OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



years. lie was a native of Hollis, N. II., and 

 in 1888 entered vpon MiMMarMsta 



In iMiti he, became np'iit t'ur Hurt A; 

 line between Worcester and JS 



holding that position until tin- op. nim/ of the; 

 Western Kailroad, \vlu-n lie wu* taken ii:(" thu 

 new service of transporting ja--i-n^rr> i>nd 

 fiviirht. basin:,' liad charge of the lii^t In. in 

 tt fnii u Boston to Springfield in 1889. 

 I p"ti liis rr-'iLiiatii'ii of his position as con- 

 ductor In- WHS appointed superintendent of the 

 sleeping-cars between Boston and New York, 

 and in INTiJ was made superintendent of all 

 the s'r. -pin;.', parlor, passenger, atfd baggage 

 f all the trains between the two cities. 

 In 1871 and 1878 Mr. Parker was elected a 

 number of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 

 sentatives. He was very fond of antiquarian 

 studies, and was made a member of the Massa- 

 ciiu-i'tts Historical and Genealogical Society 

 in 1802. 



Jan. 6. BAYLOR, RICHARD E. B., LL. D., a 

 political leader and philanthropist, born in 

 A laharaa (about 1797), of an influential family, 

 who after receiving a good education entered 

 the ministry in the Baptist denomination, and 

 in I'-i-J'.t was elected to Congress. At the ex- 

 piration of his term he declined a reelection, 

 and about 1840 removed to Texas, where he 

 acijuirod u large amount of land and an ample 

 property in the vicinity of Independence, Wash- 

 ington County. He was for twenty-five years 

 a Judge of the District Court in Texas. Judge 

 Baylor founded Baylor University at Inde- 

 pendence, giving it 700 acres of land and some 

 money. One of the counties of Texas was 

 also named after him. 



Jan. 7. LOWELL, Mrs. A. CABOT, a well- 

 known teacher and writer for children; died 

 tit Cambridge, Mass. She was a native of Bos- 

 ton, Mass. Her principal works were, " Theory 

 of Teaching " (1841) ; " Edward's First Lesson 

 in Grammar" (1843); "Gleanings from the 

 Poets" (1843); "Edward's First Lessons in 

 Geometry " (1844) ; " Olympic Games " (1845) ; 

 " Outlines of Astronomy " (1850) ; " Letters to 

 Madame Pulsky " (1852) ; "Thoughts on the 

 Education of Girls" (1853); and "Seed Grain 

 for Thought and Discussion," 2 vols. (1856). 



Jan. 7. THOMPSON, Hon. JOHN B., former 

 Lieutenant - Governor of Kentucky ; died at 

 Ilarrisonburg, Ky., aged 64 years. He was a 

 native of that State, from which he was chosen 

 as a Whig Representative to Congress, serving 

 from 1841 to 1848, and again from 1847 to 

 1851. In 1853 he was elected to the U. S. 

 Senate for the long term, and served on the 

 Committees on Private Land Claims and on 

 Pensions. 



Jan. 8. EASTMAN, SANFORD, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician, surgeon, and medical profess- 

 or ; died at Riverside, San Bernardino County, 

 Cal., aged 53 years. He was born in Lodi, 

 Seneca County, N. Y., graduated from Amherst 

 College in 1841, spent a few years in teaching 

 and agricultural pursuits, and, having turned 



his attention to the study of medicine, grad- 

 uated from the Medical JJepartmcnt of the Uni- 

 versity of Buffalo in February, 1851. Entering 

 upon the practice of bis profession in Buffalo, 

 he was in 1858 appointed to the professorship 

 of Anatomy in the Medical Department of the 

 University of Buffalo, to which was added in 

 1867 that of Clinical Surgery, which position 

 I.-- IK Id with honor to himself until his resig- 

 nation in 1870. He was also surgeon to the 

 Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, and surgeon 

 to the Buffalo General Hospital, to which he 

 gave his services without compensation. From 

 1861 to 1867 he was the health-officer of the 

 city, and in 1871 was appointed by Governor 

 1 lot! man a member of the Board of State Char- 

 ities. Later in the same year he removed to 

 California for the benefit of his impaired 

 health, continuing his practice to some extent 

 until a short time previous to his death. 1'r. 

 Eastman was an able physician, a skillful sur- 

 geon, and a superior lecturer, while his philan- 

 thropy led him to give more than half his 

 services to the poor and helpless. 



Jan. 14. STILLWELL, Hon. THOMAS N., min- 

 ister to Venezuela during President Johnson's 

 Administration; was killed at Anderson, Ind. 

 He was President of the First National Bank 

 in that town, and some difficulty growing out 

 of a business transaction led to a rencontre 

 with John E. Corwin, by whom he was shot 

 and instantly killed. 



Jan. 15. PELL, DTTNOAN C., a well-known 

 and enterprising merchant of New York ; died 

 in Newport, R. I., aged 68 years. 



Jan. 16. STEABNS, Rev. JOHN G., a vener- 

 able Baptist clergyman and author, born in 

 New Hampshire, in 1795, a member of the first 

 class in the Hamilton Literary and Theological 

 Institution (now Madison University), ordained 

 in 1821, and for fifty years a preacher in Cen- 

 tral New York; author of "The Primitive 

 Church ; " " Immortality of the Soul ; " " Cal- 

 vinism and Arrainianism ; " and "Free-Mason- 

 ry," an antimasonic work which had a very 

 large sale ; died in Clinton, N. Y. 



Jan. 17. SPARROW, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D., 

 an eminent Episcopal clergyman, and profess- 

 or, Dean of the Faculty of the General Theo- 

 logical Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, near Alexandria, Va., for the last 

 thirty-three years ; died very suddenly at the 

 First National Bank in Alexandria, aged 73 

 years. Dr. Sparrow was eminent for his schol- 

 arship, his thorough Biblical learning, and his 

 remarkable piety and devotion. 



Jan. 19. STBSBELS, FRIED RICH, a distin- 

 guished musician of German birth, but long 

 resident in this country, a musical composer 

 of fair ability ; died at Greensborough, N. 0. 



Jan. 21. LAFNITZ, ROBERT E., an American 

 sculptor, born in Russia, but came to this 

 country in infancy, his father, whose name he 

 bore, being eminent as a sculptor and having 

 emigrated to the United States in 1880. Mr. 

 Launitz studied art under his father's tuition, 



