7S4 AMERICAN OBITUARY 



family of thread makers, and in 1879 went to the United States, where he succeeded his 

 uncle as president of the Clark Company, which introduced British methods of manufacture 

 in the United States, and became one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country. 



Charles Finney Cox, railway officer, died at Yonkers, N. Y., January 24, 1912. Born 

 in Richmond Co., New York, January 16, 1846, he graduated at Oberlin College in 1869. 

 He was for many years treasurer of the New York Central lines west of Buffalo. 



William Demos Crum, negro physician, minister resident and consul-general to Liberia 

 since June 1910, died in Charleston, S. C., of African fever, on December 7, 1912. He was 

 born in Charleston on February 9, 1859, graduated at the A very Institute therein 1875 and 

 at the medical school of Howard University in 1881, and practised medicine in Charleston. 

 President Roosevelt appointed him port collector of that city in 1903, and in spite of local 

 opposition and of the Senate not confirming his nomination, Crum administered the office 

 from 1904 to 1910, when he resigned. He was managing commissioner of the negro exhibit 

 at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition of 1901-02 at Charleston. 



William Bayard Cutting, lawyer and philanthropist, died March i, 1912. He was born 

 in New York City, January 12, 1850, graduated at Columbia College in 1869 and at the 

 Columbia law school in 1871, and practised law in New York City. With his brother, 

 Robert Fulton Cutting (b. 1852), he was interested in the work of the Association for Im- 

 proving the Condition of the Poor, in building model tenements, and in many movements, 

 notably the Citizens' Union, for the improvement of municipal politics. ' He was an active 

 member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



Homer Calvin Davenport, cartoonist, died May 2, 1912. He was born in Silverton, 

 Oregon, March 8, 1867, and was reared on a farm. He was a jockey, a railroad fireman and 

 a circus clown before his talent for caricature found him employment on a San Francisco 

 newspaper in 1892. Three years later he went to New York, where he drew cartoons for 

 the American and Journal, notably in the presidential campaign of 1900, when he originated 

 the dollar-mark suit of clothes in his cartoons of Mark Hanna, and a gigantic figure of the 

 trusts which became well-known. He was interested in the breeding of Arabian horses 

 in the United States, and imported a number of them from Arabia. His cartoons have been 

 published in book form, and he wrote The Bell of Silverton and Other Short Oregon Stories. 



George Davidson, geographer, died in San Francisco, December 2, 1911. He was born 

 in Nottingham, May 9, 1825, removed to the United States in 1832, and was educated at the 

 Central High School of Philadelphia. He became honorary professor of geodesy at the 

 University of California in 1870 and professor of geography there in 1898, and took a leading 

 part in the study of the geography of western America, serving on government coast surveys 

 on the Pacific Coast (in charge 1868-^5), transit of Venus expeditions of U.S. government 

 in 1874 (Japan) and 1882 (New Mexico), and as president of the Pacific Geographical So- 

 ciety. In 1908 he received the Daly gold medal of the American Geographical Society. 



Sarah S. Platt Decker, a national leader in the women's suffrage movement, died at San 

 Francisco, Cal., July 7, 1912. She was born at Mclndoe Falls, Va., October I, 1852. She 

 worked successfully in Colorado for women's suffrage (adopted 1893), was president of the 

 Women's Club of Denver, and served four years as president of the General Federation of 

 Women's Clubs. In Colorado she was the first woman member of the state board of par- 

 dons, and later was appointed to the Colorado board of charities and corrections. She was 

 also a member of the National Child Labor Committee and the state civil service committee. 

 She was an earnest advocate of a sweeping anti-child-labour law, and urged the appointment 

 of women to offices in institutions for juvenile delinquency. She had been twice a widow 

 when she married Judge Decker of Colorado in 1901. 



John Fairfield Dryden, insurance official, died November 24, 1911. He was born at 

 Farmington, Me., August 7, 1839, and spent his youth at Worcester, Mass. He studied 

 for two years at Yale University, but was prevented from graduation on account of ill health. 

 Entering the insurance business as an agent, he made an exhaustive study of industrial 

 insurance as practised in England, and in 1873 founded the present Prudential Insurance 

 Co. of America, which, beginning as the Widow's and Orphan's Friendly Society, was the 

 first successful industrial insurance institution in the United States. After 1881 he was 

 president of the company. In 1880 by special act of legislature the right of policy holders 

 to vote was withdrawn and the financial control came largely into his hands. He was. U.S. 

 senator from New Jersey in 1902-07. 



Daniel Cady Eaton, art-critic, professor of the history and criticism of art in Yale Univer- 

 sity in 1869-76 and 1902-09, died on May 11, 1912. He was born in Johnstown, N. Y., 

 June 16, 1837, graduated at Yale in 1860 and at the Albany Law School in 1861 .practised 

 law until 1866, and then studied art in Berlin and Paris. He wrote handbooks of Greek and 

 Roman sculpture (1884) and of modern French painting (1909). 



Alice Morse Earle, author, died February 16, 1911. She was born at Worcester, Mass., 

 April 27, 1853, and was married to Henry Earle, in 1874. She wrote Customs and Fashions 

 in Old New England, Home Life in Colonial Days, Two Centuries of Costume in America, 

 and many other works on similar subjects. 



Samuel Franklin Emmons, economic geologist, died in Washington, D. C., March 28, 

 1911. He was born in Boston, March 29, 1841, graduated at Harvard in 1861 and studied 



