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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HUIDEKOPER JACKSON.) 



politics. He was president of the Democratic 

 ^tate Convention in 1873, and chairman of the 

 Democratic State Executive Committee. He was 

 elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1873, and became 

 Governor when Gov. Coke was elected to the 

 United States Senate in 1876, and held the office 

 till 1879. He was a delegate to the Democratic 

 National Convention of 1880, and temporary 

 chairman of the Democratic National Convention 

 of 1884. He was minister to Japan in 1885. He 

 ranked high as a platform orator, one of his 

 most notable speeches being that delivered at the 

 Philadelphia Centennial in 1876. He published, 

 in 1900, The United States in the Far East; or, 

 Modern Japan and the Orient. 



Huidekoper, Bush Shippen, physician, born 

 in Meadville, Pa,, May 3, 1854; died in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Dec. 17, 1901. He was graduated in 

 medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1877, and at the National Veterinary School, Al- 

 fort, France, in 1882, and spent the following 

 year in the laboratories of Virchow, Koch, Chau- 

 veau, and Pasteur. After returning to the United 

 States he was engaged in hospital practise, and 

 was Commissioner-General to the Agricultural 

 Exposition, Hamburg, Germany, 1883. He be- 

 came dean of the veterinary department, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and Professor of Inter- 

 nal Pathology and Contagious Diseases, Zootech- 

 nics and Hygiene, Comparative Anatomy, and 

 Veterinary Surgery in the New York College of 

 Veterinary Surgery. He was major and brigade 

 surgeon in the National Guard from 1878 to 

 1891; acting assistant quartermaster-general after 

 the Johnstown flood in 1888; and later lieuten- 

 ant-colonel and surgeon-in-chief. He was made 

 lieutenant-colonel and chief surgeon, United 

 States volunteers, in 1898, and he served as chief 

 surgeon to the 1st Army Corps after the out- 

 break of the Spanish-American War, and later 

 in the same capacity with the army in Porto 

 Rico. Dr. Huidekoper published the following 

 books: Age of Domestic Animals, The Cat, and 

 The Veterinary Blue Book, and was editor of 

 the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veter- 

 inary Archives, Philadelphia, after 1889. 



Hungerford, Mary Churchill, author, born 

 in Staffordshire, England, Jan. 25, 1832; died in 

 Paris, France, Sept. 18, 1901. Her father, William 

 Churchill, of New York city, was a wealthy mer- 

 chant and importer of fine china. She was edu- 

 cated in private schools in England, France, Italy, 

 and the United States. Her brilliant mind and 

 social gifts had won her distinction before ne- 

 cessity forced her in later years to her pen for 

 support. She was the author of The Friendly 

 Five, and Philip, books for young girls, and of 

 many magazine articles. 



Hutton, William Rich, civil engineer, born 

 in Washington, D. C., March 26, 1826; died in 

 Cloppers, Md., Dec. 11, 1901. For several years 

 he was chief engineer of the Washington, D. C., 

 Water-Works and of the Chesapeake and Ohio 

 Canal, and he was chief engineer in the con- 

 struction of the Washington aqueduct. He re- 

 moved to New York to become chief engineer for 

 the English syndicate that began the tunnel un- 

 der the Hudson river, and subsequently he super- 

 intended the construction of the Washington 

 Bridge across Harlem river. He was a member 

 of the Maryland Historical Society, the American 

 Society of Civil Engineers, the Institution of 

 .Civil Engineers of London, and the Societe des 

 Ing6nieurs Civils de France. 



Hyatt, Thaddeus, inventor, born in Railway, 

 N. J., July 21, 1816; died in Sandown, Isle of 

 Wight, England, July 25, 1901. He was the in- 



ventor of the bull's-eye lens, used as a means of 

 increasing the light in vaults under street side- 

 walks, and through its manufacture made the 

 fortune that he afterward devoted to the anti- 

 slavery cause. He was the intimate friend of 

 Sumner, Greeley, and the leaders of the abolition- 

 ist movement, and his house in Morton Street 

 was John Brown's headquarters in New York 

 city. After the execution of John Brown, Mr. 

 Hyatt was summoned to appear before the United 

 States Senate Committee to give testimony re- 

 garding the movements leading up to the Har- 

 pers Ferry incident. He refused to appear, and 

 was committed to the old Capitol Prison in Wash- 

 ington, where he was confined several weeks. He 

 had his cell decorated and furnished, issued invi- 

 tations to his friends, and kept an autograph- 

 book of his visitors, which contains the names 

 of many distinguished men. He sent out anti- 

 slavery communications to various papers and 

 magazines, and arranged for a series of meetings 

 in Cooper Union, New York. The first in the 

 series was called the " John Brown Meeting," 

 and was addressed by Wendell Phillips and 

 others. When Kansas was suffering from famine, 

 shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln, as 

 the result of the failure of the crops, Mr. Hyatt 

 organized the Kansas Relief Committee. He went 

 to that State and personally superintended the 

 distribution of money, clothing, and food until 

 the work was completed. His later years he 

 spent in extensive travel. In appearance he re- 

 sembled Garibaldi, and once, while walking in 

 Paris, he was arrested by a detective, who was 

 positive that his prisoner was the Italian patriot. 

 Mr. Hyatt could not speak French, but he soon 

 obtained his release. 



Irwin, John, naval officer, born in Philadel- 



SMa, Pa., April 15, 1832; died in Washington, 

 . C., July 28, 1901. He was graduated at the 

 Naval Academy in 1853; was commissioned mas- 

 ter, Sept. 15, 1855; lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1855; 

 lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862; commander, 

 July 25, 1866; captain, May 15, 1875; commodore, 

 March 4, 1886; and rear-admiral, May 19, 1891. 

 He served on the Cumberland, St. Lawrence, John 

 Adams, Fulton, and Savannah, and on the Wa- 

 bash during the civil war. With the latter he 

 was engaged in blockading service, and partici- 

 pated in the capture of the forts at Hatteras 

 Inlet and of Forts Walker and Beauregard, at 

 Port Royal, S. C. He was present also at the 

 capture of Fort Pulaski. He commanded suc- 

 cessively the Newbern, Gettysburg, Yantic, Sa- 

 bine, and Pensacola, in the North Atlantic and 

 the Pacific squadrons, from 1868 till 1879. In 

 1872 he was in command of the League Island 

 station, and from 1879 to 1883 in command of 

 the Mare Island Navy-Yard. He was president 

 of the Board of Inspection for California from 

 1884 to 1888; afterward in command of the naval 

 forces on the Pacific coast; commander of the 

 Mare Island Navy- Yard, and on March 16, 1893, 

 he succeeded Admiral Harmony in the command 

 of the Asiatic station. He was retired April 15, 

 1894, having reached the age limit, after twenty- 

 one years and eleven months of sea service and 

 nineteen years and ten months of other duty. 



Jackson, Francis Aristide, educator, born in 

 Northumberland, Pa., March 20, 1830; died in 

 Overbrook, Pa., April 4, 1901. He was graduated 

 at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848. The 

 University of Indiana conferred upon him the de- 

 gree of LL. D. in 1883. For a short time he en- 

 gaged in civil engineering, but in 1849 he accepted 

 an appointment as assistant master in the Epis- 

 copal Academy of Philadelphia, where he taught 



