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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ALEXANDER ARMOUR.) 



the Parson was very short, but permission was 



fiven to Mr. Aldrich to elaborate it, and this 

 e did with marked success. The play was 

 produced on Aug. 22, 1877, and in twenty 

 weeks the net profits amounted to nearly 

 $30,000. In the season of 1878-79 he played 

 another term of forty weeks in The Damtes. 

 My Partner, written for him by Hartley Camp- 

 bell, was produced at the Union Square Thea- 

 ter on Sept. 1(3, 1879, with Mr. Aldrich in 

 the role of Joe Saunders. He played it six years 

 steadily, and after that at intervals. The piece 

 was presented in every State of the Union except 

 Arkansas and Texas. After paying Mr. Campbell 

 $12,000 in royalties, he purchased for $3,000 the 

 entire author's rights. Mr. Aldrich made an in- 

 dependent fortune with My Partner, and then, 

 wishing to rest, he leased the play for two years. 

 In 1887 he and Frank W. Sanger purchased the 

 Western rights to In his Power and produced it 

 in San Francisco, but it was a failure, as was also 

 The Kaffir Diamond. In May, 1890, Mr. Aldrich 

 produced at Palmer's Theater The Editor, the 

 joint work of Charles T. Vincent and himself. 

 While playing in Syracuse his company was in 

 the disastrous fire at the Leland Hotel, and Mr. 

 Aldrich sustained serious injuries. After his re- 

 covery he played in The Senator and in Surrender. 

 His last public appearance was in the revival of 

 Her Atonement, New York, 1899. In private life 

 Mr. Aldrich devoted the greater part of his time 

 and money to charities among actors. The 

 amount of his gifts was very large, and his work 

 with the Actors' Fund of New York stands as 

 a monument to his broad philanthropy and un- 

 tiring energy. He was one of the earliest mem- 

 bers of the organization, and its president from 

 June, 1897, till June, 1901. With him originated 

 the idea of the home for aged and indigent actors, 

 and it was largely through his efforts that the 

 home fund was procured and building operations 

 begun. 



Alexander, Robert, clergyman and editor, 

 born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1837; died in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 27, 1901. He was gradu- 

 ated at Washington College, Washington, Pa., in 

 1855, and afterward studied theology at Prince- 

 ton and at Edinburgh. His first charge was at 

 Little Britain, Pa. In 1867 he accepted a call 

 to the First Presbyterian Church, St. Clairsville, 

 Ohio, and was pastor of that church for thirty- 

 two years. Dr. Alexander assumed the editorship 

 of The Presbyterian, Philadelphia, in 1899. He 

 was greatly interested in the educational work of 

 the Presbyterian Church, and was for many years 

 a trustee of Washington and Jefferson College 

 and a director of the Western Theological Semi- 

 nary in Allegheny, Pa. 



Allibone, Charles Olden, naval officer, born 

 in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 2, 1846; died at Cavite, 

 Luzon, Philippine Islands, April 18, 1901. He was 

 appointed to the Naval Academy from New Jer- 

 sey, and was graduated in September, 1867. He 

 was appointed ensign Dec. 18, 1868; master, 

 March 21, 1870; and lieutenant, Nov. 2, 1871. 

 Until 1870 he was on the Asiatic station. In 1881 

 he was assigned to the Lancaster on the European 

 station, and the following year to the Galena on 

 the South Atlantic station. He was promoted to 

 be lieutenant-commander in 1892, served as assist- 

 ant inspector of the Columbia, and July 3, 1898, 

 received his commission as commander. In the 

 same year he was assigned to duty as lighthouse 

 inspector and served in that capacity till July 1, 

 1899, when he was placed in command of the gun- 

 boat Wilmington. His ship was doing duty in 

 the Asiatic squadron at the time of his death. 



Anderson, Andrew Mathen, soldier, born in 

 Delaware, Ohio, April 21, 1841; died in Sandusky, 

 Ohio, April 18, 1901. At the outbreak of the civil 

 war he enlisted as a private in the 4th Ohio Vol- 

 unteers, and he served throughout the war, rising 

 to the rank of captain. He was appointed ad- 

 jutant of the Ohio Soldiers' Home in Sandusky 

 when it was organized in 1888, and served in that 

 capacity till the death of Gen. Manning F. Force, 

 in 1899, when he succeeded him as commandant. 



Archer, Frederic, organist, born in Oxford, 

 England, June 16, 1838; died in Pittsburg, Pa., 

 Oct. 22, 1901. He began his studies under his 

 father in Oxford, and later studied in Leipsic, and 

 in 1852 was made organist of St. Clement's 

 Church and Merton College Chapel. Continuing 

 his studies, he later became organist of the Royal 

 Panopticon, London, and in 1863, with Sir Julius 

 Benedict, conductor of the London Vocal Associa- 

 tion. In 1865 he was made organist and choir- 

 master of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Lon- 

 don; later he served in the same capacity in the 

 church of the Jesuit fathers, leaving this place in 

 1873 to become organist and orchestral and choral 

 director in Alexandra Palace. In 1879 he was 

 made musical examiner in Glasgow University 

 and conductor of the Glasgow Select Choir, and 

 in 1880 he removed to the United States to accept 

 the organ in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 He afterward served as organist in the Church 

 of the Incarnation, New York city. In 1885 he 

 founded The Keynote, of which he was the editor. 

 In 1887 he was chosen conductor of the Boston 

 Oratorio Society and director to the club. In 

 1895 he became city organist and director of the 

 Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburg, Pa. He founded 

 the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra in 1896 and 

 was its conductor till 1898. In addition to his 

 duties at Music Hall he was musical examiner 

 for the University of Toronto after May, 1898; 

 organist and choirmaster of the Church of the 

 Ascension, Pittsburg, after January, 1899; and he 

 gave many recitals and concerts, and delivered lec- 

 tures on musical subjects in Canada and the 

 United States. He was author of an organ school, 

 and he composed considerable music for the organ 

 and the pianoforte. 



Archer, Robert S., iron merchant, died in 

 Richmond, Va., March 30, 1901. He was a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Joseph R. Anderson & Co., in 

 Richmond, before their plant became the property 

 of the Tredegar Company, and during the civil 

 war, when the Tredegar works were the mainstay 

 of the Confederate Government in the manufac- 

 ture of heavy ordnance, he was superintendent, 

 with the rank of major. He remained superin- 

 tendent of the Tredegar works till his death, was 

 president of the Southern Railway Supply Com- 

 pany, and was well known throughout the coun- 

 try in the iron trade. 



Armour, Herman Ossian, packer, born in 

 Stockbridge, N. Y., March 7, 1837; died in Sara- 

 toga, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1901. In 1855 he went to 

 Milwaukee, Wis., where he engaged in business, 

 and where he afterward became a member, of the 

 firm of Armour, Plankington & Co., which was 

 grown from a small butcher shop into the largest 

 pork-packing business in the world. In 1862 he 

 removed to Chicago and established there the 

 grain commission business that was later known 

 as H. O. Armour and Company. After 1865 he 

 represented the Armour interests in New York. 



Armour, Philip Danforth, capitalist, born in 

 Stockbridge, N. Y., May 16, 1832; died in Chicago, 

 111., Jan. 6, 1901. He was brought up on his 

 father's farm, and was educated in the district 

 school and at Cazenovia Academy. As soon as he 



