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phia, made her first appearance under Mr. Daly's management as Lady Gay Spanker in Boucicault's London Assurance on Sept. 29. Then came Mrs. Scott-Siddons with a Shakespearean repertory, after which came a swift succession of standard plays by members of the company. On Jan. 12, 1870, a new play by Olive Logan, called Surf, entered upon a run of one month. By this time the public had realized that a new force was at work in the theater of New York, and Daly's company began to be a name to conjure with. It comprised Agnes Ethel, Fanny Davenport, Fanny Morant, Amy Ames, Clara Jennings, Edwin L. Davenport, George Clarke, D. H. Harkins, James Lewis, Owen Fawcett, J. B. Polk, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, George Holland, George Parkes, George F. De Vere, and William Davidge. Man and Wife was the first play of the season of 1870-'71, in which Mr. Daly introduced Clara Morris to her New York triumphs. Fernande was produced, with Miss Ethel in the title rôle, Nov. 23, and Dec. 21 Bronson Howard's Saratoga was produced and ran one hundred nights. Mr. Daly produced Divorce on Sept. 5, 1871, and made no change until March 18, 1872. On April 2 Clara Morris, in Article 47, took New York by storm for the remainder of the season. The last season of this house began Sept. 3, 1873, with Bronson Howard's Diamonds, in which Sara Jewett made her first appearance. False Shame was produced on Dec. 31, 1873, and the next day the theater was destroyed by fire. The old New York Theater, 728 Broadway, was immediately leased by Mr. Daly and renamed the New Fifth Avenue. He opened this house on Jan. 21, 1873. On Dec. 3, 1874, he removed to Daly's Fifth Avenue Theater, Twenty-eighth Street. Here the success of his company continued, and on Feb. 17, 1875, he produced the first of his adaptations of German farces, The Big Bonanza. On Dec. 14 his Pique was produced, with very great success. A visit was made to San Francisco in the summer of 1876, where he rented Platt's Hall, a large concert room on Montgomery Street, and brought his scenery and company into that unaccustomed place, but the result was not satisfactory. On Sept. 15, 1877, Mr. Daly gave up the Fifth Avenue Theater, and for a short time directed Booth's Theater. He retired from management in 1878, and spent a year in Europe. The house now known as Daly's Theater was opened by him on Sept. 17, 1879. Charles Leclercq, Helen Blythe, Ada Rehan, Catherine Lewis, Digby Bell, Laura Joyce, and Estelle Clayton were members of the company, and the repertory offered no new plays of any importance. In 1881-'82 The Passing Regiment and Odette were very successful. The season of 1882-'83 brought Miss Ada Rehan into favor in The Squire, 7-20-8, and She Would and She Wouldn't. In 1883-'84 successful productions were made of Dollars and Sense, The Country Girl, and Red-letter Nights. From this time Daly's Theater and Daly's company were institutions again. During the following seasons, with Miss Rehan, Miss Cheatham, John Drew, Otis Skinner, James Lewis, Charles Leclercq, and Mrs. Gilbert, and such plays as Love on Crutches, A Night Off, The Country Girl, Nancy & Co., Love in Harness, and the magnificent revivals of Taming of the Shrew, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Midsummer Night's Dream, this theater was in its golden age. the summer of 1884 Mr. Daly began a series of European engagements with his company. London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna were visited with a certain amount of success, and the ventures were repeated every year until a solid and

