cago platform, and they retired to private life. Judge Clement was noted for his remarkable memory of precedents and for his affability toward young members of the bar.

Clendenin, Paul, army surgeon, born in Illinois; died in Santiago, Cuba, July 4, 1899. He entered the army from civil life as assistant surgeon, Nov. 5, 1886, and was promoted to captain, Nov. 5, 1891. On June 4, 1898, he was commissioned major and brigade surgeon in the volunteer army, and in the Santiago campaign he was one of the division surgeons in the 7th Army Corps. After the disbandment of that corps he was placed in charge of the general hospital established at Santiago, and he there performed invaluable service, especially in the brief epidemic of yellow fever, till he was stricken with that malady himself.

Clinton, Henry Laurens, lawyer, born in Woodbridge, Conn., Feb. 21, 1820; died in New York city, June 7, 1899. On attaining his majority he removed to New York city, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1846. For several years he applied himself to criminal practice with success. He was counsel for Mrs. Emma A. Cunningham, charged with the murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell, a dentist of New York, on Jan. 30, 1857. The trial was exceedingly sensational, and Mr. Clinton secured the acquittal of his client and her alleged accomplices. His next celebrated case was in defense of Henri Carnal, a poor and friendless man, also charged with murder. Mr. Clinton, against his wishes, was assigned by the court to defend the accused, who, despite his counsel's efforts, was convicted. Mr. Clinton then appealed to Gov. Hunt for a reprieve, and fought the case through the Court of Oyer and Terminer, as well as the General Term, making new arguments before the Governor for reprieves as adverse decisions were encountered. Even the Legislature took cognizance of the case and enacted some special legislation to affect it. When the late Oakey Hall became district attorney Mr. Clinton advised his client as a last resort to plead guilty of manslaughter, and on this he escaped with a short term of imprisonment. In 1867 he abandoned criminal for civil practice. He was one of the counsel for the prosecution of William M. Tweed, and with John Kelly and Augustus Schell he aided in reorganizing Tammany Hall after Tweed's conviction. Afterward he was connected with several noteworthy causes, and for his services in one received, as he said, "between $300,000 and $500,000, the largest single fee that I ever knew to be paid to a lawyer." About ten years before his death he retired from practice and began speculating in real estate. Mr. Clinton was the author of two volumes of Extraordinary Cases.

Coffin, George W., naval officer, born in Massachusetts; died in Yokohama, Japan, in June, 1899. He was appointed an acting midshipman in the navy, Oct. 24, 1860; was promoted midshipman, July 16, 1862; ensign, Oct. 1, 1863; master, May 10, 1866; lieutenant, July 25 following; lieutenant commander, March 12, 1868; commander, Nov. 30, 1878; and captain, Sept. 27, 1893; and was retired because of a disability incurred in the service, Sept. 15, 1897. On becoming an ensign he was assigned to the steam sloop Ticonderoga, of the North Atlantic blockading squadron. He took part in both attacks on Fort Fisher, and was wounded in a leg during the land assault. After the war he served with the Brazilian and European squadrons; was at the Naval Academy in 1868-'69; chief of staff of the North Atlantic fleet, 1870–71; commanded

coast survey steamer Hassler, 1876-'78, and steamer Alert in the Greely Relief Expedition, 1884; lighthouse inspector, 1888-'89; and secretary of the Lighthouse Board, 1889-'90. In 1898 he received a year's leave of absence, which he was spending with his daughter, the wife of Surgeon Henderson, at the Yokohama Naval Hospital, when he died.

