Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
DEATH ROLL OF THE YEAR
Names Of Men and Women Eminent
in the Higher Walks Of Life.
MANY BENEFACToRs OF MANKIND
Notably Heavy Toll ExRcted from the
Ranks Of Cburchmen, Authors,
Composers, Musicians, Poets
and Dramatists.

The death roll OF the year contains a
vast number OF names Of people eminent In
the higher walks OF life. All seasons look
alike to the Grim Reaper and every
season is his harvest time. Every profes-
sion whose geniuses became benefactors OF
the race have felt the swath Of the re-
morseless scythe. The church, the school,
music and the drama, literature and jour
nalism, jurists, diplomats and statesmen
men and women in middle life and past
tho Scriptural limit Of three score and
ten, make a long, sad list and a melan-
choly record. The roll. by months, follows:
January-Dr. Nicholas Sem, widely
known surgeon, Chicago, age Sc; Rev. DR..
Denis J. Stafford, rector OF st. Patrick's
Roman Catholic church, Washington, a
noted elocutionist, a.; Prof. Charles Au-
gustus Young, one OF the leading astrono-
mers of the United States, %; Bishop
George worthington of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese OF Nebraska, 81; Prince
Stanlslaus Poniatowski, head OF the his
toric Polish house {. that name; George
J.. Chase, president of the Hartford Fire
Insurance company, 50; Wilhelm Busch,
the German caricaturist, Is; Abraham Gold
faden. Yiddlsh poet and dramatist, So;
George +. Evans, general manager OF the
Maine Central railroad, 81; DR.. Frank
Herbert Eaton, Canadian educator, 81;
Rabbi Bernhard Felsenphal, a Hebrew
schol and leader Of reformed judaism"
IS; Holger II. II. Drachmann, Danish poet
and author. 81: James Ryder Randall,
writer of Maryland, My Maryland" So;
James Livingston Alden, American jour
nallst, 20; DR.. William Rollins shipman,
dean OF Tufts college, a.; Edmund Clarence
CfnA,,ap hapLar-noaf nf Naw York IA
Charles Emory Smith, editor Of the Phila-
delphla Press, former postmaster general
and former minister to Russia, Sc; Morris
X. Jessup. New York financier and philan-
thropist, a; Edward Mcdowell, American
composer, A.; Augusta Wilhelmj,. noted
violinist and concert master, G.; Louisa de
la Rance (Ouida), the novelist, IS; Rev.
DR.. John Alexis Edgren, founder of the
Swedish Baptist Theological seminary al
Chicago, SO; Cardinal Ricard, archbishop
of Paris. 50; David Johnson, American
landscape painter, 81.
February-King Carlos of Portugal, aged
a, and his elder son, Luiz, aged 20, as
sasinated in Lisbon; Crosby S. Noyes, edi
tor of the Washington Star, aged SO; Gen
Tung Fuh Slang, leader Of the Chimes,
boxer rebellion of 1900; United States Sen
ator Asbury c. Latlmer Of South Caro-
lima. aged 81; Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Sat
terlee, Protestant Episcopal bishop o
Washington, aged SO; Miss Harriet G. Hos
mer, well known American sculptor, age
a; DR.. Marco Aurelio Soto, president o
Honduras. aged 60; Prof. Edward Gaylo
Bourne of Yale university, aged As; Paulin
Lucca, famous Australian singer, aged 81
Henry LOOMS Nelson, professor of politi
cal science in Williams college, aged 50
Carl Ewald. Danish author. aged So; Briga
dier-General Francis S. Dodge, U. S. A
retired, aged 65; Ignaz Elder Won Plener
Austria's oldest statesman, aged IS; Johl
w. oliver of Yonkers N. " Statesman
dean of American editors, aged 90; Forme