College, Ohio. In 1844 he became Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of the City of New York, and during the sixteen years that he occupied this chair he began the publication of a series of textbooks on mathematics and astronomy. In 1860 he became Munson Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale College, and retained that chair

till his death. He made a comparison from 1846 till 1849, by telegraph, of different longitudes, and determined by original observations the velocity of the electric fluid on telegraph wires. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1873; and was honored with membership in the most important scientific societies of America and Europe. Prof. Loomis's publications included "Plane and Spherical Trigonometry," "Progress of Astronomy," Analytical Geometry and Calculus," "Elements of Algebra," "Elements of Geometry and Conic Sections," "Tables of Logarithms," "Practical Astronomy," "Natural Philosophy," "Elements of Arithmetic," "Treatise on Meteorology," " Elements of Astronomy," ," "A Treatise on Arithmetic," "A Treatise on Algebra," "Algebraic Problems and Examples," "A Treatise on Astronomy," and "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis." He bequeathed all his books and pamphlets relating to mathematical and physical sciences to Yale College, and also made it the residuary legatee of his estate, which was estimated at from $250,000 to $300,000, for the promotion of astronomical science.

Lord, Samuel, merchant, born in Yorkshire, England. in 1803; died in Ashton, Cheshire, England, May 23, 1889. He served an apprenticeship in the iron-molding trade, and came to New York when twenty-three years old. He first established himself in business on borrowed capital in Catharine Street, and after struggling alone for two years sent to England for his wife, child, and wife's cousin, George W. Taylor, with whom he founded the house of Lord & Taylor. In 1854 the firm removed to the corner of Grand and Chrystie Streets, in 1860 built a new store at Broadway and Grand Street, and in 1870 established another store at Broadway and Twentieth Street, retaining the original Grand Street establishment. Mr. Lord retired from the firm shortly before the uptown store was erected, and his place was taken by his two sons. He resided in England after his retirement.

Loughridge, William, lawyer, born in Youngstown, Ohio, July 11, 1827; died near Reading, Pa., Sept. 26, 1889. He received a common-school education, was admitted to the bar in 1849, began practicing in Mansfield, Ohio, and removed to Iowa in 1852. He was elected to the State Senate in 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860. In 1861 he was elected judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Iowa, and held the office till January, 1867, when he resigned to take his seat in Congress from the Sixth Iowa District, to which he had been elected as a Republican. He was re-elected to Congress in 1868, 1870, and 1872.

Machebœuf, Joseph Projectus, clergyman, born in Riom, France, Aug. 11, 1812; died in Denver, Col., July 10, 1889. He was graduated at Riom College and the Sulpician Seminary at Montferran, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1836, came to the United States as a missionary in 1839, and in 1840 was appointed to a pastorate in Sandusky, Ohio, where he remained till 1852. He was vicar-general of New Mexico from 1852 till 1860, and was then transferred in the same capacity to Colorado. He built the first

Roman Catholic church in Denver, and in eight years built seventeen churches or chapels in the Territory, a convent for the Sisters of Loreto, an academy, and a school for boys. In 1868 the Pope constituted the vicariate-apostolic of Colorado and Utah, and appointed Dr. Macheboeuf titular Bishop of Epiphania, with jurisdiction over the vicariate.

McCue, Alexander, lawyer, born in Matamoras, Mexico, May 1, 1826; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 2, 1889. He was graduated at Columbia College in 1846, spent three years in foreign travel and study at Heidelberg, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn in 1850. He was assistant District Attorney in 1851-'52, was elected Corporation Counsel in 1859, and for a second term, and after an interval of one term was re-elected for a third. In May, 1870, he was elected one of the two justices of the Brooklyn City Court, and served till Dec. 31, 1884, becoming chief judge in 1882. In 1885 he was appointed solicitor of the Treasury, in 1886 declined the office of Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, but in February, 1888, accepted the office.