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Coghlan, Charles Francis, actor, born in Paris, France, in 1841; died in Galveston, Texas, Nov. 27, 1899. He was of an old Irish family. His father was a journalist and a compiler of guidebooks, whose works were very popular with English travelers of the early days of the century. Young Coghlan was educated in Paris and in London, and was intended for the bar. His first appearance on the stage was made at the Haymarket, London, then under the management of Mr. Buckstone, in the small part of Monsieur Mafoi in The Pilgrim of Love, April 9, 1860. He played various small parts in the Haymarket company until the end of November, 1861, and in the summer of 1862 was engaged for a company to occupy the new Theater Royal, Bath. Coghlan played Demetrius in Midsummer Night's Dream, taking the rank of juvenile leading man. After three seasons of great popularity he played for a short time at the Olympic Theater, London, and was there again in 1867. Thence he went to the St. James's Theater, Dec. 26, 1868. In February, 1869, he appeared in support of Adelaide Neilson at the Lyceum in Life for Life. He was then engaged as a member of the Bancroft company at the Prince of Wales's Theater. For six years he remained with this company, and was applauded as the most brilliant of London's young actors. His notable successes in 1872-74 were Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, Alfred Evelyn in Bulwer Lytton's Money, and Geoffrey Delamayn in Man and Wife. He added to his fame the credit of a dramatist by producing at the Court Theater, March 12, 1875, a very clever comedy, Lady Flora, in which John Hare and Mr. and Mrs. Kendal played the principal parts. It had instant success and a long run. April 17, at the Prince of Wales's, he played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, with Miss Terry as Portia, and was the means of bringing to attention that lady's great ability, though his own playing was too quiet to please those who were schooled to the traditions of the playhouse. Augustin Daly engaged Mr. Coghlan for the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, in 1876, and he made his appearance there, Sept. 12, as Alfred Evelyn in Money to enthusiastic listeners. Almost at once he became the most popular man on the New York stage. During the season he played Orlando, Miss Fanny Davenport being the Rosalind, with great applause. The next season he was the leading man of the Union Square Theater, where he played Jean Renaud in the first wonderful run of The Celebrated Case, and for the season of 1878-79 he was engaged as leading man of Wallack's Theater. In the summer of 1878 he played a short engagement in the California Theater, San Francisco, as a star. In Wallack's company he was associated with his sister Rose, then the leading lady of that theater. Together they played hero and heroine of the old and modern plays. In May, 1879, he played a short engagement at the Museum in Boston. On the opening of the Princess Theater, London, under control of Wilson Barrett, Mr. Coghlan played the Marquis Des Arcis in Fernande, Sept. 20, 1879. In Bronson Howard's Banker's Daughter, played at the Court Theater under the title The Old Love and the New, Dec. 18, 1879, he played

John Stratton. His own adaptation of Giacometti's Morte Civile, made famous by Salvini, was produced at the Prince of Wales's, Dec. 8, 1880, with himself in the part of Conrad. Another play, Good Fortune, arranged by him in this year from Octave Feuillet's Romance of a Poor Young Man, had been produced by the same company without Mr. Coghlan in the cast, Dec. 4. The Colonel was produced at the same theater on Feb. 2, 1881, Mr. Coghlan playing the part of Col. Wood, U. S. A., with very great success. This play was an adaptation from Le Mari à la Campagne, the same from which The Serious Family was written. At the Court Theater, Dec. 16, 1882, he made a thrilling portrayal of Capt. Darleigh, V. C., in Comrades. The first performance of Fedora at the Haymarket, May 5, 1883, presented him as the original Loris Spanoff in English. A stock company for the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, was organized by John Stetson, of Boston, in the spring of 1883, and Mr. Coghlan was engaged as the leading man. He first appeared as Alfred Evelyn in Money, Oct. 8, 1883, and he played also Jean Renaud in The Celebrated Case and Henri de Lagadere in The Duke's Motto. Mr. Stetson suddenly closed the company, on account of which Mr. Coghlan subsequently recovered judgment from Mr. Stetson for salary at the rate of $700 a week. He played a special engagement with Mrs. Langtry in A Wife's Peril, and, having been engaged as leading man for the Union Square Theater, opened there as Barton Blair in Separation, Jan. 28, 1884. At the close of the season he went again to England, and was engaged by Mrs. Langtry as her principal support. Jan. 20, 1885, he played Prince De Birac to the Séverine of Mrs. Langtry in his own adaptation of La Princesse Georges of the younger Dumas. This was followed by The School for Scandal, Mrs. Langtry as Lady Teazle and Mr. Coghlan as Charles Surface, and by Peril, in which he was the Captain Bradford. This was the beginning of an artistic association which continued between them without much interruption until 1891. Enemies, a dramatization by Mr. Coghlan of Georges Ohnet's La Grande Marnière, was produced by them at the Prince's Theater, London, Jan. 28, 1886. In the autumn of 1888 he prepared his sister's (Rose Coghlan) company for her tour as a star in his play Jocelyn, and rejoined Mrs. Langtry, who was preparing an elaborate production of Macbeth for New York city. This play was presented at the Fifth Avenue Theater, Jan. 21, 1889, with Mr. Coghlan as Macbeth. Mr. Coghlan spent about a year in retirement at his farm on Prince Edward's Island, and in the autumn of 1890 again joined Mrs. Langtry in London in a magnificent production of Antony and Cleopatra. In the part of Antony he added another to his London triumphs. On Feb. 28, 1891, his play Lady Barter was produced, with himself as Colonel Pearce. In the autumn of 1891 he joined his sister in a starring tour. They played principally his Lady Barter. During this engagement they revived Diplomacy, which they played at the Star Theater, New York. Mr. Coghlan's superb performance of Henri Beauclerc astonished and charmed a succession of crowded houses, and the play was taken to the Fifth Avenue Theater, where it had a long run. At the close of this season he retired again, but returned finally to London, where he played Mercutio with Forbes-Robertson's production of Romeo and Juliet. He was engaged by Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske for her production of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and gave an admirable rendition of Alec D'Urberville in that

