in 1854, when Alexander Mann, editor of the Rochester daily "American," inquired who was the contributor that sent in so many remarkably good arti

army of the Revolution, and was afterward a representative in Congress from New Jersey), and a son of Ezekiel Taylor Cox, well known in the early political history of Ohio. He was graduated at Brown University in 1846, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, traveled in Europe from 1850 till 1853, and on his return settled in Columbus, Ohio, and became editor of the "Ohio Statesman," which was then the Democratic organ of the State. In 1855 he was appointed secretary of the U. S. legation at London, but declined the office, preferring the similar one at Lima, Peru, which he occupied about a year. Returning home in 1856, he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, and began his long service in that body on March 4, 1857. By three re-elections he held his membership till 1865, covering two administrations and the period of the civil war. In 1864 he was defeated by Schuyler Colfax as candidate of his party for the speakership of the House of Representatives, and in 1865 removed to New York city. In 1868 he was elected to Congress from the Sixth New York District, and between the election and the assembling of Congress he made another trip to Europe. He was re-elected in 1870, his Republican opponent being Horace Greeley, and was nominated for congressman-at-large in 1872, when the entire Democratic State ticket was defeated; but the death of James Brooks soon afterward caused a vacancy, and he was again elected, and took his seat Dec. 1, 1873. cles, and was told by Chester P. Dewey, his associate From that time till 1885 he remained in Congress coneditor, that it was a mechanic named Collins. The tinually, and when, in March, 1885, he was nominated young tool-maker-who, by the way, was the most and confirmed as United States minister to Turkey expert man at the trade in the city-was at once in- not only his constituents but other admirers throughvited to a place on the staff of the "American," which out the country petitioned the President to withdraw he accepted. Three years later, when that paper his nomination, that he might continue his congreswas merged in the "Democrat," he became city edi- sional work. In the session of 1877-'78 he took upon tor, which place he held until 1864, when for a short himself, by a resolution of his own, the work of the time he was agent in New York city for the State new census law; and he was also the author of the Associated Press, and later was on the staff of the plan of apportionment that was adopted by the House. Troy Times." Returning to his post in the office He retained the Turkish ministry but a year, and, of the "Democrat," he remained there till 1868, when returning to New York, was again elected to Congress he established the Rochester daily "Chronicle," and to fill a vacancy in the Ninth District, and was rewas its chief editor till it was consolidated with the elected in 1888. During his career in Congress he "Democrat" in 1870. He then established the was several times Speaker pro tem. of the House; was "News - Letter," a Sunday-morning paper. Two a promoter of the Life-Saving Service from its incepyears later he returned to the Troy "Times," on tion, and its most constant champion; secured inwhich paper he was an editorial writer from that time creased pay and vacations without deduction of pay until his death. He was at his desk in the office, for letter-carriers, and was a regent of the Smithsowriting an article, when the fatal stroke of apoplexy nian Institution. He was an able debater, and a man came, and the pen dropped in the middle of a sen- of great humor. He was author of "The Buckeye tence. Mr. Collins, though his school advantages had Abroad" (1853); "Puritanism in Politics" (1863); been small, had the education that comes of a fine "Eight Years in Congress" (1865); "A Search for memory and much good reading. He was remarkably Winter Sunbeams" (1870);"Why we Laugh" familiar with the political and financial history of the (1876); "Free Land and Free Trade" (1876): "Arccountry, and remembered minutely the careers of our tic Sunbeams" (1882); "Orient Sunbeams" (1882); public men; and this, combined with an acutely logi- "Three Decades of Federal Legislation (1885); cal mind, sincerity of conviction, and an agreeable "The Isles of the Princes" and "The Diversions of natural style, made him one of the best of journalists. a Diplomat in Turkey" (1887). Cooke, William Henry, clergyman, born in Bloomfield, N. J., in October, 1837: died in New York city, Feb. 22, 1889. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1858, and at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1863, and immediately after his ordination was appointed assistant to the Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D. D., now Bishop of Western New York. From this service he was called to the rectorship of Trinity Church, in Lansingburg, N. Y., where he remained till 1867. He then became one of the assistant ministers of Trinity parish, in New York city, and was appointed to the charge of St. John's Chapel, in Varick Street. He composed a mass service and a burial service, both of which elicited high commendation; wrote numerous articles on the subject of Church music for periodicals, published a book of hymns, and was President of the Church Music Association and the Oratorio Society for nearly fifteen years.