McGill, Alexander Taggart, educator, born in Canonsburg, Pa., Feb. 24, 1807; died in Princeton, N. J., Jan. 13, 1889. He was graduated at Jefferson College in 1826; was tutor in mathematics there one term; removed to Milledgeville, Ga., studied law, was admitted to the bar, and soon afterward was appointed commissioner to survey and fix the boundary lines of Georgia and Alabama. He returned to Cannonsburg in 1831. Believing he had but a short time to live in consequence of serious lung trouble, he relinquished the practice of law, studied in the Theological Seminary of the Associate (now United Presbyterian) Church at Cannonsburg, was licensed to preach in 1834, and was installed pastor of three small churches in 1835. In 1838 he left the Associate and connected himself with the Old School Branch of the Presbyterian Church; in 1838-142 held a pastorate in Carlisle, Pa.; in 1842-'52 was Professor of Hebrew and Church History at Western Theological Seminary; in 1852-253 was a professor in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C.; and in 1854-'83 was Professor of Ecclesiastical, Homiletic, and Pastoral Theology in Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. McGill was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian (Old School) Church in 1848, its permanent clerk from 1850 till 1862, and its stated clerk from 1862 till 1870. At the time of his death he had a work on "The Ordinances of the Presbyterian Church" in press.

McKay, Charles F., educator, born in Northumberland, Pa., in 1810; died in Baltimore, Md., March 13, 1889. In 1831 he removed to Georgia, and was there engaged in educational work till 1869, when he settled in Baltimore. He was President of Georgia State University at Athens for many years, and bequeathed it a handsome endowment.

Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell, soldier, born in New York, in August, 1840; died in New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1889. He was a son of Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U. S. N., was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1862, and was commissioned second lieutenant of engineers. In the permanent establishment he was promoted first lieutenant March 3, 1863; captain, Nov. 6, 1863; colonel of the Forty-first United States Infantry, March 6,1867; transferred to the Twenty-fourth Infantry March 15, 1869; and to the Fourth Cavalry Dec. 15, 1870. He became brigadier-general Oct. 26, 1882, and was retired, on account of insanity resulting from a fall, March 24, 1884. In the volunteer service he was commissioned colonel of the Second Connecticut Artillery July 10, 1864; was promoted brigadier- general Oct. 19, 1864; brevetted major-general March 31, 1865; and mustered out of the service Jan. 15, 1866. Gen. Mackenzie distinguished himself in the battles of Manassas, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Petersburg, Cedar Creek, Opequan, Fisher's Hill, and Middletown, and after the war became noted for his encounters with Mexican and Indian outlaws, whom he pursued several times across the Mexican border.

iam S. Rosecrans was colonel, and Rutherford B. Hayes major, and in November, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the Fifty-first Ohio Volunteers, with which he served till 1863, when he resigned to accept the office of judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, to which he was elected while in the field. In 1864 he resigned this office. He was a Republican presidential elector in 1864 and 1868, was defeated for Congress in 1876, succeeded John Sherman, on his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury, in the United States Senate in 1877, served there two years, and was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in January, 1881. The nomination excited hostility both in the Senate and its Judiciary Committee, to whom it was referred, and, in spite of the exertions of his friends, the Judiciary Committee declined to approve the nomination, and it failed with the adjournment of Congress. On March 15, President Garfield renominated him, and it was not till May 12 that he was confirmed, and then by a vote of 24 to 23. The principal objection to him on the Republican side was his opposition while a Senator to the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and on the Democratic side, that he was one of the visiting statesmen to Louisiana and counsel for the Republicans before the Electoral Commission in 1876.

Matthieu, Henri, centenarian, born in Vendôme, France, April 1, 1788; died in New York city, May 7, 1889. He served in the French Hussars under Napoleon I, and participated in several historical battles, including those of Leipsic and Waterloo, receiving a wound in the latter. He was able to walk till within a few months of his death, and retained his faculties to the last.

Mattoon, Stephen, educator, born in Champion, N. Y., May 5, 1816; died in Marion, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1889. He was graduated at Union College in 1842, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846; went to Siam under the auspices of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in 1846, and labored there till 1866; was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ballston Spa, N. Y., in 1867-'69; President of Biddle University in Charlotte, N. C., from 1870 till 1884; and Professor of Systematic Theology there from 1877 till within a short time of his death. He translated the New Testament into Siamese (Bangkok, 1865).

Meade, Edwin Ruthven, lawyer, born in Norwich, N. Y., July 6, 1886; died in New York city, Nov. 28, 1889. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, and practiced in Norwich till 1872, when he removed to New York city. In 1874 he was elected to Congress from the Fifth New York District as a Democrat, and, while a member of that body, distinguished himself as a member of the special committee on the investigation of the Chinese immigration question, spending several months in California and on the Pacific slope in personal study of the subject.

