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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (KELLEY LINCOLN.) 



Kelley, William Darragh, legislator, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Fa., April 12, 1814; died in Washington, D. C., 

 Jan. 9, 1890. He was of Irish and French Huguenot 

 extraction; attended school till he was eleven' years 

 old ; and was apprenticed to a jeweler from his four- 

 teenth year till his majority. After completing his 

 time, he followed his trade in Boston for five years, 

 and then, returning to Philadelphia, studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1841. In 1845 he was 

 elected prosecutor for the city and county of Phila- 

 delphia, and held the office two terms, and was then 

 elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas of 

 Philadelphia. He held this office till 1856, and re- 

 signed to become a candidate for Congress as a 

 Republican. Previous to this he had been a Demo- 

 crat, a free-trader, and an abolitionist. In his first 

 canvass for Congress he was defeated. He resumed 

 private practice till 1860, when he was elected a 

 delegate to the Republican National Convention, 

 and also to Congress from the 4th Pennsylvania 

 District. By re-elections he held the office con- 

 tinuously till his death, and as the oldest member 

 in point of consecutive service was known as " the 

 Father of the House." During his lomj service he 

 was conspicuous as an advocate of high protective 

 duties, and his earnest and constant championship of 

 the pig-iron interest of his State caused him to be 

 known familiarly as " Pig-iron Kelley." He had 

 served on the committees on agriculture, naval affairs, 

 Indian affairs, weights and measures, and Centennial 

 celebration, and at the time of his death was a mem- 

 ber of the Committee on Ways and Means. Judge 

 Kelley was both popular and effective as a lecturer, 

 and as a writer on issues of the day had a large and 

 appreciative following. Besides many political ad- 

 dresses and literary essays, he published : " Address 

 to the Colored Department of the House of Refuge " 

 (1850) ; u Reasons for abandoning the Theory of 

 Free Trade and adopting the Principle of Protection 

 to American Industry " (1872) ; " Letters from Eu- 

 rope " (1880) ; and " The New South " (1887). 



King, Eufas H., lawyer, born in Rensselaerville, Al- 

 bany County, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1820; died in Catskill, 

 N. Y., Sept. 13, 1890. He was graduated at Wesley an 

 University, Lima, N. Y., was admitted to the bar in 

 ' 1843, was elected to Congress in 1854, was President 

 of the Catskill Bank from 1857 till 1868, and was a 

 Republican presidential elector in 1860. In 1868 and 

 1880 he was a delegate to the National Republican 

 conventions, and in the latter was one of the body of 

 306 delegates who voted to nominate Gen. Grant for 

 a third term. On May 5, 1885, he was elected Presi- 

 dent of the Catskill Savings Bank. 



IQutshak, Henry W,, explorer, born in Prague. Bo- 

 hemia, in 1848 ; died in New York city, March 26. 

 1890. He was a son of the editor and proprietor of 

 the '' Bohemia" newspaper in Prague, was educated 

 for a civil engineer, became a skillful draughtsman, 

 and settled in the United States in 1870. Almost 

 immediately on his arrival he engaged for a whaling 

 voyage to Repulse Bay, Greenland, which lasted 

 nearly three years, and on his return he accompanied 

 a seal-hunting expedition from New London to the 

 Antartic Ocean. At the expiration of this cruise he 

 was employed on several transatlantic steamships as 

 an interpreter, till the expedition to search for the Sir 

 John Franklin records was. fitted out in 1877, when 

 he joined the party as the artist. In July. 1878, he 

 sailed in the " Eothen " for Marble Island, in com- 

 pany with Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, William H. 

 Gilder, Frank Melius. and " Esquimau Joe." While 

 in the Arctic regions he made the sketches afterward 

 published by Harper & Brothers and the "London 

 Illustrated News," and discovered the remains of 

 Lieut. Irving, one of Sir John Franklin's officers. 

 After returning from the expedition, he lectured on it 

 in Austria and Germany ; was decorated with the 

 Cross of Honor bv the Emperor of Austria ; and, 

 making his home in New York city, spent the re- 

 mainder of his life in humble service, though po ~~ 

 ing much skill as an artist and a civil engineer. 



Lapham, Elbridge Gerry, lawyer, born in Farmington, 

 Ontario County, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1814; died in Glen 

 Gerry, Canandaigua lake, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1890. He 

 was brought up on a farm, subsequently studied in 

 Canandaigua Academy, where he had 'Stephen A. 

