Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — Some of the Promiment Dead of 1879. [ARTICLE]

Some of the Promiment Dead of 1879.

The Chicago TriOune publishes fl lotto record of the prominent dead of 187», from which we glean the following names of sotnegf Che more noted personages belonging to this country: POLITICAL. Robert W. Mackey, export* Tftw of Pennsylvania; Orlcrfr Owfliiw. Masasdrasett*; Julian Harb ridge. Member of Cocwraaa from Georgia: Guatare SeSk-ictoer, Member at Congreaa front Texas; H. R. Linderman, Superintendent United States Mint; Thomas 8. Drew, ex-Governor of Arkanaas; Joseph A. Enylehard. Secretary of State of North Carolina: exMayor Westervelt, New York; L. R. Bradley, ex-Governer of Nevada; John A. Dix, exSecretary of the Treasury and Ex-Governor of New York; Hon. Rush Clark, Member of Coorree« from Iowa; ex-Governor Asahei Peck, Vermont; William Uoyd Garrison; Alanson Work, a prominent Abolitionist; ex-Governor William Alien, Ohio; George W, Benson, Abolitionist; General George B. Smith, Madison. Wisconsin: United States Senator Zach Chandler, Michigan; George Smith Houston, United States Senator from Alabama. KX-MKMBBMOr CONGIUBS. Caleb Cushing, Massachusetts; Francis W. Kellogg, Michigan; C. Y. Thomas, Virginia; Abraham B. Hasbrouck, New York; George Goldthwaite, Alabama; William 8. Albert, Maryland; Janies K. Gibeon, Virginia; Haywood Kiddle, Tennesee; John M. Coghlan, California; william J. Albert, Maryland; William H. Kelsey, New York; John A. Dix, New York; Alfred A. Burnham, Connecticut; Ell 8. Shorter, Alabama: Asa Packer, Pennsylvania; John Hogera, New York; James J. Winans, Kentucky; C. L. Cobb, North Carolina; Robert W. Johnson. Arkansas; Ebon 0. Ingersoll, Illinois: James Shields, Missouri; Henry F. Janes, Vermont; M. D. Shoemaker, New Jersey; Robert M. Knapp, Illinois; William Allen, Ohio; Jesse O. Goodman, California: John Kerr, North Carolina; William' Duer, New York; John C. Ten Eyck, New York; A. W. Hubbard, Iowa; Chapin Hall, New York; Francis Gillette, Connecticut; Benning W. Jennesa, New Hampshire; Zach Chandler, Michigan; George W. Patterson, New York; George Vickers, Maryland. TH* ARMY. J. P. McGowan, ix-Cons ederate Major-Gen-eral; General George Cadwallader, Philadelphia; General William Gurney. Federal commander of Charleston at the close of the war: Asher R. Eddy, Quartermaster U. 8. A.: R. H. Chilton, Adjutant-General of General Lee; Major-General Thomas W. Sherman, U. 8. A.; Brevet Brigadier-General Henry Brewerton, U.S. A.; General Richard Taylor, Confederate Army; General Alfred Sully, U. 8. AVancouver Barracks; Brevet Major-General William F. Barry, U. S. A.; Colonel John V. Dubois, U. S. A.; General John B. Hood, exConfederate army; Brevet Brigadier-General Clement A. Finley, U. 8. A>; General Charles B. Kingsbury, U. 8. A.; Qeneral Joseph Hooker, U. a. A.; General James Shields, U. 8. A.; General Jeff C. Davis, Ui 8. A. TH* NAVY. Commodore John Guest; Edward R. Thompaon, retired Commodore; Lieutenant Murray 8. Day, Captain Diehard T. Renshaw, Rear Admiral Sy Ivan us W. Gadon, Rear Admiral E. G. Parrott, James B. KlmballJChief Engineer; Commodore F. A. Parker, Rear Admiral Charles Boardman, Rear Admiral Augustus H. Kiltey, Rear Admiral William Reynolds. THI LAW. Charles T. Sherman, ex-Judge United States District Court