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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



The disasters that overtook the " Polaris " expedi- 

 tion, the death of Capt. Hall, the crushing of the vessel 

 in the ice, and the dispersion of the crew, have been 

 described already. The emergencies for which Sec- 

 retary Robeson made provision occurred, and Capt. 

 Buddington succeeded to the sole command. Capt. 

 Buddington and Mate Tyson reached home in 1872, 

 and delivered all the books and papers belonging to 

 Capt. Hall to the naval authorities. After the official 

 investigation, Capt. Buddington returned to his home 

 in Groton, and spent the remainder of his life there. 

 Among several natives he brought to the United 

 States at various times, was the late Eskimo Joe, who 

 was pilot on the " Polaris" and "Era," and accom- 

 panied the Greely expedition. 



Bulkley, John Williams, educator, born in Fairfield, 

 Conn, Nov. 3, 1802; died in Brooklvn, N. Y., June 

 19, 1388. He became a teacher in liis native place, 

 removed to Troy, N. Y., in 1832, and taught there 

 till 1351, when he settled in Brooklyn, and was ap- 

 pointed principal of public school No. 19, in the Will- 

 lamsburgh district. On the consolidation of Williams- 

 burgh with Brooklyn in 1855, he was appointed Assist- 

 ant Superintendent of Public Schools, and held the 

 office till 1885. He was the first President of the 

 New York State Teachers' Association, and a founder 

 of the National Teachers' Association. 



Bollard, Asa, clergyman, born in North bridge, 

 Mass., March 26, 1804; died in Cambridge, Mass., 

 April 5, 1888. He was graduated at Amherst in 1828, 

 an;!, after studying at the Andover Theological School, 

 was ordained a Congregational clergyman at Portland, 

 Me., in 1832. During 1831-'34 he was agent of the 

 Maine Sunday-School Union, and in the latter vear 

 became Secretary of the Massachusetts Sunday-School 

 Society, which was subsequently reorganized as the 

 Congregational Publishing Society. He was editor 

 of the " Congregational Visitor " three years ; of the 

 " Sunday - School Vi.-itor" ten years; and of the 

 " Wellspring " thirty-one years, and edited and pub- 

 lished many books that have been familiar to Sun- 

 day-school children. 



Bureau, Achille, foundryman, born in Lille, France, 

 Dec. 3, 1835; died in Philadelphia, Pa,, Feb. 2, 1888. 

 He served an apprenticeship and worked several years 

 in his uncle's foundry in Brussels, came to the United 

 States previous to the civil war, was a private in the 

 Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers during the great- 

 er part of the war, established a foundry in Philadel- 

 phia in 1878, and was the first to engage in the cast- 

 ing of large statuary in bronze in tile United States. 

 Among his best-known castings are the statues of 

 Gen. Thomas, in Washington, and Gen. Reynolds, in 

 Philadelphia, the Indian group in Chicago, and the 

 Shakespeare, in Central Park, New York. 



Campbell, Bartley, dramatist, born in Allegheny Citv, 

 Pa.. Aug. 12, 1843; died in Middletown, N. Y'., July 

 30, 1888. While following journalism in Pittsburg, 

 he attained repute as a Democratic political speaker. 

 In 1868 he established the " Evening Mail " in Pitts- 

 burg, in 1869 the "Southern Magazine" in New Or- 

 leans, in 1870 was elected official reporter of the 

 Louisiana House of Representatives, and in 1871. on 

 the suspension of his magazine^ he returned to Pitts- 

 burg, and was appointed editor-in-chief of " The 

 Paper." While so employed he wrote his first play, 

 for J. Newton Gotthold, entitled " Through Firej" 

 which was received with favor and had a run of four 

 weeks. Under this encouragement he began writing 

 plays regularly, producing about one every two years. 

 He considered " Clio " his best composition, but 

 "The Galley Slave" was the most successful finan- 

 cially. In 1885 he leased the Fourteenth Street Thea- 

 tre, New York, and produced his " Paquita." Early 

 in 1886 he developed signs of insanity, and on Sep- 

 tember 28 he was pronounced insane by a sherifl's 

 jury and removed to Bloorningdale Asylum, whence, 

 November 30, he was taken to the State Homoeopathic 

 Insane Asylum at Middletown, N. Y. His plays in- 

 clude "Peril," "Fate," "Risks," "The Virginian," 



" On the Rhine." " Heroine in Rags," " How Women 

 Love," "The Vigilantes," "Fairfax, or Lite in (he 

 Sunny South," " My Partner," " Matrimony," " My 

 Geraldine," and " Siberia." 



