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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BUTLER CAMPBELL.) 



In 1860 Mr. Bunce wrote two novels, u A Bachelor's 

 Story" and "Life before Him," published by W. A. 

 Townsend & Co., and three years later his novel 

 " Bensley " was issued under the imprint of Gregory. 

 After winding up the business affairs of the house, of 

 which he had been an able manager, he was for a 

 short time literary reader in the trm of Harper & 

 Brothers. In 1867 he formed that connection with 

 D. Appleton & Co. which terminated only with his 

 life. When " Appletons' Journal" was established, 

 in 1869, he was made associate editor; and on the 

 retirement of Kobert Carter, in 1872, he took sole 

 charge of the periodical. Out of the early numbers 

 of this weekly the conception of "Picturesque Amer- 

 ica," one of the great publisher's successes of the 

 period, assumed rapid shape. Mr. Harry Fenn's illus- 

 trations of several descriptive papers, 'notably those 

 dealing with Florida and Mount Desert, both of them 

 then comparatively little known to pleasure seekers, 

 were so striking as to suggest continued work in the 

 same direction but on a more elaborate scale and in 

 a different form. Mr. Bunce's discussion with the 

 firm, specially Mr. George Appleton and Mr. W. W. 

 Appleton, finally shaped the enterprise of reproducing 

 the saliently picturesque features of the United States 

 with pen and pencil, and the work was issued in month- 

 ly parts. Of this great work Mr. Bunce had sole 

 editorial charge, both on its artistic and literary sides, 

 though. Mr. William Cullen Bryant was nominal 

 editor and contributed the preface. The ability with 

 which he fulfilled this task had much to do with the 

 success of the enterprise. Two companion publica- 

 tions, " Picturesqfle Europe " and " Picturesque 

 Palestine," also owed much to his attention and 

 supervision. His duties were manifold at this period, 

 and he conducted simultaneously with the above- 

 named works the editorial duties of "Appletons' 

 Journal," and of the American edition of the " Art 

 Journal." In addition to his office business, Mr. 

 Bunce's literary ambition kept him constantly at 

 work in spite of chronic invalidism. During the last 

 dozen years of his life he produced successively : 

 "Bachelor Bluff: His Opinions, Sentiments, and 

 Disputations," a series of sparkling talks on art, liter- 

 ature, and society ; " Timias Terrystone," a novel ; 

 " Don't" ; " My House, an Ideal," a graphic study of 

 a country home ; and " The Story of Happinolande," 

 a collection of sketches and essays. " Don't," a creed 

 of social negations, was, in a small way, one of the 

 great successes of the period. In addition to its great 

 sale at home, it was translated into several foreign 

 languages, passed through many editions, and was 

 imitated extensively in similar books. For more 

 than twenty years Mr. Bunce was a sufferer from con- 

 sumption, and every day was a struggle with ill 

 health borne with heroic fortitude. In spite of diffi- 

 culties which would have daunted most men, his in- 

 dustry and application to his duties were incessant. 

 His functions as a publisher brought him in contact 

 with most of the literary men and artists of the 

 country, and his wide sympathies and nobility of 

 character made him generally beloved and esteemed. 

 To his encouragement and disco very of budding talent 

 more than one well-known author and painter owe 

 their successful beginnings. Both as a writer and as 

 a man of business Mr. Bunce had great suggestiveness 

 and fertility of thought, and as a brilliant conversa- 

 tionist few men were his equals. He was one of the 

 earliest members of the Authors' Club, an institution 

 which includes most of the notable writers of the 

 country. 



Butler, Clement Moore, clergyman, born in Troy, 

 N. Y., Oct. 16, 1810 ; died in Germantown, Pa., Feb. 

 5, 1890. He was graduated at the present Trinity 

 College, Hartford, in 1833. and at the General Theo- 

 logical Seminary, New York, in 1836 ; was pastor of 

 Protestant Episcopal Churches in New York city. 