Merrick, William M., lawyer, born in Charles County, Md., Sept. 1, 1818; died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1889. He received a collegiate education, studied law in the University of Virginia, was admitted to the bar in Baltimore in 1839, and settled in Frederick. Removing to Washington, he was appointed an associate justice of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia in 1854, and held the office till the abolition of the court in 1863. He then resumed private practice in Maryland till 1870, when he was elected to Congress from the Fifth Maryland District as a Democrat. He served on the Committee on Elections and the select committee to investigate the alleged Crédit Mobilier bribery, opposed the "salary grab" act, and refused to accept back pay. In 1885 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Miller, John Leland, physician, born in Adams, Mass., June 2, 1813; died in Sheffield, Mass., April 17, 1889. He was graduated at the Berkshire Medical College in 1837, went to New Orleans to practice, became surgeon of a surveying party at the mouth of the Mississippi, was shipwrecked in the Caribbean Sea, and settled in Providence, R. I., in 1838. In 1844 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Illinois State VOL. XXIX.-41 A

University. At the outbreak of the Mexican War he entered the army, was appointed an assistant surgeon of volunteers May 27, 1848, promoted surgeon and major July 13, and served to the close of the war. He subsequently bought a large tract of land in Illinois and established a model stock farm, which was the site of the present town of Fairbury. In 1856 he established a similar farm at Pittsfield. In 1861 he was appointed surgeon of the First Battalion, Sixth Brigade of Massachusetts militia. In 1866 he settled in Sheffield. In 1888 he gave $40,000 to Williams College to establish a professorship of American History, Literature, and Eloquence.

Milnes, William, Jr., manufacturer, born in Lancashire, England, Dec. 8, 1827; died in Page County, Va., Aug. 14, 1889. When he was two years old his parents emigrated to the United States, and settled in Pottsville, Pa., where his father engaged in mining and manufacturing iron. The son apprenticed himself to the machinist's trade, and on completing his time joined his father and brother in mining and shipping coal. In 1865 he bought the Shenandoah Iron Works, in Page and Rockingham counties, and carried on the works till his death. In 1868 he was elected to Congress as a Conservative.

Minor, William Thomas, jurist, born in Stamford, Conn., in 1815; died there, Oct. 13, 1889. He was graduated at Yale College in 1834, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was a member of the Legislature eight years, was elected Governor of the State in 1855, was United States consul at Havana from 1864 till 1867, and on returning home he was appointed judge of the State Supreme Court, and held the office till 1873.

Mitchell, Maria, astronomer, born in Nantucket, Mass., Aug. 1, 1818; died in Lynn, Mass., June 28, 1889. She was the daughter of William Mitchell, an astronomer of merit, and early acquired an interest in his work. At first her only teacher was Mr. Mitchell, but as she grew older she was sent to a school taught by Cyrus Peirce, whose assistant she then became. Meanwhile she aided her father in his studies, and was also active in the home management, as the family was large. At the age of eighteen she was appointed librarian of the Nantucket Athenæum, which place she held for twenty years, and she was proud

of the fact that she had regularly earned a salary from the time she was seventeen years old. This appointment gave her more leisure to devote to astronomical studies. She made a specialty of examining nebulæ and searching for comets, besides making many careful observations. After discovering several small nebulæ, she found a comet on Oct. 1, 1847. This discovery was confirmed by her father, and the news was sent to Prof. William C. Bond, of the Harvard Observatory. A few days later Father de Vico saw the same coinet in Rome, and it was subsequently seen by observers in Kent and Hamburg. She was awarded the gold medal offered by the King of Denmark for the discovery of a telescopic comet, and the republic of San Marino, in Italy, struck a copper medal in her honor. In later years she discovered other comets, until her record included seven not known before. When the publication of the "American Nautical Almanac" was begun, she was employed on that work, continuing it until after she was called to Vassar. In 1858 she went to Europe. In England she was entertained by Sir John Herschel and Sir George B. Airy, the astronomer royal. Leverrier received her in Paris, and Humboldt in Berlin, where she also met Encke. In Rome she met Fredrika Bremer, and

