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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Among his most noted works were the two additional 

 tracks, the stations at Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo, 

 several costly bridges, and the elevation of the tracks 

 and the new .station in Rochester. 



Foster, Joshua, educator, born near Holmesburg, 

 Philadelphia County, Pa., July 10, 1813 : died in New 

 Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 20. 1888. He was educated 

 at the University of the City of New York ; in Octo- 

 ber, 1838, became a teacher in the Pennsylvania In- 

 stitution fur the Deaf and Dumb, and held that place 

 till September, 1870, when he was appointed princi- 

 pal. Alter a service of forty six years as teacher and 

 principal, he withdrew from active labor in the insti- 

 tution in October, 1884, and took up his residence in 

 New Brunswick. N. J. Before leaving the scene of 

 his long labor he presented his large and valuable 

 library and extensive and choice collection of pictures 

 to the institution. He ranked high among the in- 

 structors of deaf mutes in the United States, was an 

 enthusiastic student of, and lecturer on zoology, bota- 

 ny, ornithology, anil English history, and had every 

 available space in his school-room occupied with cages 

 filled with singing-birds. 



Foster, Melvin, billiard-player, born in Cavendish, 

 Vt., Sept, 12, 1814; died in "New York city, July 6, 

 1888. He was educated in Rutland, became interest- 

 ed in billiards in 1858, and played his first public 

 match, in which lie defeated the late Robert E. Wil- 

 marth by 1.000 to 821 points, in a lull American game, 

 in Boston, Mass., May 13, 1863. On April 6, 18(34, he 

 made his first appearance in New York city at Irving 

 Hall, in a tournament for the benefit of the United 

 States Sanitary Commission, in which he made the 

 best average in a 500-point game of caroms, 15 20-32, 

 against Dudley Kavanugh. In the same year he 

 gained wide repute by defeating John Decry in a 

 home-and-home game, his majority in New York 

 city being 37(5 in 1,500, and in Washington, D. C., 

 55. His next great contest was in Montreal, Canada, 

 July 19, 1865, when he was matched against Joseph 

 Dion for $2,000 a side in gold, and was defeated by 

 Dion, who scored 1,500 points to Foster's 1,108. He 

 then won the Memphis tournament^ and followed it 

 with a similar victory at Cincinnati in 1867, but in 

 his first championship match at Chicago, April 8, 

 1868, he lost the game to John McDevitt, by a score 

 of 1,268 to 1,262." On Dec. 23, 1868, he defeated Jo- 

 seph Dion by 300 to 296, three-ball caroms, for $2.000, 

 in New York city. Jan. 28, 1869, Dion defeated him, 

 1,500 to 1,116. at the four-ball game in Montreal. 

 April 23. Foster defeated Decry, 300 to 183, at the 

 three-ball game in New York city; and June 19, 

 1871, he played his third championship- match for the 

 diamond cue, in New York city, and lost to Cyrille 

 Dion, by l,5uO to 616. He introduced several novel 

 features in playing, which others used to better ad- 

 vantage than he. 



Fouratt, Enos, soldier, born in Piscataway, N. J., 

 Sept. 19, lSi'7; died in New Brunswick, N. J., July 

 22, 1888. In 1861 he was chosen a captain in the 

 First New Jersey Volunteers, and afterward became 

 Colonel of the Thirty-third New Jersey Regiment. 

 He was wounded in the head during the battle of An- 

 tietam, and left on the field for dead nearly two days. 

 He was on court-martial duty in Nashville, Tenn., in 

 1864 ; accompanied Gen. Sherman's army on its march 

 to the sea ; and was mustered out of the service, after 

 having taken part in twenty-six battles, in 1865. He 

 then engaged in railroad business for several years, 

 and in 1885 was appointed chief of police of New 

 Brunswick, N. J. 



Fullerton, William, Jr., composer, born in Newburg, 

 N. Y.,in 1854; died in London, England, Aug. 25, 

 1888. He was a son of ex- Judge William Fullerton, 

 received his early education in Newburg Academy, 

 studied music in Germany and England, and settled 

 in London. Under the patronage of the Prince and 

 Princess of Wales he was the author of many musical 

 compositions, notably " The Lady of the Locket," 

 and the opera " Waidemar," which he was preparing 



to bring out at the Prince of Wales Theatre at the 

 time of his fatal illness. 



