The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-22
OBITUARY..

Justice Jonathan Dixon Of the Supreme
Court Of New Jersey died Yesterday at the
home Of his daughter. Mrs. Robert C. lost
at 80 Hillsid @ avenue. Englewood. He went
TO Englewood on May IL. to be present at the
chTistenipe Of a grandchild, and was taken
sick on the follow ing day. His Inalady MAS
disgnosed as light pneum onla, but this de
Dixon was born la Liverpool, England. on
July 0, 1880. His father came to the United
States In ls4s. and his family followed TWO
n, J. Young ] Jonathan became an inmate
Of the home OF Cornelius J." ,Hardenberg. .
70 him the boy acted as amanuensis and
Year he entered 1ere Rutgers ,todsse; and was va
law Offices and meanwhile. taught school
as a means Of iiyeiihoodi He wss admitted
ss ss f later ss IN a so"nselloT', it 1ii'es rn ais sh ade
whore he entered the law office of E. E. Wake
partnership with his employer. which lasted
himself and then formed 9 c%opagtpershlp
a Justice of the Supreme Court. In April,
1878. he was appointed a Justice OF the gu,
P resppoi GG ted by Sy Gov SSv' L nSH9S; in "a ls sssE by ne e %ss
Green, in 1908 by Gov. GriRRs and in 1908 by
G Gc,y,,o MS S1a Z. H. h. w o.na, 2 hep O9 e nor il
Tor Governor in 1883. when he was defeated
by the late Leon Albeit. His circuit com;
prlsed HUDSON county ana MS term would
have expired In 1910.
Mrs; George GrshsG Vest; widow Of the
died Yesterday Of pneumonia at the home
She was 70 years old She was born
r Fl daq y M Goq Hsst IL RI ban m lfss. Ky shf IN T IS. % and
town. ., village OF SOC, people, where Mr.. Vest
e sss Boo sas R%saG snG vi %h iaT' the ea 'Nar '4 broke moS Sss
end Mr.: Vest became a member Of the Con
c Sliis; ky xf ssSyi M. ' Ress q beeamPs saS q s xas Ss.
q 1872, the family lived in Wellington. Since
his death Mrs. Vest had lived with her
Alexander. Nelson Easton. real estate editor
Of the H,rdfd, died YESTERDAY Afternoon In tho
New York Hosnital; while ! nnderSolng an oper,
from which he had long suffered. Born IL Nor
rlstown, Nj thiTty-tgo years ago, NJ. Faston
nephew Of Edmund Clarence $tedmsn,. the
poet. and a Grandnerhcw Of the late W: h.
p P0 1853. H. H. caves sr g widea. from Princeton =
The Rev. William Pierson. a. prominent
mission worker OF Washington, died yester-
day at the Emergency Hospital in that city
sun sSrs0r ntsh te1 W2fie "dfefliiveHrins an address
at a local religious meeting at Mission Hall,
on Pennsylyanla avenue; He had only been
suddenly failed. He gaZed about vacantly
for several moments and then fell to Tire
40 or.
Miss Mary f. Clark, who had been superin-
tendent OF the Homo for Destitute Children
in Sterling place. Brooklyn, for the last four
teen, years. died on Sunday. in her seventy
third, year. Before going to Brooklyn she
had for over forty years been engaged as a
school teacher In New Jersey. The funeral
services will be held ut the home this after
noon.
Margaret Cynthia Miller, 90 years old, the
only woman undertaken in northern New
York and one Of the few women in the State
holding an embalmer's certificate and license,
is dead at her home in Constableville, Lewis
county. Mrs. Miller succeeded her husband
in the undertaking business when he died,
in 1890.
Samuel j. Marion. who for the past three
years had been the general stage director OF
Joseph Weber's Music Hall, died in st. Vim
cents Hospital last night of pneumonia after
an illness of ten days, Funeral services are
to be held at st. Joseph's Church. 50 Sixth
avenue. on Wednesday at II a. Nj.
jacob A. .Erney, at one time a prominent
merchant OF York. Pa, died there yesterday.
He was one OF the three surviving members
OF the old Worth Infantry Association, who
claimed to be the first to answer I.incoin's
Cal for soldiers IN 1851. He would have b en-
so next month.
The funeral Of william Thomas Rou chclie.
which was announced in yesterdays Sun
as &c take place tomorrow. will take place
this afternoon at his residence in Greenwich.