The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-14
OBITUARY..

Conn.,, and one of tho largest and best.known
mine owners in this country. died at Denver.
Col. suddenly on Saturday night. Death was
duo to heart disease. He was IS years of age,
and was born in Waldo. Me. His early life was
spent on his fathers farm. When Is years old
he went to Australia. There he discovered tho
first gold ever found on that continent and it
was his discovery that led to the wild rush to
the Australian gold fields in the early iffties.
He spent several years in Australia. but re-
turned to this country in 1858. went to Colorado.
and prospccted there in search OF gold. In 1877
tv. in tbe Wet mountain valley. This mine has
been one of the richest producers in the United
States and has been the subject of much litiga-
ton, lawsuits growing out of the ownership
having been in the highest courts of this country
for years AM at the present time are undecided.
Subsequently, TO the discovery of the Bassick
mine Mr.. Bassick secured an interest in several
othor very valuable mining properties in Col
orado. He was also extensively interested in
Colorado coal lands. He leaves O widow, three
sons and one daughter.
Henry C. Minor. State Senator of Louisiana,
died Yesterday at his Southdown sugar planta-
OF the leading sugar planters of Louisiana and
came of illustrious stock. his father having been
o on e 9 ! Mr. Minor Hnor'0 held ID sns oas'iG p OF t
offices as a. Democrat. In 1884 he led tho move
ment by which a largo number of sugar plant
issue OF politics. His political change was
also largely due to the influence of james G.
IlhlDts WIN was u VI lib. NlInUT uluu6
tho race for Congress as the Republican candi-
date then. but was defeated. Since then Mr..
i; M'h ,Gr n sasa oe wip sne OF ~f fbe p porhHl H. ,I wes msSa
Collector OF the Port OF New Orleans. had the
offer OF the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor and Congress. which he declined, but ac-
cepted the nomination for the State Senate. to
which he was elected in 1896.
Francis NJ. Harris, for many years President
OF the Nassau Bank, at Nassau and Beekman
streets. died Yesterday morning at his residence
tended Phillips Andoyer Academy. mud after
E sa beeems , elsrs hs s a Sasf. to He we es%S 10
M ;.'ISr York ,b in 1850 and RdDt became 4as' HSs
in 1869. Mr.. Harris was the third President
since the bank was organized in 1852. He WAS
the Manhattan Club. and also OF the Society of
the Sons of Oneida. He possessed . very valua.
twenty-five years in coilscting. Ho was The
founder of the Harlem Library. He leaves a
widow and daughter.
Gramercy Apartments, 81 Gramercy Park. at
Ripley, o. Feb. 10. 1852. At the age Of 10 he
lie was appointed Lieutenant. Junior
Grade; In 1883, and in the following
intendont OF the House Of Refuge in This
city and he served In that capacity for two
In 1894 and was assigned to the cruiser Colum.
bia. He was on her when she made her excep.
tionally fast run from southampton. He was
appointed navigating officer of tho monitor
Amphitrite in 1896. For the last year he Ind
been in charge of the branch photographic
Office in this city.
Julia Harriet Pratt. wife of Colin Macrae In.
gersoll. ex-COngressman. died yesterday at hor
homo In New Haven. She was the daughter of
Zadoc Pratt OF Prattsville, N. Y. She was
q member OF the Woman's Anthropologica
Society OF Washington. and was known ms a
Coming of the Angel Easter Even Through
Whitsuntide." and Gathered Waits" and a
selection of poems. She was tho mother of
Lawyer George Pratt lngersoll OF New York
city.
DIR. William p. Morrissy. for moro than ten
years a Police Surgeon in Brooklyn. died yester-
street, Greenpoint. He was born in Canada. A
few years ago he was q candidate for Coroner.
but WAS defeated. He leaves a widow, three
daughters. and one son.
Charles L. Cozine, a veteran of the civil war
and for twenty years an employee In the Brook
lyn Tax Department, died on Saturday afternoon
at his home in Bay Twenty.ninth street, Ben
Brooklyn So years ago. He leaves a widow.
James Scully. ono OF the most popular young
| men in Troy. died yesterday. He was about 81
years old and was considered ono Of the finest
telegraph operators in central New York.
Annie Emmett Harris. eldest daughter OF DIR.
Thomas Adds EInmet and wife OF Charles y.
Harris, died OF pneumonia yesterday at her
home, "a East Fifty.fourth street.
DIR. Sir Richard Quain, Physician Fxtraor'
binary to Queen Victoria, Is dead. lie was a
member OF many learned societies and the au'
| thor of numerous medical works.
Prof. ZachRrlas Topelius, tho Finnish author,
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