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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



his life in gratifying an extreme eccentricity for curi- 

 ous buildings, fan tastic decorations, and mirth-provok- 

 ing apparatus. His farm comprised over 500 acres, 

 and on it he erected an immense stable which he dec- 

 prated within arid without with extraordinary paint- 

 ings ; a tall tower, whose successive floors constituted 

 a combined museum, zoological cabinet, and kinder- 

 garten ; several pavilions from the Centennial grounds ; 

 a chapel in which he placed a huge bronzed Buddha ; 

 a pig-pen of vast proportions ancl regal splendor, its 

 interior covered with large oil paintings ; numerous 

 costly mausoleums in which iavoriie. departed pigs, 

 restored by a taxidermist, were exhibited on magnifi- 

 cent pedestals : and many grotesque edifices, all gaud- 

 ily painted. He constructed an artificial lake, and 

 placed in it a curious steamboat that would go equally 

 well on land or in water: tunneled a subterranean 

 labvrinth through the rock ; and filled his grounds 

 with stuffed animals and all the extravagant, odd, and 

 nondescript things he could make or buy. lie was 

 fond of entertaining distinguished people, and opened 

 his grounds to the public every day but Sunday. 



Baldwin, Charles H., naval ofhccr, born in New York 

 city, Dec. 23, 1822; died there, Nov. 17,1888. He 

 entered the United States Navy as a midshipman, 

 April 24, 1839, was promoted passed midshipman July 



2, 1S45, was en^a^ed in the operations in the vicinity 

 of Mazatlan, from November, 1847, till June, 1848', 

 was commissioned lieutenant in November, 1853, and 

 resigned Feb. 28, 1854. At the outbreak of the civil 

 war in 1861 he was appointed acting lieutenant. Dur- 

 ing Farragut's passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip 

 below New Orleans and the capture of the city he was 

 in command of the steamer " Clifton," and at the first 

 attack on Vicksburg in 1862 he rendered important 

 service on the same vessel. He was commissioned 

 commander Nov. 18. 1862, was on special service in 

 command of the " Vanderbilt " in 1863-'64, was in 

 charge of the ordnance bureau at Mare Island Navy 

 Yard, San Francisco in 1864-' 67, was fleet captain of 

 the North Pacific squadron in 1868-'69, was commis- 

 sioned captain June 12. 1869, commodore Aug. 8, 1876, 

 and rear-admiral Jan. 31, 1883, and was retired Sept. 



3, 1884, In the interval of his naval service he was 

 captain of a mail steamship plying between New York 

 and San Francisco. As commander of the " Vander- 

 bilt," he chased the Confederate privateer "Alabama " 

 half-way round the world, and as commander of the 

 European squadron after his promotion to rear-admi- 

 ral lie represented the United States at the coronation 

 of the present Emperor of Russia. 



Barnard, Daniel P., lawyer, born in Hudson, N. Y., 

 in 1812; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1888. He 

 removed to New York in 1824, and for a time was 

 engaged in a banking-house. Subsequently he was 

 admitted to the Baltimore bar, and became a Demo- 

 cratic member of the city council. In 1842 he settled 

 in Brooklyn, in 1852 was elected a member of the 

 council, and in 1855 was chosen president of the 

 board of aldermen, to which oflSce were then added 

 the duties of city judge. He was one of the foremost 

 advocates of the consolidation of Williamsbur^h with 

 Brooklyn, and of the introduction of water into the 

 city, was a member of the Constitutional convention 

 of 1867-' 68, settled the famous Jackson Hollow litiga- 

 tion, and successfully defended Cortland Sprague, 

 city treasurer, Isaac Badeau, collector, and Evan M. 

 Johnson, comptroller, on charges of malfeasance. 