of Ohio; Ramson Balcom, Circuit Judge, Binghamton, N. Y.; William Bioomtiela, New York; John Cadwallader, Judge of the United States District Court, Pennsylvania: James D. Halybutton, exVniied States District Judge, Richmond, Va.; Lyman Cochrane, Judge Superior Ojurt, Detroit, Mich.; Judge Levi B. Vilas, Madison, Wis ; ex-Chief-Justice Casey, Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; Judge James Latttn, Cincinnati; Judge Solomon Blair, Indianapolis; Elihu Spencer Miller, Philadelphia, Pfl-s; Marshall it. Champlain. Cuba, N. Y.; . Hon. Richard C. Tiigbman, Chief Judge Orphans’ Couit of Queen Anne County, Maryland; Daniel M. Rates, ex-CbanceUor of Delaware; John A. Gardner. Providence, R. I.; J. M. Elliott. Judge of the Court of Appeals, Frankfort, Ky.; William F. Giles, Judge of the United States District Court of Maryland; Jackson Baggs, Presiding Judge of the Thirty-third District of Pennsylvania; Judge Hamilton W. Robinson, Court of Common Pleas, New York City; Stephen A. Goodwin, Chicago; the Hon. Josiah Scott, ex-Justloe Supreme Court, of Ohio; Judge Isaac C. Collins, Cincinnati; Bland Ballard, Judge of the United States District Court, Louisville, Ky.: John Kerr, Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina; Captain I Grant Thompson, editor Albany Law Journal; John Dikeman, County Judge of King's County, New York; J. Warren Woodward, Justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; John K. Hackett, Recorder, New York: Samuel E. Perkins, Chief Justice of Indiana; Hon. Winthrop W. Ketchum, United States District Judge, Pennsylvania; Judge Samuel Reber; St. Louis. THKOLOOY. Rev. Samuel C. Aiken, D. D., Tresoytenaa, Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. Dr. Elias R. Beadle, Presbyterian, Philadelphia; Rev. Bartholomew Weed, Methodist, Newark, N. J.; Rev. Horatio N. Brinsmade, D. D., Presbyterian, Newark, N. J.; Rev. Edward Withers, Episcopalian, Petersburg, Va.; Rev. William Warren, D. D., ex-District Secretary of the American Boaid of Foreign Missions; Rev. Eleazar Smith, Methodist, Concord, N. H.; very Rev, Conidlius Moynih tu, R unan Catholic Church, New O.leans; Rev. Charles A. Smith, D. D., Presbytciian, Orange, N. J.; Bishop Thomas Foley, Roman Catholic Church, Chicago; Rev. Dr. Reuben Nelson, senior publisner and agent of the Moth< diit R<M>k Concern; Rov. Dr. Benjamin 1. Haight, assistant pastor of Trinity Church, New York; Very Key. Maitin Kundig, Vicar-General of Milwaukee, Wis.; Father Louis Dael, Fond du Lac, Wis,; Rev. James De Koven, Warden of Ritciuc College. Wisconsin; Rev. David Patten, Methtxlist, Bostou: Rev. Houry Neill, D. D., Presbyterian, Philadelphia; Rev. C. D. Helmer, D. D a Congregationalist, Lockport, N. Y.t Bishop Edward R. Aines, D. D., Methodist, Baltimore, Md.; Rev. William C. Mead, D. D., LL. D., Norwalk, Conn.; Rev. Dr. Jay S. Backus, ex-Becretary American Baptist Home Missionary Society; Dr. Alexander Clark, Pittsburgh; Bishop Odeuhcimer, New Jersey; Rev. Rollin H. Neale, Baptist, Boston; Charles 1. H. Carter, of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia; .Rev. Philemon H. Fowler, D. D., Presbyterian, Utica, N. Y.; Rev. Dr. William Ives Budington, Congregntionnlist. New York; Rt.-Rev. William R. Whittiugham, Episcopal Bishop of Maryland; Kev. George Storrs, editor of the Bible Ejcaminer.