Cox, Samuel Sullivan, statesman, born in Zanesville, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1824; died in New York city, Sept. 10, 1889. He was a grandson of James Cox (who attained the rank of brigadier-general in the American VOL. XXIX.-40 A

Crerar, John, manufacturer, born in New York city, about 1826; died in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 19, 1889. He was of Scotch parentage, and for many years prior to 1862 was a member of the New York firm of Jesup, Kennedy & Co. He was also President of the Mercantile Library Association and a member of the Century and Union League Clubs. In 1862 he removed to Chicago, where he became senior member of the railroad-supply firm of Crerar, Adams & Co., President of the Joliet and Chicago Railroad, director in numerous financial institutions, and a patron and director of religious, educational, and charitable organizations. His only political office was that of Republican presidential elector in 1888. He was never married. During his residence in Chicago he gave away large sums of money annually. His will made liberal bequests to his relatives, business associates, former New York partners, old friends, and the institutions he was interested in, and set apart the remainder of his estate, estimated at $2,250,000, for the erection and maintenance of a John Crerar Public Library in Chicago, from which sensational novels and skeptical works are to be excluded.

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He Oroly, David Goodman, journalist, born in New York city, Nov. 3, 1829; died there, April 29, 1889. learned and followed the silversmith's trade a year, studied in the University of New York, and became a reporter on the New York "Evening Post" in 1855. He spent three years with the "Evening Post" and the New York Herald," and in 1858 established the "Daily News" in Rockford, Ill. Returning to New York, he was city editor and managing editor of the New York "World" from 1860 till 1872, and was afterward editor of the New York "Daily Graphic" till 1878, when failing health compelled his retirement from regular office duties. In 1872 he predicted the financial panic that occurred in the following year, and designated the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. as the one that would first fail. He was a frequent contribHistory of Reutor to periodicals. He published a Primer of Posiconstruction" (New York, 1868), a tivism" (1876), and other books.

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Culver, Erastus D., lawyer, born in Whitehall, Wash-
ington County, N. Y., in 1802; died in Greenwich, N.
Y., Oct. 15, 1889. He was graduated at the Univer-
sity of Vermont in 1826, was elected to the New York
Assembly in 1838 and 1841, was elected to Congress
in 1845, and was United States minister to Peru from
1862 till 1870. In 1854 he became the second judge
of the city court of Brooklyn, and served till 1861,
and during the greater part of this time he was member
of the firm of Culver, Parker & [Chester A.] Arthur.
Cummin, Hugh Hart, lawyer, born in Liverpool, Perry
County, Pa., May 25, 1841; died in Cresson Springs,
He removed to Williamsport,
Pa., Aug. 11, 1889.
Pa., in 1862, studied law, was admitted to the bar in
1864, and practiced till 1878, when he was elected
presiding judge of the Lycoming County district for a
He brought a large arrearage of
term of ten years.
business up to date within two years, and at the end
of his term had kept the business of the courts well
in hand and reduced their annual expenses about half.
On retiring from the bench he resumed practice in
Williamsport, and was so engaged when the terrible
flood of June 1, 1889, swept the West Branch valley.
He devoted his entire time and energy to the relief of
sufferers by the disaster, worked day and night, was
elected treasurer of the Williamsport Citizens' Relief
Committee, was appointed one of the State Flood
commissioners, and was unanimously selected as resi-
dent representative and official executive for the dis-
tribution of the public fund to the Conemaugh valley
sufferers. He responded at once to the new call of
duty, though worn out and broken in health by his
arduous labors, and remained at his post till within
a month of his death, when he was compelled to retire
from active duty, and died almost within sight of the
scene of his heroic work.

