Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-01
NOTABLE DEAD OF The YEAR
Roster of Men and Women Conspic-
uous in World Affairs.
VACANT PLACES IN ALL LINES
Toll Levied by Death Among the
Great of All NFtions-FamiIIar
Names Added 20 the
Abacnt Roll.


it's toll TO death during 1910 Every nat on
responded to the demand the most useful
as well as the least important passing
from the sunshine OF life into the valley Of
impenetrabe shadows.
Conspicuous among the dead rulers OF
the year ere King Edward VII ruler Of
the British empire; King Chulalonghorn Of
SIAM and Azed-el- Mulk. regent Of Persia
Literature lost Count Leo Tostoi. Rus
sian philosopher and novelist; Samuel
Ianghore Clemens mark Twain; Riornst-
jerne Bjornson. poet and novelist: John
La Fargo. artist and author; Julia Ward
Howe, philanthropist and poet: william
James. philosopher and scholar; William
Vaughn Moody poet and dramatist Mrs.
Allan McNaughton Myra Kelly. character
painter OF New York's east side; William
Sidney Porter 90. Henry. Of short story
fame, and Goodwin Smith Of Toronto.
Art and music have also lost many emil
nent names. Walter A. Gay and Worth
ington whittredge, two of the old-time
landscape painters, who set down realities,
not Impressions Tom" Browne, the carl
caturist and cartoonist; Sir william Quiller
Orchardson. one Of the leading English
portrait painters Of his time; Sir Francis
Seymour Hayden, most eminent of etchers
since Whistler; William Holman Hunt, one
Of the founders of the -Raphaelite
school; windon Homer, our best marine
painter; John La Fargo, OF stained glass
fame; Ludwig Knaus. the eminent Ger
man genre painter; and the sculptors John
Quincy Adams Ward and Larkin G. Meade
are among the greater representatives who
have gone.
Music also has lost many great names.
among them w. Edward Heimendahl. the
violinist Giovanni Lamperti and Pauline
Viardot Garcia, teachers of worldwide
fame; Edouard Colonne. the French con-
ductor; Mily Alexandrovich Balakirev, a
prominent composer Of the new Russian
school, and Myron d. whitney, the Ameri-
can oratorio basso.
The stage has not lost any great repre-
sentatives, but among the popular actors
who have died are Neil Burgess. Clay
Clement and Louis James.
The most prominent workers in the po-
litical field who have passed away are ex-
! Senator Thomas c. Plat; John O. Carlisle
ex-secretary Of the treasury; David B. Hill,
: ex-senator from New York; Jonathan p
Dolliver the Iowa senator; Senator John
W. Daniel of Virginia and Senator Samuel
Douglas McEnery of Louisiana.
The supreme court of the United States
lost Melville W. Fuller chief justice, and
Associate Justice David j. Brewer.
Two eminent women are numbered
among the years dead-Florence Nightin-
gale, the Angel Of the Crimea," and Mary
Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Sci.
ence church.
A partial record by months follows:
January-Darius o. Mills, California
pioneer and New York philanthropist: Rt
Rev. Joseph M. Flynn. soldier and priest
! Mcrristown, n. j.; James B. Bedford, tudg,
and former congressman from Colorado
known as the red-headed rooster of tn
Rockies; Cardinal Satolli, former Opostoli,
delegate to the United States; General VII
liam f. Draper OF Hopedale Mass, civil
war veteran, ambassador TO Italy and in
ventor of cotton spinning machinery
Bishop Cyrus ID. Fox of the Methods
Episcopal church Philadelphia; John w
Rreidenthal, leader in populist movement
In Kansas and former insurance commits
sioner OF state; Ezra Kendall Of Cleveland
humorist, actor and lecturer; Major Gen
eral Newton M. Curtis of New York, media
Of honor soldier of civil war; Senior Joa
quin Nalmeo, Brazilian ambassador a
Washington; John Farson, pioneer banke
OF Chicago.
February-Willlam Dodsworth, presiden
and editor OF the New York Journal o
Commerce and Commercial Bulletin; MaJo
Calvin Hood of Emporia, pioneer of Kan
sas; DR.. William Everett, former Congress
man from Massachusetts; William H
Mitchell, pioneer banker Of Chicago ant
founder of Chicago & Alton railroad; ella,
Clement, actor and dramatist George Hol
land, Philadelphia, one of the last survivor
OF the old school OF actors; Neil Burgess
New York successful comedian in 9TH,
County Fair" and widow Bedott": Gen
eral st. Clair A. Mulholland New York. ex
soldier, author. lecturer and artist; Real
Admiral James Entwhistle U. S. N. re
tired. veteran OF civil and Spanish wars
Count lido Won Stalberg- Wernigerode
president Of the German reichstag: Bon
tros Pasha Ghali, Egyptian premier, as
sassinated; Arthur Fraser Walter one tim
proprietor OF the London Times; DR.. Ed
ward H. Merrill. ex-president of Ripo,
college Wisconsin; Amos Emerson DOLL
var professor OF physics at Tufts colleg,
and inventor Of telegraph and telephon,
appliances; Mrs. Cyrus H. X. Curtis, Phlla
delphia' first editor Of the Ladies' HON,
Journal
March-Jose Domingo de ObaIdin. presi
dent of Panama; Louis James. shake
spearean actor; Thomas Collier Plat ex
United States senator and republican leade
OF New York state. Alexander AEassiz
Boston, famous scientist; Robert w. Pat
terson' president OF the Chicago Tribun,
company; Jacob schaeffer, noted bilHar,
player; Louis Klopsch, editor Of the Chris
tian Herald, New York; David A. Munro
for many years editor OF the North Amer
lean Review; Dr. Eben Alexander, dear
Of the University OF North Carolina; Bisho,
Henry w. spellmeyer Of the Methods
Episcopal church; Timothy Harring ton
NJ p. former lord mayor OF Dublin; Or
Vile James Victor, author OF histories o
the civil war period; Thomas f. Walsh
Washington one Of the richest Of Colo
RADIO miners; Prof. Norris II. Morgan
Harvard university. Tom Browne. tn
English comic artist; Rev. Theodou
Bourne. New York. founder of Society 70
Prevention OF Crime; Prof J. Raw
ner Edwards Of Harvard observatory
David ]. Brewer. associate justice fedora
supreme court; Alexander Agassiz. Boston
scientist and mining engineer; Brigadier
General Hamilton 3. Hawkins, u. s. A.
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