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play throughout the season of 1897-'98 in the United States, beginning at the Fifth Avenue Theater, March 2, 1897. On Dec. 2, 1898, he began his most successful venture in the United States by presenting his own adaptation of the elder Dumas's Edmond Kean, called The Royal Box, in which he played the part of the actor Clarence, at the Fifth Avenue Theater. He made more money, fame, and friends than ever until he offered, April 11, 1899, his play of Citizen Pierre, which was a failure. His last appearance in New York was on April 16. His last appearance on the stage was at Houston, Texas, Oct. 28, 1899, as Clarence in The Royal Box. words that were written in 1790 of his kinsman, the MacCoghlan, last Lord of Delvin-Ara, well describe Charles Coghlan: "He was a remarkably handsome man, gallant, eccentric, proud, satirical, hospitable in the extreme, and of expensive habits." A contemporary American critic thus summed up his excellence as an actor in 1879: "It is to the complete and perfect forgetting of self in his performance that the high esteem in which Mr. Coghlan is held by the thinking audience is due. He never descends to the cheap creating of effects; he plays his part for all it is worth; he does not play Charles Coghlan, with the kind assistance of somebody's text, for the amusement of his friends and admirers." was the author or adapter of these plays: Lady Flora, Jocelyn, The Checkbook, Her Ladyship, Lady Barter, Citizen Pierre, The Royal Box, Good as Gold, The Brothers, A Quiet Rubber, For Life (Morte Civile), and The House of Darnley.

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Cole, Edmund Whiteford, manufacturer, born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1832; died in New York city, May 25, 1899. He removed to Nashville when a young man, and was actively identified with the coal and iron and railroad industries of the South for forty years. He began his business life as a clerk in the employment of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company, of which he subsequently became president. In the early part of the civil war the rolling stock of this railroad was impressed by the Confederate authorities, and to secure his services to manage it he was commissioned a colonel and assigned to the quartermaster's department. Col. Cole was chief owner of three large blast furnaces in Sheffield, Ala., and had extensive holdings in valuable coal and iron properties. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a director in its Book Concern, and president of its missionary society. The Tennessee Industrial School, one of the largest and most successful institutions in the State, was founded by him. An auditorium which he erected for the school at a cost of $10,000 was completed a few weeks before his death.

Cole, Nelson, military officer, born in Dutchess County, New York, Nov. 18, 1833; died in St. Louis, Mo., July 31, 1899. He removed in 1854 to what was then called the far West, and ultimately settled in St. Louis. There he was engaged in the lumber business and manufacturing till April, 1861, when he organized and uniformed a company of volunteers for the National army. He reported with his company to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, in St. Louis, April 17, and was at once ordered to protect the arsenal from an anticipated attack. Afterward he served under Gen. Lyon in the battles of Boonville, Dug Springs, and Wilson's Creek, in the last of which he was severely wounded. In 1862 and the spring of 1863 he was attached to the staff of Gen. John M. Schofield as chief of artillery. In Gen. Grant's campaign against Vicksburg he commanded a