Curley, James, clergyman, born in Roscommon Coun-
ty, Ireland, Oct. 25, 1796; died in Georgetown, D. C.,
July 24, 1889. His early education was meager, but
a thorough teacher of mathematics settled near his
home, and he applied himself with great eagerness to
this study, and when, in 1817, he came to the United
States he quickly found employment as bookkeeper
in Philadelphia. In 1819 he removed to Frederick,
Md., to accept the office of teacher of mathematics in
the county academy. While so employed he felt a
call to become a priest in the Roman Catholic Church,
In 1829 he com-
and studied French and Latin.
pleted his theological studies, and, after being or-
dained, returned to the college in 1831. He was ap-
pointed Professor of Philosophy and Natural Science,
and held that chair for forty-eight years. His special
subject of investigation was astronomy. He labored
enthusiastically to secure an observatory for George-
town College, and in 1844 succeeded. He first deter-
mined the meridian line of Washington. His obser-
vations, made before the establishment of the United
States Naval Observatory, aided the projectors of that
institution in determining a location for it, and have
recently been verified by the United States Govern-
ment astronomers and accepted as accurate by those
connected with the English Royal Observatory.

Cutler, William P., abolitionist, born in Marietta,
Ohio, July 12, 1813; died there, April 11, 1889. He
was a grandson of the Rev. Manasseh Cutler (1742-
the White mountains, took an active part in the set-
1823), who was one of the first scientific explorers of
tlement of the Northwest Territory, and was a Repre-
William was graduated at the Ohio University, was
sentative in Congress from Massachusetts in 1800–704.
a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1844-'47, Speaker
during the last term, member of the State Constitu-
and Cincinnati Railroad from 1850 till 1860, and Rep-
tional Convention in 1850, President of the Marietta
resentative in Congress from July 4, 1861, till March
4, 1863, serving on the committees on militia and on
invalid pensions. He was a Presbyterian and an
General Assembly of his Church in 1857 condemning
early abolitionist, and introduced a resolution in the
the doctrine that slavery was sanctioned by the Bible,
as a fundamental error with which the Presbyterian
Church had no sympathy. He gave much of his time
to literary work, and made many political and his-
torical addresses.

Dana, Edmund Lovell, lawyer, born in Wilkesbarre, was graduated at Yale College in 1839, was admitted Pa., Jan. 29, 1817; died there, April 25, 1889. He 1846. As commander of the Wyoming artillerists he to the bar in 1841, and practiced in Wilkesbarre till tendered the services of the company for duty in Mexico in 1846, and served creditably in that country till July, 1848, when he was mustered out, and rewas major-general of the Ninth Division of Pennsylsumed practice. At the outbreak of the civil war he vania Militia. He was appointed commandant of the State camp of organization and instruction near bis home in 1862, elected colonel of the One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in mustered out with the rank of brevet brigadier-generOctober, 1862, and, serving till the close of the war, was al. Returning to his home, he practiced law till 1867, when he was elected judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and served ten years.