became intimate with the family of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom she traveled from Paris to Italy. During her absence a fund was raised by the women of America, through the exertions of Miss Elizabeth Peabody, of Boston, and on her return she was presented with a telescope much larger than that owned by her father. At first this instrument was set up in Nantucket, but later, when her father moved to Lynn, she accompanied him, taking her telescope with her. In 1835 she was called to the chair of Astronomy at Vassar College, which place, with that of director of the college observatory, she held until January, 1888, when failing health compelled her resignation. This the trustees declined to accept, and granted her an indefinite leave of absence, with payment of her full salary. After her resignation she returned to her family in Lynn, and there spent the last days of her life. A reception in her honor was made a feature of the alumnæ meeting of the Vassar Association in New York city early in 1888, but she was unable to be present, and wrote: "It goes to my heart to say that I can not come, but I am tired, and after more than half a century am trying to rest.' At that meeting it was decided to endow the chair of Astronomy as a memorial to Miss Mitchell, and $40,000 was pledged for that purpose. The degree of LL. D. was given her by Hanover College in 1853. Miss Mitchell was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1850 joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which she was made a fellow in 1874. She presided over the American Association for the Advancement of Women at Syracuse in 1875, and at Philadelphia in 1876. During recent years her astronomical studies were devoted to sunspots and the satellites of Jupiter. Her published writings were restricted to scientific papers, with the exception of a poem entitled "How Nantucket was made," contributed to a volume called "Sea-Weeds from the Shores of Nantucket" (1853). Her character, and perhaps her success in life, are best described by her own words, for, as she said, "I was not born with much genius, but with great persistency."

Montague, Charles Howard, journalist, born in Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 16, 1858; died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 19, 1889. He was graduated at the High School in Cambridge, entered journalism, and became city editor of the Boston Globe." He published the following stories: "The Face of Rosenfel," "Two Strokes of the Bell," "The Romance of Two Lilies," "The Doctor's Mistake," and "The Countess Muta."

Moore, Samuel Preston, physician, born in South Carolina, in 1815; died in Richmond, Va., May 31, 1889. He was educated for a physician, entered the United States army as an assistant surgeon March 14, 1835, served through the Mexican War, was commissioned surgeon and major April 30, 1849, and resigned on the secession of South Carolina. On the organization of the Confederate army he was appointed surgeongeneral, and he held this office till the close of the war. He afterward settled in Richmond, resumed practice, and became active in educational matters.

Morton, John P., publisher, born in Lexington, Ky., in 1807; died in Louisville, Ky., July 19, 1889. In 1823 he became a clerk in a book store, in 1825 removed to Louisville and engaged in the same business on his own account, and subsequently became also a publisher of educational works and the head of the largest establishment of its kind in the South. He built the Morton Church Home, at a cost of $100,000, and presented it to the Episcopal Church at Louisville.

Mott, Alexander Brown, surgeon, born in New York city, March 21, 1826; died in Yonkers, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1889. He was the fourth son of Dr. Valentine Mott, acquired a classical education in Europe, studied medicine with his father and in the University Medical College, and was graduated at the Vermont Academy of Medicine in 1850. In 1853 he was appointed visiting surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital, in 1855'63 was attending surgeon at the Hebrew Hospital, in 1857 took the degree of M. D. at the medical depart

ment of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1859 became surgeon at Bellevue Hospital. He was also surgeon at the Charity Hospital for fourteen years, and consulting surgeon to the Bureau of Medical and Surgical Relief to the Outdoor Poor. At the beginning of the civil war he was appointed medics. director at New York, and aided in establishing the United States General Hospital On Nov. 7, 1862. while surgeon in charge of this hospital, he was com missioned surgeon of United States volunteers, with the rank of major; in 1864 was appointed medical inspector of the Department of Virginia, and on July 27, 1865, was mustered out of the service, with the brevet rank of colonel. Dr. Mott aided in founding St. Vincent's Hospital in 1849 and Bellevue Medical College in 1861, was Professor of Surgical Anatomy in the latter from 1861 till 1872, and of Chemical and Operative Surgery from 1872 till his death; and performed many operations that excited interest in the surgical world.

Myers, Abraham C., soldier, born in South Carolina. about 1812; died in Washington, D. C., June 20. 1889. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1833, entered the army as brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth United States Infantry, was promoted captain and assistant quartermaster Nov. 21, 1839, served in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War, was brevetted major for gallantry in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and lieutenant-colonel Aug. 20, 1847, for services in the Battle of Churubusco. After the secession of his native State he resigned, and was appointed quartermaster-general of the Confederate army.