 Boston, Washington, and Georgetown from 1837 till 

 1854, and chaplain of the United States Senate from 

 1849 till 1853; was rector of Christ Church, Cincin- 

 nati, from 1854 till 1857, and of Trinity Church, 



Washington, from 1857 till 1861 ; and was rector of 

 Grace Church, Rome, Italy, and chaplain to the 

 United States minister there from 1861 till 1864. On 

 his return to the United States in 1864, he was chosen 

 Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Protestant 

 Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, and he held 

 the office till failing health constrained him to resign 

 in 1884. Dr. Butler was an intimate friend of Web- 

 ster, Clay, and Calhoun, and the latter, while on his 

 death-bed, ordered a silver cup to be made and pre- 

 sented to him as a token of his esteem. Dr. Butler 

 published " The Year of the Church" (Utiea, 1840) ; 

 "The Flock fed" (New York. 1845)- "The Book 

 of Common Prayer interpreted by its History " (Bos- 

 ton, 1846, enlarged edition, Washington, 1849) ; " Old 

 Truths and New Errors" (New York, 1848); "Lect- 

 ures on the Revelation of St. John" (1850); "Ad- 

 dresses in Washington " (Cincinnati, 1858) ; " Ritual- 

 ism of Law" (1859) ; " St. Paul in Rome" (Philadel- 

 phia, 1865); Dinner Rome" (1866); "Manual of 

 Ecclesiastical History, from the First to the Nineteenth 

 Century" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1868 and 1872); 

 " History of the Book of Common Prayer" (1879); 

 and "History of the Reformation in Sweden" (New 

 York, 1883). 



Calanan, Marie Elizabeth, philanthropist, born in Ire- 

 land, in 1816 ; died in New York city, Dec. 7, 1890. She 

 was the daughter of a wealthy brewer, became a widow 

 after one year of married life, and entered the Order of 

 the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland, giving it a considerable 

 fortune for charitable work. K 1852 she came to the 

 United States. At the outbreak of the civil war she 

 volunteered, with a band of Sisters, for service in the 

 hospitals and on the field, and after spending nearly a 

 year with the National armies, went to Albany, N. Y., 

 and founded a convent of her order. Two years after- 

 ward she founded a similar institution in Worcester, 

 Mass., and, then removing to New York city, founded 

 St. Joseph's Home for Destitute Children, in which 

 she gathered the waifs that the city was supporting on 

 Randall's Island. She retained the supervision of this 

 non-sectarian institution till fatally prostrated with 

 pneumonia. She was known in religion as Mother 

 Elizabeth, and was the only living member of a family 

 of five who devoted their lives to religious work. 



Campbell, Andrew, inventor, born near Trenton, N. J., 

 June 14, 1821 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 13, 1890. 

 He received a common-school education, and after 

 working on a farm was apprenticed to a carriage 

 maker and a brush maker successively. Neither 

 trade proved attractive to him and he determined to 

 go West, but before setting out, when sixteen years 

 old, perfected his first invention, a brush-drawer's 

 vise, which afterward was almost universally used. 

 He settled in St. Louis in 1842, and for some time sup- 

 ported himself by making brushes. In 1844 he was 

 called upon to repair a printing press in the office ot 

 the Columbia " Statesman," and he became so deeply 

 interested in its mechanism that when George Bruce, 

 of New York city, published an offer of $U>00 for a 

 press that would print 500 sheets an hour, he under- 

 took to provide one ; but his plans were received after 

 the expiration of the allotted time. In 1853 he went 

 to New Y r ork, and, while studying the exhibits in the 

 World's Fair, invented a press-feeding machine with 

 a capacity of 40 sheets an hour. The firm of A. B. 

 Taylor & Co. took his plans, built a machine, and ap- 

 pointed him a foreman in their manufactory. He re- 

 mained with the firm five years, and built for Harper 

 & Brothers and for Frank' Leslie the first presses ever 

 produced with table distribution and automatics. In 

 1858 he opened a factory of his own, and continued 

 in active business till 1880, when he retired. During 

 this period he made the first registering power print- 

 ing press for color work (1861); the two-revolution 

 book press (1866) ; an art press for fine illustration 

 work (1868); a press on which 125 almanacs were 

 printed per minute, and on which 7,000,000 impres- 

 sions were taken from one form without damage to 

 the plates; a press that printed 12,000 copies of the 

 Cleveland " Leader" in an hour ; and the first press 



