Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1879 — NECROLOGY FOR THE PAST YEAR. [ARTICLE]

NECROLOGY FOR THE PAST YEAR.

The Chicago Tribune furnishes th* following necrology for 1878, classified according to various fields of labor, and including only those-whohave been ftrominent and achieved great siiopeas n the departments of usefulness in which they have worked. The list of centenarians is limited to the United States: rOLITICM. WORLD. Alpbsus 8. WilUams, Member of Congress from Michigan; Bev. rij B. Douxlaw, Member of Congress from Virginis; Nicholas Maria Rivero, Chief of thebpanlsh Progressioni»U; ex-Gov. Vaughan, of L'tth; Alazandar Bmlih, Congressman-elect. New York; ex-Gov. Padelford, Rhode Island; Giorgio Pallavidoo, Italian patriot: Frank Welch, Memlxr of Congress for.. Nebraska; Gideon J, Pillow; George Thompson, Leeds, Eog.; Msrquis Wllopolsti, Poland; Alfonso Ferraro la Marmora. Italy; Gen. John O’Neill, Fenian leater; Demetrius Bulgaria, Athens, Greece; Charles E. Mix, ex-Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Gideon Welles,* ex-Secretary of the Navy; Willbun Welnh, Indian Commissioner; William Goodell, prominent Abolltiobist, Janesville, Wls.; R. w. Taylor, First Comi>trailer United States Treasury; J. Edwards Leonard, Member of Conirrtss Louisiana: the Hon. John Young, Canada; Coles Bashford, ex-Becretary of Arizona and ex-Governor of Wisconsin; Charles C. Burleigh, Abolitionist; Gen. Fitz-Henry Warren, Massachusetts; President Alcantara, of Venezuela; Louis Antoine Gsrnler-Pages, French etatecnian and historian; Jean Jacques Fazy, Swisj statesman; Francois Vincent Raspail, French Radical; Sir William Hayter, English Liberal “whip;” Alcardo Alcardl, Italian politician and poet; William M. Tweed. ’ BX-M EMBERS OT CONGRESS. Effingham Lawrence, Louisiana; John 8. Carlisle, West Virginia; Lyman Tremain, New York; John Van Dyke, New Jersey; Baillie Peyton, Garnett B. Adrian, New Jersey; W. W. Vaughan. Tennessee; JacobP. Chamberlain, New York; Brutus J. Clay, Kentucky; WilliamT. Ward. Kentucky; John R. Franklin, Maryland; Jonn B. Kerr, Maryland; Charles M. Conrad, Louisiana: Mercer Strouse, Pennsylvania; Botijamln F. Wade,Ohio; Asa Briggs, North Carolina; William Halstead, New Jersey; Augustus C. Hand, New York; Robert Hamilton, New Jersey; John Allison, 3. Ross Snowden, Pennsylvania; J. Glancy Jones, Pennsylvania; Charles Sitgreaves, New Jersey; Daniel Wardwell, New York; William Moore, New Jersey; John Morrissey, New York; Terrence J. Quinn, New York; Dan tel Sturgeon, Pennsylvania; Owen T. Jones, Pennsylvania; Giles W. Hotchkiss, New Yprk. ROYALTY ANii NOBILITY. Princess Alice Maude Mary, of Hesse: Jahandur Shah, Prince of Badakshau; Duke Charles of Schleswig-Holstein; Men-oon-Meng, the King of Burmah; Queen Christina, Spain; Abdulla Jan, son of the Ameer of Cabool; Marquis of Aylesbury, London; Victor Emmanuel, K'ng of Italy; Prince Henry LXIX-, Reuss-Schlelz-Koestritz; Earl Bathurst, London; Archduke Francis Charles Joseph, Vienna; Prince Lucien Napoleon Murat; Ange Emanuel, Dnke of Normandy; Elizabeth Georgiana, Duchess of. Argyle; Lord John Russell; ex-King George V.. of Hanover; Mercedes, Queen of Spain; Prince Leopold, Duke of Sctileswig-Houteln; Princes* Marie, daughter of Princess Alice, of Hesse. THE ARMY. Maj;-Gen. Edward Trevor, English Army; Brevet Maj.