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in 1888-89. He supported the candidacy of McKinley (1900), and was consul-general at 

 Havana (1902) and at Hong-Kong (1902-06). 



George Jarvis Brush, American mineralogist, died February 6, 1912. He was born in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., December 15, 1831. He studied chemistry and mineralogy in New Haven 

 and in Europe; and after teaching at the University of Louisville and the University of 

 Virginia, became professor of metallurgy (1855) and of mineralogy (1864) at the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University. From 1872 to 1898, when he became professor emeritus, 

 he was director of that institution. 



Charles Stedman Bull, physician, died April 17, 1911. He was born in New York City, 

 graduated at the medical school of Columbia in 1868, and completed his studies at several 

 European universities. His specialty was ophthalmology, which he taught at the Cornell 

 University Medical College, and practised in St. Luke's and other hospitals in New York City. 

 He was president of the American Ophthalmological Society in 1903-07. 



Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, died in Heidelberg, Germany, June I, 1912. He 

 was born in Henderson, N. Y., September 4, 1846. He studied architecture in Chicago, 

 and established himself there. Many famous buildings in American cities, including the 

 Rookery and Temple, Chicago, and the "Flatiron," New York, as well as Selfridge's. 

 London, were designed by him. He was chief crchitect of the Columbian Exposition, 

 Chicago, 1893. He was chairman of the national commission for beautifying Washington, 

 D. C., and of the committee for remodelling Cleveland, Ohio. He also planned extensive 

 alterations for Manila, San Francisco, and Chicago. 



Silas Wright Burt, civil-service reformer, died in New York City, November 30, 1912. 

 He was born in Albany, N. Y., April 25, 1830, graduated from Union College in 1849, and 

 practised as a civil engineer for some years. About 1867 he began to take deep interest in 

 civil-service reform and when, two years later, he was appointed special deputy naval officer 

 of the port of New York he had the opportunity of studying the evils of the spoils system. 

 He induced the naval officer to permit a competitive examination for promotion, which was 

 however limited to persons whose applications for promotion were on file, and this was 

 practically the beginning of the merit system. He was chairman of the supervisory examin- 

 ing board in New York, 1872-75, and was twice naval officer (1878-83; 1885-89) of the port 

 of New York, chief examiner of the state civil service (1883-85), and a member of the state 

 civil service commission from 1895 to 1900, and president in 1900. One of the founders 

 (1880) of the Civil Service Reform Association of New York, he was its president in 1907. 



Arthur Tracy Cabot, surgeon, died in Boston, November 4, 1912. He was born there 

 on January 5, 1852, graduated from Harvard College in 1872 and from Harvard medical 

 school in 1876, and studied in Vienna and Berlin. He was a fellow of Harvard University, 

 chairman of the state commission on hospitals for consumptives, consulting surgeon of many 

 hospitals, and a member of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, etc. 



Will Carleton, verse-writer, died in Brooklyn, New York, on December 18, 1912. He 

 was born in Hudson, Michigan, October 21, 1845; graduated at Hillsdale College in 1869; 

 was in newspaper work in Chicago and Detroit in 1870 and 1871 and in the latter year 



Eublished in the Toledo Blade a poem "Betsy and I are out," which won such great popu- 

 irity by its colloquial style and simple homely character that he left the Detroit Tribune 

 to write verse and to be a lecturer and public reader of his writings. His published volumes, 

 which had a large sale, include Farm Ballads, Farm Legends, Farm Festivals, City Ballads, 

 Rhymes of Our Planet, In Old School Days. 



John Merven Carrere, architect, died in New York City from injuries received in a 

 cab accident, March I, 1911. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 9, 1858. 

 He was one of the first Americans to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. In New 

 York he] became associated with McKim, Mead & White, and in 1885 formed a partner- 

 ship with Thomas Hastings. Their first important work, the Ponce de Leon Hotel at St. 

 Augustine, Fla., placed them in the front rank of their profession. Among their other noted 

 buildings are the New York Public Library, and the Senate and House of Representatives 

 Office Building in Washington. 



Henry Beebee Carrington, soldier, died in Boston, Mass., October 26, 1912. He was 

 born in Wallingford, Conn., March 2, 1824, and graduated from the Yale law school in 

 1847. From 1848 to 1861 he practised law in Columbus, Ohio, and then took a prominent 

 part in the Civil War, being appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. After the 

 close of the war he entered the regular army as colonel. He was in command at Fort Phil 

 Kearny at the time of the Fetterman massacre (December 1866) by the Sioux Indians. 

 Wounded in a subsequent skirmish, he was retired from active service in 1870, and was 

 appointed professor of military science at Wabash College. In 1875 he began to map the 

 battlefields of the American War for Independence, the basis of his valuable Battles of the 

 American Revolution (1876) and Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution. From 

 1889 to 1891 he was employed by the American Government to treat with the Indians. In 

 1904 he received the rank of brigadier-general, U.S.A. He also wrote Washington the 

 Soldier (1899) and other works on American history, especially military. 



William Campbell Clark, manufacturer, president of the Clark Thread Works of Newark, 

 New Jersey, died on November 14, 1912. He was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1863, of a 