Davis, John Lee, naval officer, born in Carlisle, Sullivan County, Ind., Sept. 3, 1825; died in Washington, D. C., March 12, 1889. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States navy, Jan. 9, 1841; was promoted passed midshipman, Aug. 10, 1847; master, ant-commander, July 16, 1862; commander, July 25, Sept. 14, 1855; lieutenant the following day; lieutenand rear admiral, Oct. 30, 1885; and was retired Sept. 1866; captain, Feb. 14, 1873; commodore, Feb. 4, 1882; 3, 1887. He was on sea duty twenty-six years and eleven months, on shore or other duty fourteen years three months. His first actual service was on blockand ten months, and was unemployed six years and ading duty off Mexican ports in 1845-'46. In 1849 he captured a piratical vessel near Macao, China, and from that time till the early part of the civil war he was on home stations and squadrons and on coastcer of the Water Witch," he was engaged in the atsurvey duty. On Oct. 12, 1861, while executive offitack upon the Confederate ram "Manassas," at the "the head of the Mississippi river passes, and for his servVixen," ices was offered the command of the " Water Witch," erward in command of the steamer but declined in favor of a senior officer. He was afttauk," all of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, gunboat "Wissahickon," and the iron-clad "Monand captured numerous prizes and burned a Confederate schooner loaded with arms in the Little Ogeechee river, besides taking part in the attacks on Forts Wagner, Sumter, Gregg, and Moultrie, and other fortifications and batteries. In February, 1863. he After the war he was on duty at the "Nashville." engaged Fort McAllister and sank the privateer the Light-house Board for three years, commanded Philadelphia and Washington navy yards, served on the flag-ship Trenton" in the European squadron, his last duty as commander of the Asiatic squadron. and, after his promotion to rear admiral, performed

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Dawson, Francis W., journalist, born in London, England, May 17, 1840; died in Charleston, S. C., March,

12, 1889. He entered journalism in London, but, becoming interested in the cause of the Southern States at the outbreak of the civil war, attached himself to the Confederate steamer "Nashville" while she was in English waters. After that vessel had run the blockade at Beaufort he was appointed a master's mate in the Confederate navy. time at Norfolk, then resigned his commission and He served a short enlisted as a private in a battery attached to the Army of Northern Virginia. He rose to the rank of captain, and after the war became a reporter on the Richmond "Examiner" and "Dispatch," then on the Charleston "Mercury," and in 1866 acquired an interest in the Charleston "News," afterward consolidated with the "Courier," and was appointed editor-in-chief. He was a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee for about twenty years, and of the Democratic National Committee for eight years. He was also delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1884. 1883, Pope Leo XIII created him a knight of the order On Nov. 22, of St. Gregory the Great for his efforts in securing the passage of the anti-dueling law in South Carolina. Capt. Dawson was shot and killed by Dr. T. Ballard McDow, in the latter's office, and the doctor was acquitted of the charge of murder on June 29.

Dawson, Samuel Kennedy, army officer, born in Pennsylvania about 1818; died in Orange. N. J., April 17, 1889. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1839, and assigned to the First Artillery as second lieutenant; was promoted first lieutenant, June 18, 1846; captain, March 31, 1853; major, and assigned to the Nineteenth United States Infantry, May 14, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, and transferred to the Fifteenth United States Infantry, July 4, 1863; colonel, commanding Nineteenth United States Infantry; was brevetted captain, April 18, 1847; colonel, Sept. 20, 1863; brigadier-general, March 13, 1865; and was retired for disability contracted in the line of duty, May 11, 1870. In 1839 he served at Plattsburg, N. Y., during the Canadian border troubles; in 1840 on the Maine frontier during the excitement over the boundary dispute; in 1845 accompanied the " of occupation" to Corpus Christi, Texas; in the Mexiarmy can War took part in the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and Cerro Gordo, and in the siege of Vera Cruz; in 1851-'53 was in the Seminole War in Florida; and in 1859 was in the pursuit of the marauders under the Mexican Cortina. His first service in the civil war was in the defense of Fort Pickens, Fla. In 1863 he was engaged in the Tennessee campaign, and, after being severely wounded in the Battle of Chickamauga, was kept on leave of absence and waitinz orders till his retirement.

Day, Benjamin Henry, journalist, born in West Springfield, Mass., April 11, 1810; died in New York city, Dec. 21, 1889. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade, and in 1830 removed to New York city and found employment in the composing room of the "Journal of Commerce," and afterward in those of the "Evening Post" and the "Courier and Enquirer." In 1833 he established a printing office of his own, where he issued, on Sept. 3, the first number of the Sun" newspaper, which was the first one-cent periodical ever published. Not only was he the pioneer in cheap newspapers, but he was the first to organize a system of newspaper delivery by boys, and the first to use steam power for printing, which he introduced in 1835. He prepared the copy, set the type, and printed by hand the first number of the paper, and by the spring of 1834 he was in a position to engage a reporter and to seek attractions. first real impetus the paper received was through the The publication of the famous "moon hoax." written by Richard Adams Locke in 1835. In 1838 Mr. Day sold the "Sun " to Moses Y. Beach, his brother-in-law, for $40.000. Two years afterward he established the "True Sun," which he soon sold, then the "Tatler," which did not succeed, and afterward, in conjunction with James G. Wilson, the famous broadside monthly" Brother Jonathan." He reprinted in it English