Courier, of New York. He was allowed to write dramatic criticisms occasionally. These attracted the attention of other editors, and he was successively employed by the Express, the Sun, and the Times to furnish them with dramatic criticisms. His first success as a dramatist was an adaptation from the German of Mosenthal's Deborah, which he named Leah the Forsaken. This play was produced at the Boston Museum, with Miss Kate Bateman in the title rôle, Dec. 8, 1862, and its success there was repeated when Miss Bateman produced it at the Winter Garden Theater, New York. It nine weeks, a very unusual run at that time. An adaptation from La Papillonne by Mr. Daly and Frank Wood, called Taming a Butterfly (since renamed Delmonico's), had a run of a month in 1864 at Laura Keene's Theater. In the same year Mr. Daly adapted a play which he called Leslie's Wedding, successfully produced by Mme. Methua-Scheller, who also produced another from his pen from Frau Borch-Pfeffer's Dorf und Stadt, called Lorle. Miss Avonia Jones produced two more of his plays at the Winter Garden-Judith and The Sorcerer. Mr. Daly's first original play to reach the public ear was Under the Gaslight. This play, which by its great popularity laid the foundation of his fame and fortune, was produced in 1867 at the New York Theater. It ran thirteen weeks, and presented the sensation of a very realistic locomotive and train of cars rushing at express speed diagonally across the stage. This effect," as it is called, was patented by Mr. Daly, and has afforded much opportunity for litigation. It may have been the success of this effect which suggested the title of his next play, A Flash of Lightning, adapted from Victorien Sardou's La Perle Noire. The wild Indian of the plains appealed to Mr. Daly at this time as a fine dramatic figure, and was introduced with full justification of the thought in a new play called Horizon. Meantime Mr. Daly had engaged in management in a tentative way. The début of Mme. Methua-Scheller at the Winter Garden Theater, New York, in 1864, was under his direction. In 1868 he became interested in the Olympic Theater, and managed the engagement of Mrs. Scott-Siddons. John Duff, a well-known manager, was lessee of the Olympic Theater in 1869, and a strong and earnest friendship existed between him and Mr. Daly, who on Jan. 7, 1869, married Mr. Duff's daughter Mary. James Fisk, Jr., owned a theater on Twenty-fourth Street, in New York, on the site of the present Madison Square Theater. This house, called the Fifth Avenue Theater, was offered to Augustin Daly, and with that began the latter's remarkable career as a manager. The theater was opened on Aug. 16, 1869, with Tom Robertson's Play. Dreams, by Boucicault and Robertson, followed on Sept. 6, and Old Heads and Young Hearts on Sept. 27. Fanny Davenport, who had been a soubrette at Mrs. Drew's Theater in PhiladelVOL. XXXIX.-38 A

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apparently lasting success of his players in the English capital induced him in 1893 to lease a house in that city, which is called Daly's Theater. Of late years, Daly's company having been for long periods absent from his New York theater every year, that house has been occupied much more frequently by traveling and other companies than by its own players. Musical comedies, like The Circus Girl and The Geisha, had attracted audiences greatly differing in taste from those who filled its seats during the performances of sterling plays by the company, and the fortunes of the place seemed not as bright as formerly. The energy of the apparently indomitable man who presided with a kind of kingly authority over the methods of this playhouse seemed not to flag, but when sudden death touched him all who knew him wondered how he had borne up unresting under his great life work for so long a time. The list of his plays, original and adapted, is of itself proof of an apparently tireless industry, presenting the names of about 75 works. He was a rapid as well as careful worker. The managers of the New York Theater-Mark Smith and John Lewis Baker-were anxious to have an adaptation of Charles Reade's novel Griffith Gaunt in 1868, and Mr. Daly was asked to do the work. He brought the first act to the theater next morning, and it was at once put in rehearsal. He finished an act each day, and on the night of the fourth day the play was produced with great success. It ran fifty nights. Augustin Daly in all his work aimed at a high standard of dramatic art. Men and women under his direction became accomplished players, and the drama of English speech was enriched by the best examples of modern play making. He was an ardent book lover, and his collection of works relating to the drama was one of the finest in the world. He devoted his leisure for several years to the preparation and printing of a life of Peg Woffington, copiously illustrated with reproductions of all the known portraits of that actress. He completed, after years of assiduous labor and research, a magnificent extraillustrated copy of the Douai Bible, at a cost of $25,000, which is unique and almost priceless. Danforth, George Franklin, jurist, born in Boston, Mass., July 5, 1819; died in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1899. He was graduated at Union College in 1840, and, after being admitted to the bar, began practicing in Rochester. In 1876 he was defeated as the Republican candidate for judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, but in 1878 he was renominated and elected. On the expiration of his term he became a member of the Judiciary Commission. Excepting these offices, he held no public charge, his time being wholly occupied with his extensive practice. He died of apoplexy in the courtroom just as he had finished arguing a case.

