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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (SIMMS STERNE.) 



Simms, William Thomas, soldier, born in 

 New York city, June 26, 1844; died there, Jan. 

 28, 1901. He was graduated at Columbia Col- 

 lege Law School. In April, 1801, he enlisted in 

 the 2d Regiment, New York State Militia, which 

 went to the front as the 82d Regiment, New York 

 Volunteers. He took part in many battles, and 

 at Gettysburg was wounded four times. May 6, 

 1864, while serving as an aide on the staff of 

 Gen. Alexander S. Webb, he received a severe 

 wound in the head, which caused partial paraly- 

 sis. In the autumn of 1864 he again joined his 

 regiment, and was commissioned lieutenant and 

 later captain. At the close of the war he was 

 major of the 59th Regiment, New York Volun- 

 teers, with brevet rank of. lieutenant-colonel. 



Smith. Beaumont, actor, born in St. Louis, 

 Mo., in 1860; died in Denver, Col., Aug. 14, 1901. 

 He was a friend of Guy Lindsley and Edward S. 

 Abeles. and with them formed an amateur com- 

 pany. After considerable success they all entered 

 the * profession, Smith making his debut with 

 Booth and Barrett in 1885. He appeared with 

 them for several seasons, and then became asso- 

 ciated with Mme. Modjeska and devoted himself 

 chiefly to Shakespearean comedy characters. He 

 was accounted a most excellent Touchstone, and 

 his Lucio, in Measure for Measure, was highly 

 commended. He also at intervals sang success- 

 fully in comic opera. In March, 1900, Mr. Smith 

 appeared as Mr. Boswell in Stuart Robson's pro- 

 duction of Oliver Goldsmith at the Fifth Avenue 

 Theater, New York. In 1901 he became stage- 

 director of the Woodward Stock Company, of 

 Kansas City. 



Sneed, John Louis Taylor, jurist, born in 

 Raleigh, N. C., May 20, 1820; died in Memphis, 

 Tenn., July 29, 1901. Hs was educated at Oxford 

 Academy, in North Carolina, studied law in West 

 Tennessee, and in 1843 settled in Memphis. In 

 1845 he was elected to the Tennessee Legislature. 

 In 1846-'47 he was a captain in the Mexican War. 

 In 1851 he was elected attorney-general of the 

 Memphis judicial district, resigning three years 

 later to become a candidate for Attorney-General 

 of the State; he was elected and served till 1859. 

 In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, and 

 later was commissioned brigadier-general of the 

 provisional army of Tennessee. In 1870 he was 

 elected a judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 

 which office he held eight years. In 1879 he 

 served on the court of arbitration, and was judge 

 of the State Court of Referees in 1883-84. From 

 1887 till 1893 he was president of the Memphis 

 Law School. He was the author of Reports of 

 the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1854-'59. 



Snively, William Andrew, clergyman, born 

 in Greencastle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1833; died in Louis- 

 ville, Ky., March 2, 1901. He was graduated at 

 Dickinson College in 1852, was ordained in the 

 Methodist Church, and served it till 1865, when 

 he entered the Episcopal ministry. He held rec- 

 torships in Cincinnati, Albany, Brooklyn, and 

 New Orleans, but in 1892 gave .up the ministry 

 on account of failing health. He received the 

 degree of S. T. D. from Columbia University in 

 1875. He was the author of The Oberammergau 

 Passion Play (1881); Esthetics in Worship 

 (1887); Parish Lectures on the Prayer-Book 

 (1887) ; Testimonials to the Supernatural (1888) ; 

 Family Prayer for the Christian Year (1888); 

 Genealogical Memoranda; and The Cathedral 

 System in the American Church. 



Snook, John Butler, architect, born in Lon- 

 don, England, July 16, 1815; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Nov. 1, 1901. He came to New York city 

 when a child and was educated in the private 



schools. He became a master builder, but in 

 1842 turned his attention to architecture. He 

 was in partnership with Joseph French eight 

 years, in business alone till 1887, and then asso- 

 ciated his sons w r ith himself. He designed and 

 erected, among other buildings, Niblo's Garden, 

 the Metropolitan Hotel, the Hoffman House, All 

 Angels' Church, and the Vanderbilt mansions in 

 Manhattan, and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and 

 Packer Institute in Brooklyn. 



Snow, Lorenzo, fifth president of the Mormon 

 Church, born in Mantua, Ohio, April 3, 1814; 

 died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 10, 1901. After 

 studying in the schools of Ravenna, Ohio, and for 

 a time at Oberlin. On a visit to Kirtland, Ohio, 

 he met Joseph Smith and his fellow Mormons 

 and was converted to their faith. In 1837 he 

 was baptized and ordained an elder, and at once 

 became one of their mo'st aggressive and success- 

 ful missionaries. In 1840 he w r as sent to England 

 to aid Parley P. Pratt, president of the British 

 mission. On his return to the United States he 

 organized the Nauvoo Legion of Mormon troops, 

 and he was also in charge of the Nauvoo School. 

 He conducted the campaign planned to make 

 Joseph Smith President of the United States in 

 1844, and though he took an active part in seek- 

 ing the finalhome of the Mormons, he was pre- 

 vented by illness from reaching Salt Lake tin 

 1848. He was made one of the Twelve Apostles 

 Feb. 12, 1849, and from that time was one of the 

 most active and influential of the Mormon leaders. 

 From 1852 till 1882 he served continuously in the 

 Utah Legislature. He also took an active inter- 

 est in educational affairs, and was at one time 

 at the head of the High School in Salt Lake City. 

 In 1849 he made a mission tour in Italy, another 

 to the Hawaiian Islands in 1864, and in 1872 he 

 made a tour of Europe and Palestine. In 1855 

 he founded Brigham City, Utah, where he estab- 

 lished a successful cooperative system, beginning 

 with a store,- and afterward adding a tannery, a 

 woolen factory, and several farms. He was made 

 president of the Twelve Apostles in April, 1889, 

 and president of the Temple, when it was opened 

 in May, 1893. At a special meeting of the Coun- 

 cil of Apostles, Sept. 13, 1898, he was elected 

 president of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, to 

 succeed Wilford Woodruff. He was the author 

 of The Italian Mission (1851) ; The Only Way to 

 be Saved (1851); The Voice of Joseph (1852); 

 and The Palestine Tourists (an account of his 

 journey in Europe and the Holy Land in 1872). 

 He translated the Book of Mormon into Italian. 



Starr, Eliza Allen, author, born in Deerfield, 

 Mass., Aug. 29, 1824; died in Durand, 111., Sept. 

 9, 1901. She became a Roman Catholic in 1850, 

 and removed to Chicago a few years later. She 

 was long prominent in Roman Catholic circles, 

 and lectured much upon religious art. Several 

 of her writings met with favor at Rome, and a 

 medallion was sent to her by Pope Leo in appre- 

 ciation. Her nature w r as exceptionally gentle and 

 attractive, and greatly endeared her to a wide" 

 circle of friends. Her published works comprise 

 Patron Saints (1871); Pilgrims and Shrines 

 (1883) ; Songs of a Lifetime (1887) ; A Long De- 

 layed Tribute to Isabella of Castile as Codis- 

 coverer of America (1890); Christmastide ; Chris- 

 tian Art in our Own Age; What we See; Three 

 Keys to the Camera Delia Segnatura (1895) ; The 

 Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1898) ; 

 and The Three Archangels and the Guardian An- 

 gels in Art (1899). 



Sterne, Simon, lawyer, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., July 23, 1839; died in New York city. Sept. 

 22, 1901. He was graduated at the law depart- 





