Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-04
OBITUARY..

one OF the most prominent physicians
OF northern Indiana, died. He leaves
a widow
Mrs. Agnes Ethel Tracey, who as
Agnes Ethel was known on the stage
three decades ago, died at her home
in New York.
j. E. Robinson, of Madison, Neb.,
died. He was an ex-congressman and
law partner of ex-United States
Senator Allen.
William r. Parker, city passenger
agent of the Big Four railway, died in
Chicago of pneumonia. Mr.. Parker
was SO years old.
Robert Strahorn, Chicago, the dean
OF stockyards commission merchants,
both in years and period of business
career, is dead. He was 76 years old.
Rev. Father Anton Vogt of Belle
vile, ILL.,, died. He was counselor of
the Roman Catholic diocese of Belle
vile, and for forty years was in active
service.
Dr. A. H. Target. president Of the
kedzie hospital, Chicago died of
pneumonia He was 81 years of age
and for thirty years had been a
practicing physician in Chicago.
D. M. Sechler, president of the
Sechler Carriage company, died at
Cincinnati, aged So years. He was a
pioneer carriage maker of Moline. ILL.,.
having spent sixty-five years in the
industry.
Colonel Zemro A. Smith, recorder
OF the Indiana Loyal Legion and for
thirteen years an editorial writer on
the indianapolis Journal, is dead from
heart failure. He was in his sixty
sixth year.
Prof. Thompson Jay Hudson. au-
thor of number of psychological
works and a lecturer on these sub
jects, died at his home in Detroit.
His best known work is The Law of
Psychic Phenomena.
DR.. J. G. McClintock, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Sioux
City, Iowa, died after a lingering ill
ness. He was widely known in Iowa
and was pastor of a Burlington
church for twenty-five years.
DR.. Octavius A. White, a famous
yellow fever expert, aged IS years,
died in New York. While a surgeon
in the confederate army DR.. White
was sent into the union lines at Colds
borough, n. c., to treat northern
soldiers afflicted with yellow fever.
DR.. Florence Hunt, one of the most
widely known women physicians in
the west, died at ST. Mary's hospital.
in Milwaukee, following an operation
for tumor. She was As years of age.
Twenty years ago she was graduated
from the Chicago Woman's Medical
college.
Edward west, IS years old, the
first teacher of a public school in the
territory Of Wisconsin, at Milwaukee
in 1887, died at Appleton. He was a
promoter of the first organization to
use water power on the Fox river.
His son, William West of Chicago,
was the first white boy born in Mil
DR.. Selim Hobart Peabody, aged IA
years, assistant director of exhibits
Of the Louisiana purchase exhibition
and well known educator, died of
apoplexy. Mr.. Peabody was a noted
mathematician, linguist, naturalist
and astronomer. He was born in
Rockingham, Va. In addition to hold
ing positions with some of the
principal schools and colleges through
put the country, DR.. Peabody was for
eleven years president of the Uni
versity of Illinois. That position he
resigned to become chief of the
Liberal Arts department of the
Columbian exposition.
DR.. John Reid, who died in London,
England, aged so years, was for
several years prominent in the medi-
some time subsequent to the fire of
1871 he was health officer. He was
born in Scotland, but completed his
medical education in this country
and practiced in Rochester, N Y, and
st. Louis. He came to Chicago from
the latter city in 1862. After his
wife's death he returned to Rochester.
anu subsequently removed TO New
York City. where he resided for
several years. He sailed for England
with his three daughters on April 25,
to spend the summer in the
towns and Shakespeare
A severe cold contracted on
he voyage, followed by acute bron-
,hitis. caused, his death
Professor Harvey t. Woodman. !
aged rs years, a world-famous
in natural history and
scientific research, died at Mount |
Vernon, n. Y. Professor Woodman !
Helped to build the college museums |
# natural history of Yale. Harvard,
Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and !
'ther universities, and also was one
II the experts of the Smithsonian in /
titution. He also planned and re-
modelled Castle Garden into the pres /
mt aquarium. He was engaged by
he Smithsonian institution to conduct
many of its expeditions and re-
He studied the coral reefs
Il Florida for the government for