The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-18
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Dwight johnson died at his home. IS Sidney
place, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night, aged SO
years. He was born in Grisw old. Conn.,. and
camo to this city in 1889. He moved to Brook
Ign in 1914 and becam me prominent in its affairs.
He took q leading part in the organization Of
the sanitary fair held in the Academy of Music
in 1868. which Melted $500, 900 for hospital
work and for the nursing Of wounded Union SOL
diers in the war. Mr.. johnson was a life mem
Der of the Long Island Historical Society
and of the Brooklyn City Mission and
Tract Society. He was also for many years
President of the Firemen's Trust Company, a cor
poration founded in the days Of the Volunteer
Fire Department. He served several forms as a
member of the Board of Supervisors, and in 1873
pa4,y nq Sns %ss d ioF Msay0 By y John sho w. ReP Hanfer.
He W 8 a member of the Church of the Pilgrims.
He leaves a widow. The funeral service will
take place Tomorrow the Rev. DR.. h 3. StorrS
officiating. and the interment will be In Green
wood Cemetery.
Charles E. Hovey., a prominent lawyer Of
Of the rebellion, died yesterday at the ageof 70.
He was a native Of Thetford. Vt, and a graduate
illinois DSt'H spate Normal Normal School. an and to Was At it's its
head until the war broke out. BY special per-
% %eii. Re 'r reePu hitteas'a1 resi hleet,l largely MeHm from ns 1s stn.
as the BRAIN tn, Regiment IT. Of Which he was Som n
Cache River he was made Brigadier-G eneral.
and was brevetted Major-General after the bat
wounded. Since the war he had resided in
Washington. His widow, formerly Miss Harriet
+ spoff + of MassNachusettss' an snd two {, sens.
York, survive him.
Mrs. Harriet Hull Seaver. widow Of William
A. Seaver. at one time editor of tho Churchnldn.
and who at the time of his death conducted the
Editors Drawer of Hdrper's Mdgasine. died at
her home in Mount Vernon, n. Y, on Tuesday.
and was the daughter OF Joseph Harvey Hull, q
veteran of the war OF 1872. Mr.. Seaver's library,
the country. will descend to Mrs. seavers heirs,
Mrs. Clark and her daughter. Miss Isabelle
Clark. of Mount Vernon.
Castle on March 90. issa.. He built up an OK
Plains. Subsequently Conducted as John ".
YYo onngs' s GSnnf In 1ssa b q w Go' m anS } Paea;ds M;i
of the corporation of John w. Young g. Sons
Company. but In 1895. about fifteen years after
his retirement as an active partner, the concern
three children.
Benjamin Snyder Of Lakewood. N. j.. died
there on Tuesday, night. He was 81 years old.
went to Lakewood in 1910 and became the man.
ager of the iron foundry there. About 1860 he
m moyeS i to greshS Witch an he p pusIisSss f6 5hs se1 M9ai
Times and Journal. which no conducted for a
the county. He leaves one son.
Elias NJ. Gregory died yesterday at his homo
in Averill Park at the age of ~. For thirty
years he was United States mail agent, with q
run between Buffalo and New York. After re.
firing from the service he was chosen Justice
of tho Peace OF the town OF Sand Lake. He is
survived by one son., George d. Gregory of
Brooklyn, and by two daughters, Mrs. Helen G.
Smart Of Averill Park and Mrs. Charles H.
Bayer OF Brooklyn.
Sarah Maria Lawton. wife of Cyrus Lawton
and daughter of the late Newbury Davenport of
New Rochelle. died ut the home OF her son, New
bury Davenport Lawton. 80 East Thirtieth
street, yesterday. She was in her seventy-flrst
year, and was born in New Rochelle. Her father
and uncle, Lawrence Davenport, at one time
owned tho Davenport Neck property on the
Sound. now the home OF the Iselin family.
John Fitchie. n keeper In tho Kings County
Penitentiary and u resident OF Flatbush, died
yesterday of consumption, He was about AZ
years old and a brother Of Thomas Fitchie of the
United States immigration Bureau.
Alfred Ordway. the artist. died yesterday in
Boston. He was the founder OF the Boston Art
Club In 1854 and Its first Secretary and Treas.
urer.