-Gen. Buchanan, U. 8. A.; Mehemet All, Turkish Army; Alex Pullock, English Army; Lieut.-Gen. Von Kunst, German Army; Gen. Cousin Montauban, French Army; Gen. Charles Thomas, U. S. A.; Gen. DuplessTn, French Army; Suleiman Pasha, Turkish Army; Gen. ThomasC. Devin, U. S. A.; Maj.-Gen. dames J. Peck, U. 8. A.; Gen. Louis H. Pelouze, U. S. A.; Gen. B. L. Bonneville, U. 3. A.; Gen. La Manpora, Italian Army; Gen. Ludwik Mieroslowski, Polish patriot; Gen. Henry Raymond, veteran of 1812; Brevet Brlg.-Gen. Julius Hayden,-U. 8. A.; Gen. Daniel Craig McCallum, U. S. A. THE NAVT. Com. William F. Spicer, U. S. N.; Admiral Hoff, U. 8. N.; Rear-Admiral Paulding, U. S. N.; Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, Lord High Admiral English Navy: Com, Charles 11. Jackson, U. 8. N.; Com. William C. Whittle, U. 8 N.; Admiral Edward Stanley, EngliihNavy; Rear-Admiral James Kawrtone, English Navy; Com. R. F. Pinkney, U. S. N,; Com. John H. Graham, U. 8. N. THE LAW. D. J. Baldwin, United States District Attorney Eastern District, Texas; Prof. Gustave Haenet, jurist. . Leipsic; Judge John A. Inglis, Chief Judge Orphans’ Court. Baltimore, Md.; Judge James Rawson, Newark, N. J.; Kicbmona M. Pearson, Chief Justice Supreme Court of North Carolina; Wilson Primm, Judge of the Criminal Court, St. Louis; Charles 8. Lewis, Circuit Judge, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Alexander S. Johnston, Circuit Judge, United States Court, Utica, N. Y.; George W. Paschal, Texas; Thomas Johnson, ex-Chlef Justice Supreme Court, Arkansas; ex-Judge John G. Berry, Idaho; George T. Bigelow,' ex-Chlef Justice Massachusetts Supreme Cburt; E. Delafield Smith, New York; Murray Hoffman, law publisher, New York; the Hon. Daniel Gaunt, Chief Justice Supreme Court, of Nebraska; the Hon.'Wilfred Dorian, Judge Supreme Court of Canada; William F. Allen, Associate Justice Court of Appeals, New York; Charles B. Goodrich, LL.D., Bri&ton; Sidney Breese, Supreme. Court of Illinois; Chief Justice Monaghan, Attorney-General in Ireland in 1848. THEOLOGY. Dr. Theodore Keim, Professor at Giessen ; the Rev. Ansell Leo, Jewish Rabbi, New York; Cardinal Paul Cullen; the Rt. Rev. J. P. B. Wllmock, Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana; the Rev. Dr. Win. P. Abbott, Methodist, New York; the Rt. Rev. 8. H. Rosecrans, Columbus, Ohio; the Rev. Samuel Hunt, Congregational, Boston; the Most Rev. Dr. Conroy, Papal Ablegate to Canada: -ArchbUhop Dupanloup, of Orleans; the Rt Rev. Thotnas Galberry, Bishop of Hartford, Conn.; the Rev. Dr. Binuey, Baptist Missionary in India; the Rev. Lerov B. Gaston, Presbyterian, Memphis; the Rev. Lyman B. Beet, American Board of Foreign Missions, New Haven, Conn.; the Rev. James B. Mosby, Professor of Divinity of Oxford, Eng,; ex-Bishop M. Domenf, Roman Catholic, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Pope Pius IX-; the Rev. J. C. Wills, D. D., Methodist Church South; the Rev. Dabney Ball, Methodist, Baltimore; the Rav. Lorenzo D. Barrows, D. D., President New England Conference; Bishop James Whelan, Roman Catholic, Ohio; Cardinal Godefroy Brossais, St. Mark; the Rev. John R. HuteMnson, D. D., Presbyterian, Houston, Tex.; Cardinal