Darche, Louise, educator, born in Ontario, Canada, about 1854; died in London, England, June 1, 1899. She was graduated at the Bellevue Training School for Nurses in New York city, and in January, 1888, was appointed superintendent of the Training School for Nurses on Blackwell's island. In the autumn of 1897 overwork and ill health forced her to resign. She sought recuperation by going abroad. Miss Darche was a woman of exceptional energy and executive ability, and had the reputation of being one of the best-trained nurses in the country. While she was in charge of the Blackwell's island school her work was extended from the wards for women to those for men also, because of her improved methods of treatment. She concerned

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herself deeply with the professional interests of the nurse pupils under her charge, and seemed never to spare herself in the execution of her regular and self-imposed duties. The title of F. Marion Crawford's romance Marion Darche was suggested by a visit to the Blackwell's island school. He was impressed with the importance of her work, and combined her family name with his own Christian name in the title of his story. Davidge, William, actor, born in Manchester, England, March 11, 1847; died in Chicago, Jan. 26, 1899, son of the popular comedian of the same name (1814-88). He was but three years of age when brought to America. The family settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., and young Davidge was educated in the public schools there. He made his début at the French Theater, Broadway, as the Widow Meddlenotte in The Lady of the Lions, a burlesque on Bulwer's play. He then ran away from home and played a few months with a stock company in Newark, N. J. father finally procured an engagement for him as second low comedian of the Brooklyn Park Theater. He was engaged immediately thereafter for the Holman company, with which he remained as comedian for four years. In 1870-71 he was associated with William H. Crane and Frank Drew in an operatic tour in Canada. During this tour he married the popular actress Maggie Harold. He was next engaged as comedian of Wood's Museum, Philadelphia, and subsequently at the Arch Street Theater to replace Stuart Robson. In the summer of 1875 he assumed the management of the Museum. He produced The Two Orphans there in a run of 169 performances in 1877, playing himself the part of Pierre. He was comedian of Kate Claxton's company in the season of 1877-78, and then played the comedy part in a long run of Enchantment at Niblo's Garden, New York. He was then for a season with Augustin Daly, playing Hercules Brown in The Arabian Nights. Mr. and Mrs. Davidge then formed a company of their own, called the Maggie Harold Comedy Company, and played comedies for many seasons on the road. Mr. Davidge from 1881 to 1883 was the comedian and character actor of the Bijou and Museum Theaters in Philadelphia. He played subsequently several seasons with Roland Reed. His last engagement was with the Dearborn stock company in Chicago, where he made his last appearance.

Davies, Thomas Alfred, military officer, born in Black Lake, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1809; died there, Aug. 19, 1899. He was a son of Thomas John Davies and a brother of Charles Davies, the noted mathematician, and of Henry Eugene Davies, chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals. Thomas Alfred passed his youth on his father's farm, and when sixteen years old was sent to the United States Military Academy, where he was graduated in 1829. He entered the army as brevet second lieutenant in the 1st Infantry, and served at Fort Crawford, in Wisconsin Territory, and at West Point, as post quartermaster, till 1831, when he resigned and engaged in mercantile business in New York. Meeting with financial reverses in 1837, he accepted employment as a civil engineer in the construction of the Croton Aqueduct, and spent two years in that work, particularly in the building of High Bridge. He then resumed mercantile life and continued it till the outbreak of the civil war, when he offered his services to the Government and was commissioned colonel of the 16th New York Volunteers. After some service in Washington and the organization of the Army of the Potomac, he was assigned to the command of the 2d Brigade, 5th

