Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-06
SOME NOTABLE DEATHS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, January 6.-Rev.
DR.. James NJ Crowell, for nearly sixty
years prominent in the Presbyterian
Church. is dead at his home here. He
was eighty-one years Of age. He was
president of the board of education of the
Presbyterian Church and secretary OF
missions of the American Sunday School
Union. He was a graduate of Princeton
and one of the two survivors of the class
of 1913.
NEW ORLEANS. January 6.-Mrs.
Mary Louise Morgan Whitney, reputed to
be the wealthiest woman in the south,
died at her home here last night, aged
seventy-five years. She had been i'll
of Charles A. Whitney. who. with
her father. was one of the builders of
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas railroad.
T. Hancock, an aged hermit of Manches-
ter. Va. died yesterday after having pro-
vided for his funeral twenty years ago.
He was eighty-six years of age. He had
written out directions for his interment,
naming undertaken, clergyman, place of
burial and pallbearers. He kept a list of
the latter on blackboard, and as they
died, one by one, he substituted new
names. Not a single one of the original
names was left.
NEW YORK, January 6.-Mrs. Gustave
Sackersdorff, once noted singer, died
suddenly last night of apoplexy. The
Sackersdorffs are Russians.
BLOOMFIELD, N. J., January 6.-Rev.
William E. Bogardus, pastor of the Dutch
Reformed Church, in the Brookdale sec
ton of this town, for fifteen years, died
yesterday He was born in Cohoes, N.
Y. seventy-three years ago, and was a
Of tba late Rev Cornelius ROPa r6llS
He was direct descendant of Everardus
Bogardus, who came to this country in
the year 1888.
NEWARK. NJ j., January 6-Thomas
L. PierSon, who has been acting judge
of the second criminal court for some
time, dropped dead at his home, Sc Myr-
tie avenue. Saturday, from apoplexy.
Judge Pierson was apparently IN good
health yesterday, and occupied his seat
on the bench as usual. When he hal lin
ished his cases he did net complain Of any
illness.
BALTIMORE. January 6.-Edward L.
Felgper of POS Eutaw place, we'll known
throughout the south as a leading to-
bacco merchant, died yesterday at his
home of heart failure. Mr.. Felgner' s
wife was Miss Grace Hooper. daughter of
the late William E. and Katherine B.
Hooper, and sister of ex-Mayor Alcaeus
Hooper. Mrs. Felgner died September 4,
1898. Surviving him are two daughters,
Mrs. Harry B. Dillehunt and Mrs. WILDER
F. Smith.
BALTIMORE. January CDR. Ma
thaniel Garland Keirle. jr., thirty-three
years old. son of DIR. N. G. Keirle. ST..
College of Physicians and Surgeons, died
at his home, 1419 West Lexington street,
yesterday of pneumonia. He had been
sick only nine days. He was born in
Baltimore.
Alois Kaiser, one of the most noted can
tors in this country. who for forty-one
years served Oheb Shalom Congregation,
died yesterday morning at his home here.
wife, who was Miss Caroline Fuld. nearly
two years ago, his health had been fail
ing. but he continued to perform his
duties until a week or so before Thanks
giving. when the collapse came. DR..
Kaiser was sixty-seven years old. Born in
Hungary, he attended the schools in
Vienna At an early age he began the
study of music at the Conservatory of
vienna Later he studied at Prague under
the celebrated cantor A. Sulzer.
EASTON, Md, January 6-George w.
Wilson, leading attorney of Talbot coun-
ty, died yesterday at noon. He had been
i'll at the Easton Emergency Hospital for
TWO weeks from Inflammation Oh the
brain, and an operation was performed
on him Friday night by Drs. Thayer and
Reik of Baltimore. He rallied Saturday
and recognized a few friends. but suffered
a relapse early yesterday. He was a son
of the late Alfred j. Wilson. who died
suddenly Of paralysis last December and
Mrs. Angie Smith Wilson, who, with three
brothers, survives him. He was born
February II. 1874, in Tuckahoe Neck,
Caroline county. and removed to Maple
Grove Farm, two miles from Easton,
when but a small boy. He attended the
Easton High School and the University of
Maryland Law School, and was admitted
to the bar in 1896.