Campbell, Jacob Miller, legislator, bom in Allegheny 

 Township, Somerset County, Pa., Nov. 20, 1821- 

 died in Johnstown, Pa,, Sept. 27, 1888. He learnea 



ioruia iii icov. removed rooonnsiown in loos, assisted 

 in building me Cambria iron-works, and remained 

 in the employ of that company till the outbreak of the 

 civil war. In April, 1861, he became first lieutenant 

 in the Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and at the 

 close of that year recruited the Fifty-fourth Regiment 

 of three years' men, and was elected its colonel. He 

 served meritoriously through the war, being promoted 

 brigadier-general by brevet, June 5, 1864. In 1865 

 he was elected Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania (the 

 office now known as Secretary of Internal' Aifairs) for 

 three years; and at the expiration of the first term was 

 re-elected. He was elected a member of Congress as 

 a Republican from the Seventeenth Congressional 

 District in 1876, 1880, and 1882, and served on the 

 Committees on Manufactures and on the Alcoholic- 

 Liquor Traffic. He was a delegate to the first National 

 Republican Convention in 1856, was chairman of the 

 Republican State Convention in 1887, and a trustee 

 of the Pennsylvania State College many years. 



Carll, David, ship-builder, born in New York city in 

 1^26; died near Crescent City, Fla., Dec. 27, 1*888. 

 He learned the ship-building trade when a boy, and 

 followed it all his life. In 1861 he removed from New 

 York city to Long Island and established a ship-yard 

 of his own on City Island. In 1870 he bought the 

 old United States linc-of-buttle ship " Nortli Caro- 

 lina" at public auction, and from her timbers built 

 the schooner yacht "Resolute" for A. S. Hatch, the 

 yacht " Atalanta " for William Astor, and the bridge 

 from City_ Island to Pelham. Subsequently he re- 

 built the famous racing schooner " Sappho " and the 

 "Magic," and built the "Ambassadress," " Ner- 

 vana," "Vega," "Vesta," "Phoebe," and "Lurline," 

 beside many smaller vessels. Some years before his 

 death he bought a large estate, including many acres 

 in orange-groves, in Florida. 



Carney, Thomas, merchant, born in Delaware County, 

 Ohio, Aug. 10, 1824; died in Lcavenwortb, Kan., 

 July 28, 1888. He worked several years on a farm, 

 studied in the evenings, and when eighteen years old 

 attended a school in Berkshire, Ohio, six months. 

 Soon afterward he went to Columbus and worked in 

 a dry-goods store, then removed to Cincinnati, where 

 he was employed by a firm that admitted him to part- 

 nership alter six years, and in 1858 settled in Leaven- 

 worth. In 1861 he was elected to the Legislature, in 

 1862 became the second Governor of the State, and in 

 1864 United States Senator. Owing to a doubt as to 

 the legality of the time of the election, he declined the 

 seat in the Senate, and was chosen Mayor of Leaven- 

 worth. He rendered the national cause effective serv- 

 ice during his gubernatorial term. 



Cass, George Wi, " engineer, born in Muskingum 

 County, Ohio, in 1810; died in New York city, 

 March" 21, 1888. He was a nephew of Gen. Lewis 

 Cass, was graduated at the United States Military 

 Academy with special honor as a mathematician in 

 1832, and was assigned to the Corps of Military En- 

 gineers. After serving four years on topographical 

 and engineering duty on the Northwestern frontier, 

 he resigned from the army, and was shortly after- 

 ward appointed one of the engineers in charge of the 

 construction of the Great National Road through Mary- 

 land, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. He held this office 

 till the completion of the road, and during his serv- 

 ice constructed over Dunlap's creek, a tributary of 

 Monongahela river, the first cast-iron bridge "ever 

 built in the United States. On the organization of a 

 company for improving the navigation of the Monon- 

 gahela, he became first its engineer and afterward one 



