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Tompkins Square in January, 1874. In 1884 he was 

 appointed dock master. He was given a pension pi 

 $30 a month by the Federal Government, and in 

 February, 1890, this was increased to $100 a month 

 by special act of Congress. 



Eaton, Lucien, lawyer, born in Denmark, Lewis 

 ounty, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1831; died in Boerne, 

 Texas, March 7, 1890. He was graduated at the Har- 

 vard Law School and admitted to the bar of Massa- 

 chusetts in 1857, and removed to St. Louis and was 

 admitted to the bar of Missouri in 1858. In May, 

 1861, he enlisted in the Third Regiment of the United 

 States Reserve Corps in St. Louis ; on July 2, 1863, 

 he was _ commissioned captain in the Twenty-third 

 Missouri Infantry ; the same day he was detached 

 from his command and detailed to duty as judge-ad- 

 vocate of the St. Louis district ; on July 2, 1864, he 

 was commissioned major and judge-advocate for the 

 Department of Missouri ; and on Aug. 17, 1865, was 

 mustered out of the service. He was appointed regis- 

 ter in bankruptcy for the First Congressional District 

 (Eastern Federal District) of Missouri, May 27, 1867, 

 and held the office till the repeal of the national 

 bankruptcy Law; was police commissioner for St. 

 Louis County from 1866 to 1869 ; was United States 

 commissioner from 1868 till his death ; was appointed 

 special United States commissioner of Alabama 

 claims on Jan. 2, 1875 ; and was admitted to practice 

 in the United States Supreme Court on Feb. 26 fol- 

 lowing. He had much to do with the exposure of the 

 whisky frauds in Missouri, and was special counsel 

 for the Government in the trials that followed. 



Elliott, William, Jr., educator, born in Baltimore, 

 Md., in 1821 ; died there, July lj 1890. He was for 

 many years President of the Baltimore City College, 

 and received the degree of A. M. from Dickinson Col- 

 lege in 1857, and that of Ph. D. from the College of 

 New Jersey in 1877. 



English, James Edward, statesman, born in New 

 Haven, Conn., March 13, 1812 : died there, March 2, 

 1890. He received a common-school education ; was 

 apprenticed to the carpenter's trade ; became a mas- 

 ter builuer before attaining his majority ; subsequent- 

 ly engaged in lumbering and real-estate enterprises ; 

 and was afterward interested in banking and manu- 

 facturing corporations ; a manager of Adams Express 

 Company, and President of the New Haven Savings 

 Bank. He entered political life in 1848, when he was 

 elected a member of the Common Council of New 

 Haven. In 1855 he was elected to the State Assembly, 

 and in 1856 a State Senator. In 1860 he was defeated 

 as candidate for Lieutcnant-Governor of Connecticut. 

 At the beginning of the civil war he withdrew from 

 the regular Democratic organization in his State and 

 became an active war Democrat. He co-operated 

 with the national and State authorities in raising 

 troops for the war, and by giving liberally of his 

 means hastened the equipment and dispatch to the 

 field of the first Connecticut regiments. In 1861 he 

 was elected to Congress from .the 2d Connecticut 

 District, and in 1863 he was re-elected. While in 

 Congress he voted with the Republicans for the abo- 

 lition of slavery. He was a delegate to the National 

 Union Convention in Philadelphia in 1866, and the 

 same year was defeated by Gen. James R. Hawley, 

 for Governor, by 531 votes. In 1867 he defeated Gen. 

 Hawley by 987 votes : in 1868 defeated Marshall 

 Jewell by 'l, 765 votes; in 1869 was defeated by Mr. 

 Jewell by 411 votes ; in 1870 again defeated Mr. Jewell 

 by 843 votes ; and in 1871 was again defeated by Mr. 

 Jewell by 100 votes. He then spent two years in trav- 

 el. In 1873 he greatly aided the election of Charles 

 R. Ingersoll to the governorship ; in November, 1875, 

 he was appointed United States Senator, to fill the 

 unexpired term of Orris S. Ferry ; and in 1876 he was 

 defeated by William H. Barnum in the Legislature for 

 a full senatorial term He was a Democratic presi- 

 dential elector in 1876 nd 1884, and an earnest advo- 

 cate of taritf reform. He left an estate estimated at 

 not quite $2,000,000, and bequeathed $20,000 to the 

 Connecticut State Hospital Society for free beds ; 



$20,000 to the Sheffield Scientific School to found a 

 chair of Mathematics ; $10,000 to the Yale University 

 libraries ; $5,000 to the New Haven orphan asylums 

 and $5,000 to the St. Francis Orphan Asylum. 



