The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-13
OBITUARY.

Board of Directors Of the Atchison and
Santa Fe Railroad Company. died of an
gina pectorfs yesterday morning Mt his
home, IS West Seventy-fourth Street, New
York City. Although Colonel Walker had
not been well for the last six weeks, his
Illness was not supposed to be serfous Up
to the time of his death he spent a part
| or each day at his office. and on Thurs
| day he engaged passage for himself his
wife, and two of their children on tho
steamship HohenzoiIern, which sails to-
day for Naples.
Colonel Walker was born on MAY IL.
1872. in Rutland. VT, and was the son OF
| the Rev. Aldace Walker, Congrega-
tional clergyman of tina. city His moth
| err was Mary Baker. of Lebanon, N II.
He was graduated from Middlebury Col
si-se. 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
4 won one of HIS several promotions by
riskins his life to save that OF Lieut.
Henry f. BedeIl OF his own regiment
! Lieutenant Bedeil's 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 place Of safety.
Lieutenant Bedell is now alive and wei
4 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
bia Law School Then after four years'
practice In the office Of Strong & Shepard.
Q, rev YORK. Colonel Walker returned to
Rutland where he remained until 1887,
ana puut up successful practice as a
railroad and corporation lawyer lie
served two terms In the State Senate OF
Because of his reputation as a railroad
ia~yer, he was chosen IN 1887 by Presf-
dent Cleveland as the Republican member
n1 the Interstate Commerce Commission
10 harmonize the discordant elements
among the competing railroads or to
carry out the gentlemen's, agreement"
between the members of the Traffic Assoc
ciation. After the dissolution OF the as
SS9ciation Colonel Walker went to Europe.
he was recalled to America to become re-
cefyer of the Atchison Railroad
he was made chairman of the reorganIzed
company and had much to do with its
development. He was Chairman OF the
Gun, colorado and Santa Fe Railway
Company, and the Southern California
Railroad Company. He was a director OF
u Aztec Land and Cattle Company, the
san francisco and San Joaquin Valley
kailroad Company. and the Sonora Rail-
VA. way company He was also a trustee OF
the New York Security and Trust Com
pany, past commander of the Illinois
Conmandery of the Loyal Legion and a
member OF the West End Collegiate
church of New York
Colonel Walker married. in ISL Cath
er1ne Shaw, daughter of Hudson Shaw.
or Nallingford. VT. A widow, three chill
dren-Robert Harold and Rutland q
SiSter-AlarV NJ Walker h; Ii
was the author of THE Vermont Bri-
gade in the Shenandoah Valley and nu-
nierous essays on railroad subjects.
Robert Cochran Bacot, well known as
civil engineer, and at one time registrar
OF Jersey City, died yesterday from pa
raiysis at his home. 179 Prospect Street,
East Orange, n. j. He was a descendant
of the Huguenot families of Rscot de
Saussure. which. after the revocation of
the Edict of Nantes with a number of
other French families. settled in South
Carolina in 1870. His grandfather Thomas
Wright. of Bacot. was the first Federal
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 he secured a shipioad
OF supplies for Washington's army.
Robert Cochran Bacot was born in :
Charleston in 1918. Graduating from the
College of Charleston as civil engineer,
he enga ged in railroad engineering in New
the Carolinas. Tennessee, and
Kentucky. In 1855 he moved to Jersey
City, and in $50 was elected city sur
yeyor. In 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 1Si1 he married
Mary Gilchrist. Four sons and three
daughters survive him.
From 1886 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 if New Jerseys full
claim was not admitted.
After long delay and much discussion
The point was carried. thus regaining to
New Jersey Jurisdiction of islands In New
York Bay with full civil and criminal jul
risdiction to the centre of the waters. as
we'll as the property riBnts up 10 tnat
lime.
The Rev Cornelius limerick Wyckoff.
astor of the Reformed Church at Irv-
ngton. n. j.. died on Thursday evening
n his thirty-sixth year. He was born at
Woodstock, Ulster County, N Y, and
ras the son of the Rev. De Witt B.
yyckoff, a minister of the Dutch Re-
ormed Church. and a grandson of the
lev. Cornelius Wyckoff, both of whom
ere graduates of Rutgers College and the
theological Seminary. He entered Rut-
ers Iii 1884, but in the following spring.
wing to illness. was compelled to leave.
nder the tutelage of his father he kept
D with his studies and entered the semi
airy in 1888. Soon after graduating he
as called to the Bethany Chapel. in
rooklyn. and later was called to the
eformed Church at Irvington, of which
e had since been the pastor. He leaves
widow and two daughters.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grafton, widow of Cap
lin Joseph Grafton, died on Thursday of
d age at her home. 800 Fifth Avenue,
ew York. Before her marriage Mrs
ration was Miss Remsen. and was
rominent in New York society.