The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-25

The Rev. Michael j. Cramer of East Orange,
N. j.. q brother-in-law Of Gen. Grant, whose
death at Carlisle, Pa, was announced In HI
SUN yesterday. received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Syracuse University. and the de-
gree Of Doctor of Laws from Ohio Wesleyan
University, where he WAS graduated in
1859. He was born in 1885 in Schaff-
hausen. Switzerland. but came to the United
States when a child with his parents. His
mother died when he was 5 years of age.
His father met with business reverses,
so that young Cramer had to 20 to work
in q German printing office. Ho educated
himself at night. and prepared for college.
working his way through. He was appointed
Consul at Leipsic by President johnson and
served at that place four years. In response to
a petition from business men at Cincinnati.
where DR.. Cramer had been pastor of a Metho-
dist church, Gen. Grant appointed him Minister
1881, when Gen. Garfield made him Charge
d'Affaircs to Switzerland, with headquarters ut
Bsrne; He returned t4t r cI to then United Rites sta states s;ni In
that time had devoted himself to literary work
and teaching. He was professor of systematic
Seminary. and at the time, of his death
Carlisle. He spoke and read five modern Ian.
guages. and was a Latin. Greek, and. Hebrew
f Tnited states r ea@s Il the he zeasehr ~
MIS-. Mary T. Grant cramer. he is survived BY
n son. Jesse Grant Cramer, assistant professor
of modern languages at Lehigh University.
Brief funeral services were held last night at
Carlisle, and the BODY will reach East Orange
to-day In charge OF his son.
Henry Carter. the oldest Judge in point of ser
vice in Massachusetts. died in Haverhill yester.
day morning after thirty years on the local
and was a son OF Mr.. and Mrs: John Carter. He
was related on his mothers side to the Hamlin
family. and was pushed forward in his career by
the late Hannibal Hamlin. Left an orphan at
Is he started In life as a printer, was editor of
the Portland ADVERTISER. spent two years at
S G9ss p9ilat' % at P { GsiefpSH i IN 1885, isS eH sPd i"ter
was of the Massachusetts-New Hampshire
Boundary Commission. Neal Dow was his
warm friend.
Washington Ashley Barton. OF years old. was
buried yesterday from tho residence of his SON
in-law, at 81 Chestnut avenue, Jersey City.
Mr.. Barton died on Friday night. III had been
in the insurance business in this city and Jersey
City for many years.
Edward ]. Williams. "a years old, died on
Saturday night at his home, 443 York street.
Iioms WAS a member of tho New Jersey Slate
survive him.
Charles F. Reed of Auburn. CAL, once owner
Of the largo Fair ranch. died yesterday. Reed
was well known in San Francisco. where his
family lived for many years. as well as In New
York. His sister was the late Mrs. Paran
Stevens.
The Rev. j. f. Ockerman, a weli-known Meth
odist Episcopal minister. died yesterday at his
residence IN Baltimore. He was born on Oct.
30. 1885. at Everett. Pa. where his mother, now
Mrs. s. Fletcher, Survives him.
Maria Gouverncur Mitchell. daughter of 9.
Weir and Mary Gadwaiader MICHEL. died yes,
terday at 1924 Walnut street, Philadelphia, In
her twenty'second year.
O. IL. Shallenberger. consulting engineer OF
the Westinghouse company at Pittsburg, died
in Colorado Springs on Sunday OF