after Mr. Wilson's death, began to bring out illusworks of fiction, soon changed it to a weekly, and, trated editions semi-annually, thus becoming also the he ceased publishing "brother Jonathan" because pioneer in American illustrated journalism. In 1862 of the increasing costliness of paper and his unwillingness to charge more than one dollar a year for it.

Deane, Charles, author, born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1813; died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1889. From 1882 till 1864 he was in mercantile business in Boston. In early life he acquired a taste for American history, and began a collection of books, painHe edited Gov. Bradford's "History of Plymouth phlets, sermons, and addresses relating to the early history of New England, which is now very valuable. Plantation" (1856) and published "Some Notices of Samuel Gorton" (1850); "First Plymouth Patent" (1854); 66 Bibliography of Governor Hutchinson's Publications" (1857); Wingfield's Discourse of Virginia" (1860); and Letters of Phillis Wheatley" (1864). After his retirement from business he published "Smith's True Relation"" marks on Sebastian Cabot's Mapple Monde" (1867); (1866); Re"Memoirs of George Livermore" (1869); and "The Forms in issuing Letters Patent by the Crown of England"; and "Bradford's 'Dialogue on Third Conference" (1870). LL. D. from Bowdoin College in 1856. He received the degree of Rhinebeck, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1821; died in New York De Lamater, Cornelius Henry, iron founder, born in city, Feb. 7, 1889. The family removed to New York when he was three years old, and his father found employment in the Phoenix Iron Works as cashier and confidential adviser. The son entered the iron Cunningham, the proprietor, in 1841, young De Laworks at the age of sixteen. On the death of Mr. nership, and continued the business till 1857. In 1857 mater and a fellow-clerk, Peter Hogg, formed a partDe Lamater Iron Works at the foot of West ThirMr. Hogg retired, and Mr. De Lamater founded the teenth Street, and personally conducted it till after the civil war, when he retired for a short time. resuming the management he was sole proprietor till 1873. He then took his son-in-law, George H. Robinson, into partnership, and on his retirement in 1882 admitted his son William. During the civil war he ing the building of the famous "Monitor" and the did a great deal of work for the Government, includ"Dictator," from John Ericsson's plans, and afterboat that navigated Hudson river, the machinery for ward built the "Iron Witch," the first iron steamthe thirty gunboats ordered by the Spanish Government, the hot-air engines invented by Capt. Ericsson, other heavy pieces of machinery. He was a rapidand a great variety of lift and force power pumps and transit commissioner in 1876-77, a member of the Union League Club and of the Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, and always had a word of encouragement for a struggling inventor.

On

Desabaye-Chegaray, Eloise, educator, born in Paris,
28, 1889. She was descended from the Huguenot
France, Feb. 1, 1792; died in New York city, Jan.
family D'Amberbas, which went to San Domingo
ther, Pierre Robert Prosper Désabaye, owned prop-
after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Her fa-
lution under Toussaint L'Ouverture deprived him of
erty in San Domingo and lived in Paris. The revo-
the estate, and in 1797 he removed with his family to
the United States. Eloise was educated in New
Brunswick, N. J., and opened the first school of her
own in Greenwich Street, New York, in May, 1814.
St. John's Square, Fifteenth Street, and Madison
She subsequently removed it to North Moore Street,
taught the children of the best-known families in the
Avenue, and during her long career as an educator
city. She married a Frenchman named Chegaray,
and, when too old to teach, lived in Philadelphia and
in New York city.
New Brunswick till 1887, when she made her home

Hamilton County, N. Y, in 1814; died in Cassville,
Dewey, Nelson, ex-Governor of Wisconsin, born in

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son.

