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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (SAMPSON SCOTT.) 



Sampson, Thomas, detective, born in Apple- 

 by, England, in 1827; died in Mount Vernon, 

 N. Y., April 19, 1901. With his parents he came 

 to the United States in 1830. In 1851 he became 

 a patrolman on the New York police force and 

 was assigned to the Eighteenth Precinct, where 

 he caught a number of noted murderers and at- 

 tracted attention by his numerous rescues from 

 drowning and from burning buildings. In 1860 

 he resigned from the police force and was em- 

 ployed by the New York Bankers' Association 

 to take care of the interests of the men doing 

 business in Wall Street. While holding this place 

 he captured Edward Gray, a clever forger, and 

 on three occasions went to Australia to bring 

 back men who had stolen from bankers. Later 

 he went into the service of the United States 

 Government. He was one of the detectives as- 

 signed to the care of President-elect Lincoln dur- 

 ing his inauguration. After the assassination of 

 President Lincoln he was detailed to run down 

 the conspirators. In the eighties he was a famil- 

 iar figure in Wall Street, where he was detailed 

 by the Government to duty at the Subtreasury; 

 of late years his duty consisted in watching for 

 thieves there. He had received at various times 

 16 medals from the Government and societies. 



Schott, Charles Anthony, scientist, born in 

 Mannheim, Germany, Aug. 7, 1826; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., July 31, 1901. He was graduated 

 at the Polytechnic School in -Carlsruhe in 1847, 



with the degree 



of C. E. A year 

 later he came to 

 the United States 

 and entered the 

 service of the 

 Coast Survey, in 

 which he contin- 

 ued until his 

 death, serving at 

 first in the com- 

 puting division, 

 then as hydro- 

 graphic drafts- 

 man, after which, 

 in July, 1850, he 

 returned to the 

 computing divi- 

 sion, becoming 

 computer in 1852, 

 receiving charge 

 of the division 

 in 1855, and was 



made assistant in 1856 (the highest grade in the 

 survey after the superintendent), in which capacity 

 he remained until Dec. 31, 1899, when he was as- 

 signed to the discussion of the arc measurements 

 in the United States resulting from the extensive 

 triangulation executed by the organizations en- 

 gaged in survey work. As early as 1855 he was 

 in charge of the magnetic work of the survey, 

 and in 1863 he was engaged in surveying the 

 defenses of Washington. In 1869 he took a party 

 to Illinois to observe the total eclipse of the sun, 

 and in 1870 went to Catania, Sicily, to observe 

 an eclipse. He represented the Coast Survey in 

 1898 at the International Conference on Terres- 

 trial Magnetism, in Bristol, England, and later 

 in the same year he was awarded by the French 

 Academy of Sciences the Wilde prize on account 

 of his researches and publications in the field of 

 terrestrial magnetism. Mr. Schott was one of the 

 founders of the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington in 1871, and of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences in 1898. He was chosen a member 

 of the National Academy of Sciences in 1872. 



Besides his memoirs on the determination of the 

 magnetic elements at the permanent observatories 

 of the United States, and at a great number of 

 temporary stations, and other papers contributed 

 to the annual reports of the Coast Survey, he pub- 

 lished, through the medium of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Magnetical Observations in the Arc- 

 tic Seas, reduced and discussed from material 

 collected by Elisha K. Kane (1858); Meteorolog- 

 ical Observations in the Arctic Seas, likewise col- 

 lected by Elisha K. Kane during the second Grin- 

 nell expedition (1859); Astronomical Observa- 

 tions in the Arctic Seas, from data collected by 

 Elisha K. Kane (1860); Tidal Observations in 

 the Arctic Seas (1860); Meteorological Observa- 

 tions in the Arctic Seas, from results made on 

 board the arctic searching yacht Fox in Baffin 

 Bay and Prince Regents Inlet in 1857-'59 (1862) ; 

 Physical Observations in the Arctic Seas, from 

 data collected by Isaac I. Hayes (1867); Results 

 of Meteorological Observations made at Bruns- 

 wick, Me., between 1807 and 1859 (1867) ; Results 

 of Meteorological Observations made at Marietta, 

 Ohio, between 1826 and 1859 Inclusive (1868); 

 Tables and Results of the Precipitation in Rain 

 and Snow in the United States, and at Some Sta- 

 tions in Adjacent Parts of North America, and 

 in Central and South America (1872; 2d ed., 

 1881) ; Tables, Distribution, and Variations of the 

 Atmospheric Temperature in the United' States 

 and Some Adjacent Parts of America (1876) ; and 

 Magnetic Charts of the United States, showing 

 the distribution of the declination, the dip, and 

 the intensity of the magnetic force (1882 and 

 1885). His last works were The Transcontinental 

 Triangulation and American Arc of the Parallel 

 (1900) and The Eastern Oblique Arc of the 

 United States (1902). 



Scott, Julian, artist, born in Johnson, Vt., 

 Feb. 15, 1846; died in Plainfield, N. J., July 4, 

 1901. He studied at Norwich Academy, and at 

 the outbreak of the civil war enlisted as a drum- 

 mer-boy with the 3d Vermont Regiment. He 

 served two years and a half and received a medal 

 of honor for wading across a stream and rescuing 

 wounded National soldiers while he was on the 

 staff of Gen. William F. Smith. During his term of 

 service he made many sketches that he afterward 

 developed in his paintings. In 1863 he began his 

 art studies at the National Academy of Design 

 in New York city, and later studied in Paris 

 under Emanuel Leutze. After his return to the 

 United States, in 1868, he for a few years had 

 a studio in New York, and in 1875 removed to 

 Plainfield, N. J. In 1890 he was appointed a 

 special commissioner to report upon the Indians 

 of Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico. His 

 report was published in connection with the re- 

 port upon the Indian population of the eleventh 

 census, and included 40 of his sketches as illus- 

 trations. He spent three years in this work, and 

 collected many valuable Indian relics. The In- 

 dians became very much attached to him, and 

 made him a member of one of their societies. 

 After 1870 he was an associate of the National 

 Academy. He was widely known as a battle and 

 figure painter. His Battle of Antietam was pur- 

 chased by the late Elliott F. Shepard and pre- 

 sented to the 7th Regiment of New York; The 

 Rear-Guard at White Oak Swamp hangs in the 

 State-House at Montpelier, Vt.; and The Death 

 of Gen. Sedgwick in the Plainfield Art Gallery. 

 Other well-known pictures are The Battle of 

 Cedar Creek; Battle of Golding's Farm; The Re- 

 call; On Board the Hartford; Old Records; Duel 

 of Burr and Hamilton; Reserves Awaiting Or- 

 ders; Charge at Petersburg; The War is Over; 



