The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
ACTRESS AND HOSPITAL NURSE.
Jean Lander, whose Death Passed All but
CnnOticed, Once Famous.

Jean Margaret Davenport Lander, whose
death last week passed all but unnoticed,
was more famous in her day than any other
actress ever before the American public,
with the possible exception of Ada Rehan.
Mrs. Lander was almost born on the
stage, and her father, Thomas Donald
was a strolling manager when she first
saw the light at Northampton, in England,
in 1880. She was only when at Richmond
she acted Little Pickle in The Spoiled
Child, and was from that day an infant
phenomenon of great popularity. She
travelled all through Great Britain with
her father and mother, who were identified
in the minds of many persons with the
| famous Crummles family of Nicholas
Nickleby." Mr.. and Mrs. Davenport, or
| the Donalds as they were known in their
| profession, were very indignant at this
charge and filed the English newspapers
Of that time with their denlals Of the story.
But many persons were convinced that
Charles Dickens had the family in mind
| when he sketohed his immortal trio
Mrs. Lander's mother was a popular
| actress, and the trio continued their travels
| together They were acting in Cork when
, the first transatlantic steamer came into
the ha Dor. Without any previous design
| and attracted by the novelty of the trip,
the family searted for the United States.
This was In 1888. Mother and daughter
remained in this country for four years.
In l842, Mrs Davenport went to play the
Shakespeai ian hsroines in France Bel
. GUM and Holland, this giving Jean the
advantage Of travel in those countries.
Jean Davenport was 10, beautiful and
mistress Of her art when she returned here
in 1910, again accompanied by her mother.
She played an engagement at the Aston
Place Opera House, and was the toast
of the town She continued to appear in
the principal cities until, in 1850, she met
and married Gen. Frederick West Lander.
She retired from the stage, the civil war
broke out and her husband was killed at
the front
Mrs. Lander lived at that time with her
mother at the Lander country place on
Massachusetts, Bay. Both women decided
Immediately TO do what they could TO con-
tribute to the comfort Of the Union soldiers.
and became members Of the Hospital Corps
of the army. For more than a year they
were in charge of the hospital at Port
Immediately after the close Of the war,
Mrs. Lander returned to the stage, appear
ing at Niblo's i'll an adaptation called
"MGsalliance which had been made from
a foreign play. Her vogue was as great
that her talents had deepened and ripened
during her period Of retirement and
suffering She acted in the days after her
return to the stage Adrienne Lccourreur,
Camille, Peg Wellington, Charlotte Corddy,
Mary Stewdrt, Meded, Pdrthenid, Queen
Elizabeth and Mary Antoinette, She oriGi-
mated number of these roles in the United
States.
In 1860 she went to London to appear nj
the Lyceum in Queen Elizabeth, and, in
1871 at the Boston Theatre. made her final
appearance on the stage in an adaptation
Of "The Scarlet Letter" During the later
years of her life, Mrs Lander passed
her time between Washington and her
country home near Lynn, MasA