Barnes, Alfred Smith, publisher, born in New Ha- 

 ven, Conn., Jan. 28, 1817; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Feb. 17, 1888. He entered the bookstore of D. F. Rob- 

 inson & Co. in Hartford, removed with the firm to 

 New York, and in his twenty-first year associated 

 himself with Prof. Charles Davies and began pub- 

 lishing his mathematical works. He personally can- 

 vassed every State in the country with their first pub- 

 lication, and pursued the same course for several years 

 with subsequent ones. The firm opened a bookstore 

 in Philadelphia in 1840, and removed their manufact- 

 ory to that city in 1842; but Prof. Davies soon after- 



ward retired, and Mr. Barnes returned to New York 

 in 1855. In 1868 the firm erected the building on the 

 comer of John and William Streets. New York, and in 

 1880 put up an other large one on the corner of Liber- 

 ty and Nassau Streets. Brooklyn, where all the manu- 

 facturing is done. The firm' has confined itself al- 

 most exclusively to school-books. Mr. Barnes retired 

 from the active management in 1880, leaving five sons 

 in charge. He was president of the Brooklyn City 

 Mission Society, and a director in several financial 

 corporations. He gave the Faith Home $25,000, and 

 the Young Men's Christian Association of Cornell 

 University, $40.000 ; and bequeathed $50,000 to va- 

 rious charities, churches, and schools. 



Barnes, Demas, manufacturer, born in Gorham, On- 

 tario County, N. Y., April 4, 1827 ; died in New York 

 city May 1, 1888. He removed to New York when 

 fourteen years old, learned the drug business, and es- 

 tablished a store of his own four years afterward. At 

 one time he had branch stores in San Francisco, New 

 Orleans, and Montreal. In 1866 he was elected to 

 Congress as a Democrat from the second Congressional 

 District, which included the greater part of the city of 

 Brooklyn, and in that body served as a member of the 

 committees on banking and currency, education, and 

 labor. He aided in procuring legislation for the con- 

 struction of the East River Bridge, and became one of 

 its first trui-tees, and ably supported the demand for a 

 new post-office building in New York city. He was 

 one of the founders of the Brooklvn " Eagle," but 

 withdrew from it in 1873 and established the Brook- 

 lyn " Argus," from which he retired in February, 

 1877. Afterward he joined the independent move- 

 ment in Brooklyn, and' was appointed a member of the 

 committee of one hundred citizens, who undertook to 

 check municipal abuses. Mr. Barnes moved to New 

 York city in 1882. but continued his relations with va- 

 rious financial, educational, and charitable institutions 

 of Brooklyn til! his death. 



Barron, Samuel, naval officer, born in Hampton, 

 Va., in 1802; died in Essex County, Va., Feb. 26, 

 1888. He was commissioned midshipman in the 

 United States Navy when only three years old ; being 

 the youngest Government officer ever known in any 

 country, except the scions of royalty, and when eight 

 years old made his first sea-cruise, up the Mediterra- 

 nean. He served with honor in various parts of the 

 world, rendered efficient aid through the Mexican 

 War, was commandant of the naval station at Norfolk 

 during the yellow-fever epidemic, and was in com- 

 mand of the 'United States frigate " W abash " at the 

 beginning of the civil war. When his State seceded 

 he resigned his commission in the United States Navy, 

 entered that of the Confederacy, with the rank of 

 commodore, and while on his 'first service, as com- 

 mander of Fort Hatteras, at Hattcras Inlet, was capt- 

 ured with his entire command by the National forces. 

 After a confinement of about a year in Fort Warren 

 he was exchanged, and during the remainder of the 

 war served the Confederacy in London, superintend- 

 ing the equipment of cruisers. 



Belden, David, lawyer, born in Newtown, Fairfield 

 County, Conn., Aug^ 14. 1832 ; died in San Jose", Cal., 

 May 14, 1888. He was apprenticed to a carpenter, 

 and on attaining his majority removed to Marysville, 

 Cal., where he worked at his trade. Pie there attract- 

 ed the attention of James Churchman, a lawyer of 

 Nevada City, who induced him to remove to that city 

 and study 1'aw. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar 

 of the Supreme Court; in 1858 was elected judge of 

 Nevada County, and at the expiration of his term de- 

 clined a re-elrction ; and in 1865 was elected a State 

 senator and served four yearSj during which he was 

 first a member and then chairman of the judiciary 

 committee. He settled in San Jose, and in 1871 was 

 appointed judcre of the newly created Twentieth Judi- 

 cial District of the State, and on the expiration of his 

 first term was unanimously re-elected. Under the 

 new Constitution the judiciary system of the State was 

 reorganized, and at the first election, in 1880, he was 



