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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HIGGINS HOWES.) 



low, Bryant, Holmes, Halleck, Bayard Taylor. Gen. 

 Meade. William M. Evarts, and Henry Ward Beech- 

 fir. His portraits of Hamilton Fish and Mayors Tie- 

 mann and Gunther are in the New York City Hall. 

 Between 1851 and 1855 he painted a somewhat notable 

 picture of the representative authors of the United 

 States and another of the governors of New York. Mr. 

 Hicks gained a substantial success in portraiture, and 

 his best work is to be credited with an apt preserva- 

 tion of likenesses and a mellowness and sometimes 

 a warmth of color probably attributable in part to 

 the influence of Couture. His pictures were usually 

 suave, pleasing, and elaborate rather than distinctive- 

 ly individual and powerful, and it can not be said 

 that he exercised any marked influence upon the art 

 of his time or that his work will be highly esteemed 

 in the future for its technical qualities. Mr. Hicks 

 became a member of the National Academy of Design 

 in 1851, and he was deeply interested in the Artists' 

 Fund Society, and was its president from 1873 to 1885. 



Higgins, Alvin, manufacturer, born in Gray, Me., 

 May 12, 1813; died in New York city, June 1, 1890. 

 He was a son of a ship-builder in Portland, Me., 

 served an apprenticeship with a firm of exporters in 

 that city, and with his brother, Elias S. Higgins, 

 came to New York city in 1837 and engaged in the 

 retail carpet business, under the firm name of A. & 

 E. S. Higgins. The firm built a factory in Jersey 

 City in 1840 for the manufacture of carpets, being 

 pioneers in this industry in the United States, and 

 subsequently erected similar establishments in Brook- 

 lyn, Hallet's Cove, Astoria, Poughkeepsie, and Haver- 

 straw. About 1852 he retired from the manufacturing 

 business, and began investing his wealth in choice 

 securities and up-town real estate, and for many years 

 met with uniform success ; but in late years he made 

 injudicious investments, in which he lost much of his 

 fortune. 



Hogan, Thomas Matthew, artist, born in Dublin, Ire- gery 

 land, about 1842; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 6, New 

 1890. He came to the United States when a boy, 

 studied sketching and drawing on wood, and began 

 his art career as a war pictorial correspondent for 

 " Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper " in 1861. He 

 sketched many of the most important events of the 

 civil war, including the scenes connected with the 

 assassination of President Lincoln. Soon after com- 

 pleting a series of illustrations of the impeachment of 

 President Johnson, he withdrew with Frank Schell 

 from the Leslie establishment, and the two artists 

 opened the studio in the Moffat Building so well 

 known to artists, engravers, publishers, editors, and 

 literary workers. The firm of Schell & Hogan was 

 successful from the start, and there is scarcely a pub- 

 lisher of illustrated papers or books in the country 

 who has not engaged the services of its members. 

 Some of their most important work was done for 

 magazines and books issued by Harper & Brothers, 

 D. Appleton & Co. , the Century Company, and Boston 

 and Philadelphia firms. Both artists 'made many 

 sketches and drawings on wood for " Picturesque 

 Canada," and superintended the entire art work on 

 that publication. 



Holmes, Sydney T,, lawyer, born in Schaghticoke, 

 Rensselaer County, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1815 ; died in Bay 

 City, Mich., Jan. 17 : 1890. He accompanied his 

 father's family to Mornsville, Madison County, N. Y., 

 in 1819, received an academic education, spent five 

 years as a civil engineer, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1841. In 1848 and 1850 he was appointed loan 

 commissioner for Madison County, and in 1851, 1855, 

 and 1859 he was elected judge and surrogate for the 

 county, serving till 1864. In the latter year he was 

 elected to Congress from the 22d New York District, 

 and after serving one term resumed the practice of 

 law in partnership with Roscoe Conkling in Utica, 

 N. Y. In 1871, on account of the failure of his 

 health, he removed to Bay City, and there became 

 one of the foremost of trial lawyers. 