Gardner, William Sewall, lawyer, born in Hallowcll, 

 Me., Oct. 1, 1827; died in Newton, Mass., April 4, 

 1888. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, 

 studied law in Lowell, and was admitted to the Mid- 

 dlesex bar in 1852. In February, 1855, he formed a 

 partnership with Hon. Theodore H. Sweetser, and 

 maintained this connection in Lowell and Boston till 

 his appointment to the bench of the Superior Court 

 in 1875. He held his judicial office till August, 1887, 

 when tailing health caused his resignation. Judge 

 Gardner was an active member of the masonic frater- 

 nity, and a voluminous writer on freemasonry. 



Garfield, Eliza Ballon, an American pioneer, born in 

 Richmond, Chester County, N. H., Sept. 25, 1801 ; 

 died in Mentor, Ohio, Jan 21, 1888. She was a de- 

 scendant of Maturin Ballou, who fled from France 

 on the revocation of the edict of Nantes and joined 

 Roger Williams's colony in Rhode Island, and a niece 

 of the Univcrsalist clergyman, llosea Ballou. In 1819 

 she married, while living in Watertown, Mass., Abram 

 Garticld, son of a farmer of Otsego County, N. Y., 

 and soon afterward they removed to u The Wilder- 

 ness " of Ohio, and settled on a farm in Newburg, 

 now a part of Cleveland. They built a log-cabin, 

 twenty by thirty feet, in which three children Me- 

 hetabel, Thomas, and Mary were born. The family 

 removed to New Philadelphia, Ohio, in 1826, but re- 

 turned to the lake country four years later, settled on 

 a farm in Orange township, Cuyahoga County, and 

 erected another log-cabin. In this humble dwelling 

 a fourth child, James Abram Garfield, who became 

 teacher, soldier, congressman. United States Senator, 

 and twentieth President of the United States, was 

 born on Nov. 19, 1831. Two years afterward the 

 father died, and Mrs. Gartield was left with the farm 

 and four children to care for. When President Gar- 

 field was shot, with his own hand he traced an almost 

 illegible letter to his mother. She bore up bravely 

 after his death, till a month before her own, and he'r 

 last words were a wish to sec " my boy Jimmy." 



Garnett, Alexander Yelverton Peyton, physician, born 

 in Essex County. Va., Sept. 20, 1620; died at Reho- 

 both Beach, Del., July 11, 1888. In 1841 he was 

 graduated at the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, and commissioned an assistant 

 surgeon in the United States Navy. In 1848 lie was 

 promoted surgeon, and in 1850 resigned to become 

 Professor of Clinical Medicine in the National Medical 

 College, .in Washington, D. C. At the outbreak of 

 the civil war he resigned his professorship, removed 

 to Richmond, was appointed a member of the Con- 

 federate board of examining surgeons for the army, 

 and afterward surgeon in charge of the military hos- 

 pitals in that city, and as family physician of Jeffer- 

 son Davis, accompanied him after the evacuation of 

 the capital. He returned to Washington after the 

 war, resumed his professorship in the medical college, 

 and held it till 1870, when, on his resignation, he was 

 elected professor emeritus. In 1885 he'was vice-presi- 

 dent of the American Medical Association. Among 

 his numerous medical papers were: ' Condurango as 

 a Cure for Cancer," " The Potomac Marshes and their 

 Influence as a Pathogenic Agent," " Epidemic Jaun- 

 dice among Children," " The Sorghum Vulsrare, or 

 Broom-Corn Seed in Cystitis," " Nelatpn's Probe in 

 Gunshot Wounds," and u Coloproclitis treated by 

 Hot- Water Douche and Dilatation or Division of the 

 Sphincters." 



Gay, Sydney Howard, author, born in Hingham, 

 Mass., in 1814; died in New Brighton, Staten Island, 

 N. Y., June 25, 1888. When fifteen years old, he en- 

 tered Harvard University, but was compelled by fail- 

 ing health to give up his studies while in his junior 

 year. He then spent some time traveling in China 

 and the East Indies, and, settling in Boston, entered 

 on a mercantile career, but soon afterward abandoned 

 it to study law. Having conscientious scruples 

 against taking the oath to support the Constitution 



