The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
death LOVES
SHINING MARK"
Some Of the Most Celebrated Persons
Called Away In 1906.

Called Away In 1906.
President William Rainey Harper of
Chicago University was Deaths first
celebrated victim. His fight for life
against cancer had aroused the sym
pathy OF all classes, and his final defeat
came Jan. 10. He lacked a year of 90.
Six days later came the death OF Mar
shall Field Of Chicago, the merchant
prince, at 20. On the 18th General Jo-
scph Wheeler, aged So, veteran OF the
civil and the Spanish wars. died.
February's record included John A.
Mccall, former president of the New
York Life Insurance company, 81, on
Feb. IS; David B. Henderson, former
speaker OF the house of representatives.
Sc, on Feb. %, and Professor Samuei
p. Langley OF the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, at Washington, u. on Feb. 81.
In March the list was longer Former
Governor James S. Hogg Of Texas, So,
on the 3rd; Lieutenant General John M
Schofield. "a. at New York, on the 18th:
Eugen Richter, IS. radical leader in the
German reichstag, on the 10th; Aunt
Susan 3. Anthony, s., on the 18th, and
General John NJ. Thayer, Sc, civil war
veteran, former governor of Nebraska
and United States senator, on the 18th.
painter. was the first to be called in
April, at the age of 81, on the 5th On
the 10th Professor Nathaniel S. Shaler
or Harvard, 65, was called away On
the 18th James A. Bailey, 90, circus
man, died Unexpectedly. On the 18th
Daniel Huntington, American painter.
died at 80. On the 18th Pierre Curie, AZ.
with his wife joint discoverer of radi-
UNI, was killed by truck on the street.
The months mortuary list closed with
the death of John Daily, thurman, aged
IS, on the 18th.
Mays dead were not less distin-
guished. Carl Schurz, who died on the
18th, aged ~, was first on the list.
George E. Mcneil of Boston, father of
the eight-hour movement, died on the
18th, aged 50. On the 23rd Henrik Ibsen
passed away at 7S On the Goth Michael
Davitt was called at the age of go.
In June the eminent dead were Arthur
Pue German, 81. Of Maryland, 4th. Rich
ard John Seldom, 81. of New Zealand,
10th; Robert B. Roosevelt, ~, uncle of
the president, on the 14th, and Captain
Hank Half, rs. celebrated yacht skipper,
on the Goth.
Samuel Garcia, inventor of the 1aryn-
goscope, died July 1, at the great age
OF 101; Henry A. Ward, the eminent
naturalist. in Chicago, at 72, on July a;
Alfred Belt, South African diamond MIL
lionaire. In London, on July Is, at 81:
two days later Lady Curzan, mourned
by the entire English-speaking race:
Russell Sage, July %, aged 90; John
Lawrence Toole, English comedian, AT
20; on July 80, Mrs. Pearl Craisie
("John Oliver Hobbs'D. who died on
Aug. IL, at 80, was deaths best known
victim in that month
Hermann Oelrichs, 56, Of California
and New York, died Sept 1: Daniel |
ODay, 90, Standard Oil "magnate." on |
Sept. 10; General Dimitri Theodorovich |
Irepov, 81, Sept. 10, I'm his bed, despite |
the threats of the Russian revolution |
sts to XIII him. Representative Rob-
ert r. Hit Of Illinois. 70, passed away |
sept. 20, and General James c. Hill |
Confederate, Is, Sept. 81
These were the deaths in October: On
he 9Th, Archbishop Bond of the An
slican church, primate of all Canada,
aged 81. on the same day, Adelaide Ris-
orr, italian actress, aged 50; on the 18TH
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, aged so, and. on Il
he 31st, Judge Joseph e. Gary of Illi-
lois, aged S. Il
lockwood Hoar Of Massachusetts. II
representative to congress and son of II
he late George Frisbie Hoar, died Nov. Il
J, at 81; Major General w. r. Shafter.
Who led the Santiago campaign in Cuba.
Sov. IL, at Il; Mrs. Margaret Bottome
ounder and president of the Kings
Nov. II, at 70.
Copyright, 1906. by tie Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)