Everts, William Wallace, clergyman, born in Gran- 

 ville, Washington County, N. Y., March 13, 1814; 

 died in Chicago, 111., Sept. 25, 1890. He removed 

 with his father's family to Michigan in 1826; was 

 graduated at Madison University in 1837, and was or- 

 dained pastor of the Baptist church in Earlsville, 

 Madison County, N. Y., in 1839. In 1841 he became 

 pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in New York 

 city, and there brought about a scries of revivals, 

 which gave him wide repute. In 1853 he accepted a call 

 from the Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville, 

 Ky., where he labored with great success till shortly 

 before the civil war, when he resigned on account of 

 the opposition of the pro-slavery people. He then 

 went to Chicago, and for more than twenty years was 

 engaged in pastoral duty there, besides taking an in- 

 fluential part in establisning the Chicago University 

 and the Chicago Baptist Theological Seminary. From 

 1879 till 1885 he officiated in Jersev City, N. J., retir- 

 ing to Chicago in the latter year after an active pastor- 

 ate of nearly fifty years. His publications include 

 "The Pastor's Hand-Book" (New York. 1856), 

 " The Bible Prayer-Book," " The Scriptural School 

 Reader," "Life and Thoughts of John Foster," 

 " The Voyage of Life," " The Promise and Training 

 of Childhood," " Words in Earnest," and " Tracts 

 for the Churches." 



Paulkner, Lester Bradner, lawyer, born in Dansville, 

 N. Y., April 4, 1837 ; died there, Jan. 27, 1890. He 

 was graduated at Yale College in 1859, volunteered as 

 a private soldier at the beginning of the civil war, was 

 commissioned lieutenant- colonel of the 136th, New 

 York Volunteers in September, 1862, distinguished 

 himself in several engagements, took part in the Chat- 

 tanooga campaign, was brevetted brigadier-general for 

 gallantry in a charge at Atlanta, and, after participat- 

 ing in Sherman's march to the sea, was mustered out 

 of the service in January, 1865. After the war he 

 studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced 

 in partnership with Charles J. Bisscll ; but the man- 

 agement of his father's large farming interests occu- 

 Eied most of his attention till 1870. About this time 

 e became active in State politics. In 1882 he was 

 chairman of the convention that nominated Grover 

 Cleveland for Governor, and in 1884 was a dclegate- 

 at-large to the Democratic National Convention. He 

 became a director in the Dansville National Bank, of 

 which his father was president, in 1867. claimed to 

 have sold all his certificates in 1886, was charged with 

 complicity in the wrecking of the bank in 1887, and 

 was tried and convicted in October, 1888. He was 

 granted a new trial, in which the jury disagreed, in 

 May, 1889 ; was tried a third time, convicted, and sen- 

 tenced to seven years' imprisonment in October fol- 

 lowing, and died "pending decision on a writ of error. 



Fayerweather, Daniel B,, merchant, born in Stepney, 

 Conn., in 1821 ; died in New York city, Nov. 15, 

 1890. He served an apprenticeship with a farmer, 

 and at its termination learned the snoemaker's trade 

 in Bridgeport. He worked at his trade till prostrated 

 with shoemaker's colic, when he bought a tin-ped- 

 dler's outfit and began tramping Virginia. Where 

 he could not sell for cash he took hides in payment. 

 On the restoration of his health he resumed, his trade 

 in Bridgeport. He remained there till 1854, when he 

 removed to New York city and entered the employ 

 of Hoyt Brothers, leather dealers. In 1870 the firm 

 was dissolved, and Mr. Fayerweather, H. S. Ladcw, 

 and J. B. Hoyt established the firm of J. B. Hoyt & 

 Co. On the withdrawal of Mr. Hoyt, the remaining 

 partners continued the business under the firm name 

 of Fayerweather & Ladew, which has since remained 

 unchanged. Mr. Fayerweather was noted in finan- 

 cial circles for strict commercial rectitude. He was 

 retiring and economical in habits, but always ready to 

 assist deserving charities. Outside the circles ot busi- 

 ness acquaintances and personal friends, he was but 