1890. She attended Wyoming Seminary, in Alexan- 

 der, N. Y., a short time, but showed a fondness for 

 the dramatic stage when ten years old, and was a 

 member of the ballet corps in the Metropolitan 

 Theatre, Buffalo, before she was fifteen. Under the 

 coaching of Barton Hill, she made her first appear- 

 ance in a speaking part in the same theatre as Sally 

 in " Jack Sheppard " in 1860, and soon became a pro- 

 nounced favorite. From supporting star performers 

 she became a leading lady, and her success as such 

 led her to undertake starring. She made her first 



from the stage for two years, and she reappeared in 

 the Winter Garden, New York city, playing as Bian- 

 ca in "Fazio," the countess in "Love," Camille, 

 Lucretia Borgia. Pauline Deschapelles, Parthenia, 

 Mary Tudor, and Evadne. During recent years she 

 had appeared irregularly as star and support, and had 

 spent much time preparing pupils for the stage. 



Howe, Joseph William, physician, born in Chatham, 

 N. B., Sept. 30, 1843; died at sea, June 7, 1890. 

 When fourteen years old he entered the printing 

 office of his father's newspaper, the " Colonial Times," 

 and after learning the trade became a reporter on the 

 paper, and in 1861-' 62 was provincial parliamentary 

 reporter for the " Colonial Times " and the " Colonial 

 Farmer." In 1862 he attended the academy at 

 Fredericton, N. B., and began studying medicine ; in 

 1863 he removed to New York city ; and in 1866 he 

 was graduated at the medical department of the Uni- 

 versity of New York. He at once entered Bcllevue 

 Hospital as a junior assistant, and was soon promoted 

 to be house physician and house surgeon. In 1868 he 

 was appointed attending physician of the Bureau of 

 Medical and Surgical Relief for the Outdoor Poor of 

 Belleyue Hospital, and also clinical Professor of Sur- 

 3ry in the medical department of the University of 



ew York, and retained both offices till his death. 

 He was also visiting surgeon to St. Francis Hospital 

 and president of its medical board. Dr. Howe was a 

 member of the New York Academy of Medicine and 

 of the New York County Medical Society, was author 

 of several technical treatises and editorially connected 

 with the " Medical Journal," and was on his way to 

 attend the International Medical Congress in Berlin 

 when fatally attacked by apoplexy. 



Howe, Walter, lawyer, born in New York city, May 

 3, 1849 ; died off Newport, R. I., Aug. 22, 1890. He 

 was graduated at the College of the City of New 

 York in 1868, and at the Law School of Columbia 

 College in 1870, and afterward pursued a systematic 

 course of study in French and German and in litera- 

 ture. He also studied water-color painting and land- 

 scape gardening, and had done excellent work in both 

 of these branches from a pure love of artistic study. 

 In 1883, 1884. and 1885 he was a Republican member of 

 the New York Assembly, and there rendered his na- 

 tive city and the State a large service in combating 

 political corruption. He was defeated for the State 

 Senate, though he ran far ahead of his party ticket, in 



Hosmer, Jean, actress, born in Silver Creek, N. Y., 

 Jan. 29, 1842: died in Buffalo, N. Y., in January 



1885; and on July 31, 1888, he was appointed by 

 Mayor Hewitt a member of the reform Board of New 

 Aqueduct Commissioners. Mr. Howe was a member 

 and former Secretary of the Union League Club, and 

 member of the Century, University, and Down-Town 

 Clubs. He published " The Garden," a history of or- 

 namental gardening from the Roman period. Though 

 an expert swimmer, he was drowned while bathing. 



Howes, Oscar, educator, born near Carmel, N. Y., 

 April 20, 1830 ; died in Chicago, 111., Feb. 6, 190. 

 He was graduated at Madison University in 1850, 

 spent a year in post-graduate study at Rochester Uni- 

 versity, "and traveled and studied abroad for two 

 years. In 1855 he was chosen Professor of Greek and 

 Latin in Shurtleff College ; in 1863 made a second 

 visit to Europe ; in 1874 became Professor of Latin 

 and Modern Languages in Madison University ; and 

 in 1882 was appointed to the chair of Modern Lan- 

 guages in the University of Chicago. 