battery, and after the surrender was appointed chief of artillery in the Department of Missouri. He was promoted major, Aug. 10, 1863; lieutenant colonel, Oct. 2; and colonel of the 2d Missouri Light Artillery, Feb. 5, 1864. In the spring of 1865 he was sent to the head waters of the Yellowstone river in command of an expedition of 1,500 veteran soldiers to subdue the northern Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians, and he accomplished that mission. He was mustered out of the service in November following, and returned to his business in St. Louis. On May 28, 1898, he was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers, and he was first assigned to the 3d brigade, 2d Division, at Camp Alger. Subsequently he was transferred to the camp at Columbia, S. C. The unwholesome conditions at Camp Alger undermined his health, and while at the Columbia camp he was obliged to resign. Gen. Cole was twice commander of the Department of Missouri, Grand Army of the Republic; senior vice-commander in chief, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1887; and a past commander of the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

Collett, John, geologist, born in Eugene, Ind., in 1828; died in Indianapolis, Ind., March 15, 1899. He was graduated at Wabash College in 1847. In 1870 he was elected to the State Senate from Parke and Vermilion Counties, and he served through three sessions. He had been a student of geology from boyhood, and after his service in the Senate he was employed by Prof. E. T. Cox, the State Geologist, to make detailed geological surveys of the State. Subsequently he succeeded Prof. Cox. In 1878 he was appointed Statehouse commissioner, and in 1879 chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Geology.

Conant, Mrs. Helen Stevens, author, born in Methuen, Mass., Oct. 9, 1839; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 17, 1899. She married Samuel Stillman Conant, long the managing editor of Harper's Weekly, and assisted him in his work until his mysterious disappearance in 1885. She was the author of The Butterfly Hunters (Boston, 1868); A Primer of German Literature (New York, 1878); and A Primer of Spanish Literature (1879).

Cook, James H., clergyman, born in New York city in 1842; died there, Aug. 11, 1899. He was educated at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and in 1866 began to preach in the Union African Methodist Episcopal Church in New York. He was ordained in 1871, then spent several years in Springfield, Mass., returned to the Union Church in 1884, and in 1891 was elevated to the episcopate and assigned to the 2d district of Union African Methodist Episcopal churches, compris ing 22 congregations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, with official residence in Wilmington, Del.

Cook, William H., physician, born in New York city in 1832; died in Chicago, Ill., April 14, 1899. In 1852 he became Professor of Chemistry in Syracuse (N. Y.) Medical College, in 1854-'84 was dean of the Physico-Medical Institute of Cincinnati, in 1891 removed to Chicago, and at the time of his death was president of the College of Medicine and Surgery and editor of The Chicago Medical Observer. He was the author of many medical treatises. Three of his sons are college professors.

Cooper, Ada Augusta, composer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1861; died in Orange, N. J., Sept. 18, 1899. She was graduated at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.. and then taught for several years in the public schools of Raleigh and Washington, D. C. In 1892 she married the Rev.

A. B. Cooper, D. D., then just entered on the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Raleigh. She assisted her husband in his pastorates, going to Orange in the spring of 1899. She was a pleasing and eloquent lecturer on temperance and woman's work, an author and poet of high merit, a musical composer of grace and feeling, and had mastered several languages. She was the author of many hymns, anthems, and carols. Among her most ambitious works is the children's Easter Day service He is Risen and a special service, the first one ever written, for the Sunday schools of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Cooper, Job Adams, banker, born near Greenville, Ill., Nov. 6, 1843; died in Denver, Col., Jan. 20, 1899. He was graduated at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1865. While at college he enlisted in May, 1864, with many other students, in the 137th Illinois Infantry, and served till mustered out in the latter part of the same year. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Greenville. In 1868 he was elected circuit clerk and recorder of Bond County, Ill., serving till his removal to Denver in 1872. For a time he practiced law, and later he became interested in a fire insurance agency, retiring to accept a place with the German National Bank. During the early years of his residence in the West he was interested in the stock business. In 1888 he was elected Governor of Colorado on the Republican ticket. At the expiration of his term he became president of the National Bank of Commerce of Denver, which office he held till 1897. From that time he devoted his attention to the management of his property interest and to mining at Cripple Creek.