Louis Amat <ll Sanfilippo e Lorse: the Rev. Dr. F. Ogilby, Trinity Chfirch, New York; Cardinal Guiseppe Berardi; tbe Rt. Rev. Augustus Selwjn, Bishop of Litchfield, Ene.; the Rev. George Putnam, D. D., Boston, Mass.; Paul Dubruel, Vicar-General Archdiocese Baltimore; P. F. Lyndon, Vicar-General Archdiocese Boston; the Rev. Charles K. True, D. D., Methodist, Brooklyn; the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D.; the Rev. John Dowling. Baptist, Middletown, N. Y.;.and the Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D. Dauthor of tie “South Side of Slavery.” MEDICIMB. Prof. F. W. Hunt, ex-editor North American Journal of liutneopalhy; Prof. Kail Rokitawsky, physician and anatomist, Vienna; Dr. Edward R. Peaslee, surgeon, New York; Dr. M. G. Potter, Professor ot Anatomy, Buffalo Medical Callage; Dr. Alexander Clinton, New York; Prof. Albert Smith, Peterboro, N. H.; Prof. John Brainerd, homeopathist, Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. Cornelius Boyd. Washington, D. C.; Dr. Francis'G. Smith, Medical University of Pennslvania; Dr. C. V. Dyer, Chicago; Dr. James E. Steel, surgeon, ;New York: Dr. James C. Ayer, Massachusetts; Dr. Claude Bernard, physiologiat, Faris; Dr. Mlllljen, Lord Byron’s last physician. seisxcx AND EDUCATION. George D. Rowley, English' ornithologist; Edward Collins Stone, Principal of American Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Conn.; the Rev. Dr. 3. U- Blafr, FrlntipaTof West Virginia State Normal School; Johann Georg Kohl, Gewpan traveler and historian; Prof. John H. Raymond, Vassar College; Prof. Baxter, Harvard College; Prof. jL .W. Bacbe, United States Coast, Survey; Prof. Joseph O. Pyatt, Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; Prof. W. S. Waddell, -University of Georgia: Dr. Augustus Heinrich Petermana, German geographer; Prof. Wcstergaard, Danish Orientalist; J»cob_F. Huber, Wesleyan University; J. Amadee Bergy, University of Pennsylvania; the Bev. Lemuel Chase, Vice-President Jubilee College, Illinois; John P. Gordon, inventor of the Gordon printing-preet; Prof. Moerch, Conchologist, Nice; Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, Rome, astronomer; Dr. John E. Tyler, Superintendent Somerville (Mass.) Ih»ane Anylum; Dr. Julies Robert Mayer, Germany, discoverer of the mechanical equivalent; M. "de la Saussaye, archaeologist, France; Albert E. Church, Professor of Mathematics, ’• West Point; Prof. Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institution; Gen. John Fraser, Superintendent Public Instruction, Kansas; Profc George W. ' Keely, United States Coast Survey. Book; Henry T. Darlington, edlto? of Buckstown (Pa.) Intelligencer; George Philip Dorn', editor of Louisville Aiueiger;' Heniy W. Larkin, Sacramento ' Union; Louis Prieth, Newark (N- J.) b’reie James Johnstone. proprietor London Standard; Louis C. Reformer and Jegub Time, New