Division. He led the advance on Centerville, and on the day of the battle of Bull Run received command of the 5th Division, and with part of his troops defeated an attempt to turn the left flank of the National army. When the retreat began he fell back to Centerville, and, posting his division on the heights, covered the retreat of the remainder of the army and checked the pursuit. He held his position till midnight, and then, under orders, retired to Alexandria. The winter he spent in the defenses of Washington. On March 7, 1862, he was promoted brigadier general and transferred to Gen. Halleck's army in the West, in which he became commander of the 2d Division (Army of the Tennessee). In the movement against Corinth he took part in the advance and the siege, and in the battle his division alone for a time engaged the whole force of the enemy. For these services he and his command were officially commended by Gen. Rosecrans. Subsequently he commanded the military districts of Columbus, Ky., Rolla, Mo., northern Kansas, and Wisconsin, and on June 11, 1865, he was brevetted major general of volunteers. Soon afterward he resigned and returned to New York, where he had acquired large property interests. Gen. Davies was the inventor and patentee of many devices, including some improvements in railroad construction which have been used with success. He also spent much time in philosophic and theological speculation, and was a firm believer in the authenticity and inspiration of the Bible. He was the author of numerous works, including Cosmogony; or, Mysteries of Creation (New York, 1858); Adam and HaAdam (1859); Genesis Disclosed (1860); Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geologists (1861); How to Make Money, and How to Keep It (1866); and Appeal of a Layman to the Committee on the Revision of the English Version of the Holy Scriptures, to have Adam and Ha-Adam restored to the English Genesis where left out by Former Translators (1875).

Davis, George Royal, director general of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1890-'94, born in Palmer, Mass., June 3, 1840; died in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 25, 1899. He prepared for college at Williston Seminary, but, abandoning a college education, he enlisted as a private in the 8th Massachusetts Volunteers in 1861, and served through out the civil war. He became a captain in the 8th Massachusetts and major of the 3d Rhode Island Cavalry. Upon being mustered out of service he received a civil appointment at Gen. Phil Sheridan's headquarters, and went through the Indian campaigns of 1868 and 1869 in southern Kansas and Indian Territory. In 1871 he resigned and went into business in Chicago. He was elected to Congress in 1876, and was twice re-elected. He was a delegate to several national Republican conventions, but he was best known for his work in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, which owed much of its success to his executive ability. (See Authorized History of the World's Columbian Exposition, 4 volumes, New York, 1898.)

Davis, Jesse L., song writer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1863; died in Whitestone, Long Island, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1899. He was a negro and a graduate of Gaines College, in his native city. For many years he had been known widely as a writer of popular songs, the most familiar of which are The Lighthouse by the Sea, Wait till the Tide Comes In, Why don't you Write a Letter Home? In the Baggage Coach Ahead, The Fatal Wedding, Send Back the Picture and the Ring, and Down in Poverty Row.

Dawes, Rufus R., military officer, born in Malta, Morgan Co., Ohio, July 4, 1838; died in Marietta, Ohio, Aug. 2, 1899. He was graduated at Marietta College in 1860, and in 1861 entered the National service as a captain in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers, which formed a part of the famous "Iron Brigade." He served through the war, attaining the rank successively of major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general by brevet, took part in 20 battles, was several times wounded, and was the only officer of his regiment that went through the war. After the war he engaged in business in Marietta, and he was a Representative in Congress in 1880-'82. He was the father of Charles G. Dawes, controller of the currency.

Dewey, Chester Pomeroy, journalist, born in Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 10, 1826; died in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1899. He was the eldest child of Dr. Chester Dewey and his wife, Olivia Pomeroy, and went with his parents to Rochester in 1836. He was graduated at Williams College in 1846, and then spent a year as private tutor in the Taliaferro family in Virginia. Returning to Rochester, he studied law, and in 1850 was admitted to the bar in New York. Before he had time to establish himself in practice he was called to a place on the staff of the Daily American, of Rochester. He remained with the American till 1858, when it was consolidated with the Democrat, and then, returning to New York, was sent by the Evening Post into Illinois to report the famous debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in their canvass for the United States Senate. On completing this assignment he took an editorial place on the Commercial Advertiser, of New York, with which he remained seventeen years, going thence to the Brooklyn Argus, the American Agriculturist, of New York, and the Commercial Bulletin, also of New York. Since 1890, because of failing health, he had not been steadily engaged in editorial work. Within a few weeks of his death he gave up his Brooklyn home and returned to Rochester. Mr. Dewey was an earnest student throughout his life, and he had a singularly retentive memory.

