The times., 1901-06-18
OBITUARY.

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| Government in many positions OF trust,
| and who had been for nearly forty years
| one of the most prominent residents of
Washington, eied a his home. q b Street
northwest. at o'clock Sunday morning.
| Death was due to paralysis from which
the deceased had suffered for nearly ten
years. Private services will be held at the
| residence at 10 O'Clock this morning and
| the remIins will then be shipped to Rich
| mond for interment. The Rev. Frank
Bristol viii oficiate.
Captain Hester had lived life Of great
activity. and before settling down in
Washington, had visited nearly every city
| on the globe. He was born in North Car
| olina. in 1923, and was the son OF the Rev
Benjamin Bruxton Hester He came of
Revolutionary stock his grandfather be-
ing Commander John Casson Whitfield,
who served in the U. S. N. during the
War of Independence.
Captain Hester came to this city about
forty years ago ana Immediately identified
| himself with the interests of the District
| He was the father of the Western Sub
| division. which resulted in the Brooklaud
| of today. He served the Government in
many positions OF trust and in 1873 was
appointed United States Commissioner to
the Worlds Exposition at Vienna, by
| President Grant While on this errand
he performed some valuable services for
this Government through Baron
| Schwartz -Sanborne, and was given the
freedom of Austria by Emperor Francis
Joseph. Later he was attached to the
Department of Justice as confidential ad-
wiser. During President Grants Admins
| tration he was stationed at West Point
with General Belknap.
Il - -r~I,a
boy and at twenty-one was placed in
command of a fast American packetship
plying between the United States and
England He succeeded in breaking the
transatlantic record on several occasions
and his name for years was synonymous
with the supremacy of the American ma
rine. On one occasion he rendered some
valuable services to the Emperor of Brazil
and was personally decorated by the
latter
For many years he was familiar with
diplomatic matters in Europe, and was re-
garded by President Grant as one of the
most valuable men to the Government in
the United States. He was an intimate
friend of Princess Pye, of Austria, and
through her succeeded in gaining an en-
tree into European court circles.
Captain Hester, while never a wealthy
man, devoted his life to the education OF
poor children and had several hundred or
his proteges placed in good positions in
life He never failed to befriend anyone
in trouble and has cared for thousands of
immigrants who arrived in Washington
homeless and friendless.
The Central Union Mission in this city
was founded by Captain Hester who was
widely known for his benevolence- He
was a prominent member of the Metro
pOlitan NJ. E. Church and a devOut Christ
ian. While a great sufferer, he was al
ways cheerful and had thousands of
friends in the District of Columbia. He
leaves wife, who resides in Washington
Madame Angelo d'Istria-La Coste, who
has been i'll since Christmas and has been
living with her only daughter, Miss Marie
Ia Coste, 1914 " Street died yesterday
morning in the eighty-second year OF her
age. The deceased was the widow OF
Arno La Coste and the daughter Of
Count Capper dIstria, who, according to
Miss La Coste. was a fervent French
Royalist, and after Napoleon Is fall was
sent to Russia by the French Government
to negotiate treaty of peace and friend
ship
Madame La Coste was direct descent
ant OF PaOti. the COrsican patriot, and
was said to have borne a very close re
semblanee to him. The eldest sister OF
the deceased was a granddaughter of En-
press Josephine and died in France
number of years ago.
this city for twelve years. Her funeral
Will take place tomorrow afternoon at . /
o'clock from her late residence, 1914 ii
Charleston. =. g, where a number OF rel
atives OF the deceased are buried
Prof. Hermann Friedrich Grimm, whose
father was Wilhelm Karl Grimm, one of |
the two brothers made famous the world
over by their fairy tales. and who was
himself an art critic of high standing. |
is dead, according TO a cable despatch |
from Berlin. whsre he had lived for many
years Prof. Grimm was born on Janu- |
airy 6. 1928, in Kassel and studied at Berlin |
and Bonn.
The study of the history of art and Of |
philosophy later took up his attention. |
and in 1872 he became a professor of the |
history of the fine arts in the University |
at Berlin. He wrote a great deal. Among |
his early works were a drama, Ar
MINUS and a tragedy, "Demetrius. He /
also wrote a number of novels and essays. |
and was the editor of a large work on |
artists and art which appeared about I
1861 He had been living in comparative |
retirement for several years.
In 1884 he became privy councillor. |
daughter of Bettina Won Arnim, who was |
one of Goethe's admirers in the poets |
later days.
Mrs Johanna W Turner died Sunday
at Phoebus. Va. aged seventy-eight years
She was the widow of DR.. William d.
Turner. who died in Little Rock in 1878.
he was surgeon during the civil war of
the Seventy-third Illinois Volunteers.
Mrs. Turner declined to be separated
from her husband while he was in the
army and enlisted as a Regular Army
nurse and was near him all through the
The attention of General Grant
was directed to her devotion. and after
the death of her husband re secured for
her a good clerkship in the Quarter
master Generals Office n Washington.
the efforts of General Logan |
she received a special pension of SO
month from Congress. The body of Mrs |
Turner win be taken to Arlington for |
interment.
Gen. Eugene May. Inspector General of
the Louisiana State National Guard, died
suddenly yesterday as the result of an
accident several days ago. when his horse
fell on him while he was out riding. Gen
eral May was fifty-six years old and
native of Owensboro. KY. He entered the
Confederate army when only fifteen years
old and was corporal at seventeen. He
was prominent in the reorganization of |
the Democracy after the civil war. He
owning number of fire animals. He was
President Of the New Orleans Horse Show
Association.
William B. Schmidt. one of the oldest
merchants in New Orleans and head of
the largest wholesale grocery house in
the South, died at his home in New Or
leans yesterday, aged seventy-eight years.
Mr.. Schmidt was a native of Schweirnin-
gen Alsace. He came to America when |
fifteen and at twenty-three years of age
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