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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (SUNDERLAND THAYER.) 



1st German Rifles, which were consolidated with 

 the 3d Maryland Regiment, and with them took 

 part in many battles in the valley of Virginia. 

 He was successively appointed colonel and brevet 

 brigadier-general. 



Sunderland, Byron, clergyman, born in Shore- 

 ham, Vt., Nov. 22, 1819; died in Catskill, N. Y., 

 June 30, 1901. He was graduated at Middlebury 

 College in 1838, and at Union Theological Sem- 

 inary, New York city, in 1843. His first charge 

 was the Presbyterian Church at Batavia, N. Y., 

 where he remained from 1845 till 1851. For a 

 time he was at the Park Presbyterian Church, 

 Syracuse, N. Y., as pastor-elect, but before his 

 installation he was called, in February, 1853, to 

 the First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C. 

 His service there was almost continuous till his 

 death. In 1864-"05, on account of impaired 

 health, lie went to Paris, and there had "charge 

 of the American chapel. In 1898 he was retired 

 as pastor emeritus, but in March, 1899, he was 

 again made active pastor. During the civil war 

 and again from 1873 till 1879, he was chaplain 

 of the United States Senate. He received the 

 degree of D. D. from Middlebury College in 1855. 



Sweet, Alexander Edwin, humorist, born in 

 St. John, New Brunswick, March 28, 1841; died 

 in New York city, May 20, 1901. When he was 

 nine years of age his parents settled in Texas. 

 He was sent to Carlsruhe, Germany, where he 

 was graduated at the Polytechnic School in 1861. 

 Returning to Texas, he served in the civil war 

 as a private in the 37th Texas Cavalry. After 

 the war he studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1868. He practised several years, at the 

 same time engaging in newspaper work. In 1875 

 he became city editor of the Galveston News. 

 His humorous sketches attracted attention, and 

 in 1881 he started in Austin Texas Sif tings, of 

 which he was editor and half-owner. In 1883 

 this paper was removed to New York city. Mr. 

 Sweet was connected with its publication till 

 1895. Among the humorous characters he created 

 was Colonel Bill Snort, confidential adviser to 

 the President. His published books include Three 

 Dozen Good Stories (1887) and On a Mustang 

 through Texas (1888). 



Swinton, John, journalist, born near Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland, Dec. 12, 1829; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Dec. 15, 1901. He removed with his parents 

 to the United States in 1843, and, after spending 

 some time in the West as a journeyman printer, 

 went to New York city in the early fifties. As 

 a preparation for newspaper work he took up the 

 study of law and medicine, at the same time 

 writing for the press. In 1860 he became con- 

 nected with the New York Times as editorial 

 writer, remaining with that paper till 1870. From 

 1875 till 1883, and again from 1893 till 1897, he 

 was an editorial writer on the New York Sun. 

 From 1874 he was busy as an orator and writer, 

 championing the cause of the poor and oppressed, 

 and in the autumn of that year he was nominated 

 for mayor of New York by the Industrial Polit- 

 ical party. From 1883 till 1887 he published 

 weekly John Swinton's Paper, by means of which 

 he spread his ideas on social and industrial ques- 

 tions. In the municipal campaign of 1887 he was 

 a candidate of the Progressive Labor party for 

 State Senator. Besides his newspaper work, he 

 published The New Issue (1870) ; Eulogy of Henry 

 J. Raymond (1870); John Swinton's Travels 

 (1880); Oration on John Brown (1881); and 

 Striking for Life (1894). 



Tanner, John Riley, ex-Governor of Illinois, 

 born near Booneville, Ind., April 4. 1844; died in 

 Springfield, 111., May 23, 1901. He was educated 



in the district schools. He enlisted in the 98th 

 Illinois Infantry, was transferred to the 61st Illi- 

 nois Infantry, and was mustered out of the serv- 

 ice in November, 1865. After the war he settled 

 in Clay County and became a farmer. In 1870 

 he was elected sheriff,, and in 1872 circuit-court 

 clerk. In 1877 he was appointed master in chan- 

 cery of the circuit court. In 1880 he was elected 

 to the State Senate. In 1883 he was appointed 

 United States marshal of the Southern District 

 of Illinois, but he was removed by President 

 Cleveland. In 1886 he was elected State Treasurer, 

 and in 1890 was appointed railway commissioner. 

 In May, 1892, he was made assistant treasurer 

 of the United States Treasury at Chicago. In 

 1894 he was elected chairman of the Republican 

 State Central Committee. In 1896 he was the 

 Republican candidate for Governor, and was 

 elected by a large majority over John P. Altgeld. 



Taylor, James Edward, artist, born in Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1839; died in New York 

 city, June 22, 1901. He was educated at the 

 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. He 

 showed remarkable skill with pencil and brush 

 at an early age, and just after his graduation he 

 painted a panorama of the American Revolution. 

 In 1860 he went to New York city to study art, 

 but he enlisted in the 10th New York Regimenti 

 During his leisure time he prepared many sketches 

 of camp life and incidents. After two years' 

 service as a private he was engaged by Frank 

 Leslie as war correspondent and artist. At the 

 close of the war he returned to act as special 

 artist for the same publisher. In 1867 he was 

 the detailed artist to the Peace Commission with 

 the Indians, and the pictures he sent from the 

 West at this time gained him the sobriquet of 

 " the Indian artist." He severed his connection 

 with Leslie's in 1883 and devoted his time there- 

 after to illustrating for magazines and painting 

 water-colors. Among his paintings was The Last 

 Grand Review, painted for Gen. Sherman. Four 

 of his pictures are in the public library at Wash- 

 ington. 



Temple, Robert, engineer, born in Spottsyl- 

 vania County, Virginia, in September, 1831; died 

 in Richmond, Va., Dec. 22, 1901. He began his 

 career as a rodman on the New Orleans, Jack- 

 son and Great Northern Railway in 1852, and 

 was afterward engaged in some of the most im- 

 portant railway construction in the South. He 

 was principal assistant in the building of the 

 great bridges over the Missouri river at St. 

 Charles and Kansas City, and over the Ohio at 

 Cincinnati. During the civil war he was con- 

 nected with the engineering department of the 

 Confederate army, and was stationed in Texas. 

 In 1879 and 1880 Major Temple was general su- 

 perintendent of the Greenville and Columbia Rail- 

 road; in 1880-'81, chief engineer of the Richmond 

 and Allegheny Railway; from 1881 to 1886, chief 

 engineer of the Georgia Pacific Railway; in 1887 

 and 1888, chief engineer of the Memphis, Bir- 

 mingham and Atlantic, and of the Tennessee Mid- 

 land Railway; and later was employed as* chief 

 engineer in the construction of the Georgia, Caro- 

 lina and Northern Railway, the Atlanta exten- 

 sion of the Seaboard Air-Line. 



Thayer, Joseph Henry, educator and author, 

 born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 7, 1828; died in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., Nov. 26, 1901. He was graduated 

 at Harvard in 1850, spent four years in teaching 

 and traveling, and then studied theology at An- 

 dover, where he was graduated in 1857. He oc- 

 cupied the pulpit of the Evangelical Congrega- 

 tional Church in Quincy, Mass., one year, and in 

 December, 1859, became pastor of Crombie Street 



