The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-26
OBITUARY.

Sixty-ninth street. at 3:15 o'clock yesterday af-
tcrnoon. The immediate cause Of his death was
exhaustion, but for the last four years he had
been ailing, and since Nov. 10 he had not left
his room. The last time he was out of his house
was election day. He was conscious until an
hour before he died. Mr.. o'Donohue was for
many years one of tho leading coffee and toa
merchants Of this city and has in addition to
that hold several public Offices and has been a
leader in the Democratic party. He was born at
40 Peck slip. Jan. 4, 1888. His father. John, was
at that time a retail grocer. but later went into
the wholesale ten and coffee trade. Before
Joseph was 81 he and his brother james. were
partners in the firm. In 1883 he and his father
organized the Ions Island Ferry Company in
opposition to. George Laws Brooklyn Ferry
Company, and when the two companies were
consolidated in 1854 under the namo Of the
New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company, Joseph
0'Donohue was elected President This post he
held until May Is last, when his son. Joseph J.
O'Donohue, Jr., was chosen to succeed him. In
1880 he formed the firm Of Joseph J. O'Donohue
= Son, which was a power In the con nee trade;
he lived in Brooklyn, no was secretary Of tho
frst great war meeting held in that city to raised
Union soldiers. In 1858 he was Chairman Of
the Democratic General Committee Of Kings
county. In 1865 the nomination for Mayor of
Brooklyn was offered to him. but he declined 4.
had joiasd TS%%aay Tsh il 1859, and :; was
In 1874 Mayor Wickham made him Park Com
missioner. In 1875 he was q Presidential Elec-
Serlain. He was prominent in the Irish Home
Rule movement in this city. and o was
300 fund for Parnell; Mr.. o'Donohue
was a trustee of the New York Coffee
l Eschsn ngs a. q member me- Rer-S q 81 ths T- ohsm ans rr OF Gom.
tation. a trustee of tho Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum and member OF many clubs and organi-
Joseph J. o,Donohue, Jr, Thomas J.. Teresa r.,
and Mary NJ. J; 0'Donohue. The funeral will
Monday morning.
William Louis winans, who has Just died in
England, was a son of the late Ross winans OF
MOTIVE netitFe0f ba;ild dse ih Tno two sons, wiili nGa LOUIS ,oeG,
though snS ? Nos shS e0T RsT1roaS ,o of the he s Rn Psts5s bur-.
eminent. Thomas returned to this country. but
William had conceived such a horror Of the sea
first visit to Russia, that he refused to cross tho
ocean again. He took up his residence in Lon
Winans's income for many years exceeded
6taee9t sstahlfshmsnt in KeHsington Gardens,
hobby for queer machinery. The most expen-
sive channel in which this hobby ran was the
these, OF his own Designing. are said to have
cost him over 81, 900. and to have resulted
however. was his passion for sport. Ten years
ago he was the tenant Of nearly twenty
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west coast Of Scotland, from the Beauty Firth to
OF this great pleasure park was fully sixty miles,
while the annual rental amounted to about
in England as 1.-The great American deerstalk-
err" His career in this direction began in 1874.
x xhsns BE- lie lease: ssars the f, Estate, ss H Hsis deer +. fG Issssd
was the GienaffeRie Shootings, belonging to the
Chisholm family; N9 . sooner &, had a, the ground saGi
mcnced to erect high fences with the OBJ
jeet of cutting of az communication with
had built in order to facilitate access to
the high road. This attempt to close up bridges
S %Ele Sa1 hna the been s1G freely Iasaat t by FG 6he p anS Satt6 os
centuries led To much litigation and aroused in
dignation in the Highlands. NJ. Winans's
constant litigation. He leaves two sons, one Of
whom u an expert pistol shot
William Henry Haskell is dead at Albany.
dc was OF old Puritan stock. his Puritanical an
c~estors having settled In Massachusetts in 1892.
through his mother he was descended from
sotts colony. Mr.. Haskell was born in Albany.
Feb. Il. 1892, BE graduated from the Albany
years bookfeeper and teller for the Mechanics'
and Farmers N Bank In DeSemeer, 1855 he
turned TO Albany and engaged in the wholesale
COFFEE and spice business. which he continued
insurance ms Company Of New YoPt Il
A Az wilson Hre 6er hs va" Which Sp ppiaes he v Dy
gated last year. He had been Chairman OF the
Re iSs Pssm County G0mm ,nd fos was President dent
and one OF its incorporators. He was a thirty
second degree Mason. and was for several years
His widow and FIVE children survive him.
Abraham Augustus Andruss died at his homo,
81 West Nineeeth street, on Thursday. OF heart
in 1915, and came to this city when 20 years
old and established himself in business as a
in this city. among which are the Cotton Ex.
change. the Everett House: and the Murray Hill
wasa member OF. tho Mechanics and Trades
mems Society. and also a deacon OF the Church
OF the Disciples, in West Fitty sixth street He
Is survived by . widow and six children.
Prof. Charles Copeland Wight, head OF the de-
partment OF English literature in the Balti-
more City College, died Yesterday Of heart dis
Sept. "a, 1s41,. He WAS graduated at the Tir-
Ginia Military Institute Just as the war broke
served on the star Of that General during the
valley campaign. He was made prisoner late In
The war, and immsdiately after Us close went to
nected with the public schools.
Herbert L. Whiting. the father of the town OF
altins; lust fGsTss the sa th, b ! ~ me asa rom chi.
railway man in Chicago. For nearly ftty years
he made his regular trips in charge Of trains.
sixth year. he was taken from his life work as a
train conductor and detailed to special work in
u kCHordL OEuCCo OK tue 11kc IuuTe anu 1llCnl-
gan Southern Railroad, for which company he
had worked since 1883. Mr.. Whiting was born
in Brimdcid Mass, in 1921.
William b. MacEellar. head of the Typo
Founders, Trust in the United States. died AT
Philadelphia yesterday. OF apoplexy. He was
y member OF the frm OF MacRsllar. Smiths &
Jordan. aud general manager OF the American
Type Foundry Company. He WAS SO years old.
HIS father. Thomas Mackellar. founder OF the
firm which conducts the oldest type foundry in
the United States. survives him at the age OF SIS
years.
Allan Cameron DaIzeIl. the proprietor of the
Montauk Brewery at Sag Harbor, l. l., died OF
apoplexy Yesterday afternoon. He was about
Ga years old and was n native OF England. HI
was at one time a foreman in n watch case fac
tory here. For several years he had been I'M
successful in litigation over certain patents
which he insisted had been infringed.
James H. Bible, United States District Attor.
ney for tho Eastern district OF Tennessee. died
on Thursday, night Of an overdose OF morphine
administered to Offset the effect OF whiskey. Ha
was appointed District Attorney by President
Cleveland, and had been prosecuting the famous
water-pipe trust case before the Supreme Court.
John b. Stratton OF 65 BrinkerhoG street.
Jersey City, died suddenly or acute indigestion
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