The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-11
OBITUARY.

defeated by Theodore Roosevelt for leader
OF the old Twenty-frst Assembly district
in 1854. died yesterday at his home, 0 East
F~orty-third street. He was born In Boston
In 1870. He came here as a lad aad went to
work for Livermore d Morris. dry goods
merchants. He was a member OF the Thir-
teenth Regiment. Brooklyn, when President
Lincoln first called for volunteers and he
went to the front for ninety days. lie married
Emily Atkins Of Brooklyn in 1882. lie was
successfully q member OF the drv goods
commission firms Of Pomeroy. Adams A. Co.
Pomeroy a hummer and John f.. Plummer.
He was forced to suspend In 1890. He was
Republican candidate for Comptroller in
1854. was a delegate to Chicago in 1883 and
organized the Down Town Association.
which took an active part in the Harrison
him Government director OF the Union Pacific
Railroad, and he was active in establishing
the town of Everett. Wash. In 1890 he sued
the International Power Company for 81, OOO,-
600 for his services in raising s6, 600, 900 with
which the American Locomotive Company
of a referee, He became a member Of the
Chamber or Commerce. In 1880, and was
three times vice-president OF the Union
A. John F.. Jr., and Howard Plummer. and
two daughters, Mrs Charles F: Milliken and
~. Charles Hildreth Lewis, a retired real
estate deal Ter who achieved prominence as
one Of the developers of Sorrento, as a summer
sss starda Sie Sir fSgtddasg"s.SY s n Gaf s aSPsra Ne SS on
wlch University. in 1882 and received the
degree of. bachelor of science in 1855. He
engaged in Government survey and civil
engineering in Minnesota and Iowa, and
at the beginning of the civil war was COM
mlssioned as Captain in the infantry service.
he engaged In mining engineering in Colorado
for two years after the war and subsequently
was, a member for twelve years of the New
York Stock Exchange. In 1882 he made his
famous land deal in a purchase of Cape Jol-
hson, which subsequently became a point OF
vantage in the extension of the Northern
Maine Seaport railroad. He was president
OF Norwich University ten years and gave
large sums to the maintenance Of that in
stitution.
William Blake Trask died on Sunday at
Dorchester, Mass. aged "a. In 1897 he was
Obliged TO ~relinquish all mechanical work
devoted himself largely to historical and
genealogical pursuits. He assisted samuel
@; Drake in the preparation Of his History
History of East Boston. Mr., Trask also
contributed fifteen hundred and more pages
Of matter to the New England Historical and
Genealogical Regist er and the indexes TO nine
teen or more volumes. He was a correspond
ing member Of hist societies in several
S Ss@1ss; p Sevrss Of Solese oS eo 6in io s sSe
lie was also a member of the American Statis-
tical Association and the Bostonian Society y.
Mrs. Augusta Westerheld Burhans. daugh-
ter of William Westerfleld OF New York. died
90 years old. She was born and reared in New
Chambers street, where Engine Company2e is
now located, in a house which her father built
Later Mrs, Burhans lived in the property
now occupied by the Peoples Bank at Thomp-
father built the old Bellevue Hospital. the
Canal street sewer, which was considered a
large undertaking al the time. and one Of the
forts in New York Bay. Mrs. Burhans lived
in Paterson at Burhans and Hamburg avenues
three sons, william, Charles and John. Tho
funeral win be held tomorrow.
James d, Mason. q pioneer in the cracker
anglna pectoris. He was SO years old. James
d. Mason. father Of the deceased, founded
the cracker business in Bait more and his son
market. In 1898 the New York Biscuit Com
pany was founded, and among the plants it
Mr.. Mason remained in the business as man
ager. and had charge OF the southern trade
Of the company. He continued with the
he retired from active business. Mr.. Mason
was a member of the Board Of Trade and other
trade organizations.
war and for many years q prominent business
man of Washington, died in that city yester-
day at the age OF g. s,. He NV was born in Davis,
Pennsylvania Infantry in the Virginia cam
paigns until the battle Of Antietam. where
commissary department until the close
Of the war, when he settled in Washington
and entered on a mercantile career.
DT. AlIIeQ WHO bdTtUtT NUtu YPSIfTQHN
at his home. s25 West Eighty-ninth street, Of
blood poisoning. He performed a slight
operation in August and a blister on one of
his I'm gers became infected. DR.. Gardner
was the son Of John II. Gardner. owner Of a
resort at sharon Springs, this State. He was
graduated from the College OF Physicians and
Mary Burchel, who, with two sons and one
daughter, survives him.
Charles Hopkins. an old resident Of Brook
lyn. and for forty years general agent of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, died
yesterday at The home Of his daHshter Mrs.
IN his seventy@sishth year. He was one
OF the original members Of the Tompkins ave-
nue.. Consre %gational Church in Brooklyn.
He leaves a widow, a son and two daughters,
Michael Sylvester Bowe. who was buried
yesteSday from, the Church OF, st. Stan
islaus in BroSklyn was the private dstec,
after his retirement from the police depart
nsnt several hears ss9 ~ was active IN
an Ind PffS ssr yJsus hs leaves a widow i've sons
Mrs. Elizabeth Human Faber died on
Sunday Of typhoid fever at the home Of her
father, Hiram r. Steele. a director of the
New York Life Insurance Company. 242 Car
roll street. Brooklyn, In her ~twenty-fourth
Anniversary Of her marriage to Henry i. Fa-
Der. She wal a graduate OF Packer Institute.
Col. Louis +. Pinault, Deputy Minister Of
Militia in the Dominion Cabinet. died at
Ottawa, yesterday, aged 81 from sarcoma Of
the neck. He had q very distinguished mill
tary career and for services connected " ith
the South African war was created L. NJ. g..
He lea yes three brothers, one being DIR.
Alfred Pinault Of st. JOsephs, Mimi.
Major william X. Lowe died at his home in
Washington Sunday night after an. illness
of three months. Major Lowe was born in
Batavia, ohio, sixty-thTee years ago. He
served with distinction throu ghout the civil
war and continued i'm the arTAy until 1899.
He was subsequently a clerk IN the War De-
partment for many years.
Emmons Baldwin, 20 years old, of Mont
clair. was stricken with apopleXy while rid
ing In an automobile i'm that town at IL o'clock
vest eTday morning. He dice in the parlor OF
Schleur's Hotel. He for years owned much
real estate. but he sold all his realty a few
years ago and afterward led a retired life.
He is survived by a son.
william Malcolm Grove, IN importer Of
yarns at Az Broome street, died on Sunday
at Carahor, Rathmines, County Dublin,
Ireland, on the farm where he was born.
lie went to Bad-Nauheim in the summer for
his health and was spending the holidays
with his brother. J. J. Grove. He was 40
years old.
Gustave Nelson. proprietor Of the Newark
Bay Shore House. BayOnne. died at his home.
West Twenty-fourth street, BayOnne. yester-
day, aged 81 years. He annually conducted
a series Of yacht races on Newark Bay in
which clubs for miles around took part, He
is survived by his wife and seven children.
Eugene J. Leahy. who was "a fireman on the
Monitor when the famous battle was fought
with the MerTimac in the civil war. died nc
his home last night in New London. Conn.
lie claimed to be the last survivor OF Moni-
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