Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-11
OBITUARY.
Death of Arthur c. sherm

DcdGh LII AIkAuI Os SheE"dHs Arthur o. Sherman, for many years an employe of the CouR1ER's composing room, died at his home 5l9 Dixwell avenue, last night at about il o'clock. His health had
 been falling for several years. He was .
 very intelligent and expert compositor. He first came to work for the COURIER in 1856. He had at different times worked
 for various other newspapers and job off, 1 ces. For several years he was employed l iD Hartford, at one time on the Hartford
 Times and at another by the Case, Lock wood & Brainard Go. He also at one time 1 worked in Norwich. About a year ago he
 became @ member of the Now Haven Kee.
 Icy league, and was one of it's most active
 members, taking deep interest in its
 success. In whatever enterprise he was | engage1, he displayed rare versatility. He was Q member of the New Haven Veteran Volunteer Firemen's association
 and with his wonted mental activity was
 ever alive to promoting its prosperity and
 energetic and active in the debates and
 councils of the organization.
 He leaves wife who was the widow of
 the late Philip Pinkerman, who was we'll
 known Chapel street tobacconist. He
 leaves also one SOD, Charles, who lives in
 Chicago, and pne daughter who was a
 bright and pretty soubrette and appeared upon the stage in many cities of the Union.
 MT. Sherman's funeral will take place be in this city.
 ! Nliss E " Rnvnnnnrr Miss Elizabeth W. Davenport, one of l the oldest residents of Hillhouse avenue,
 died yesterday forenoon, after some years
 of gradually failing health and strength.
 Her father, John A. Davenport, a grsdu-
 ate of Yale in 1802y ysaud descendant of
 the Rev. John Davenport of New Hsven,
 was a merchant of New York city. who made his home here during his closing years.
 In her residence in New Haven for the
 last forty years Miss Davenport has been prominent in many philanthropic and rs-
 ligious efforts, and will be especially re- membered in recent years from the lead ing part which she has taken in the work of the Home for the Friendless and tho
 Indian Rights association.
 Her force of character and dignity of | bearing made her an ornament to the so- | fastness of her religious faith was un- broken to the end.
 Two older brothers and sister survive 1 her.
 ELIZABETH SEELYE BIxLER. NRv 1,nNDoN Anvil 10 TNna &,oSt, Seelye Bixler, wife of the Rev. James ".
 Bixler (forme1ly of New Haven), pastor of
 the Second Congregational church here, and daughter of ex-President J. W. Sselye Of Amherst college, died here this morn- ing, aged thirty one years. The body-will be taken to Amherst for burial.
 DEATH OF REV. DIR. RESELL. HARTFORD, April 10.-A private tele- gram received in this city this afternoon
 announces the death of Dr. Edwin 0. Bis
 sell of the Mccormick Theological semi nary of Chicago, Ill. Dr. Bissell was for eleven years the professor of the Now Tes. tsment exegesis at the Hartford Theologi- cal seminary, and was quite Q celebrated writer on biblical criticism and the author of Hebrew grammar. .-,---..--- DEATH OF MARGARET MYERS. Mrs. Margaret Myers, aged eighty years, died early yesterday morning at her home
 in this city. She had shook . number of years ago, and never fully recovered from its effects. She was apparently as we'll as ever last evening, and chatted in . pleasant mood, and was anxious to get up short time before death came. She was . mother of John J. Myers of Walling- ford and Thomas Myers and Mrs. Peter McKeon of this city. The funeral will be from St. Mary's church in this city this morning and the remsins will be taken to Hartford for interment.
 SUDDEN DEATH AT CHEsHIRE.
 CHESHIRE, April 10.-Mrs. Hanna Hum
 ston, aged sixty-fve, died suddenly this
 morning of heart disease. Her daughter, Mrs. Edward Williams, with whom she
 lived, vas awakened shortly before o'clock by the heavy breathing of her mother. She called Dr. Cornwall, but be- fore he reached Mrs. Humiston's bedside she was dead. Deceased had been widow for moro than thirty-fve years.