The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-01


How He Entered the Ranks of States
men. Soldiers, Poets. Financiers, Clergy
men, Social Leaders and Royalty.
JANUARY.
1. DR.. D. B. Cheney. an old Baptist minister
of Chicago, in Chicagos aged "a
2. Col. Floyd Clarksor. we'll known G. A. R
veteran, in New York; aged SO.
William P. Earle, an old New York hotel
keeper, in New York; aged 81.
Elizabeth Peabody, educator and reformer,
in Boston; aged SO.
5. Benton j. Hall, prominent Iowa lawyer.
at Burlington, la. aged SO.
10. Rear Admiral Donald Mcneil Fairfax, L. s.
N. retired. at Hagerstown. Md. aged 20.
IL. Isabella Shave Thackeray, widow of the
author, at Leigh, England; aged rs.
10. John Haley Spears. an associate of Lincoln.
at Jacksonville; aged 90.
Ex-Gov William Castor of Massachusetts,. in
Boston: aged "a
20. Helen A. Shafer, president of Wellesley col
lege. at Wellesley. Mass; aged 81
Ex-Gov. William Gilpin of Colorado. at Den
yer; aged 81.
"a. D. W. irwin. prominent Chicago business
man. in Chicago; aged a.
q. Rosina VolSes. actress, at Torquay. Eng
land; aged 40
FEBRUARY.
g. George W. Childs, proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Ledger. in Philadelphia; aged Co.
e. Morton S. Wilkinson. ex United States SEN
ator from Minnesota, in Wells. Mimi; aged
75
s. L. Schofel1, pioneer manufacturer of iron
rails in the south, at Chattanooga. aged so.
6. Gen. Jacob ATnmen, prominent Union
veteran, at Yorlzland, O.; aged IS.
DR.. Theodore Billroth, distinguished German
surgeon, near Vienna; aged 65.
6. DR.. Gustave Leipnitz, a well known charac-
ter on the coast, in San Francisco; aged 80.
Col. John R. Baylor, Texan pioneer and
noted Indian fighter, near San Antonio;
aged r.
g. Maxine du Camp, noted French author.
at Paris; aged "A.
3D. Homer Ramsdell, ex-president of the New
York and Erie railroad, at Newburg, N. Y. !:
aged 50.
Hans Won Bulow, the celebrated pianist, at
Cairo, Egypt; aged GA.
a. Gen. Edward Hincks. civil war veteran,
at Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell. editor of The Legal
News and the first woman lawyer in Hi
nois, in Chicago; aged 63.
Is Col. Jonathan Drake Stevenson, a promi-
nent Californian, in San Francisco; aged a.
II. R. ". English, personal associate of Lin
coin, at Kansas City; aged 50.
49, William T. Stansbury. printer on the Bal
timore Sun since 1887, in Baltimore; aged
49, Joseph Keppler, famous cartoonist and one
of the founders and owners of Puck, in
New York city; aged Sc.
81. Louis Wistar, wealthy citizen of Philadel-
phia, at Atlantic City; aged 66.
q DIR. William B. Lapham, well known Maine
historian and geologist, at Augusta, Me. !;
aged c.
"a Dr. Martin Luther an eminent Pennsylva-
mia physician, at Reading; aged 6S.
MARcH.
l. Ex-Gov. John G. Downey of California, ct
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
cago; aged 70.
2. Gen. .Jubal a. Early, a prominent ex-1On-
federate at Lynchburg, Va. aged 78.
T. James Montgomery Bailey, ''The Danbury
News Man, humorist, author and editor,
at Danbury, Conn; aged SO.
g. Benjamin Bunker, editor of the Kennebec
Democrat, at Waterville, Me-; aged "a.
H. Rev. A T. Wood, prominent Presbyterian
at Omaha; aged n.
H. John T. Ford, the well known theatrical
manager, at Baltimore; aged Is.
49, Commodore William D. Whiting, u s. N.
retired, in New York city; aged II.
20. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, at
3 Turin; aged 90.
Prof. Isaac T. Goodnow, prominent Kansas
pioneer and educator, at Manhattan, Kan. {;
aged go
Is. George Ticknor Curtis an authority and
writer on constitutional law, in New York
city aged 80.
g. Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt, senator from
Georgia and prominent ex-Confederate
in Washington; aged TO-
APRIL.
/. DR.. Charles Edouard -Sequard, the
eminent French physician, discoverer of
the 'elixir of life, in Paris; aged rs.
z Richard Wistar, noted millionaire, in Phil
adelIshia; aged IS.
Ben King, the Chicago poet and hrlmorist
found dead at Bowling Green, KY.
49, David Dudley Field, the eminent lawyer.
in New York city; aged &c.
Gen. ,soseph Brevard Kershaw, brilliant
Corfof7pratG soldier late n cfi1,
ed lawyer and judge, at Camden, S. c.;
aged. "a
IA. Gen. Henry Warner Slocum, a distinguish
ed Union veteran, in Brooklyn; aged e.
Senator Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina,
in Washington; aged Ga.
Gen. Oliver Lathrop Shepherd, q. S. A, re-
tired civil war veteran, in New York
city aged 81.
II. Henry s. Ives, the 'rapid'' fnancier, at
Asheville. n. C.
q. William r. Daniels, ex-governor of Idaho
at Tacoma; aged 76
James W. Throckmorton, ex-governor of
Texas, at Mckinney; aged 20.
%. Jesse B. Seligman, the New York banker,
at Coronado Beach, Cal
%. Gen. r.. S. Granger, U. S. A. retired, in
Washington; aged 80.
%. Nathaniel Springer Berry, war governor Of
New Hampshire, at Bristol, N. H. !: aged 90.
%. Francis B, Stockbridge, United States SEN
ator from Michigan, in Chicago; aged IS.
Maj. Joseph Kirkland, well known vet
eran and author, in Chicago; aged "a.
30. Frank Hatton, editor of the Washington
Post, in Washington; aged 48.
MAY.
1. George ". Aben proprietor of the Balti-
more Sun, in Baltimore.
5. John Jay, ex-minister to Austria, in New
York city; aged n.
6. John Hapgood Maynard, prominent resi-
dent of Manchester, N. H, at Manchester;
aged 80.
z. 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 Pawtuczet; aged 20.
8. Thomas G. Latto well known Scotch Amer
lean poet, in Brooklyn; aged 70.
9. Gen. Matthew NJ Trumbull, Union vet
erans in Chicago; aged 68.
Il. Sewe1l E. Jewell, a noted abolitionist, in
Have;rhill, Mass. aged s..
Il. A. c. HUNT, ex-governor of Colorado, at
Tenallytown, near Washington aged IS.
rs. Rev. DIR. Edward Bright, editor of The Ex-
aminer, in New York city; aged Sc.