The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02
OBITUARY.

| Jonn a. FRAZER, II. Y. A., q painter OF note In
water colors, died yesterday morning at his
homo. 156 East Ninety-second street. after q
prolonged illness. Mr.. Fraser was SO years
old. He was born of an old Scotch family in
London. England, and devoted his whole life
to art. Cooperating with the MARQUIS of Lorno.
he helped to found the Royal Canadian Acade-
my Of Fine Arts, and was made It's first acade-
mician. For several years he was the director
of the Government nrt school in Toronto.
He was a first medalist OF tho Columbian
Exposition and the post Of honor was
given, to his picture. The Heart Of Scot
series of water colors exhibited at the Canadian
Club a few yenrs ago, and also his English land
V,aladon & Co. Of this city. will be recalled by
al art lovers. Mr.. Fraser!esme to Nsw York in
n prominent member of the American Water
Color Society. He was an elder brother of w.
a mSwts a r1ss e b @6t mp1ngsr OF Of fhe The een iIlpstr msg.
Henry Sandman. He leaves three sons. John
A., Augustps G., and Donald l.: and three
Mrs. Gerald Brennan.
David Oppenheimer, died in Vancouver. B. C..
on Friday He VIII be buried in the Jewish
ers CT Vancouver and its second Mayor. He
came to the United States in 1864 from Bavaria
ago doctors informed Mrs. Oppenheimer that
her husband might die Mt any moment OF heart
veloped a mental ailncnt. While Mr.. Open
t ne,Mnr Ma she e' Threw herself RI Tfi from e1 H sss train rIrk a lof
etery, here. Her husbands death soon ,fol:
lowed, and his dying wish was that he be laid
by the side OF his wife. He was. the head Of n
large wholesale firm and one of the most widely
known men in British Columbia.
The Rev. James Major. s. j., died yesterday at
the st. Joseph's Church, rectory in Providence.
He was born in Irelsnd in 1873. and came to
Of mathematics in the navy until the opening
Of tho Nayrl Academy at Annapolis, when
employed m in the National Observatory at
Washington. where he remainsd for a
s sU : Of Of jesus jesus h af'' was '0i tehebor te of
astronomy and Municipalities at st: %Ignatius
For nine years he was pastor of the Church of
the Sacred Heart, Whitmarsh. Md. He had
been in Providence ten Years.
Mrs. Mary Ann Palfrey. widow Of tho his
torian, Prof. John Gorhnm Palfrey, who died at
her home in Cambridge. Mass. on Tuesday morn.
sHs f SSd rs iiseaa e'iT n G Gas 9dsisd siyn ss''F1dsssyii
S Sea had Of been Ser hns BBartd s on HpTIl : aG' ,s the
Reric,r, Professor OF Sacred Literature at Har-
ward in 1890, member Of the State Legislature,
monwealth. Their two sons, Gen. John c. Pal
frey. and the late Gen. Francis "; Palfrey, WOE
their titles in the war OF the rebellion.
Judge George C. Drane. aged ~, ono of Ken.
ternoon of heart disease. in Frankfort. KY. He
was stricken on Friday. and never rallied.
Judge Drane was a native Kentuckian and was
on the Circuit bench for twelve years. He was
a law partner OF eX.Chief Justice William s.
Pryor. He leaves a widow, a son. Paul, a New
York newspaper man, another son. f. C., and
two daughters. Mrs. Virgil Hewitt. and Miss
Luise.
Albert Carhart Of the late firm of LeIdy &
Carbart died in Washington on Friday. He was
a descendant OF Major Cornelius Carhart of the
Revolutionary Army and a member of the Dis
trict Society Of Sons of the Revolution. He will
be buried at Carlisle. Pa.
f. f. Marx, known to all the members of Con.
gress as driver OF tho Congressional Library de-
livery wagon. Is dead. the result of undue ex-
posure. He entered the library with Mr.. Spot.
ford as q messenger.
Leander S. Daniels, a .well-known boot and
shoe manufactures. died yesterday in West
Midway. Mass, Of paralysis, aged SO. He rep
resented tho town in the Legislature of 1871.
David H. Humphrey. paying teller of tho
Manufacturers Bank Of Lansingburg. n. Y,
died suddenly yesterday of heart failure. He
was So years old.
David Walker. ono Of the oldest bank officials
of Washington. died on Friday.