Neal, John Randolph, lawyer, born in Anderson County, Tenn.; died in Rhea Springs, Tenn., March 26. 1889. He was graduated at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, in 1858, was admitted to the bar in 1860, entered the Confederate army as a private, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Sixteenth Battalion of Tennessee Cavalry. In 1874 he was elected to the Tennessee Assembly, in 1878 a State Senator, in 1879 President of the Senate, and in 1889 a Democratic presidential elector. He was elected to Congress from the Third Tennessee District in 1886 and 1888 as a Democrat.

Needham, Elias Parkman, manufacturer, born in Delhi, N. Y., 1813; died in New York city, Nov. 2, 1889. While working as a journeyman carpenter in Buffalo, N. Y., he became intimate with Jeremiah Carhart, a fellow-workman, who had invented mechanical devices, and, being impressed with the action of a suction bellows and set of reeds that Carhart bad invented as improvements on the then popular melodeons, he induced Carhart to join him in establishing a melodeon manufactory. They began making the instruments in Buffalo in 1846, and in two years their business was so large that they removed to New York city, and began manufacturing on a larger scale. Mr. Needham was constantly experimenting to improve the melodeon, and while so doing conceived the idea of altering the form and arrangement of the instrument to produce a substitute for the pipe organ. These experiments resulted in the silvertongue" reed, or parlor organ. In 1878 he received fifteen patents, covering the idea of using strips of perforated paper for producing automatic music from small reed organs, under which thousands of orguinettes have been manufactured.

Nixon, John Thompson, lawyer, born in Fairton, Cumberland County, N. J., Aug. 31, 1820; died in Stockbridge, Mass., Sept. 28, 1889. He was graduated at Princeton in 1841, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1845. On the death of Judge Pennypacker, with whom he had formed a partnership, he returned to New Jersey and established himself at Bridgeton. In 1849 and 1850 he was elected to the State Assembly, and in his second term was its Speaker. He was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1858 and 1860, and rendered effective service on the Committee on Commerce. In 1870 he was appointed Judge of the United States District

Court for New Jersey, an office he retained till his death. He was author of "Nixon's Digest of the Laws of New Jersey" and "Forms of Proceedings under the Laws of New Jersey." Norton, George W., banker, born near Russellville, Ky., in 1815; died in Louisville, Ky., July 18, 1889. He was educated for the banking business, established the Southern Bank in Russellville in 1850, and removing to Louisville in 1866 founded the banking house of G. W. Norton & Co. He was exceptionally successful in his operations, gave $50,000 to the Baptist Southern Theological School, and at his death was regarded as the richest man in the State.

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Nutting, Newton W., lawyer, born in West Monroe, Oswego County, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1840; died in Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1889. He was admitted to the bar in Syracuse, N. Y.; was district attorney of Oswego County from Jan. 1, 1869, till Jan 1, 1872, and county judge from Jan. 1, 1878, till March 4, 1883; and was elected to Congress from the 27th New York District as a Republican in 1884, 1886, and 1888. O'Connor, William Douglas, author, born of English and Irish parents in Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1832; died in Washington, D. C., May 9, 1839. When a child he read books that were far beyond his years, and he early manifested a passion for art, and for two years studied painting. He also wrote poems, some of which were published anonymously. Among these were "The Shadow on the Wall," "Mabel," "To Athos," "The Lost Land," Resurgemus," and "Earl Mord." He was an associate editor of the Boston "Commonwealth" and the "Mercantile Library Reporter," and from 1854 to 1860 he edited the Philadelphia "Saturday Evening Post." In 1861 he was appointed corresponding clerk of the Light-House Board in Washington, of which, in 1873, he became chief' clerk. In 1874 he was made librarian of the Treasury Department, and in 1878 Assistant General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, for which thereafter he wrote the annual reports. In these reports he frequently inserted graphic descriptions and picturesque details of the service which he had assisted in reorganizing, and to which he enthusiastically devoted his energies. Mr. O'Connor was a social Democrat of the purest type, and politically a radical of the broadest kind, though never a voter. His reading was remarkably wide, and with keen reasoning powers he had a wonderful memory for quotations and allusions. Moreover, he never failed in the courage of his convictions. He was one of the first to appreciate the poetry of Walt Whitman, for whom he had a strong personal friendship and a profound admiration, and he was a firm believer in the theory that Shakespeare's plays were written by Francis Bacon. His publications in book form were "Harrington," a powerful antislavery remance (anonymous, Boston. 1860); "The Good Gray Poet," a vindication of Whitman's poetry (New York, 1866; reprinted, with a long introduction, in Richard M. Bucke's life of Whitman, 1883); "Hamlet's Note-Book," a reply to Richard Grant White on the main points of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy (Boston, 1886); and "Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers," a reply to those who decried Ignatius Donnelly's "Great Cryptogram" (Chicago, 1889). His finest imagina

