Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Deaths TOLL FOR THE YEAR
Leading Men and Women Who Have
Been Taken.
PROMINENT IN WORK OF WORLD
Officials of Many Nations Included
in Roll of Those who Passed
Away During Year
1900.

Below is an abridged list, by months.
OF persons eminent in the worlds activities,
who died during 1900:
January.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky. of the Rus
sian navy. commander Of the Russian Bal
Atic fleet, which was destroyed by the Jap
1nese fleet under Admiral Togo in the Sea
OF Japan, May q, 1905. DR.. Fleming r.
stiles OF New York, physician, editor and
historian; Alfred r. Wolff OF New York,
consulting engineer and an authority on
heating and ventilation; c. IT,. Yoa-
KUN Of Texas, an authority on
corporation law and former member OF
congress; DR.. Abraham Morrell Cory OF
New Jersey, civil war surgeon. astronomer,
author and inventor; Brlgadler General
William i. Craighill, L. S. a. retired, a
soldier of forty years service beginning In
1853; Rt. Rev. Bernard McQuaid, Roman
Catholic bishop OF Rochester, n. Y; John
q Gilmer Speed. American author; Father
John, Of Cronstadt, Russia; Benoit Con-
stance Coquelin, famous French actor;
Henry Chapman Watson. editor of Dun's
Review, New York: Rev. w. ID. Hughes,
editor Catholic World, New York; Joseph
Wharton, iron manufacturer, Philadelphia:
David Jackson, millionaire philanthropist
Of California.
February.
Rear Admiral Charles 5. Cotton. U. S.
~, retired; Carol d. Wright, president OF
Ozark college, Worcester, Mass. for many
years chief OF the federal bureau of labor;
DIR. William T. Bull, distinguished surgeon
OF New York City; Cardinal Sanchez y Her
4 vas. archbishop OF Toledo. Spain; Rear
' Admiral Samuel r. Franklin, u, 5. NJ, re-
tired; Rev. Theodore l.. Cuyler. noted
preacher OF Brooklyn. n. Y: Albert Mid
lane. a noted authority on hymnology;
Geronimo, Apache indian chief and war
rior: Grand Duke Vladimir Of Russia; Ca
tuIe A. Modes, French poet; Rev. William
O'Brien Pardow, 5. j., New York, famous
Roman Catholic preacher; Most Rev.
Arthur Sweatman, archbishop Of Toronto
and primate of Canada; Former Governor
Caleb West OF Utah: Miss Martha Finley,
7 author OF the Elsie books; Cardinal Ser
IafInO Cretoni of Italy; Thomas Lowry,
lawyer and capitalist of Minneapolis;
Ernest A. II. Coquelin, the younger French
actor.
March.
DR.. Daniel r.. Brewer. Of Rush Medical
college, Chicago; elias Jackson C'Lucky")
baldwin, California pioneer and racing
man; Rev. William w. Rand. d. d., of
the American Tract society, New York;
Judge Hosea Townsend, former member
OF congress from Colorado; Alexandra
Charpentier, the French sculptor; Joseph
w. Blythe, Of Iowa, general counsel for
the Burlington system; Mrs. Sara Wiley
King Drummond, poet and descriptive
kwriter; A. d. Remington, pioneer OF the
wood pulp Industry Of northern New York;
John Butterfield, a pioneer of transcontin-
entail transportation; Major Edmond Louis
GRAY Zalinali inventor of the dynamite
gun; Prof. Mark Vernon Slingerland, of
Cornell university; Gen. William j. Palmer,
of Colorado Springs, railroad builder and
philanthropist; Archbishop Yznik Abo-
hoony, head Of the Armenian church of
North America; George Thorndyke Angel,
known as the friend of dumb animals; DR..
John william Jones, historian of the con-
federacy: Rear Admiral Edward Trask
QStrong, u. S. N, retired; Bishop George
Do N. Gillespie, of the protestant episcopal
diocese of western Michigan; Prince Mich
aeI Hilkov. member of the council of the
Russian empire; DIR, Rudolph Won Renvers,
eminent German physician; DR.. William
IL. Wahl, we'll known scientist of Phila-
deiphia; Charles b. Waite. author and
linRuist, Chicago; DR.. James IL. Garfield,
librarian OF Columbia university, formerly
chancellor Of the University Of Nebraska;
Rear Admiral George A, Converse. u. S.
n, retired; Joseph Petrosino, New York
pOlica officer, assassinated in Sicily.
April.
Admiral CerVera, who commanded the
Spanish fleet destroyed by the American
fleet at Santiago, July 3, 1898; Rev. James
Stuart Dickson, secretary of the College
Board Of the Presbyterian church,; DR.. H..
We. Potter, founder and builder OF the Pere
Marquette railroad; former Governor Will
lam ]. Poynter of Nebraska; Brigadier
General Marcus d. l.. Simpson, United
States army, retired, veteran of the Mex
lean and civil wars; former Congressman
William Neville OF Nebraska; Nine. Helena
Modjeska, the Polish-American actress
Prof. George Rice Carpenter Of Columbia
university; Francis Marion Crawford, the
AMERICAN novelist; Algernon Charles Swim
bA-pe, the English poeti Joseph Russell
Jones. noted pioneer OF Chicago; Antoine
sHeake, sculptor, Munich; former United
states Senator Matthew c. Butler Of South
Carolina; AMI l., Barber, president of the
, Barber Asphalt company; Colonel James c..
Montgomery, member OF General Grants
staff during the civil war; DR.. Frank w.
Draper OF Harvard medical school; Joseph
G. Meredith, chief engineer Of the Flor
ida East Coast Railroad extension to Key
West; forme United States Senator David
Turpie OF Indiana; DIR. Samuel June Bar
rows, author, ciminologist and member OF
congress; former United States Senator
William M. stewart OF Nevada; Colonel
Franklin Bartlettya leading New York law
yer; Charles Warren Stoddard Of New
. York, poet and author; Heinrich Conrad,
, director OF the Metropolitan Opera house,
New York; Olive Logan, the American
author, actress and lecturer; former Con-
gresham Joseph w. Babcock Of Wiscon-
sin; Mrs. Emily =, Collins, one of the first
woman suffragist champions OF this coun-
try; Theodore Minot Clark, noted architect
of Boston; Peter T.. Collier, American pub
Usher.
May,
DIR. Manuel Amador, first president OF
the Panama republic; Very Rev, John
Marshall Lang, chancellor Of the Aberdeen
university; Hammond Lamont, editor OF
the New York Nation; Judge Henry L,
Palmer, former president of the North
western Mutual Life Insurance company;
Joachim Anderson, Danish composer and
director; Rev. Laurence ]. Vaughan a
tBted Roman Catholic priest, Shake
spearean scholar and playwright; Bishop
Charles h, Galloway of the Methodist Epis-
copal church south; George Meredith, the
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