The times., 1901-04-13
OBITUARY.

COL Aidace +. Walker. Chairman Of the
| Board of Directors OF the Atchison and
Santa Fe Railroad Company. died OF an
| gina pectOrfs yesterday morning at his
| home, 50 West Seventy fourth Street. New
York City. Although Colonel Walker had
| not been well for the last SIX weeks. his
/ Illness was not supposed 70 be serious Up
| to the time of his death he spent a part
of each day at his Office and on Thurs
| day he engaged passage for himself. his
| wife, and two of their children on the
steamship Hohenzollern, which sails to-
1 day for Naples
| Colonel Walker was born on MAY IL
! 1912. in Rutland, Vt, and was the son OF
| the Rev Aidace Walker. a Congrega-
tional clergyman OF that city. His moth
| er was Mary Baker. OF Lebanon. y. II
He was graduated from MiddIebury Col
iege. at the head of the class of 1862. and
Immediately went TO the front as a sec
| ond Lieutenant in the Eleventh Vermont
Volunteers.
He served throughout the civil war and
was mustered out as brevet Lieutenant
colonel. His principal engagement was
| In the battle OF Cedar Greek. where he
won one of his several promotions by
r1sking his life 10 save that OF Lieut.
Henry F.. Bedell of his own regiment.
Lieutenant Bedells left leg had been shot
on above the knee and he was left bleed
ing to death on the field. Colonel Walker
remained under fire TO tie up the artery
and then carried him to a place of safety.
Lieutenant Bedeil Is now alive and well
in Vermont
After he was mustered out Colonel
walker pursued his preliminary studies in
law under the guidance and in the office
OF Senator Edmunds of Vermont. after
which he was graduated from the Column
pa Law School Then after four years
practice IN the office of Strong 4 Shepard
OF New York. Colonel Walker returned TO
Rutland, where he remained until 1881
and built up successful practice as a
railroad and corporation lawyer. He
Vermont.
Because of his reputation as railroad
lawyer, ne was chosen IN 1887 by Presi-
dent Cleveland az the Republican member
oil the Interstate Commerce Commission
10 harmOnize the discordaut elements
amons the competing railroads, or to
carry out the gentlemen's agreement
between the members of the Traffic Asso-
citation. After the dissolution OF the as
soctation Colonel Walker went to Europe.
He was recalled to America to become re-
cetver of the Atchison Railroad
He was made chairman Of the reorganIzed
company and had much to do with its
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
Company, the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad
company, and the Southern California
Railroad Company. He was a director OF
the Aztec Land and Cattle Company. the
Central Vermont Railroad Company the
San Francisco and San JOAQUIN Valley
kallroad Company. and the Sonora Rail-
way Company He was also a trustee OF
the New York Security and Trust Com
pany, q past comma nder of the Illinois
Coinrnandery of the Loyal Legion. and a
member OF the West End Collegiate
Church of New York
Colonel Walker married. in 1s71. Cath
erine Shaw, daughter of Hudson Shaw.
OF Wallingford, VT. A widow three chill
dren-Rohert. Harold. and Rutland a
sister-Mary VI Wall1er-survive him. He
was the author Of The Vermont Bri-
gade in the Shenandoah Valley and nu-
merous essays on railroad subjects.
Robert Cochran Bacot, well known as a
civil engineer, and at one time registrar
Of Jersey City, died yesterday from pa
raiysis at his home. 179 Prospect Street.
East Orange, n. ]. He was a descendant
of the Huguenot families of Bacot lie
Saussure. which. after The revocation OF
the rsdict of Nantes. with number of
other French families settIsd in South
Carolina in 1910 His grandfather. Thomas
Wright of Bacot. Was the first Feder.d
postmaster of Charleston. receiving his
appointment from President Washington.
His maternal grandfather. Capt Robert
Cochran, native OF Massachusetts. was
sent to France BY the Government during
the Revolution and n. secured a shipf0ad
OF supplies for WashiEgton's army.
Robert Cochran BacOt was born in
Charleston in 1878. Graduating from the
College of Charleston as a civil engineer.
he engaged in railroad engineering in New
Hampshire the Carolinas, Tennessee, and
Kentucky. In 1sSS he moved to Jersey
City, and in $40 was elected city sur
veyor Ia 1851 he was elected registrar.
and subsequently, chief engineer and SUI
perintendent of the Jersey City Water
Works He also served in the Assembly
and as an alderman In ISL ne married
Mary Gilchrist. Four sons and three
daughters survive him.
From 1856 to 1890 Mr.. Bacot was chair
man of the New Jersey committee OF the
Joint boundary commission of the States
of New York and New Jersey to deter
mine the boundary between those States
in the Hudson River, New York Bay, and
Arthur XIII. The preceding commission
on this boundary line had allowed New
York TO assert jurisdiction up to the New
Jersey shore in the Hudson River and
New York Bay. Mr. Bacot and the New
Jersey committee maintained the right OF
New Jersey to go to the centre OF the
river and bay and would admit OF no
diminution OF that claim, preferring TO
have no agreement II New Jersey tull
claim was not admitted.
After long delay and much discussion
the point was carried, thus regaining TO
New Jersey Jurisdiction of islands I'm New
York Bay with full civil and criminal Ju-
risdiction to the centre OF the waters. as
well as the property rights ap to that
time.
The Rev. Cornelius limerick WyckOf.
pastor of the Reformed Church at Irv-
ngton. n. j.. died on Thursday evening
in his thirty-sixth year. He was born at
Ulster County, II. T., and
was the son Of the Rev. De Witt 3.
IVyckoff, a minister of the Dutch Re-
formed Church, and a grandson OF tho
Rev. Cornelius Wyckoff, both OF whom
we're graduates OF Rutgers College and the
Theological Seminary. He entered Rut-
gers in 1884. but in the following spring,
Iwing to illness. was compelled TO leave
Inder the tutelage of his father he kept
ID with his studies. and entered the semi
lary in 1888. Soon after graduating he
vas called to the Bethany Chapel. in
and later called TO the
Reformed Church at Irvington. of which
he had since been the pastor. He leaves
widow and two daughters
Mrs Elizabeth Grafton, widow Of Cap
ain Joseph Grafton, died on Thursday OF
Id age at her home. 800 Fifth Avenue
lew York. Before her marriage Mrs.
Grafton was a Miss Remseu and was
prominent in New York society.