Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-28

Chief James r. Godfrey, last surviving chief
of the Miami tribe of Indians, at Fort
Wayne.
Is. Rev. Dr. J. B. Mccullough, well known
Methodist preacher and editor, at Chester
Heights Camp, Pennsylvania: aged II.
26. Gen ALFRED J. Pieasonton, distinguished
Union cavalry leader. in Philadelphia; aged
20. John A. McDougall, a once famous artist
and friend of Poe, Willis, Irving and 9th
ers. at Newark, N. j.. aged 81.
AUGUST.
l. Joseph Holt, formerly a cabinet officer and
judge advocate general under President
Lincoln, at Washington: aged 81.
George Inness, noted American landscape
painter, i'll Scotland; aged Co.
6. Ex-Gov. Austin Blair, Michigan's "war
governor, - at jackson; aged rs.
8. Joseph P. Wightlnan an early settler at
Burlington, Ia, in Chicago; aged "a.
IA. John Quincy Adams son of Charles Francis
Adams and grandson of President Adams
at Quincy, Mass. aged 81.
II. Charles Robinson, the first governor elect
ed by the Free State party of Kansas. at
Lawrence; aged 70.
IS. Col John Atkins, editor of The Rocky
Mountain News, at Denver; aged 81
Burton C. Cook, lawyer and statesman of
Illinois, at Evanston; aged rs.
20. Judge Norman l.. Freeman, the oldest
court reporter in the United States, at
Springfield Ills.
&c. Mrs. Celia Thaxter, poet, at isle Of Shoals;
aged So.
SEPTEMBER
l. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, a distinguished
Union soldier, at Waltham, Mass. /; aged 70.
Samuel j. Kirkwood Iowa'S war governor,
at Des Moines; aged 81.
8. Judge A 81. Douglass, a prominent lawyer
in Tennessee and pioneer, Indian fighter
and soldier, contemporary with Davy
(Nx,or1 xa%k Of Mo, r,,JQ
4. James N. Adsit, a veteran banker Of Chi
cago, in that city; aged IS.
s. Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor OF
California and at one time chief of cavalry
in the Army of the Potomac at Buffalo:
aged n.
6. Gen. Henry Eugene Davis, Union vet
eran in New York city; aged So
8. The Count of Paris, head of the French
royal family, in London; aged IS.
Prof Herman Louis Ferdinand Helmholtz.
celebrated German Psychologist and ply
sician, at Berlin; aged II.
9. Gen p S. Levin, Union veteran, in To
ledo; aged II.
ologist and Psychologist, at Berlin; aged s.
II. Joseph S. Cone, a noted California pioneer
at Red Bluff; aged r.
IA. Rear Admiral Edward Y. McCauley. U. S.
N, retired, at jamestown, R. L.; aged 81
20. Nine. Fursch- Madi, noted dramatic So
pFanO VINO created the title fOle OF Aiud,
at Mount Bethel, N. j.. aged Al.
%. Gen. Willard Slocum, Union veteran. at
Ashland, O.; aged IA.
"a. Gen. Thomas SER Cummings, noted Amer
lean artist, last surviving founder of the
National Academy Of Design; aged 80
26. Launt Thompson, noted American sculptor,
at Middletown, N. Y; aged 81.
%. William Allen Sheppard, well known Cana
dian journalist, printer and manager. at
Toronto; aged GA.
8. Prof. David Swing, noted college professor
and minister, in Chicago; aged Ga.
s. Prof. Vincenzo Botta, we'll known linguist
in New York city; aged r.
Z. DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Boston; aged
IS.
Andrew G.. Curtin, war governor of Pennsyl-
vania, at Bellefonte; aged n.
20. James Anthony Froude, the historian. in
London; aged rs. u
81. Ex- Mayor Monroe Heath of Chicago. at
Asheville, N. c.; aged 66.
Ex-Gov. Joseph Dorsett Bedle of New Jer
sey, in New York city; aged e.
%. Mary A Woodbridge, secretary Of the W.
c. T. u, in Chicago.
1 Commodore William E. Hopkins, U. s. NJ
retired, in San Francisco; aged 70.
26. Rev. Alexander Eerberton, prominent
Presbyterian minister, in Philadelphia;
aged 81.
St. Louis; aged 81.
q. Hon. David Wills, organizer of the Nation
al cemetery at Gettysburg, in that town;
aged g.
NOVEMBER.
l. The Gar Alexander III of Russia; aged 49,
Samuel Hancock, a prominent Methodist and
pioneer, in San Francisco; aged g.
8. Duncan 81. Campbell, noted inventor III
shoe machinery. at Pawtucket, R. l.: aged
66.
g. Philip Gilbert Hamerton, the we'll known
English artist and author, in Paris: aged
8. William Moseley Hall, a Chicago pioneer,
in New York city; aged 81.
TO- Theodore r. Davis war artist of Harper's
Weekly, ut Asbury Park, N. j.. aged 81.
H. Col. John A. McCaull, the opera manager,
ut Greensboro, N. G.
H. Charles E. Strong, a prominent Newspaper
man of Chicago, in that city: aged So.
l5 Iron Nation. head chief of the Brule Sioux;
aged 50.
". Rev. DR.. James McCosh, president of
Princeton college FROM 1868 to 1885, at
Princeton, N. j., aged 50.
Rev. W. G. T. Shedd, theological teacher and
writer, in New York city; aged "A.
Robert Charles Winthrop, lineai descendant
of John Winthrop, the colonial governor
and noted orator and statesman, in Bos-
ton; aged IS.
IS. Thomas D. Gilbert, prominent citizen and
pioneer OF M1ch1gan, at GRAND Rapids,
aged 70.
40. Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein, the Russian
pianist and composer, at st. Petersburg;
aged "a.
q. G. S. Kaufman, one of the Oldest iron mas
tiers of Pennsylvania, at Columbia; aged 68.
q. Gen. William Harvey Gibson, Tiffin, o;
aged ".
rs. Jean Victor Duruy, well known French
historian, at Paris; aged So.
q. Princess Bismarck, wife of the German ex-
chancellor
80. Joseph Emerson Brown, ex-governor Of
Georgia and ex-United States SENATOR at
Atlanta; aged 70.
DECEMBER.
l. Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Storrs, prominent
Presbyterian minister at Orange, N. j.;
aged 81.
4. Leon Albeit, ex governor of New Jersey,
in Jersey City; aged IS.
Victoria Volles, the last of the famous Volzes
family, in England.
Oden Bowie, ex- governor Of Maryland, at
Bowie, Nd; aged GS.
6. DR.. j. Bernard Brinton, eminent physician,
war surgeon and botanist in Philadelphia;
aged GO
Z. Gen. Elakim Parker Scammon, an Ameri-
can veteran of three wars, in New Yorl'
city; aged IS.
Ferdinand de Lesseps. in Paris; aged 70. !.
A resident Of England. who has been
three times married, welded a woman
who had been three times widow.
MI.