Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-02
Tuesday, January 2, 1906
The Dead Years Death Roll.

names there are upon the death roll of
1906! So it Is with each year as it
passes, and each year we wonder IL the
grim reaper will be able to gather such
a carefully compiled list in the Portland
Press we take the following famous
names against which the fatal asterisk
has been set during the year that has
just ended. The year was but three
days old when Theodore Thomas, the
great orchestra leader and wizard Of
the conductors baton. died in Chicago.
After him went in succession George NJ.
Brdughton, the American artist; Will
liam Cullen Bryant, the founder of the
American Newspaper. Publishers asso-
citation, OF the same name but Of no kin
to the poet; Gen. Lew Wallace, author
diplomat and soldier; Grand Duke
Sergius, the "evil genius of the Gar
by assassination in Moscow; ex-GOy.
George 5. Boutwell, OF Massachusetts.
secretary Of the treasury; Mrs. Jane
I.athrOp Stanford of California. 'bene-
factor of Stanford university; Judge
John II. Reagan of Texas, ex-senator
and last survivor of the Confederate
cabinet; Jules Verne, the French au-
thor: Maurice Barrymore. the Ameri-
tSusan Coolidge), writer of children's
stories; NJ. Paul Lessar. Russian
minister to China; Joseph jefferson, the
veteran American actor; Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee. former Confederate officer and
United States consul general at Havana
when the Maine was destroyed; Emcr-
son Bennett. noted writer Of fiction;
Hiram Cronk. last surviving soldier of
the war of 1872; Jessie. Bartlett Davis.
opera singer; II. NJ. TicknOr, lecturer
and journalist; Albion w. Tourgee
writer and lecturer and American
consul at Bordeaux: Mary A. Liver
more, writer and refOrmer; Gen. III. V.
Boynton. journalist. veteran of the
civH-War Ind president of the Chicka-
manga Park association; Beriah Will
kins. editor and proprietor Of the
Washington Post; Gen. Maxine Gomez
the Cuban leader John Hay. secretary
of state; Walter kittredge. author OF
'Tcnting Tonight" Count Shuvaloff
project of police at Moscow, assassi-
mated: Daniel Scott Lamont, secretary
OF war under President Cleveland; ex-
Governor Horace Austin of Minnesota
former Maine man: Gen. William
I.lackmar. cOmmander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic: Arch
bishop Chapelle of the Roman Catholic
diocese of New Orleans. from yellow
fever: Mary Mapcs Dodge. author. poet
and editor of st. Nicholas: Francesca
Tamagno, the Italian tenor; Hezekiah
Rutterwortl. author and editor: Count
DE Brazza. the French explorer: George
Macdonald. English novelist: Josephine
Shaw Lowell. reformer and philanthro-
pst; Sir Henry Irving. the English
actor; Jerry Simpson, former Congress-
man and Populist leader; Sir George
Williams. founder OF the Y. NJ. c. A. 4;
Lady Florence Dixie. author. explorer
and champion of woman's rights: John
Bartlett. compiler of "Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations" Edward Atkin-
son. social and political economist;
Henry Faxon Of Quincy. temperance
rcformer; William Sharp. English au-
thor. who wrote under both his own
name and that of Fiona Macleod" Sir
Richard c. Jebb. the noted Greek
scholar of England; Henry Poor.
founder Of Poor's Railroad Manual and
Bowdoin's Oldest living graduate:
Louise Michel. the French anarchist:
Jay Cooke. who financed the war of the
rebellion and undertook to build the
Northern Pacific railroad: Prof
Alpheus. S. Packard of Brown uni
versity; senator Jonathan Ross of YER
mont; ex-senator Wolcott of Colorado:
Senator q. II. Plat of Connecticut. and
General and ex-senator Joseph r.
Hawley OF the same state: Senator
William Bate Of Tennessee: President
+. II. Capen of Tufts college: Col. Jacob
d. Greene. president of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Co. and a ma
tive OF Maine: Sol Eytinge. the artist;
Baron Alphonse De Rothschild: Will
liam Ziegler. the patron of Arctic en-
ploration.
Among the prominent men of our own
city and State who have gone over to
the great majority during 1905 may be
mentioned Hon. ]. II. Marley. State
Librarian Carver and Col. NJ. v. B.
Chase of this city: Col. s. A.
Allen Of Togus: ex-Mayor Holman
s. Melcher. Postmaster Clark Barker
Gen. Samuel ]. Anderson. Clerk
OF Courts Benjamin c. Stone and
S,narinfS yS3onf NJ CchoolS Orlando NJ