York, Lewi* Meacbsaa, Chicago Tribunt; James f. Grant, Jacksonville (Ala.) Hepubllcoh; Frederick W. Burr, Hartford (Conn.) n»Mv;ftotx>rt Lea Macdonnell, (M»m4* Jfedlcal Journal", Bamuel Bowie*. Bpiterteld dtaaa.) lOpublican; Theodore (VGrannto,New York Evening Poet; Henry C. Letahton, O*kalooaa (low*) Iferjfrf/John F. Phelpt, Mayville (S. Y.) titnHnd; Edward Wollliig. New York AWi Ellert, New York MutUc Zeltung; William J. Buckmlniter, Miueachutellt Ploughman; Joseph 8. Lane, Pitt* burgh (Fa.) ?„(, Cbarle* L. Wll»ou, Evening Journal, Chicago; Oliver A. Willard, Chicago Pott; John James Fitzpatrick, New York Herold; Friedrich Rauchfu**, New “York Abend Mtunff) Daniel Wilcox, Quincy (Ill.) Whig; Bamuel 8. Isawa, New York JrujaA Neteengerj Josiah Whitney, Florida Preu; Anson Herrick, Paterson (N. J.) Dally Guardian; AugustlisM. Jackson, New Albany Oliver P. Baldwin, commercial business. Christopher R. Robert, ex-Preeldent Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad; Thomas H. -List. President' West Virginia Commercial Bank;- Horace H. Day, rabbet manufacturer, Manchester. N. H.; Lyman Nichols, President Bostori National Bank; Isaac B. Granger, President Bank of New Hanover. Wilmington, N. C ; Almon D. Hodges, President Washington National Bank, Boston; David D. Colton, Vice-President Southern Pacific Railroad; John Q. Jones, President Chemical National Mank, New York; John O. Deshler. President Franklin National Bank, Columbus Ohio; Beniamin E. Bates, President National Bank of Commerce, Boston:' Thomas Hunt, dry goods, New York; E. K. Collins, founder Collins Line of Steamshios, New York; Raphael Erlanger, banker, Paris; John McDonnell. President First National Bank, New York; Henry C. Hill, President Garden Savings Bank, Massachusetts; J. F. Tracy, exPresident Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; C. R. Lebo*, President Middlesex County (Conn.) Bank: Henry Dlsston, saw manufacturer, Philadelphia; Leonard Kirby, dry goods. New York: Peleg W. Gardner, merchant, Providence, K. I.; Larz Anderson, merchant, Cincinnati- James Goodwin, President Connecticut Mutual Lite Insurance Company; Bamuel Wood, New York; Nathaniel H. Emmons, merchant, Boston T William Orton, President Western Union Telegraph Company; W. 8. O’Brien, theßonanaa King, California; Charles Morgan, New York, owner Morgan Steamship Line; Thomas Winans, Baltimore.

THE ARTS. Robert Wallis, English painter; Albert Brendel, German painter; Felix de Baertle maecker, French landscape painter Antoine de Fem-Korn, Austrian sculptor; William Waud, American artist and architect; M. Jules A. Duval le Camus, French painter; Richard Upjohn, architect, New York: Sir -Francis Grant, English portrait painter; Gustave Courbet, Paris; Emile Lambinet, Paris; George Cruikshank, caricaturist, London; Philipp Veit, painter, Germany; Lawrence Macdonald, sculptor, England; Charles F. Daubigny, painter. France; Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigua, painter, Paris;‘Charles Nahl, painter, San Francisco; James Hamilton, marine painter, Ban Francisco; Alexandre V toilet LeDttc, painter, Paris; Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect, London; Henry Dawson, English painter. MUSIC. Frederic Gye, manager of Covent Garden; William Callcott, English musician and com,poser; Mme. Harrier*-Wlppern, vocalist, Germany ; M. Henry Potier, pianist and composer, Paris; Francois Bazin, composer, Fraace; Ellen Dickson (“Dolores”.); L. Maurer, Prussian composer; Don Hflarion Eslana, Spanish composer; Louis Dachauer, organist. New York; G. Llnblad, Swedish composer; Theodore Haumann, violinist, Brussels; Rudolph Willmers, pianist