Corey, Charles Henry, educator, born in New Canaan, New Brunswick, Canada, Dec. 12. 1834; died in Seabrook, N. H., Sept. 5, 1899. He was graduated at Acadia College, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1858, and at the Newton (Mass.) Theological Seminary in 1861. In September of the last year he was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church at Seabrook, N. H., where he remained till Jan. 1, 1864, when he entered the service of the United States Christian Commission. He remained in the field till the close of the war, and then went to South Carolina as a missionary to the freedmen, under the direction of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. In the ensuing two years he organized churches for the freedmen and secured for them ministers of their own race. In the autumn of 1867 he was appointed principal of the Augusta (Ga.) Institute, and in the following year he became president of Richmond (Va.) Theological Seminary. He received the degree of D. D. from Richmond (Va.) College, Baylor University, Texas, and MeMaster University, Canada. His publications include Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Labor among the Colored People of the South.

Coues, Elliott, naturalist, born in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 9, 1842: died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 25, 1899. He lived in Portsmouth until 1853. when he accompanied his parents to Washington, D. C., where he was educated at Gonzaga College and at Columbian University, being graduated at the last named in 1861 and at its medical department in 1863. Meanwhile, in 1862. he entered the United States army as a medical cadet, and a year later was promoted to assistant surgeon. He received the brevet of captain for services during the civil war, and resigned on Nov. 17, 1881. An early fondness for natural history led him to devote much attention to the flora and fauna of the regions adjacent to the posts

to which he was ordered, and soon resulted in his recognition as a naturalist. In 1869 he filled the chair of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in Norwich (Vt.) University, and from 1873 till 1876 he was surgeon and naturalist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission, part of which time he was occupied at the Smithsonian Institution as a collaborator. He then was assigned as surgeon to the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, with which he remained until 1880, serving also in 1877 as Professor of Anatomy in the medical department of Columbian University, which chair he then held until 1887. In 1883 he was for a short time Professor of Biology in the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, but he devoted most of his time in recent years to editorial work, preparing revised editions of the writings of early American explorers. Dr. Coues received the honorary degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. from Columbian University, and was a member of more than 50 scientific societies in this country and abroad, including the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1877. He was chairman of the Psychical Science Congress in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition in 1893. He was an editor of the bulletins of the United States Geological Survey, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, The American Naturalist, The American Journal of Otology, The Auk, The Osprey, The Standard Natural History, and The Century Dictionary. He contributed nearly 1,000 monographs or minor papers to scientific publications. His larger works in cluded: Key to North American Birds (1872); Field Ornithology (1874); Birds of the Northwest (1874); Fur-bearing Animals (1877); Monographs of North American Rodentia, with Joel A. Allen (1877); Birds of the Colorado Valley (1878); Ornithological Bibliography (1878-'80); New England Bird Life, with Robert E. C. Stearns (1881); Check List and Dictionary of North American Birds (1882); Avifauna Columbiana, with Daniel W. Prentiss (1883); New Key to North American Birds (1884); Biogen: A Speculation on the Origin and Nature of Life (1884); The Dæmon of Darwin (1884); A Buddhist Catechism, with Henry S. Olcott (1885); Kuthumi, with R. Dodsley (1886); Can Matter Think? (1886); Code of Nomenclature and Check List of North American Birds, with Joel A. Allen, Robert Ridgway, W. Brewster, and H. W. Henshaw (1886); A Woman in the Case (1887); Handbook of Field and General Ornithology (1890); History of the Expedition of Lewis and Clark (1893); The Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike (1895); New Light in the Early History of the Greater Northwest (1897); Citizen Bird, with Mabel O. Wright (1897): The Journal of Jacob Fowler (1898); Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri (1898); and On the Trail of a Spanish Priest (in press).

Cracraft. John Wesley, clergyman, born near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1827; died in Saratoga, N. Y.,

Oct. 31, 1899. He was graduated at Bexley Theological Seminary, Gambier, Ohio, in 1849, and, after passing a year at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, was ordained to the ministry. He was at one time rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Philadelphia, and he held a similar office at Kenyon College, Ohio. His publications included Judaizing the Teachers, Great Principles of the Gospel, and The Old Paths: Truths of the Gospel (Cincinnati, 1870).

