The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-17
OBITUARY.

Hopkins University, one of the most
noted physicists in the world died short
| ly before o'clock yesterday morning at
his home. 9i5 Cathedral Street. Balti-
more. Md. He lad been suffering all the
winter from diabetes, but no one thought
| his illness serious until yesterday
afternoon.
| Prof. Rowland was well known as an
| inventor. his numerous inventions, in
Guiding the multiplex telegraph instru-
iiient, and the machine for making diff
| fraction gratings. brought him great re-
nown. He was born in Honesdale, Pa,
! on November q. 1913. his father being
| the Rev. Henry A. Rowland, well
| known Presbyterian clergyman. He was
| graduated at the Rensselaer, Polytechnic
| Institute in 1870. as civil engineer. and
spent some time in railway engineering
| corps.
| In 1875 Prof. Rowland went abroad and
| spent a year studying under Henholtz.
| in Berlin. and examining laboratories on
| the Continent. Shortly after his return
| to this country in 1876. he was invited to
accept the chair of physics including
charge of the laboratories at the Johns
Hopkins University, and has ever since
| held that place.
OF Prof. Rowland's two most famous
| inventions. the machine for making diff
fraction gratings probably brought him
the greatest renown- Photographs of the
suns spectrum made with the help of
the gratings cannot be equaled by any
other method in use at present. The null
| tiplex telegraph instrument. designed to
facilitate the sending OF four or more
| messages over one wire at the same time.
| has stood the severest tests and the pat
ents have been transferred to a company.
which is now engaged in making the
Instruments.
AS a consulting engineer he held high
rank and of late years had been engaged
in directing many great works, including
the Harvesting of the water power of
Niagara Falls to produce electricity.
Prof. Rowland has taken part in some
noteworthy scientific gatherings. He was
a member of the Electrical Congress
which met in Paris during the Exposition
of 1881, and for his work on the Jury of
the electrical exhibition ne was made
CheVaiief of the Legion of Honor of
| France.
He was a member of the international
commission for establishing electrical
| physics of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science on several
occasions and he received from the Amer
lean Academy of Arts and Sciences in
lSS4 the Rumford medal for his researches
as to light and heat
Prof. Rowland leaves widow who was
Miss Henrietta Harrison, daughter of the
late George l.. Harrison, of this CITY and
three small children. He also has three
sisters, who live in Newark, N. j.
James Sheehy, well known in New York
for half century as a book publisher.
died at his home in New York City yes
terGay. His death was due to apopIexy.
Ele WAS man of powerful build and as
active as young man up to 4 day before
his death
Mr.. Sheehy was of buoyant DISPOSE
ton. and although he saw his once PROS
porous business. with branch houses in
many of the sa5.ils cities of the United
States. gradtis u. Tade away, his courage
never abapdo1t: oim and he never des-
paired of being able to place himself
again ~ solid foundation in the cum
mercial world.
OF late years he WAS the general agent
of the Encyclopedia BRITANNICA" and he
was also engaged in the publication of a
few Catholic books and a map of ancient
Ireland.
of St. Paul the Apostle on Friday. He
will be buried in Baltimore where his
son, the Rev. J. o. Sheehy, will conduct
the service at the grave.
Mrs EIecta Allen Sanderson Dawes,
wife of ex-Unlted States Senator Henry
L. Dawes, died in Pittsheld. Mass. on
Monday after n long illness. Mrs. Dawes
had been in failing health for about two
years. She was a daughter of Chester
and Anna Sanderson, of Ashfieid. Mass,
and was born In that town on January
80. Isl. While attending the public schools
she became acquainted with Mr.. Dawes
who was teacher in the Ashfield Acad-
envy They were married on May l. 1874.
and went to North Adams, where Mr.
Dawes began to practice law.
The family removed to PittsfieId in 1864
and after MIR. Dawes became Senator
spent the winters in Washington. Mrs
Dawes. since the appointment of her hus-
band to the Indian Commission. hard fire.
quently accompanied him to the West
Capt Ernest wiltz died in the Confed-
crate Soldiers Home at New Orleans on
Monday. aged sixty-one years. He was
of old Creole family.
He was captain of the Creole Company
Chasseurs OF the Confederate army He
remained I'm Richmond, Va, after the civil
war. going into journalism on the En-
quireT and Despatch
He was appointed United States COM
missioner for the southern district of
Florida and remained there until two
years ago, when disa bied by a fall. The
rest of his life he spent in the New Or
leans Soldiers Home.
Charles N .dcGuire, a veteran attache
of the Brooklyn Registers office. died on
Monday night at his home. 49, Harrison
Street. He-served as deputy register I'M
der Henry H. Hagerty. and after Mr.
Howe took charge of the office he had to
handle all the documents placed on hle
George Crook, who had been managing
clerk for Mailcy & Van Dusen. insurance
brokers, in Brooklyn. for several years,
died Monday at st. Peters Hospital
Brooklyn, where he had recently under
gone an operation for appendicitis.
John j. Wilson. who died on Sunday at
his home. 100 McDonough Street, Brook
lyn. in his si1 ty-third year. was the head
OF the Wilsoh * Baltic Manufacturing
Company.