Dingley, Nelson, legislator, born in Durham, Me., Feb. 15, 1832; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 13, 1899. He was brought up on his father's farm and in his country store. His early education was obtained in the local district and high schools. When seventeen years old he began teaching, and he continued to teach each winter till he entered Waterville College in 1851. Eighteen months later he went to Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in 1855 with high rank as a student, debater, and writer. His family removed to Auburn in 1854, and there he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. But the same year he purchased the Lewiston Journal, of which he was editor and proprietor till his death. In 1854 he cast his first vote for Anson P. Morrill, the antislavery and temperance candidate for Governor, and in 1856 he wrote and spoke for the first Republican candidate for the presidency, John C. Frémont. He was elected to the Legis

lature in 1861, 1862, and 1863, and in the last year was chosen Speaker. Removing to Lewiston, he was re-elected to the Legislature in 1864, 1865, 1868, and 1873, and was again Speaker in 1864, declining a re-election to that office in 1865. In 1873 he was elected Governor of Maine by a majority of about 10,000, and in 1874 was reelected with a majority of about 11,000. He declined a renomination in 1875. During the next six years his political work was chiefly in the interest of the Republican party in his State. He was first elected to Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of William P. Frye to the United States Senate, Sept. 12, 1881, and he held the seat by successive re-elections till his death. In this service he performed effective work as a member of the Committees on Banking and Currency, on American Shipbuilding and Shipowning Interests (select), on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and, above all, on Ways and Means. From the beginning of his congressional career he was conspicuous as a defender of the principle of protection. He strongly opposed the Mills tariff bill in 1888, aided in the drafting of the McKinley bill in 1890, opposed the Wilson bill in 1894, and as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means had charge of the bill of 1897 that bears his name. When President McKinley was forming his Cabinet he was anxious that Mr. Dingley should accept the office of Secretary of the Treasury, but the latter believed he could serve the country and party best by retaining the leadership of the House. In 1898 President McKinley appointed him a member of the Joint High Commission on the controversies between the United States and Canada. Mr. Dingley received the degree of LL.D. from both Bates and Dartmouth Colleges. Dodd, Moses Woodruff, publisher, born in Bloomfield, N. J., Nov. 11, 1813; died in New York city, April 8, 1899. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1837, and immediately entered its theological seminary, but failing health soon caused the abandonment of his plans. In 1839 he entered into partnership with John S. Taylor, then one of the foremost publishers of religious books in New York city. In the following year Mr. Taylor withdrew, and for thirty years the business was continued in the name of M. W. Dodd. He continued in active business till 1870, when, on retiring, he was succeeded by a son and a nephew, under the firm name of Dodd & Mead. This name was subsequently changed to Dodd, Mead & Co., as at present. Mr. Dodd was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for fifty years. He was a remarkably well-preserved man, and to his last days had an absorbing interest in church music and painting, as well as in the fine arts generally.

Dodge, Reuben Rawson, genealogist, born in East Sutton, Mass., April 3, 1819; died in Saundersville, Mass., Aug. 24, 1899. He was brought up on his father's farm, and followed the carpenter's trade for twenty years. He belonged to three large and well-known families, and spent much of the past sixty years in compiling genealogies of them. In 1838 he published his Genealogy of the Rawson Family, and in 1879 his Geneal ogy of the Dodge Family. He discovered in Antiquarian Hall. Worcester, in 1873, the manuscripts relating to the early history of Sutton, which were afterward edited by the Rev. W. A. Benediet. In 1897 he published An Historical Sketch of the Leland Hill and Old Stone School Districts in Sutton, and in 1898 a pamphlet containing the names and inscriptions on more than 1,100 gravestones in six Sutton cemeteries. His

Rawson and Dodge genealogies have passed through several editions.

Doerflinger, Augustus, civil engineer, born in Baden, Germany, in 1845; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1899. In 1849 he came to the United States. He was graduated at Cornell University in 1871 with the degree of C. E., entered the service of the United States Government, and was assigned to the Atlantic coast division of the engineering department. He was employed for a long time on the work at Hell Gate, and, in conjunction with J. H. Strietinger, invented a method of simultaneous explosion. The French Government awarded him a gold medal at the French exposition. After the completion of the work at Hell Gate he was in charge of the construction of the Harlem river ship canal, and later he worked on the channels at the entrance to New York harbor. He directed the placing of the land batteries on Sandy Hook at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. He was consulting engineer of the Grant monument.