 Douglas for a classmate ; became a civil engineer, and 

 was employed in the construction of the Michigan 

 Southern Railroad ; and was admitted to the bar in 

 1844. He established himself in practice in Canan- 

 daigua, and resided there till his death. In 1867 he 

 was elected a member of the New York Constitutional 

 Convention, andin 1874, 1876, 1878, and 1880 was elect- 

 ed to Congress from the 27th N ew York District as a Re- 

 publican, serving in that body on the judiciary com- 

 mittee. After the resignations of Roscoe Conkling 

 and Thomas C. Platt as United States Senators from 

 New York in 1881, Mr. Lapham became the nominee 

 of the Republican caucus of the Legislature for Mr. 

 Conkling's former seat, and on July 22, in the joint 

 convention of the Legislature, he first received 63 

 votes, with 40 for Clarkson N. Potter. 28 for Roscoe 

 Conkling, and 1 for Stewart L. Woodford. On the 

 second ballot he received 92 votes, with 42 for Mr. 

 Potter and 68 necessary for a choice. He was accord- 

 ingly declared elected for the term expiring March 3, 

 1885, and took his seat on Oct. 11 following his elec- 

 tion. In the Senate he was chairman of the commit- 

 tee on fisheries, and a member of the standing com- 

 mittees on foreign relations, patents, and elections, 

 and of the select committee on woman suffrage. 



Lay, Oliver Ingraham, artist, born in New York city, 

 Jan. 31, 1845 ; died in Stratford, Conn., June 28. 1890. 

 He studied painting in Cooper Union Art School, in 

 the National Academy of Design, and with Thomas 

 Hicks ; was elected an associate of the Academy in 

 1876, and was a member of the Artist Fund Society 

 and of the Century Club. He had had a studio in 

 the Young Mens' Christian Association building for 

 nearly twenty years, and had distinguished himself 

 as a painter of portraits and figures. Among his por- 

 traits are those of Robert and Cornelius Ray and Na- 

 thaniel Prime, in the Chamber of Commerce Collec- 

 tion ; Gen. Grant, in the United States Bank ; and 

 Aaron Burr, in the Century Club. One of his most 

 pleasing sketches is that of Edwin Booth as " Hamlet." 



Lester, Charles Edwards, author, born in Griswold, 

 Conn., July 15, 1815; died in Detroit, Mich. Jan. 

 29, 1890. He studied law and theology, and began 

 preaching, but was soon obliged to abandon it on ac- 

 count of" weak lungs. In 1840 he went to England 

 as one of the American delegates to the Exeter Hall 

 Anti-Slavery Convention, as well as for his health, 

 and while there was appointed United States consul 

 at Genoa, Italy, whei'e nc resided six years. On re- 

 turning to the United States he made his home in 

 New York city till within a short time of his death, 

 and engaged in editorial, and general literary work. 

 His publications include: " The Glory and Shame of 

 England (2 vols., New York, 1841), praising England 

 for'emancipating slaves in her West India colonies, 

 and condemning her for the slavery permitted in the 

 home factories and coal mines ; u Condition and Fate 

 of England" (1842); " The Artist, Merchant, and 

 Statesman " (1845) ; " Life and Voyages of Americus 

 Vespucius" (1846); " Artists in America" (1846); 

 "My Consulship" (2 vols., 1851); " The Napoleon 

 Dynasty" (1852); "Life and Public Services of 

 Charles Sumner " (1874); "Our First Hundred Years " 

 (1874) ; " America's Advancement ( 1878) ; "The Mex- 

 ican Republic" (1878) ; "Historyofthe United States" 

 (2 vols., 1883) ; and "Life aud Achievements of Sam 

 Houston" (1883) ; besides several translations. 



Lincoln, Abraham, student, born in Chicago, 111., in 

 1871; died in London. England, March 5, 1890. He 

 was the grandson of the martyred President, and the 

 only son of Robert Tod and Mary Marian Lincoln. 

 He pursued preparatory studies in Washington while 

 his father was Secretary of War, and afterward in the 

 University School in Chicago, with the intention of 

 entering Harvard University and subsequently study- 

 ing law. On the appointment of his father to be 



