Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-20
member of the church of which he was

member of the church of which he was
pastor.
| w. o. Carpenter of Menominee,
Mich. a member of the firm of Car
J penter, Cook & Co., wholesale grOcers,
! is dead. He was over 80 years old
and was one of the founders Of the
Kirby Carpenter company and one ot
the pioneers of the Menominee river
lumber region.
William frost Richards, the famous
marine artist, died at his home at
! Newport, R. I. He was born in Phila>
delphia Nov. IA, 1888, and studied
in Florence Rome and Paris. His
landscapes and sea pictures are rep
resented in many famous public and
private collections,
William Tod Otto, formerly district
court Judge of Indiana, died at his
home in Philadelphia, aged 80 years.
He was noted as a friend of Lincoln,
educator, and author. Under Presf-
dent Lincoln he was assistant secre-
tary of internal affairs. He was one
the oldest graduates of the University
of Pennsylvania, having received his
degree there in 1888.
DR.. Amourette Fl. Beecher, daugh,
ter Of David Beecher and cousin Of
Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet
Beecher Stowe, is dead in Santa Bar
bara, Cal, aged 83 years. She was a
prominent educator and philanthropist.
For four years she was head of the
Hartford seminary for girls, the first
of women's colleges. She gave her
time and medical skill without charge
| to women, whose welfare had been
her work
Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies,
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of
Michigan, is dead of pneumonia at his
home in Detroit. He was IA years
old and had been executive head of
the diocese since 1889, when he went
tho Detroit from st. Peters's church,
Philadelphia He is survived by his
widow, two daughters, Mrs. Henry S.
Haines, and Miss Marian Davies OF
Detroit and son, the Rev. Thomas
F. Davies, Jr., rector of All Saints
church, Worcester, Mass.
The body of Sir George Williams,
/ founder of the Young Mems Christian
association and president OF the
| London headquarters for twenty
years, was buried in st. PauFs cathe-
dral. The memorial requesting buriaI
in ST. Paul's included the names or
persons prominent in all walks OF life
and was enforced by resolutions from
the council Of North America, rep
Presenting 100000 members OF the as
ISOLATION, and also by resolutions from
councils in many other countries.
At Mansfield, O., Gen. T. T. Dill, a
veteran of the civil war and prominent
in G.. A. r. circles of the state, died
Dill was adjutant general of the state
years during the civil war, enlisting in
| the sixteeth Ohio volunteers as a
private. Gen. Dill was in charge of
| the troops at the execution of Mrs.
Surratt, one Of the conspirators in the
assassination of President Lincoln.
AZ CuG ClI1C VI Ills uCdIu IC was lCO1>
dent of the board of trustees of the
soldiers home at Sandusky.
Captain Charles Powers, who piloted
| the federal fleet up the Tennessee
river to Pittsburg Landing at the
battle of Shiloh in the civil war, is
dead at the residence of his son in
| Chicago. For this and for other ex-
ploits as a government pilot he was
rewarded with the friendship of Gen
eral Grant He was born in Charles
town, Ind, in 1888, and left home at
! 10, declaring his intention of becoming
S teamboat pilot. He came to know
the Mississippi and it's tributaries like
a book and to be the owner of several
boats He was wounded at the battle
of Johnsonville. and the confederates
at one time offered reward for his
capture, dead or alive.