ex-Gov. William Gilpn of Colorado, at DEN
yer; aged 81.
u d. W. irwin, prominent Chicago business
man, In Chicago; aged GA.
~. RoSina Vclles, actress at Torquay, Eng
land; aged 40.
FEBRUARY.
g. George W. Chi1ds, proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, in Philadelphia; aged G5.
ator from Minnesota, in Wells, Mimi; aged
rs.
g. L. Schoheld, pioneer manufacturer of iron
rails in the south, at Chattanooga; aged 50.
6. Gen. Jacob A1pmen, a prominent Union
veteran, at Yorlzland O.; aged 50.
DIR. Theodore Billroth, distinguished German
surgeon, near Vienna; aged e5.
s. DR.. Gllstave LeipnitZ, q well known charac-
fer on the coast, in San Francisco; aged 50.
Col John R. Baylor, Texan pioneer. and
noted Indian fighter, near San Antonio:
aged ~.
8. Maxine du Camp, noted French author.
at Paris; aged H.
Is. Homer Ransdell, expresident of the New
York and Erie railroad at Newburg, n. Y;
aged SO.
Hans Bulow, the celebrated pianist at
Cairo, Egypt aged Ga
IA. Gen. Edward Hinclzs, a civil war veteran,
at Cambridge, Mass
Mrs. Myra Bradwel, editor of The Legal
News and the first woman lawyer in ILL
nois, in Chicago; aged e3.
Is. Col. Jonathan Drake Stevenson, a promi-
nent Californian, in San Francisco; aged 81.
II. r. ". English, a personal associate of Lin
coin, at Kansas City; aged 49,
IS. William L. StanSbury, printer on the Bal
timore Sun since 1897, in Baltimore; aged
r8.
10. Joseph Keppler, famous cartoonist and one
of the founders and owners of Puck in
New York city; aged Sc.
Fl. Louis Wistar wealthy citizen of Philadel,
phia, at Atlantic City; aged 66.
%. DR.. William B. Laphana, well known Maine
historian and geologist. at Augusta, Me-;
aged g.
a. Dr.. Martin Luther. an eminent Pennsylva-
MIA physician, at Reading; aged 6S.
MARCH.
1. Ex-Gov. John G. Downey of California, at
Los Angeles: aged 81.
DR.. Frederick William Poole, D. D., eminent
librarian of Boston and compiler of valu.
able index to periodical literature, in Chi
cage aged 73
2. Gen. Jubal A. Early, prominent Exon,
federAte, at Lynchburg, Va; aged IS.
4. James Montgomery Bailey, 1.-The Danbury
News Man, y hrlmorist, author and editor,
at Danbury, Conn; aged 3d.
s. Benjamin Bunker, editor Of the Kennebec
Democrat, at Waterville, Me-; aged 81.
IL. Rev. A T. Wood a prominent Presby terrain
at Omaha; aged n.
IA. John T. Ford, the well known theatrical
manager, at BALTIMORE aged 65
10. Commodore William D. Whiting, U. S. NJ
retired, in New York city; aged II.
20. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, at
Turin; aged 81.
Prof. Isaac T. Goodnow, prominent Kansas
pioneer and educator, at Manhattan, Kan;
aged 50.
rs. George Tichnor Curtis an authority and
writer ON constitutional law, in New York
city, aged o..
&c. Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt, senator from
Georgia and a prominent ex-Confederate,
in Washington; aged TO-
APRIL.
l. DR.. Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard, the
eminent French physician, discoverer Of
the ''eliXir of life, " in Paris; aged rs.
z. Richard Wistar, noted millionaire, in Phil
adelplla; aged G5.
Ben King, the Chicago poet and humorist,
y 4 1Ct ID,,,,, 1;,,,, Nv
13. David Dudley Field, the eminent lawyer,
in New York city; aged SO.
Gen. Joseph Brevard Kershaw, a brilliant
Confederate soldier and later distinguish
ed lawyer and judge, at Camden, S. c.;
aged "A.
ed Union veteran, in Brooklyn; aged 81.
Senator Zebulon B. Vance Of North Carolina,
in Washington; aged CA.
Gen. Oliver Lathrop Shepherd, U. S. A. re-
tired, a civil war veteran, in New York
city; aged 81.
H. Henry S. Ives, the rapid fnancier, at
Asheville N. G.
81 William B. Daniels ex ex-governor of Idaho,
at Tacoma; aged rs.
James ". Throclxmorton, ex-governor Of
Texas, at Mckinney; aged 70.
49, Jesse B. Seligman, the New York banker,
at Coronado Beach, Cal.
25 Gen. r. S. Granger, U. S. A., retired, in
Washington; aged So.
&C. Nathaniel Springer Berry, war governor of
New Hampshire at Bristol, N. H.; aged 9s.
60 Francis B. Stockbridge, United States SEN
ator from Michigan, in Chicago; aged 6S.
RAJ. Joseph Kirkland, well known vet
eran and author, in Chicago aged 3d.
80 Frank Hatton, editor Of the Washington
Post. in Washington; aged 4S.
MAY.
l. George W. Abel, proprietor Of the Balti-
more Sun, in Baltimore.
s. John Jay, ex-nlinster to Austria, in New
York city; aged r.
6. John Hapgood Maynard, prominent resi-
dent of Manchester, N. H., at Manchester;
aged SO.
7. Frances Elizabeth Barrow, 'Aunt Fanny"
popular author and writer for children, In
New York city; aged 81.
William f. Sayles, the third richest man in
Rhode Island, at Pawtucket; aged 70.
s. Thomas G. Latte, well known Scotch Amer
lean poet, in Brooklyn; aged 70.
9. Gen. Matthew M. Trumbull Union vet
Gran, in Chicago; aged 6S.
l2. Sewen E. Jewell, noted abolitionist in
Havorhill. Mass. aged 85
IA. A C. Hunt, ex-governor of Colorado, at
Tenallytown, near Washington; aged 65.
1G. Rev. DR.. Edward Bright editor of The Ex-
aminer in New York city; aged So.
10. Andrew J. Graham, author of the Graham
system Of shorthand, at Orange, n j.;
aged e.
20. Edmund Yates, English author and jour
nalist, in London; aged 63
81. Gen. Phil Cooke, Il distinguished Confeder-
ate veteran, i'll Atlanta; aged n.
70. Mordccai T.. Hopkins, an old Chicago Jour
nalist, IN Chicago.
JUNE.
4. Ex-Gov. Charles Coils Van Zandt, at Berk-
shire, Mass.
z. Prof William Dwight Whitney, eminent
philologist of Yale college, in New Haven;
aged CT.
Ex Gov Rodanan III. Price of New Jersey,
pioneer Of California at Hazelwood; aged
e.
l2 Commodore John Rodgers, U. S. n. re-
tired, at Oakland Pa. aged II.
49, Rev E. Z Robinson. professor in the Cni-
versity Of Cl..e. > president
OF BroW1le university, in Hoss IN; aged 70.
~. Judge william Walter Fholps, business man
aud Gillolrat, at EIelewood, N. j.; aged IS.
F"E<ing Pharaoh, chief of the Mcntauk In
tians, at Franl1linville. Suffolk county, N.
Y; aged 81.
Commodore John N. Easily. U. S. NJ, retired,
in WASHINGTON. AGED Is.