Dow, Lorenzo, inventor, born in Paris, Me., July 10, 1825; died in New York city, Oct. 12, 1899. He was graduated at Wesleyan University in 1848, spent four years in mining in California and Nevada, and, after a brief residence in New York, settled in Topeka, Kan., of which he became the first mayor. In the early part of the civil war he invented improvements in ammunition, including the waterproof cartridge bearing his name, and manufactured such supplies for the Government. After the war he spent several years in South America, working valuable interests in gold mines and hard lumber that he had acquired in Colombia. On his return to the United States he settled in Colorado, where he aided in developing the towns of Silverton and Gladstone. He became interested in the problem of irrigating the arid lands, and through his inventive skill and wide experience was of much service in establishing the present system of irrigation. During the last fifteen years of his life he had applied himself almost wholly to making and perfecting the typesetting machine that bears his name in New York.

Duggan, James, clergyman, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1825; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 27, 1899. He came to the United States in early life, and was ordained in the Roman Catholic Church at St. Louis in 1847. His first appointment was as superior of the St. Louis Theological Seminary at Carondelet, in which he also became a professor. In 1850 he was attached to the cathedral in St. Louis, and in 1854 was appointed vicar general of the diocese and pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. In 1857 he became Bishop of Gabala and coadjutor of St. Louis. Two years later he was made Bishop of Chicago. His health soon gave way under the burdens of his new post, and he made a trip to Europe. While he was there complaints were made against his administration, and, returning to his diocese, he removed some of the remonstrants. An appeal was made to Rome, and the trouble was referred to the Archbishop of St. Louis. As none of the accusers appeared, their charges were dismissed. About this time it became evident to the bishop's friends that his mind was seriously affected. He sought medical advice and traveled in Europe, but his once brilliant intellect soon became a blank, and in 1870 he was placed in an asylum.

Dunton, Larkin, educator, born in Concord, Me., July 22, 1828; died in Allston. Mass., Oct. 30, 1899. He was graduated at Waterville College in 1855, and was admitted to the bar at

Augusta, Me., but practiced very little. He taught for short periods in the Hallowell High School, Bath High School, and Lincoln Academy, and for seven years was principal of Bath High School. On April 1, 1867, he became submaster of the Lawrence School, Boston, and in 1868 was made master. In 1872 he was elected master of the Boston Normal School, which office he held til Sept. 1, 1899, when he resigned. He received the degree of LL.D. from Colby University in 1880. Dr. Dunton edited a memorial volume of Dr. John D. Philbrick, and published several text-books, among them The Normal Course in Spelling, The Young Folks' Library, Stories of Child Life, and The World and its People Series of geographical readings.

Durfee, William Franklin, civil engineer, born in New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 15, 1833; died in Middletown, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1899. After a practical mechanical training at home, he took a special course of study at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. In 1853 he became an engineer and architect in New Bedford, and for five years served as city surveyor. In 1861 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. He introduced a resolution which is believed to have been the first formal proposition for arming negro troops in the civil war. In June, 1862, he went to Lake Superior to test the suitability of the iron ore for the manufacture of steel by a method invented by William Kelley, and he succeeded in producing some ingots of steel from which, May 25, 1865, were rolled the first steel rails made in the United States. He established at Wyandotte, Mich., an analytical laboratory for the purpose of studying the Bessemer process. In 1876 he was one of the judges of machine tools at the Centennial Exposition. He afterward built at Ansonia, Conn., the first successful furnaces for refining copper by the use of gaseous fuel. In 1886 he became general manager of a company that controlled patents for the production of wrought iron and steel castings. Earle, George, lawyer, born in Maryland, Sept. 10, 1821; died in Washington, D. C., May 10, 1899. For several years he was a law partner of John A. J. Creswell, who became PostmasterGeneral under President Grant. In 1864 he was a member of the Judiciary Committee of the convention that revised the State Constitution and abolished slavery in the State, and, although a slaveholder, he urged immediate emancipation. In 1869 he was appointed First Assistant Postmaster-General, and under his direction the postal service was fully restored in the Southern States. After completing this work he resigned and practiced law in Washington. In recent years he had applied himself to literary work relating to his native State and the proceedings of the Continental Congress.

