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| WI. W.. W. ls'llk IN u'tu "a lis ilOIHt III u
cll1 Tex. lie was one OF the foremost citlyeps
OF Texas. He WIS born in Alabama on May iS
1920. and moved to Texas in 1907. He served
under Gen. Joe Wheeler as a Confederate Cap
tain and rose TO the ran. of Colonel before the
war closed. In 1874 ho was elected Master Of
the State Grange, serving until 1850. In 1875 he
was appointed by Gov. Richard Coke to FIX the
site of the Texas Penitcntiary. which he did plac-
ing II at Rusk, Cherokee county. In 1915 he was
elected TO the state Legislature. and in
1873 was O Democratic candidate for the nom
Throckmorton and Richard B, Hubbard,
nomination. ms shown by 1885 ballots. and Judge
q. NJ. Roberts was chosen. In 1850. having re-
signed the Office ~ Master OF the state Grange.
Col. Lang was elected President Of the South
western immigration Company, and went to
Europe In the interest of the company in 1881,
remaining there three years, In 1885 President
Cleveland appointed him Consul 10 Hamburg,
in, which office he served unlil the fall Of 1880,
when he retired from public life.
Eugene Thomson, once u member of the
Stock Exchange and well known IN Wall Street
for nearly thirty years, died on Monday u
left this country In May and intended to re-
turn the latter part of October. In Paris Mr.,
Ihon?on's health became poor and attrlb-
uting II to the excessive heat he went TO Etre-
tat, Kidney trouble developed IN a few days
and IN operation was performed without anvil,
Mr.. Thompson was born IN this city on Feb.
8. 1895. When a young man he went TO Cali
fOrnia and was one of the first to travel across
the isthmus by what IS now known as tho Nica-
ragma route. he retired from business Ia
many years IA prominent member Of the South
Reformed Church. but of late years hnd at
tended 81. Bartholomew. He was one Of
the oldest nembers of the Union League Club.
DR.. Cortland Van Rensselaer, Creed, a we'll
known negro physician Of, New Haven, died
suddenly yesterday Of Bright's disease. He
was graduated from the Yale Medical school
In the class OF 1851. and for many years there
after p~ractised medicine in New Haven with
success. He had among his patients members
OF the besi-known families Of the city. During
the war he was appointed surgeon TO some
troops which were being organized in Com
n%ecticut. but he never went TO the front.
After the war DR.. Creed came to New York,
but he returned TO New Haven after about
ten years absence. He always said he was
a Skull and Bones man Of Yale. This has been
disputed by members OF that famous secret
s9Sie, WAS h rroS E4rT Of en hi i'm Fl The He s %ns y
member Of the q. A. K, although having never
seen service. and when this latter fact was
disc9yered a rev Years age HI, name was struck
about 83 years old.
George d. Sweetser Of Sweetser. Pembroke
4 Co.. 379 Broadway. died on Tuesday eve
ming at the Hotel Majestic after a lingering
OF his wife in 1897 Mr., Sweetscr had lived alone
In his apartments at the hotel, He was "a
years ola, having Dten born IN AthOl, Macs,
In 1929. A n young man he went 10 Worcester,
Mass, as salesman In a dry goods business.
From Worcester he moved To Brooklyn, where
he engaged in the retail business for himself.
In the year 1853. with J. Howard Sweetser,
he formed the New York wholesale dry goods
house of Sweetspr 4 Co. Five years later
the Sweetsers associated with them William
A. Pombrook, under the firm name of Swceisnr,
Pembroke 4 Co. Mr.. Swcets"r was a member
of the Broadway Tabernacle, where his funeral
| will be held this afternoon AT 2 o'clock.
Tn" Rev; ps Cyra, Hamlin Of lexington,
died last night, in Portland, Me. lie had al
tended a church reunion and had just reached
| the home Of his nephew, Cyrus Farley, when no
years old. a native Of Waterford, Nc. a sradu.
ate OF BridRton Academy, Bowdoin College
and Bangor Theological Seminary, lie was
founder Of Rnebe Seminary and Robert College
in Constantinople. One of his sons. Prof. Al
bert Hamlin,, Is a mcmber of the faculty Of
Walter Russell Johnston died Yesterday at
was born in leith. Scotland, in isi6. when
music under the %tutelage OF Dr, Hodges, a
famous organist Of that time. For fcrty-two
years he was the organist Of the st Paul Vi, tho
dist Episcopal Church at Eighty-siSth street
and West End avenue. Ills wife survives
him.
The funeral services Of Henry ID. Oliphant,
who died at his residence in West Orange on
Monday night. were held yesterday. MIR. OH
phant was an expert accountant and was for
ten years collector of taxes IN West Orange.
He Is survived by his wife and three sons, one
Of whom is the Rev. Charles II. Oliphant OF
Methuen, Mas.
Capt. Harry Sammis died on Tuesday at hts
home In Huntington. l.. l., whore he had lived
all his life. In his eighty-frst year. For many
years he was a captain In the packct trade be-
tween New York and Boston. and later had
| oh r,ro nf sn1allnr NpSSals plyipU hot Wppp Sound
| orts.
Albert Bull Is dead at his home in Middle
town. lie wss II years old, was President Of
the Middletown Bank and Nice-lrcsident of
the Merchants National Bank OF Middlet ow n
and owned a seat IN the Consolidated Stock
Fl change Of New \ oTk.
The Rev, Joseph J, Pitts. one Of the oldest
and best-kn0wn ministers Of the tennessee
conference of the VI. r. Church South, died
Yesterday in Nashville, aged 80 years. lie had
been "A preacher for iorty-uine years.