The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-09

OF Germany; the venerable Thomas Bow
man, senior bishop of the Methodist
church, and two Protestant Episcopal
i bishops-John Scarborough of New
Jersey. and William Woodruff Niles Of
1 New Hampshire passed away America
also lost George Westinghouse, whose
/ air brake is rcputed to have saved
more lives than were sacrificed in the
! Napolconic wars. April marked the
/ passing of the dowager empress of ia
| pan. the well-beloved IIaruko: George
/ Alfred Townsend, known widely as a
war correspondent; George F. Baer
president of the Reading railroad. and
Samuel r. Crockett, who created The
Stickt Minister"
Maj. Gen. Daniel F.. Sickles. hero of
the civil war, died carly in May Among
the other famous men and women who
died during the month were Lillian
Nordica. daughter of a Maine farmer.
who became one of the worlds most
successful opera singers. especially ia
nous in Wagnerian roles; Francis Kos
suth. son of the great hungarian pa
triot: Charles ScaddnG. Episcopal
bishop of Oregon: Sir Joseph w. Swan,
inventor of the incandescent light;
Paul Mauser, inventor of the rifle
bearing his name; William o, Bradley,
United States senator from Kentucky,
and the duke of Argyll,
Adlai +. Stevenson. vice president OF
the United States during the second
Cleveland administration, died June 10.
Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich OF Meek
lenburg-Strelitz George II. grand duke
of Sake Meningen, and Archduke
Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of
Austria Hungary. the victim of an as
sassin, are some of the men of royal
blood who died in that month. Joseph
Chamberlain. long eminent as British
statesman. died early in July. Among
other distinguished men who died that
month were Horace III. Iurton. asSoci-
ate justice of the United States Supreme
court: Melville Z, Ingalls, of the Big
Four" railroad system; Augustus Smith,
oldest graduate of Yale university, and
Paul Reclus. brilliant French scientist.
Two names among the August dead
stand out with especial prominence
Ellen Louise Arson Wilson, wife of the
president of the United States. and
Pope Plus y. head of the Roman Catho-
lie church. John Philip Holland, in
ventor of the submarine; Gen Powell
CLAYTON. ex-governor, ex-senator and
for half a century the most prominent
Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
Intyre, bishop of the Methodist church;
Father Francis \avier Wernz, general
of the Jesuits and Margaret Newton
Van Colt. known everywhere as an
evangelist. were also among the ia
nous dead of August
The September list includes the names
of Edward J. Hall, the father of the
ng-distance telephone" Mrs. Frank
Leslie baroness Bazus). who revived the !
practically defunct publishing business |
left by her husband and bequeathed ST.
Q0o, 900 to the woman suffrage movement. |
and Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow. Uni |
ted States navy, retired. On October u, !
the aged king of Roumania. Charles l. |
who maintained the neutrality of his !
kingdom to the very last in spite of pow
erful opposition. died at his capital The I
Right Rev. Charles William Smith Meth |
odst Episcopal bishop of st. Louis, died I
on the last day of the month.
Among the eminent dead of Novem-
Der are Lieut.. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee I
who was chief of staff of the United 7
States army from 1904 to 1906: John
Kean. former senator from New Jer-
sey: Caroline NJ. Severance, 1.-THE
mother of women's clubs" Field Mar
shall Earl Frederick s. Roberts most
famous of British soldiers and Robert
J. Burdette. American lecturer. humor-
list and preacher. December marked
the passing of Americas most eminent
naval expert and writer Rear Admiral
Alfred T. Mahan.