. MEDICINE. Dr. John B. Biddle, Dean of Jefferson College, Philadelphia; Dr. J. K. Morton, homeopath, Lexington, Ky.; Dr. George Gilfillan, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. Max Tissot, physician ana surgeon, Newark, N. J.; Dr. WlUiam Flint Stevens, Stoneham, Mass.; Dr. John C. Riley, Dean National Medical College, Washington, D. C.; Dr. John Hugh McQuillan, Dean of the Dental College, Philadelphia; Dr. Thomas Waddell, Professor in the School of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio; Dr. Timothy R. Nute, homeopath, Chicago; Dr. John M. Woodworth, Sur-geon-General of the Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.; Dr. George B. Wood, physician and author, Philadelphia; Dr. Isaac Hays, editor of the American Journal of tha Medical Sciences; Dr. F. Fontaine Maury, physician and author, Philadelphia; Dr. John T. Darby, Professor of Surgery in 'University of New York; Dr. Jerome Van C. Smith, President of the Polytechnic Branch of the American Institute; Dr. C. J. Hempel, homeopathic physician and author, Grana Rapids, Mich.; Freeman J. Bumstead, President New York Coanty Medical Society. SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. William J. Nicodemus, Professor of Engineering, State University, Wisconsin; Albert J. Steele, President of the Electro College, New York; Lyman Bennett, founder of Freedman’s Academy at Greenboro, N. C.; Professor Robert H. Browne, Scotch Presbyterian School, New York; James B. Fuller, electrician, New York; William F. Forbey, business superintendent Vassar College, New York; John Temple, inventor of the turbine wheel. Dayton, Ohio; Professor Mordecai Yarnell, Naval Observatory, Georgetown. D. C.; Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith, Hartford, o>nn.; Rev. W. M. Wingate, President of Wake Forest College, N. C.: Professor Daniel Vaughan, Cincinnati; Dr. J. P. Lacroix, Professor of Languages In the Ohio Western University; Erastus Bigelow, loom inventor. Boston; Professor John 0. Johnston. Wesleyan University, Conn.; Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, New York; Professor John C. Proctor, Dartmouth College; Henry C. Carey, political economist, Philadelphia. JOURNALISM. Joseph P. Farmer, Denver (Col.) Democrat; J. B. Smith, ex-publisher Milwaukee Free Democrat,- Morton McMichael, Philadelphia NorthAmrrican; Bambardt Muller, Chicago VbUtafrrund; B. F. Stephens, Mt. Morris (III.) Democrat : Charles G. Came, Boston Journal; Horace L. Hyde, St. Louis Republican; G. A. Wright, founder of the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer; William Hauson, Associated Press, Baltimore, M<l.; Alexander G. Johnson, ex-editor Troy (N. Y.) Il’hip; Patrick Higgins, New Orleans Picavune; John George Hoch, city editor New J,°rk Sunday Courier; Henre H. Leech, New X" rk c - 8 - Weßt ? editor of the Plano Ae»cs,’ George W. Gift, editor of the Napa (Cal.) Reporter; Marcellus Emery,' editor and proprietor of the Bangor (Me.) Commercial and Demojvat; Charles W. Denhard, proprietor lUtnz/w Central HochenWatt. Ottawa, 111.; Dr. Horatio D. Shephard, founder of the first penny paper, the Morning Poet, In New York; Henry G. Wallace, editor of the Legal InteUigencer. Philadelphia; William Haddock, editor Champaign (Ill.) Times; Hood Alston, correspondent San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louts; John E. Hatcher, Louisville Courier-Journal; Chester H. HuU, Pacific Coast journalist; H. H. Hourhton, editor Galena (HL) Gazette; Charles 11. Pulham. New York Times; Samuel S. Moon, Philadelphia Railway World; Peter Anderson, San Francisco Appeal; Jacob J. Mattison. Canandaigua (N. Y.) RepitsUoru-Mee-ts inter; William McKee, St. Louis Globe-Demo-Hipfty (O.) Times; O. U Haddock. Carlisle (Pa.) Herald; Frank Phelps, Burlington Hatcif-Eue; Colonel Lewis Barnes, St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette; J. C. Sage, Cleveland Plain Dealer. —. . - - CkNTBNAIUANS. Elisabeth \Bchlitz., Milwaukee. Wla. 1(M years: Elisabeth Reutter, Baltimore, Md.* 118; Lucy Nichols, New Haven, Conn,. 100; Rachel, lowa, 105; krs. Captain Dobbins, Erie,~Pa., 100; Benjamin West, BaP tin} op s Md 109; Jacob Hemstrauaht. Camp- ™.- “ary Goodale, Norwich, C6nn. 103, Susannah Webster, Philadelphia, 110: O«tennan, Chicago, 107; Eliab< th S W