The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-16
Obituary Notes.

Gabriel Harrison, vino had been pictur-
csuuo feur" in Brood lyr for over half cen
and au hor died early yesterday morrin in is
nome s6i Sterling place ~" had long been
y falling health MIR Harrison was born in
Philadelphia on March -, ISIS When he vas
years old. his father, Charles T. Harri-on
who was an eNp"rt hank-note on grav"r
moved 20 New York. and his house in Reade
resort for literary men aud leading actors
and actresses Aaron Burr was FREQUENT
visitor and taught Gabriel 20 read Youn 8
Harrison's ambition 70 study for the stage
WIS inspired b" visit 10 the theatre TO see
Edwin Forrest "a Damon In Damon and
hyti ias, when he was aSompanisd by III.
the american Hi-trioniC Society and fire.
uuenty Appeared in amateur performances
,essional took place in 1898. when Mr. Wal
lack brought him out at the Naiorsl Theatre
~ nh,Ho 70 his own iG9o and Emma Wheat
l"y's Dosdcmono. Subsenu-ntly he played
secondary parts with Edwin Forrest and
&! aries kcan. being the lattcrs favor'" sup
mort In lSS he took up his residence In
ac"r. In 1851 he organized the Brooklyn
Academy OF Art. In So he opened the
prrS T 1H2tG in RrGosly1 hpt III" enter
cam" member of the Brooklyn Academy
Of Design in 1877 and for several years was
U.s. seG i.tnI on me orsIniLai,on Of T."
Harrison presented - II dramatic H.
brary Of over .ooo volumes, some rare manu-
scripts and Pos wcddinS ring. which had
return for 2 water color portrait Of Poe He
was one Of the founders OF the Faust Club
and started the movement for pla cinc he bust
Of John Howard Paynr in Prospect Park'
Mr.. Harrison had creditabe rank as land
soap" artist and was one Of the first to pro-
Ne won prizes ~ The crystal Palace in london
and the worlds Fair in New York His
writings included n dram'tizhtion Of Haw-
al
The Author" "Dartmoro The Thirteenth
Cline. Magma, and u. Life of John How
two daughters.
Charles Henry Adams, n direct descendant
Of President John Adams. died Yesterday AT
his hone; ~ East S'Myis"y"nth street. in his
"a cki" and after reading Law at Albany.
won't to Cohoes. wh"r" h" was In the voollen
the FIRST Mayor of Cohocs and the president
Of it's first bank lie Was also AT different
times Assemblyman, state senator and CON
first wife was Miss tli2a beth Plat of Rhine
beck and his second Miss Judith Crittendon
Coleman of Louisville, Ky, Mr. adams was
the United states md South Africa Four
children survive him They. ar" MR. Mary
Adams johnson Of Rhlnebeck. William Plat
Adams ~ tohocs. both children Of his first
wife. and Misses Agnes Crittenden Adams
and Judith Adams
Dr Lucy Edwards, eo wears old. one Of the
North
ern New Jersey, was found dead in bed yes
tcrdav al her homo. l0i North Sixth street
Newark, after having retired in apparently
good health. She had locked her room door
and . servant who tried to awaken her i'm
the morning had 10 summon neigh bors. who
got into her room through window and
found her dead Death was attributed 10
heart disease. DR. I'd wards practisrd mrdi-
cine in Newark for nearly twenty wears and
was woll-to-do and popular.
John " Ella of Chicago died suddenly in
Philadelphia Yesterday Tie came into ma
tional prominence through his stand on the
civil service question He framed tho law
for Chicago on civil service,matters, and for
years cha mpioned the cause Ne was presi-
dent Of the Chicago Civil Service Len cue
Mr. Fla was born in Meredith, y Il 8S wears
ago He served in the Civil War, and in
1894 he went tn Chicng 20. where he was suc-
cessfil asa lawyer. Ito was ore Of the found
ers n tn" civic Federation IN Chicago
Mrs Eliza Lawrence Jones Of syracuse died
suddenly yesterday of pneumor ia az the n GO
Of 90 years She was III. widow of Con
gresham Samuel Jones. She was classmate
Of Harriet Rccecher Stove at the Hartford
Female Seminary.
solomon Pirsch. eX-Tnitcd States Minister
70 Turkey, died Yesterday in Portland Ore
He was one Of tho leaders of the Republican
party in Oregon and prominent as n Sena-
torial possibility.