Crampton, Henry E., physician, born in New York city, April 10, 1837; died in Glen Ridge, N. J., May 28, 1899. He was graduated at the New York Medical College in 1857, served as a volunteer surgeon in the National army till stricken with typhoid fever, and afterward was identified with the work of relieving the poor of New York. He was for many years vice-president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and was immediately in charge of the department of hygiene. Through his energy the spacious buildings and grounds at Coney island, known as Sea Breeze, were secured for the sick poor. Dr. Crampton was one of the first advocates of a free public bath system, and for many years he served as a free physician to the poor during the summer months and gave ocean parties for poor children.

Crapo, Thomas, sailor, born in New Bedford, Mass., in June, 1842; presumably drowned at sea, May 3, 1899. He made his first ocean voyage in a whaler when fifteen years old, and had followed the sea continuously. In the civil war he served for a while in the army under Gen. Banks, then with the navy under Admiral Farragut. His life was full of adventure. He had lived among the Eskimos and been captured and adopted by a tribe of South Sea Islanders. In 1877 he attracted public attention by sailing from New Bedford to Penzance, England, in a 20-foot whaleboat, schooner rigged, with leg-ofmutton sails, accompanied by his wife. On April 4, 1899, he left New Bedford in a flat-bottomed skiff, 9 feet long, 3 feet wide at the stern, and 14 inches deep, intending to make his way to Cuba. He was last seen by the Point Judith life-saving crew on the morning of May 3 in a heavy gale. His boat was found bottom up on the beach the next day, and it was supposed he was drowned while trying to round the point.

Crary, Mrs. Horace H., benefactor, born in Liberty, N. Y., about 1833; died in Denver, Col., July 7, 1899. She was a member of the Burr family, married Mr. Crary in 1851, and for many years lived in Hancock, N. Y., where her husband had a tannery. Subsequently the family settled in Binghamton, N. Y., where Mr. Crary died in 1897, leaving his widow large wealth. Mrs. Crary had long been noted for her charities. She supported missionary workers in China and India, contributed liberally to the benevolent enterprises of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a patron of the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and with Mr. Crary erected Crary Hall in Tennessee, an industrial school.

Creamer, Henry H., inventor, born a slave on a plantation in what is now West Virginia, about 1854; died in New York city, July 12, 1899. On gaining his freedom he went to Richmond, obtained employment in a plumber's shop, and soon began developing remarkable genius as an inventor. While working there and producing many improvements in the tools and work of the trade he took a course in a technical school, which greatly strengthened his inventive abilities. About twenty years ago he removed to New York city, studied theology, and for several years

held pastorates in New York and New Rochelle. A few years ago he gave up pastoral work and applied himself wholly to his inventions. He was a steam specialist. He received about 15 patents, covering an automatic pump governor and receiver, balance steam traps and valves, high- and low-pressure boiler feeders, and improvements and new devices used in electrical construction.

Crosby, Peirce, naval officer, born near Chester, Pa., Jan. 16, 1823; died in Washington, D. C., June 15, 1899. He was appointed a midshipman in the navy, June 5, 1838; was promoted passed midshipman, May 20, 1844; master, Nov. 4, 1852; lieutenant, Sept. 3, 1853; commander, July 16, 1862; captain, May 27, 1868; commodore, Oct. 3, 1874; and rear admiral, March 10, 1882; and was retired Oct. 29, 1883. He was on sea service twenty-three years and one month, and on shore or other duty twelve years and nine months. His first sea service was on the line of battle ship Ohio while it was the flag ship in the Mediterranean, 1838-241, and in the next two years he was attached to the receiving vessel Experiment, the steamer Mississippi, the frigate Congress, and the sloop Preble. In 1843-44 he was at the Naval School in Philadelphia. After spending two years on the Coast Survey, he was ordered to the sloop Decatur, on which he served in the Mexican War, taking part in the capture of Tuspan and Tobasco. In the last year of the war he was on the gunboat Petrel. During the interval between the Mexican War and the civil war he was on cruising and shore duty. In the spring and summer of 1861 he served in Chesapeake Bay, keeping communication open, capturing and destroy. ing Confederate vessels in the bay, and cutting off supplies and communications of the enemy. He also performed duty on shore at Fort Monroe, and transported the troops across Hampton creek before and after the battle of Big Bethel. Immediately before the naval attack on Forts Hatteras and Clarke, when a light-draught vessel was needed to aid in landing troops, he took the canal boat Fannie, secured boilers to her deck by chains, joined the squadron, and in the face of a heavy sea landed a force of officers and men. One after another of his landing boats was swamped or broken on the beach. By the time he had put 300 men ashore the squadron was compelled to put to sea. Lieut. Crosby made a great show of his landing work, leading the Confederates to believe that the force was more than 2,000 strong, and then established a picket line across the front of the enemy's batteries, thus preventing a reconnoissance. On the following day the squadron returned and captured the forts, which were garrisoned by more than 700 men. Lieut. Crosby then captured several blockade runners who were ignorant of the victory. Soon afterward he was prostrated with typhoid fever. On his recovery he took the new gunboat Pinola from Baltimore to Admiral Farragut's squadron in the Gulf, capturing a schooner loaded with cotton on the way, and commanded her when she co-operated with the Itasca in breaking through the chain barrier across the Mississippi. Afterward he took part in the passage and bombardment of the forts and the Chalmette batteries and in the capture of New Orleans, and also in the passage, bombardment, and repassage of the batteries at Vicksburg. In 1863-64 he was engaged in several expeditions, and while on blockading duty destroyed two blockade runners and captured five. In 1864-65 he commanded the Metacomet in the attack on Mobile, planned and placed torpedo nets across Blakely river to catch floating torpedoes sent down to destroy the fleet,