Wis., July 21, 1889. He removed to Wisconsin in
1836, was elected register of deeds in Grant County
on its organization in 1837, represented the county in
the second Legislative Assembly of Wisconsin Terri-
He was
tory, and in 1842 became a member of the Territorial
Council, and served in that body till 1846.
Speaker of the Assembly in 1840 and President of
the Council in 1846, was elected the first Governor
of the State of Wisconsin in 1848, and re-elected in
1850. Since then he had held no public office ex-
cepting those of delegate to nearly every Democratic
State Convention and presidential elector in 1888.
In the office of Governor in the trying period of the
first years of the State's existence his conduct of af-
He origi-
fairs proved advantageous to the State.
nated many of the business methods that are still
practiced in the various departments of the State. He
was also elected the first President of the Wisconsin
Historical Society in 1849. Mr. Dewey was one of
the Pioneers in the lead-mining industry of his State.
Dickerson, Edward Nicoll, lawyer, born in Paterson,
N. J., in 1824; died in Far Rockaway, N. Y., Dec.
12, 1889. He was a son of Philemon Dickerson, Gov-
ernor of New Jersey, and a nephew of Mahlon Dick-
erson, Secretary of the Navy under President Jack-
He was graduated at Princeton in 1842, studied
law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and removed to
New York city in 1852. Early in his legal career he
determined to acquire a thorough mechanical and sci-
entific education. Following this resolve, he became
an inventor and one of the foremost patent lawyers in
the United States. His first case of note was that
brought to establish the validity of Samuel Colt's
patent for firearms, which he won after a trial of
three weeks, with Rufus Choate as opposing counsel.
He next won the Wells hat-body case in Philadelphia,
and increased his reputation by his defense in the
case of Sickles vs. Burden, when he was opposed by
After these successes he aban-
Francis B. Cutting.
doned his practice for foreign travel and scientific in-
vestigation, made a tour of Europe, was the per-
sonal guest of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia during
a long stay in that country, and visited the principal
cities in South and Central America. On his return
he patented improvements in steam engines, under
which the engines of the sound steamers "Bristol,"
"Providence," and "Rhode Island" were built, de-
signed a microscope of largely increased power, and,
early in the civil war, made memorable protests to
Secretary Welles and Congress against the plans de-
cided on for building engines for naval vessels. His
position on the "expansion" and "non-expansion"
controversy was subsequently proved to be correct.
In 1873 he returned to the bar, and from that time till
his death was engaged in patent cases, among them
the suit of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com-
pany vs. George B. Prescott et al., involving the right
of the Western Union Telegraph Company to use the
quadruplex system of transmission, that of the Ameri-
can Bell Telephone Company 8. the Pan-Electric,
the People's, the National Improved, the Molecular,
the Clay Commercial, and the Dolbear companies,
and those involving electrical inventions in which he
was counsel for Thomas A. Edison and the Western
Union, Gold and Stock, and other companies.

Docharty, Gerardus Beekman, educator. born in Flush-
ing, Long Island, N. Y., June 18, 1804; died in Hemp-
stead, N. Y., March 8, 1889. He was educated by his
father, James Docharty, a graduate of Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, and was appointed assistant Professor of
Mathematics in St. Paul's College, Flushing, in 1823.
In 1830 he became principal of Oyster Bay Academy;
in 1836, principal of Union Hall Academy in Jamaica,
Long Island; in 1838, principal of Hempstead Acade-
my; in 1843, proprietor of St. Thomas's Hall, a boys'
school in Flushing, then owned by the Rev. Francis
He
L. Hawks, and in 1848 was appointed Professor of
Mathematics in the New York Free Academy.
held the latter office continuously for thirty-three
Prof. Docharty was the author of a complete
years.
series of mathematical text-books, including an