tive work is in his short stories, two or three of which have been republished in small volumes or in collections. These are: "The Sword of Manley" (Harper's, 1854): "Loss and Gain" (Harper's, December, 1854); "The Knocker" (Harper's, December, 1855); "What Cheer?" (Putnam's, July, 1855); "The Ghost" (Putnam's, January, 1856); and "The Carpenter" (Putnam's, January, 1868). Most of these are Christmas stories. "The Brazen Android," written for the "Atlantic Monthly" was withdrawn after it was partly in type. His longest poem, "To Fanny," appeared in the "Atlantic." No collection of his poems or stories has as yet been published. Mr. O'Connor married, in 1856, Miss Ellen M. Tarr, of Boston, who survives him.

Olin, Milo, philanthropist, born probably in New York; died in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 14, 1889. He settled in Augusta about 1839, practiced law, became clerk of the Supreme Court, and was a magistrate for many years previous to his death. He led a life of extreme seclusion; but he was known through the South as the "yellow-fever nurse," and possessed great skill as a physician. It is said that no epidemic has occurred in the South in forty years that he did not immediately leave his home for the scene of danger. He sought the worst cases, and acted as physician and nurse, but would never accept reward from any source. Though co-operating with organized relief societies, he followed his own course of treatment; and whenever the scourge ceased he would quietly slip away to his home, and afterward refuse to give any information concerning his experience.

Paine, Ira, marksman, born in Hebronville, Mass., Feb. 17, 1837; died in Paris, France, Sept. 10, 1889. He received a public-school education, and, possessing a rich tenor voice, became a professional singer at an early age. In 1872 he began his career as a marksman, and invented glass balls, feather-filled balls, ball-throwing traps, and other appliances to enable him to exhibit his skill without using live pigeons. Having won distinction and the title of champion pistol and rifle shot of the United States, he went to Europe in 1881, and spent five years in shooting contests with crack shots. In 1882 Gen. von Karneke, the German Minister of War, pronounced him to be the most wonderful shot the world had ever seen, and the late King Luis, of Portugal, knighted and decorated him. In 1884 he hit a 5-inch target fifty times in succession with a Colt's army revolver at the London revolver trials, and in 1885 he won the pistol match with Joseph Schulthoff, at Vienna, at 40, 120, and 325 yards, doubling his opponent's points. His shooting was characterized by a remarkable swiftness in handling his weapon, and he had defeated all the crack shots of the world, including those of the British and German armies.

Patterson, Thomas H., naval officer, born in New Orleans, La., in May, 1820; died in Washington, D. C., April 9, 1889. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States navy April 5, 1836; was promoted passed midshipman July 1, 1842; master, Oct. 31, 1848; lieutenant, June 23, 1849; commander, July 16, 1862; captain, July 25, 1866; commodore, Nov. 2, 1871; rear-admiral, March 28, 1877; and was retired May 10, 1882. During his service in the navy he had been on sea duty twenty-two years and ten months; on shore or other duty, twenty years and one month; and was unemployed nine years and ten months. He commanded the steamer "Chocura" in Hampton Roads, Va., in 1862, took part in the siege of Yorktown, cleared the Pamunky river for Gen. McClellan's army, and co-operated with the Army of the Potomac in its early movements. While on blockading duty off the coasts of the Carolinas, he cut out the steamer "Kate" from under the Confederate batteries at New Inlet, aiding in capturing a flying battery near Fort Fisher, and captured the "Cornubia" and "Robert E. Lee," ladened with guns and military stores for the Confederates. He was in command of the Washington Navy Yard in 1876-277, and of the Asiatic squadron in 1880-'82.