The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
OBITUARY..

clergyman OF the German United Evangelical
synod Of North America, died Friday night
IN Lyons, n. Y. He was born in the Duchy
of Brunswfck. Germany, on june ?. 1922: and
was graduated from the University OF Hale
In lS4l, and from the University VI Goettlngeq
in 1913. He came to America in 1881 and
Was assistant pastor of the First r evangelical
founded the G~rotrian Eyangelica al Church
in Albany, organlZed a CHURCH OF the same
denomination N Pltsleld. Mass and re-
1885. lie took charge of st. Johns Evan
gelical Church, Buffalo, in 1871 and OF 81.
Paul's Evangelical Church in Rochester IN
1875. resigning in 1888. He was able TO read.
write and converse in seven languages, besides
being acquainted with az the IeTman dialects,
Grotrian Shauruth. at present IN Harvard
survive him.
John /. ,Faryell, a former banker Of Clare;
his daughter, Mrs. n. Is. Pettiugill. at 1853
West Seventy-fourth street. this city. II" was
~ years old and was a member Of a family
three generations. He promoted and eX-
plotted many Western railroads and invested
heavily in Western lands. HIS bank fnall ~
became involved as the result Of unsuccessful
Investments and he filed a petition ia bank
ruptcy In lVoO, naming ms ilaDil,iss az StTp; ~
were secured. however. lie was On active
Episcopaliln and when he failed was treasurer
Of the Bishops Fund for the support OF
stru rgling churches. He was married in 1851
to Elizabeth Cooper, daughter Of DR.. Elijah
COOPER of Newark, ono. he rs SURVIVE 10y
L. FaTwSIi, Ir., Mrs. F. p. VogeT of CIarpmont
and Mrs. ii. X. Pettingill.
Caspar Golderman. who retired as secre-
tary of the Board of Health in 1908 after he
had been connected with the board for thirty
seven years. died Yesterday IN the Pre~by-
terrain Hospital. He had been living recently
at ii Loring place, Fordham. He was born
I'm Boston fifty years ago. came to this CRY
when a boy and Joined the Regular army.
When the civil war began he was made one
of the officers of "A COlOred egiIne and later
he was appointed a, guarteTmaster AT New
Orleans. ne entered the Health Departnsnt
came chief clerk. Upon the death of En-
mons Clark in 1902 he became secretary Of
the board. retiring the next year, His wife
died five wears ago. lie IL survived by one
son, Lieut.. Philip sherwood GOiderman, who
il stationed at Fort Washington, Va.
The Very Rev. |. b. DescreuK Of the Morse
order, died in lutcher. "a Yesterday. aged
%. lie was a native of st. Etianne, France.
He was made spiritual director Of the boys
In the Morse college at Rom and MontluCOn.
France. Father DescreuN was sent 10 the
United States TO establish Morisr colleges
in this country and founded the first at Van
buren,, Maine. We afterward became rec
tor of st. Michael's Church. 81. James parish,
La. He was sent to WASHINGTON ~ superior
OF the house of students, and while t-rc'
was appointed. In 1900. provincial Of the
province Of the United states, and in 1903
to take charge Of the newly created province
Of Mexico
sheriff william Dewey Of Rnckland county.
with but sixteen more days 10 serve in that
office. died Of diabetes at his home in the
court HOUSE, New NIS, yetltIuAN hlleT-
noon: at the age Of II years. tie Is survived
by hs second wife. He was elected sheriff
Of Rockland county three years ago and
seven years agb ne served one year in that
office by the Governors appointment 10 nli
the vacancy caused by the death of sheriff
Auness. Mr., Dewey being the second Sheriff
to die in office in RoCkland county. He was
a NATIVE Of Connecticut. but before coming
stone for New York city.
Mrs. Richard rnderhill. widow Of a Brook
lyn lawyer. died in Burlington, Vt. Friday
afternoon Of pneumonia. in destitute circum-
S SII&"I TFndS eHH UPON his Death i Ell her I%H SE /
$4,000; She then married a clerk and set him
Up in business in New York. Later she was
hea Willy in mining Investments and became
proprietor of, a boarding place in Brooklyn.
penniless. She struggled on in various ways
for years and recently went TO Burlington to
live with her sister. She was 80 years old
The Rev. DIR. Albert G.. Bale, formerly
pastor OF the First Presbyterian Church,
Asbury Park, died suddenly of heart disease
last night in that city. lie was 20 years old.
years ago and was called to the First Pres
byterian, Church to succeed the Rev, Or.
Upon npSnN the "f Howard 4 widdem iSrS Controversy SseTsyy
T ThiGs for GEc a WqSfS sHI Efea P and Fi SriHn Sb.rIMds s
tons. DIR. Bale leaves a widow and three
sons. His body will be taken to Melr0se,
Mass, on Monday.
III ~ wv AIVlA
daughter of the late Judge onderdonk OF
man, former Assemblyman from Queens
county and long a political leader, died yester-
day morning at her home, Ashwood. Roslyn,
L.. l., after an illness Of eight weeks. She IL
survived by three sisters, Mrs, d. Linkletter,
Mrs. II. G. Simms, Mrs. y. u. LinklettPr, her
brother. Andrew J. Onderdonk, and an only
daughter, the wife Of Samuel ". Andrews.
The funeral will take place from the house at
? O'Clock tomorrow afternoon,
John Sellers. u, a member Of the firm "
William & John Sellers. Philadelphia. owners
of one Of the largest machine shops in the
world and also one Of the propriCt0rs Of the
Melbourne Mills Company. died vest nrday az
his home, Millbournn, In his eightv-hrst year,
after IN Illness Of twenty-fcur hours. paral-
ysis was the eau e. Of death. Ar. Sellers had
been In the milling business for many years.
He was one II the founders of the Gnirn
League. He IL survived by one son, Howard
Sellers. and three daughters, all of whom
are married.
John Clifton Orr, a lumber mercha mt, who
lived at I22 East Seventy-seCond street. Man
haitian. and was in business In GrcCnpgint,
died yesterday In Paris. FRANCE, He left h,re
receatly on a pieasure trip to Europe and
was taken Ill on the steamer His de6tr
followed a surgical operation. He was born
here In 1871. was president Of the John &.
Orr Lumber Company and a director OF the
Union Ferry Company, the GreenpOint
branch Of the Corn Exchange Bank and the
Manufacturers Trust Company Of BROOKLYN.
He was a member Of the Chamber OF Com