"Arithmetic," "Algebra," "Geometry and Trigo-
Analytical Geometry," and the "Dir-
He received the
ferential and Integral Calculus."
nometry,'
degree of LL. D. from Dickinson College.
Dolaro, Selina, singer, born in London, England, in
1853; died in New York city, Jan. 23, 1889. She
studied music with an Italian master and at the Paris
Conservatory, and made her first appearance on the
stage at the Lyceum Theatre, London, as the Spanish
success in her first efforts, and then sang the princi-
"Mme. An-
princess in "Chilperic," Jan. 20, 1870. She achieved
pal parts in "Genevieve de Brabant,'
got." "La Perichole," "Carmen," and "Trial by
Jury." After singing in the Philharmonic, Royalty,
and Folly Theatres in London, and managing the tw
tour. Her first appearance in the United States was
last named for a season each, she made a provincial
at the Academy of Music, New York, as Carmen, in
Italian, Oct. 27, 1879. Subsequently she sang in
popular operas till 1884, when the first symptoms of
consumption developed, and, in the hope of sparing
She appeared at the Bijou
as actor and author.
her voice, she turned her attention to the drama, both
the New Park Theatre "Justine," an original adapta-
Opera House in "The Snake Charmer"; produced at
tion from the French; wrote the plays "In the Fash-
an author's matinee, May 19, 1887, and "Reading a
ion," brought out at the Madison Square Theatre at
became too weak to appear on the stage, wrote news-
Tragedy," played at the Star Theatre; and when she
paper articles, books, and plays as long as she was
able to hold her pen. In 1888 she published "Mes
Amours," a small volume of verse, and completed the
manuscript of "Bella Demonia," a novel, and a week
Donaldson, Edward, naval officer, born in Baltimore,
before her death finished a second novel.
was appointed a midshipman in the United States
Md., Nov. 7, 1816; died there, May 15, 1889.
Navy, July 21, 1835; was promoted passed midship-
man, June 22, 1841; lieutenant, Oct. 23, 1847; com-
mander, July 16, 1862; captain, July 25, 1866; commo-
dore, Sept. 28, 1871; rear admiral, Sept. 21, 1876; and
the navy he had been on sea duty eighteen years and
was retired, Sept. 29, 1876. During his service in
one month; shore or other duty, thirteen years and
three months; and was unemployed twenty-two years
and ten months. While attached to the United States
took part in the attacks on the forts on the coast of
He served in McLaughlin's "mos-
frigate "Columbia," of the East India squadron, he
Sumatra in 1839.
duty in 1846; on the United States sloop" Plymouth,"
quito" fleet in Florida in 1841-'42; on coast-survey
of the East India squadron, in 1847-'48: on the steam-
er" Water Witch," in La Plata river, in 1853-'54; on
in 1856-'57; commanded the steam gunboat "Scioto,'
special service, with the steam frigate "Merrimac,"
of the Western Gulf squadron, in 1861-'62; was en-
gaged in the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
and the Vicksburg batteries, and the capture of New
Orleans; commanded the steamer "Keystone State,"
of the North Atlantic squadron, on the trip to the
"Sumter" in 1863; and commanded the "Seminole,"
West Indies in search of the Confederate privateer
at the battle of Mobile Bay, in August, 1864.

He

Du Pont, Henry, manufacturer, born near Wilmington, Del., Aug. 8, 1812; died there, Aug. 8, 1889. Nemours of France, who sought refuge in the United He was the second son of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de States from Jacobin persecution in 1800, and founded Delaware. He was graduated at the United States the Du Pont Powder Works, on Brandywine river, in Military Academy in 1833 and assigned to duty at United States Artillery: was on frontier service on Fort Monroe as brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth the Creek Indian reservation in Alabama; and at his father's request resigned his commission on July 15, father died a few months afterward, and the brothers 1834, to assist in the manufacture of powder. His Henry and Victor Albert conducted the business till the chief direction, which he retained until his death. 1850, when the latter retired and the former assumed