St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-01
MEN, WOnEN AND EVENTS.


, DR.. William H. Draper, native O
: Brattleboro and one of New Yorks bes
known hospital physicians. died in New
York last week. He was a graduate o
Columbia College and of the College o
Physicians and Surgeons. He was E
trustee and president of this institution
before it was merged with Columbia
and since 1889 he has been a trustee o
that university. In the New York Hos
pital his service covered a period oil
thirty-nipe years. He was attending
physician at Roosevelt Hospital from the
time of its organization in 1871 until he
resigned and became consulting physi-
clan in 1897. He was also connected
with st. Luke's, the Presbyterian and
Trinity hospitals, the New York House
of Mercy and the Northwestern Dispen-
sary. He was president OF the Academy
of Medicine in 1886.
Mrs. Eunce Russ Davis, Dedham,
Mass. oldest resident, died last week of
old age. She was 100 years and six
months of age. Her father served during
the Revolutionary war in the Twenty
Third Regiment. He took part in the
battles of Lexington, Concord and Bun
ker HILL and for his valiant services in
the last named engagement received
special recognition from General Wash
ington and his officers. Her mother was
a full-blooded Narragansett Indian.
Mrs. Davis had the distinction of being
the only surviving member of the
Woman's Ant. Slavery Board of Boston
and the oldest female abolitionist in the
United States. She was a witness of the
mobbing of William Lloyd Garrison, as
sisted at the memorable reception to
Frederick Douglass, and was present at
all the notable anti-slavery gatherings
in Boston.
James Douglass Reid, known by tele-
graphers throughout the country as
"the father Of the telegraph" died in New
York Sunday afternoon after a long i'll
ness. He was born in Scotland in 1918
and came to this country 16 years later
In 1889 he returned to his native land as
United States consul at Dunfermlin.
This appointment was secured through
the influence of Andrew Carnegie who as
messenger boy served under Mr. Reid in
Pittsburg, He reinquished his office in
1897. Mr.. Reid was prominently identi-
fed with telegraphy in its early days.
He was near friend of Prof. S. F. B.
Morse, and the statue of Prof. Morse in |
Central Park, New York, was erected by |
the telegraph fraternity through his
efforts.
DIR. Edmund A. Engler, of St. Louis
who has been elected president of the
Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute,
to succeed DR.. Thomas c. Mendenhall at
the end of the present school year, was
born in st. Louis on December 30, 1856,
and was graduated from the Washing
ton University at St. Louis in 1876. He
has been professor of mathematics in the
at st. Louis since 1881. Since
1896 he has been dean of the engineering
school at Washington University. His
speciality is higher mathematics, but he
IS an excellent classical scholar and
master of French and German.
John Fiske, the historian, of Cam
bridge, Mass, has been invited to deliver
an address at the celebration which will
De held in the coming summer at Win
chester, England. to commemorate the
000th anniversary of King Alfred the
Greats death. The memorial of the
occasion will be large statue of King
Alfred, which will be unveiled at Win
chester, and a building to be used as a
museum of early English history. The
invitation has been accepted, and short
lime ago Mr.. Fiske completed his ar
'angements for sailing from America
or England early in July.
Adelbert S. Hay, son Of Secretary Of
State Hay, has resigned his position as
United States Consul at Pretoria, South
africa. 1t is said that be resigned be-
ause the expenses connected with the
post are so much above the salary re-
,eived that he could not afford to retain
he office. In view Of the great expense
IF living at Pretoria it is possible that
the office will be left vacant until con-
gress can have an opportunity to act on
a recommendation from the president
that the salary of the consul be in
creased.
The Rt. Rev. William Stubbs, Lord
Bishop OF Oxford, one of the most dis
of English prelates, and one
OF the most learned modern historians,