The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
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ueiu~. inornihs a. ns honie' 20 Fark avenue IN
.he hihety'siAth year OF mis- age. his oesth was
u u oia ase' anu 10 an attack OF pneumonia
from "hrch ne suffered a year ago and never
iuiis recovered. Chlil MS Illness ne was noted
! His daughter, Miss Emily Ogden Bntler. snr.
,i,o. H., NJ, -. y...NS
yves MN. Mr. butier was born at kinderhook.
his brother. Benjamin Franklin Butler, who
and later Attorney-G General under Gen. Jackson.
Admitted to the bar in 1924, he was for a time
a junior partner in the firm. He entered part
nership with Bowen Whiting, later Justice
OF the state supreme Court. at Geneva n. y,
ana did much for tho building up OF the
then becoming settled He interested such mon
os Isaao uronson and ,ohn Inaab .s,a Su g. , IL"
ing money on farm mortgages, which was as then
a new idea. In 1874 Mr., BptIer removed tn
New York city. He became one of the founders
and incorporators of Union Theological Semi.
nary in 1885, and was President of its corpora
ton at the time of his death. In 1886 he was
elected member of the council of the University
). 'heoit Oh New 1ork. ana was PRESIDENT OF
tho corporation in ls4s and from 1889 to his
oss s,oo On ono 3ss Mn ne s gave to U each n, college i 9a, the sum n,
III $Ioo'ooo MI, hu.ler was also a iouhoer OF
and succeeded James Boorman as President of
ito Road ~ Trust.os In 700 NJ pr,,.n
wastoId that ho had oo,snn,ntton and oon,d
E n1s 1,"s f fo si his health nS .r ehieny by IN st nssDe eoa naa
hn,,% was treated res ana t by M ! ma %:.1 founder o Of
hohGopathy ana rec0yerea ms hesl1n; after
where he was interested, in land Investments;
nv J = A bp Ala = h not pnr = nf s eiI oo1 pm ianu
land q. 3 fair price; Mr.. Butler marrisd he sis;
Three sons ana tVn dongbiers vyorn Gbn arn
them. His wife died in 1878. During his
m Iong ne emin mT, n mrnt u was me, tn Tbo Irlend r. OF
iyie when in England. and improved Mr..
G inve 3 I moneV for o him. In ! iisss4a cSSe e wsss
mnr = u Ea . hov he o ,rit ne . seCp M. y ts 70 ms
first steamboat ON the Hudson. He visited
Chicago sixty years ago, when it was a mere
again visited it for the Worlds Fair. in his
pipety-third year. In 1886 a ainner was
Sew York, at which many WWeiI.ISown
gree Of III. D.. from Wabash uniiversiittv in +,
1853, and a few years later from New York
League Club. a member of the Century Associa.
o%lution. American Fin Arts Society; American
petuity OF the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The funeral will be held to-day, at 10 o'clock at
the Brick Presbyterian Church. Thirty seventh
street and Fifth avenue. The interment will be
in the family plot at Woodlawn Cemetery.
James Cooper Mckee. a retired surgeon Of the
United States Army. die" in Butler. Pa. on
Saturday of heart failure. Col. Mckee was
born in Butler May IL, 1880. His father was a
soldier In the War OF 1912, and his grandfather.
Thomas Mckee. served in q pennsylvania regi-
ment in the war of the Revolution. In 1852 Col.
Mckee was graduated in the medical depart
ment OF the University OF Pennsylvania at Phila-
delphia. In 1857 he Joined the United States
Army az a contract surgeon. A year later he
WAS regularly eniiste1 mn served IN inc navajo
ina;an oampaign ~ To- anu III tne apache
,pnccnah Smanhpeisn III II mIhtcr oi looO ana
rIoppi " nsm .no EEn n, tpSTiIohe W ~ lsol,
Ioi: norteS was az por' ~, Woio. y; nj, "nere
commanded The Texas militia. The diseracefuI
surrender Of this fort is the subject OF a nara.
tive written nv Col Mckee. which ia on Ale in
the War Department' In 1891 Col. Mckee WINS
retired with The rank of ieutenant-Colone
Iosonh yvaIasr IUiI,o, GIL, - 80 ,uIs"a
So In Orange X. J.. since il WINS incornorstcd
Sunday, at his home in Academy street. South
Orange, of conclusion of the brain, the result of
a fall three hours before. Mr.. WiIdey was born
In New York 81 years ago. and had lived In
South Orange for the past forty years: In 1869
ne established the South Ordmge 6nttet,n. pub
nsning ~ iVr seVsral Yeats hi.nough aiways a
dduunn "ah hoi' ui'''u " o''oh chi