Eastwood, Benjamin, clergyman, born in Clitheroe, England, July 4, 1825; died in Pawtucket, R. I., Jan. 26, 1899. He was ordained in the Church of England, Aug. 19, 1846, soon afterward espoused the Wesleyan movement, and returned to his first Church some years before coming to the United States. After holding rectorships in Plymouth and Torrington, Conn., he went to the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Pawtucket, more than twenty-five years ago, and remained there as active and emeritus rector till his death. He was a warm friend of Horace Greeley and a frequent contributor to his Tribune. He published Trials and Triumphs among the Lowly and Cranberry Culture.

Eberhart, Wilford Avery Power, engineer, born in Beaver, Pa., Sept. 12, 1819; died in Cedar

Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 14, 1899. He was educated at Beaver Academy, and when twenty years old joined his uncle, Gen. Thomas J. Power, and had several years' practical training with the corps of engineers that made the preliminary surveys for the present Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. For several years afterward he was resident engineer of the Northern Central Pennsylvania Railroad, and he had special charge of the construction of the long bridge across the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Juniata. When his uncle became president of the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad Mr. Eberhart was placed in charge of the construction of the northern division of the road. In 1856 Mr. Eberhart entered the Methodist ministry, joining the Erie Conference. He was commissioned chaplain of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery in September, 1861, and served with it till July 21, 1862, when he was compelled to resign because of a wound received in the battle of Williamsburg. In 1871 he removed to Union, Hardin County, Iowa, where he served as county surveyor eight years, and then in pastoral work till within a week of his death. Edgar, George (George Edgar Biddle), actor, born in New York city in 1841; died there, Feb. 25, 1899. His grandfather, John Hogg (17701813), was for several years an important member of the Park Theater company, New York. Mr. Edgar's earlier years were spent in commercial pursuits. His long-continued studies of the classic drama led him to assume the management of the old Broadway Theater in partnership with Chandos Fulton in 1878. His first appearance as an actor was in this theater in the character of King Lear, Jan. 27, 1879. He achieved considerable success, and on Feb. 10 following he played Othello. He was distinctly successful in the latter part. In 1882 he established a fine stock company in Chicago, with which he played for a time Othello, Lear, Macbeth, and Richelieu. The venture was not financially successful, and Mr. Edgar returned to New York, where he played an engagement as Othello at the Fourteenth Street Theater, beginning Sept. 10, 1883. He then established himself in New York as a teacher of dramatic art, making occasional short tours. During one of these tours Margaret Mather made her first appearance on the stage as one of Mr. Edgar's pupils. On Aug. 16, 1890, he began a short engagement in a play called The Banker at the Windsor Theater, New York. His last appearance was in Jim the Penman, with the Madison Square Theater company.

Egbert, Harry C., military officer, born in Pennsylvania, Jan. 3, 1839; died in front of Malinta, Philippine Islands, March 26, 1899. He was appointed from civil life first lieutenant in the 12th United States Infantry, Sept. 23, 1861; was promoted captain, April 1, 1865; major of the 17th Infantry, April 23, 1890; lieutenant colonel, 6th Infantry, May 18, 1893; and colonel, 22d Infantry, July 1, 1898. In the volunteer service he was commissioned a brigadier general, Oct. 1, 1898, and was honorably discharged on Dec. 1 following. He took part in the battles of Gaines's Mills, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Bethesda Church, North Anna, and Gettysburg in the civil war, was captured at Cedar Mountain and Gettysburg, and was severely wounded at Bethesda Church. After the war he took part in the Nez Percés Indian campaign of 1877 and that against the hostile Sioux in 1890-'91. At the beginning of the war against Spain he was lieutenant colonel of the 6th Infantry. This regiment he commanded in the Santiago campaign till shot through the body while leading a charge against