and composer, Vienna;' Henry Wilson, organist, Hartford, Conn.; William Geisselbrecht, conductor, Cincinnati; Marie Mer.gozzi, vocalist, Paris; Charles Van der Does, pianist to the King of Holland; Franz Hunten, pianist and composer, Germany; M. Eugene Gautier, composer, France; Jetty Treffz, vocalist, Vienna; Franz von Hoistein, composer, Leipsic. THE DRAMA. Alfred Wigan, English actor; Samuel Phelps, English tragedian; George V. Bowers, comedian, New York; William Nlblo, New York; H. J. Montague, New York; Arthur Cheney, Boston; Mr*. Sidney Wilkins, NewYoik; Mrs. Frost Thorne, New York; Henry Willard, Manager, New York; Kate Laura Earl; William 8. Fredericks, PhiladelShia; Mme. Benjamin, New York; James W. ‘orris, Philadelphia; John 8. Norton, New York; Henry Cunningham, New York; Frank McVicker, Boston, Charles Mathews, London; Mary Wells, New York; J. F. Noyes, New York. LITERATURE. Bayard Taylor, George Henry Lewes, Richard Reaif, Evert A. Duycinck, the Rev. George Gilflllan, Thomas B. Thorpe, Sir William Stirling -Maxwell, Dr. John Doran, Sir Edward Sheppard Creasy, Hugh Alnslie, James Hain Friswell, Heinrich Leo, Mrs. Leon Lewis, John Wingate Thornton, William Cullen Bryant, Whyte Melville, Karl Ferdinand Gutskow and George 8. Appleton. PROMINENT WOMEN. Miss Lydia Mary Fay, missionary in China; Sarah Helen Whitman, authoress, Providence, K. I.; Francis F. Broderip, daughter of Thomas Hood; Minnie Warren, the dwarf; Abigail A. Sm.tii, tax-fighter, Glastonbury, Conn.; Catherine Winkworth, editor “LyraGermanfca;” Rachael Hicks, minister of the Society of Friends; Mme. Schneider, sister of Schubert; Fanny Bury Ballister, sister of Marryatt; Mr*. Mary Phelps, woman-suffrage leader, Missouri; Fiau Von Kobell, President Bavarian Woman’s Association; Mrs. Watts Sherman, litterateur,' New York; Mme. Colbran, widow of Rossini; Catherine E. Beecher: Mme. Hahnemann, widow of the founder of homeopathy. .CENTENARIANS. ‘ Mount Vernon, Ohio, 100 years 8 tdontb*; Lanier Griffin, Lodi, Ohio, 106; Phcebe Coleman, Chicago, 119; Polly. Sherman, Marshfield, Mass.. 102; Angela Podesta-One-ta, Cincinnati, 109; Margaret Birmingham, New York. 100; Dell Noblett, Wilmington, Del., 100: Mrs. Mary Merneane, Washington, D. C., 106; John McCov, Boston, 109; Larkin Turner, Georgia, 110; Ellen Kennedy, Chicago, 106: Patience Banks, Jackson, Mich., 10S; Peter Hammond, Geneseo, 111., 102; Michael Connors, Cincinnati, 112; William Nevan, New York, 102; Lancaster Hodges, Maine, 106. SUICIDES. The Rev. John Philip Adolph Niemeyer, StLouis; Col. Ruestow, military author, Zurich, Switzerland; Count Theodore Radetzky, Austrian General; John K. Mortimer, actor, San Franeisco; Gustave Maeh, President French Savings Bank, Ban Francisco; E. L. Hill, Boston Agent of Chicago, St. Paul <fc Milwaukee Railroad; W. P. Fox, geologist, Iowa; F. B. James, iron-worker. Cincinnati; Dr. G. R. Goodman. Philadelphia; Eva Bangs, actress, Detroit; Edwin L. Goodwin, City Clerk New Britain, Conn.; Arthur Noyes, insurance agent, St Louis; the Rev. John Marplee, Toronto; Prof. Christine, ex-Assistant Superintendent of Schools, St. Louis; Moses A. Wheelock, President New York Stock Exchange; Theodore Von Jasmund, editor Detroit Vollcsblatt; Ellen McCall, actress, New York.