AMERICAN OBITUARY 7S i 



AMERICAN OBITUARY 



The following persons, separately noticed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, died 

 between the publication of that work and the end of 1912. 



Thomas Ball (b. 1819; see E. B. iii, 263), sculptor, on December II, 1911. 



Clara Barton (b. 1821; see E. B. iii, 452), philanthropist, on April 12, 1912. 



John Bigelow (b, 1817; see E. B. iii, 922), diplomat and journalist, in New York City.on 

 December 19, 1911. 



Cornelius Newton Bliss (b. 1833; see E. B. iv, 72), merchant and politician, on October 

 9, 1911. 



Robert Collyer (b. 1823 ; see E. B. vi, 694), Unitarian preacher and author, in New York 

 City, on November 30, 1912. 



Mary Baker (Glover) Eddy (b. 1822; see E. B. vi, 291 a and 83oc), founder of Christian 

 Science, at Boston, on December 4, 1910. 



George Gary Eggleston (b. 1839; see E. B. ix, i6b), writer, on April 14, 1911. 



Horace Howard Furness (b. 1834; see E. B. xi, 362), Shakespearean scholar, at Walling- 

 ford, Pa., on August 13, 1912. He edited Anthony and Cleopatra in the Variorum Shaks- 

 peare in 1907. 



William Watson Goodwin (b. 1831 ; see E. B. xii, 240), Greek grammarian, at Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, on June 15, 1912. 



Frederick Dent Grant (b. 1850; see E. B. xii, 358c), army officer, commanding Eastern 

 Division, in New York City, on April n, 1912. 



John Marshall Harlan (b. 1833; see E. B. xii, 954), justice of U.S. Supreme Court, on 

 October 14, 1911. 



Edward Harrigan (b. 1845; see E. B. xii, 17), actor and playwright, on June 6, 1911. 



Jonathan Scott Hartley (b. 1845; see E. B. xiii, 35), sculptor, on December 6, 1912. 



Thomas Wentworth Higginson (b. 1823 ; see E. B. xiii, 455), author, on May 9, 191 1. 



Henry Christopher McCook (b. 1837; see E. B. xvii, 2O5d), naturalist, on October 31, 

 1911. 



John James McCook (b. 1845; see E. B. xvii, 2O5c), soldier and lawyer, on September 

 17, 1911. 



Francis Davis Millet (b. 1846; see E. B. xviii, 466), painter and author, in the "Titanic" 

 disaster, April 15, 1912. He had been recently appointed head of the American Academy 

 at Rome. 



Roger Quarles Mills (b. 1832; see E. B. xviii, 475), legislator, on September 2, 1911. 



Sara Agnes Pryor (b. 1830; see E. B. xxii, 533b), author, on February 15, 1912 



Howard Pyle (b. 1853; see E. B. xxii, 679), artist and author, near Florence, Italy, on 

 November 9, 1911. 



WhitelawReid (b. 1837; see E. B. xxiii, 52), diplomat, in London, on December 15, 1912. 



Winfield Scott Schley (b. 1839; see E. B. xxiv, 340), naval officer, in New York City, on 

 October 2, 1911. 



Frederick Porter Vinton (b. 1846; see E. B. xxviii, 101), portrait painter, on May 20, 1911. 



Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (b. 1844; see E.B. xxviii, 319), author, on January 28, 

 1911. Among her later books were: The Oath of Allegiance (1909) and Comrade (1911). 



James Baird Weaver (b. 1833, see E. B. xxviii, 439), politician, on February 6, 1912. 

 In 1904-06 he was mayor of Coif ax, Iowa. 



The following is a series of brief sketches of some of the more important Americans 1 

 not separately treated in the nth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, who have 

 died since its publication: 



John ArbuCkle, business man, died in New York City on March 27, 1912. He was born 

 in Scotland in 1838, and in 1871 established in New York the house of Arbuckle Bros, which 

 sold sugar and imported and roasted coffee for retail sale in packages, and in the sale of sugar 

 and of coffee competed successfully with the "Sugar Trust." A terminal warehouse and 

 a large towing and salvage business grew out of the coffee importation, and the house was 

 very successful in raising wrecked vessels. Arbuckle established a farm-colony for the 

 unemployed at New Paltz, N. Y. He was interested in horse-breeding and owned a large 

 ranch in Wyoming. He left a large bequest for a memorial building under the care of 

 Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, to be a home for young men and women. 



Sidney Gillespie Ashmore, Latinist, professor at Union College since. 1881, died in 

 Schenectady, N. Y., on May 22, 1911. He was born in London, April 15, 1852, graduated 

 at Columbia University in 1872, taught at Lehigh University in 1873-76 and at Columbia 

 from 1876 until he went to Union, and wrote The Classics and Modern Training (1905) and 

 edited with notes a complete text of Terence (1909), based on Tyrrell. 



John Jacob Astor, capitalist, died when the "Titanic" sank, April 15, 1912. He was 

 born at Rhinebeck, New York, on July 13, 1864, the great grandson of John Jacob Astor (see 



1 Other obituary notices are included in articles on separate states of the Union. 



