The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-30
OBITUARY.

! Joseph Theron died on Tuesday from
pneumonia at Cannes. France He was az
one time one OF the most prominent
| Frenchmeu In New York City. He came
| to New York In 1853. and entered the COM
mission and importing business. He was
| one OF the founders and the first Presi-
| dent OF the Xavier Union, which is now
| the Catholic Club. He served several
| terms Mt the head OF that organization.
and was also one of the organizers of the
| Xavier Alumni Sodality. The Pope con-
| ferred on him the decoration of Com
mander of the Order of st. Gregory. He
| was again decorated. FIVE years later.
when King George of Greece made him
| Commander of the Order of the Saviour
| in recognition of his services to the Greek
colony in New York City.
About 1850 he married a daughter OF
Samuel S. Ward who was then the Amer
lean representative at offices in New
York and Boston of the London banking
| firm of Barring Brothers. She died some
years ago. Her mother. whose death &C.
| Cured in this city recently. was very
prominent in Massachusetts society. and
was one Of the original members of the
Brook Farm experiment.. She was con-
verted to the Roman Catholic faith IT.
| tie before their marriage.
Inc only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Thoron is the wife of William C. Endi-
colt IT., son of the Secretary of War
| IN Mr.. CleVeland's first Cabinet. Their
! son, Ward 1horon is a lawyer In WASH
| inSton. Mr.. Thoron also leaves one
brother, Casimir. who at present is in
France. About five years ago Mr. Theron
gave up his apartments in the Catholic
| CLUB, which he had nlade his home since
| the death of his wife. and went to
France. He never returned to this coun-
try.
| He had spent the declining years of his
| life in collecting data for history Of tina
| Thoron family, which Is one of the oldest
| In southern France. The manuscript was
completed just prior to his death. Mr..
| Thorons daughter, Mrs. Endicott, ard
| her husband sailed on Wednesday on the
| Oceanic to bring the body to this coun-
| try. The burial will probably be made in
Boston, where Mrs. Theron Is buried.
Mrs. Josephine A. Gray, the wife of the
Rev. George H. Gray, the pastor OF the
Vandever Park Methodist Episcopal
Church in the Flatbush district, Brook
| lyn, died on Thursday at her home ils
East Twenty eighth Street, New York.
from neutrality-suspicious.. She was en-
gagged in evangelstic work to the time
of her marriage, thirteen years ago and
she actively assisted her husband in his
various ministerial fields. The Vandever
Park Church has only been organized
about a year. Mrs. Gray was president
v.
ident of the Maspeth Womens Christian
Temperance Union She had long assisted
the late Rev. Job Bass in religious ser
vices at Raymond Street jail. The funer-
al service will be held at the Vandeyer
Park Church this afternoon.
Miss Frances NJ Street, granddaughter
of Major Andrew Billings, of Revolutions
airy fame. died yesterday at the home Ut
her brothsr-in-law, Mr.. Benjamin c. Ber-
roll. 16 East Biddle Street. Baltimore.
Miss Street ~as born in Poughkcepsle,
n. Y She had lived in Baltimore for up
ward of half century. One of her broth
ers, William Street, was the father OF
Mrs Levi p. Morton Another trother
Alfred 3. Street, was "A well-known poet
and friend of Longfeilow. The funeral
will take place tomorrow at Mount Cal
vary Church, Baltimore. The burial will
be private.
The Rev. James w. Denton, who died
in the New Haven Hospital, at New
Haven, on Tuesday. aged eighty-three
years, wrote his own obituary notice two
years ago and it was made public yester-
day. He was born in New Brunswick,
n, j. He states that when he was thir-
teen years old he was Instrumental in
forming the New York Youths Temper
ance Society, of which Bishop Coke. Of
western New York. was a member at the >
time
After an illness of but three days, Mrs.
John r. Mcpherson. wife OF The late Sem
ator from New Jersey, died from pneu-
monia early yesterday morning at her
apartments, 81 Lexington Avenue New
York. Mrs. Mcpherson, who was Miss
Edia j. Gregory. was born in Buffalo In
ISL. She was married to John r. Nc I
Pherson about thirty-five years ago. They
had two children-Gregory and Edla.
Charles F. Patrick, one of the most
widely known sporting men in the South
and West. stepfather of William A
Brady, the fight promoter died at Nash
vile, on Thursday night. Mr. Patrick
moved to the Pacific Coast from the South
In boyh0od. but in recent years made his
home in Chicago and other Western cities.