The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-25
OBITUARY.

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lawyer. died at Palm Beach, Fla, yester-
day morning from pneumonia. Colonel
| James went to Florida In the Iatter part
| OF February to recuperate from the ef-
| fects of n serious attack of the grip. He
! had so far recovered as to arrange for
his return on last Friday but a sudden
| drop in the temperature week ago
brought on a return of the disease, which
| developed into pneumonia. The body viii
be taken to ogdensburg. y. Y
Colonel James was born in Og1ens-
burg on May /. lsF. He was educated
in the public schools and at Walnut Hill
Academy, Geneva. At the outbreak OF
the war. he entered the Fiftieth New
York Volunteers and was rapidly pro-
NOTED. He finally became colonel of the
10th New York. In the fail of 1863 he re-
signed because of disability incurred in
the service.
Colonel James was admitted to the bar
in October. 1863. and in the following year
formed a partnership In Ogdensburg with
Stlliinln Foote. which was dissolved in
EtL At the time OF his death he was
James. Schell & Elkus. at So Pine Street
New York.
He had been employed in number OF
famous cases. = He was counsel for the
Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
ana the jay Gould estate. He was "a
member of the Lotus and Lawyers clubs
Lorin Rlodgett, statistioian and china
tologist. died at his home in Philadelphia
yesterday. He was eighty years old He
was born in jamestown, n. Y, was edu-
Gated at the academy there and at Geneva
College. In 1851 he was appointed to the
Smithsonian Institution. where his re-
searches and reports on the climatology
of this country attracted wide attention.
Ha I'D
mosphere physics. He did important work
with the surveyors of the Pacific rail-
roads, and in 1851 he completed hts work
on the climatology of the United States
and North America, which gave him
World wide fame and was commended by
Humboldt. In 1863 he was appointed TO
the Treasury Department and placed in
charge OF financial and statistical reports.
In 1850 he was made general appraiser of
customs and assigned to duty in PhiIa-
delphia- In 1874 he was made chief of the
customs divisions of the Treas ury which
post he held until 1871, when he resigned
Charles III. Roosevelt died yesterday at
his home in Pelham on the Sound, near
the country home of the New York Ath-
letic Club.
Mr.. Roosevelt was member of one
of the oldest and wealthiest families in
Westchester County, and was distantly
related to vice President Roosevelt. He
was born In 1892, in Poughskeepsie. and
was the son of the Rev Washington
Roosevelt. He studied law in Pough-
keepsie, but after graduating came to
New York and practiced here and in
Westchester County for thirty years.
He was one of the largest property
owners of Pelham Manor He was a
member of the st. Nicholas and Holland
Societies and the New York Athletic
Club. He leaves and one son.
Dr. Rudolph j. Hess. twenty-seven
years old, died in the scarlet fever hospital
on North Brother Island, n. Z, at 100
o'clock yesterday morning. DR.. Hess
Joined the Bellevue Hospital staff on June
1 last. He was taken sick last Monday
night No alarm was felt until the fol-
lowing day when he developed symptoms
of scarlet fever. The body will be taken
to Salamanca, n. Y, for burial
At Bellevue DR.. Hess devoted much of
his time to microscopic work His even
ings he gave to medical and religious
work among the poor on the East Side.
1t was in this work that he caught scar
let fever. Dr. Hess was a graduate of
Cornell and Cornell Medical College. and
entered Bellevue Hospital as an inferno in
the second medical division. His father is
a retired merchant in Salamanca
DIR. Mary S. West, fifty-three years old.
died at o'clock Sunday morning at her
home. 10 East Twenty-eighth Street,
New York under circumstances which
caused DIR. Frank A. King to report the
case TO the coroner's Office. Coroner's
Physician O'HanIon examined the body
later and decided that DR.. West died
from apoplexy. DIR. King explained that
he had feared that DR.. West had died of
an overdose of some drug.
DR.. West was graduated from the
Wcman's Medical College in 1873 AT one
time she had a large practice in New
York City.
John ]. Phyfe. member of the firm of
Dix & Phyfe. bankers. at 45 Wall Street.
New York. died on Saturday at Palm
Beach, Fla, where he had been for some
time with his wife and daughter. He has
a married daughter living in New York.
He was a member of the Harvard and
New York Athletic Clubs. His home was
at IS West Eighty-seyenth Street, New
York.
Mrs. Preston S. Brooks, of Edgefield
s. c.. the widow of the man who at
tackled and caned Charles Sumner in the
United States Senate. died of pneumonia
in Norfolk on Saturday night.
John A. Clark. a former soldier IN Com
pany X, Third Infantry, a native of
n. Y. died in st. Joseph's
Hospital in Lexington. KY, on Saturday
night from jungle fever, contracted in
the Philippines
Up. MORGAN THE DONOR.
Gave the Bement Mineral Collection
&c a New York Museum