The sun., 1900-05-09
OBITUARY..

Robert schel died Yesterday OF pneqpmonl.
born i'm Ghne6schr rn1is,i,, Oct asa IsalS rgS Hs
daughter OF the late Corey Taber. She dled
four years ago, lie was Wember OF the .Ql.
was the treasurer Of the New York Historical
Society Five years ago he resigned the Office
Of rEesldsnt Of ,Ie Bank Of the Meropons'
He was Vicc-President OF the German Savings
Bank, a director of the Harlem Railroad Com.
pany and trustee OF the College OF the City OF
Hospital the New York Eye and Ear Infrmary,
and Woodawn Cemetery. lie was a member
Of the Chamber of Commerce, and belonged 70
the st Nicholas Society and the ~. Nicholas
club. One son. Frank Schell. lawyer, sur
wives him
the late lion. David 5 Jones, an eminent law
yer of New York city, died on Sunday night
last at his resi- idence in. Norwich, Conn. where
grandfather was Samuel Jones, Recorder of the
city of New York from 1887 to 1907. when he was
succeeded by the late Chancellor Kent. and vas
troIler OF New York State. Re was styled by
Chancellor Kent The Father of the New York
Bar" Mr Jones vas ,he iheed Of Was9inston
and Was himself an author OF no little repuia-
ton. lie was librarian Of Columbia College, OF
wh,ch he was graduate for fourteen years.
widow survives.
DR. IanGon Carter Gray. widely known a.
specialist in nervous and mental discusses dlod
Yesterday at his home, East Forty-nitih
street. after an illness ol more than a year. lie
wa.Sborn IN this city on April 3. 1880. studied at
Heidelberg md bellevue aud was AZ different
times President of the New York County Medical
ton, the New York NeurologicaI SoCi'ty uud
the Society Of Medical Jurisprud"ncr He
presided over the last three sessions u
The Executive Committee e the Con-
gresS OF American Physicians and SulgcoNS.
was the author of n work on nervou" di1rGSes
that Ia considered standard.and won consider
abe reputation as a medico- -cgal expert is
wa a member of the trion and MON leas 10
Clubs. He leaves u widow.
Percy Thurston, who for fourteen year had
bee, head janitor OF the IIeminwav GyInnu-uia
AT Harvard. died Of hcmorrlaE" y"at"IaF
while on hi5 way irolu IL, EOmc 70 the eym'AS-
FUN. He leayesa wife but no children H. IL
the strength test, aud during his term OF ~
vice had measured all Of Harvard al iy''- lie
also assisted DR. Sargent in taking The test ~
many famous professionals among whom 70
John l.. sullivan, tOrheii. SandpW, Nharh'y.
Jehries and fitaNiu'nons
Dr Thomas Craig head Of the department VI
ma hemaitcs at the JOINS ilupkIn> mv"r'ity
ond one OF the best known mathcmHtIcall, IN
America, died of heart failure y"~trrdaY at ll,
home in Baltimore. He was ~ vcar~ Old 'Ie
gradna'ed from Lafayette tqN"c" a, a cHl
engineer in 1873, ard took the degree ui doctor
OF philosophy N Johus liOphl lns In lNlN. from
is1G-ls $40 he was n fellow ol ~" lustituugr lis
held h" editorial char o' IN" AtplfHH JsWNds
Of Mathematics for several v"aIs WIDOW mo
two daughters survive
Mrs Maria " Sherwood IA" Oldest r"S,d"nt
OF New Rochelle. died yt-terdH' ~ her Nh'n
wear. She waa the widow 81 John Ne,'"y
Sherwood and for eighty ycarS Was = ,raclnR
member OF the Upper New Rochciir Me'h ,d-t
Episcopal Church. -Four children, ono oi whom
Is rs years old, r'irviv" nor md 'hr leaves
grandchildren and ereal-rrHr rdchudr"r
Mrs MarianitR Cusio Mallct-Preyos', woo"
OF Dr Greyeuu Ma,l"t-PT"vOst of Phlad"ipha,
died yesterday at ZaclteCa~, Mexico she "As
tho mother II Severe Malet- Provost Of ms
city, who was one Of the counsel Tor ne
Venezuelan Govcrumcnt before n" Arbi'rr
ton BOARD on the boundary Nnr dispute
between Ncnezucln and Bril-, Guiana
Former Senator John VI Douglas, q MiddIN-
town, toun.. died Yesterday IN LuliipTd, uih'
He was one ot the leading R"pu1llcanN ~ on.
nnCtCut lie Wa stat" Senator and u"lhht' "l
thn House o' Repre- entativcs igr ,"Nera irrWN'
lie was delegate To several National k"lGn-