and cleared the channel to the city by removing 140 torpedoes. After the war he was stationed at several navy yards, and also commanded the South Atlantic and Asiatic stations.

Dabney, Walter David, lawyer, born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1853; died in Charlottesville, Va., March 12, 1899. He was graduated at the law school of the University of Virginia in 1875. In 1885 he was elected to the Legislature, where he sat through four sessions, serving also on the Debt Commission and the Committees on Railroads and Internal Improvements and on Finance. While chairman of the firstnamed committee he prepared the manuscript of Governmental Regulation of Railroads (1889), which attracted the attention of Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, then chairman of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission, who solicited Mr. Dabney to become the legal secretary to the commission. He entered on this duty in 1890. Two years later, in arguing a case in the United States Court in Chicago, he won the friendship of Judge Gresham, then presiding, and when Judge Gresham became Secretary of State he appointed Mr. Dabney solicitor of the department. In 1895 Mr. Dabney retired from the State Department to take the chair of Common and Statute Law in the University of Virginia.

Daly, Charles Patrick, jurist, born in New York city, Oct. 31, 1816; died in North Haven, near Sag Harbor, Long Island, Sept. 19, 1899. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar in his native city, and in 1844 was appointed judge of Common Pleas, which office he held forty-two years. During this period Judge Daly rendered many important decisions, and, besides winning fame as a lawyer and a judge, became widely known as a scientist and a man of letters. For more than a generation he was president of the American Geographical Society, and his annual addresses before that body were valuable contributions to geographical literature. His published writings comprise The Judicial Tribunals of New York, 1623-1846 (1855); A History of Naturalization and of its Laws in Different Countries (1860); Are the Southern Privateersmen Pirates? (1862); Origin and History of Institutions for the Promotion of Useful Arts by Industrial Exhibitions (1864); When was the Drama Introduced into America? (1864); The First Settlement of the Jews in North America (1875); What we Know of Maps and Map Making before the Time of Mercator (1879); The Nature and History of the Surrogates Court in New York State; Comparisons between Ancient and Modern Banking Systems.

Daly, John Augustin, dramatist and manager, born in Plymouth, N. C., July 20, 1838; died in Paris, France, June 7, 1899. He was the son of a retired officer of the British navy. The family lived for a time in Norfolk, Va., during Augustin's childhood, and on the death of his father his mother removed to New York, where the boy was apprenticed to a house furnisher. While he was in this employ his attention was attracted to the theater, and he and his brother, ex-Judge Joseph F. Daly, became members of an amateur dramatic society. When Augustin was about sixteen he wrote a play in one act, which he called A Bachelor's Wardrobe, and took it to William E. Burton, the comedian. Mr. Burton returned the manuscript with some complimentary words, and the young aspirant for dramatic honors kept on writing and submitting his works to actors, but without success. When about twenty years of age young Daly took employment as a story writer on the Sunday