7S 6 AMERICAN OBITUARY 



Isaac Kaufman Funk, publisher and author, died April 4, 1912. He was born in Clifton, 

 O., September 10, 1839, studied at Wittenberg College, and entered the Lutheran ministry 

 in 1861. He edited (1872 seqq.) several ecclesiastical weeklies, notably The Homiletic 

 Review. In 1877 he, with A. W. Wagnalls, formed the publishing house of Funk & Wagnalls 

 Company. The firm produced such noteworthy works as A Standard Dictionary and the 

 Jewish Encyclopaedia, of which Dr. Funk was editor-in-chief or chairman of an editorial 

 board; and published the Literary Digest. He was a Prohibitionist and in 1880 established 

 The Voice as a party organ; and he was much interested in the problems of psychic phenom- 

 ena, and wrote, The Next Step in Evolution (1902), The Widow's Mite and Other Psychic 

 Phenomena, (1904) and The Psychic Riddle (1907). 



Jacques Futrelle, author, was lost with the "Titanic," April 15, 1912. His wife was 

 saved. He was born in Pike county, Georgia, April 9, 1875, a d engaged in journalism 

 (1890^-1902) and theatrical management (1902-04). He wrote fiction of a popular nature, 

 and his best known books are: The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906), The Thinking Machine 

 (1907), and, published after his death, My Lady's Garter. 



George Augustus Gates, educator, president of Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.) from 

 1909, died at Wintershaven, Florida, on November 20, 1912. He was born in Topsham, 

 Vermont, January 24, 1851, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873 a d at Andover Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1880, and in the same year was ordained a Congregationalist minister. 

 After a pastorate of seven years in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, he served as president 

 of Iowa College in 1887-1901 and of Pomona College (California) in 1902-09. 



John Warne Gates, American capitalist, died in Paris, August 8, 1911. He was born 

 near Chicago, 111., in 1855, and first displayed his great business ability as a travelling sales- 

 man, introducing barbed wire into Texas. He established himself in this business, and 

 organised the Southern Wire Co. and later the Braddock Wire Co., which absorbed other 

 companies. This was sold to the Federal Steel Co. in 1 898, and Gates organised the American 

 Steel and Wire Co. now a part of the U.S. Steel Corporation. His activities were also ex- 

 tended to deals in railway and industrial stocks. He had undoubted talent, although his 

 methods were often severely criticised, and he died possessed of a large fortune. 



William Washington Gordon, soldier and merchant, died at White Sulphur Springs, 

 Va., on September _ 12, 1912. He was born at Savannah, Ga., on October 14, 1834, and 

 graduated at Yale in 1854. At the beginning of the Civil W T ar he became 2nd lieutenant 

 in J. E. B. Stuart's cavalry (the Georgia Hussars), and was afterwards captain and inspector 

 of Mercer's brigade, and then captain and adjutant of Anderson's brigade, in Joseph Wheeler's 

 cavalry. He was senior partner in the cotton firm of W. W. Gordon & Co., and from 1876 to 

 1879 was president of the Savannah Cotton Exchange. From 1884 to 1890 he was a member 

 of the Georgia House of Representatives. He served in the Spanish-American War as 

 brigadier-general of volunteers, and was a member of the Porto Rican evacuation commission. 



Charles Chapman Grafton, Protestant Episcopal bishop, since 1889, of Fond du Lac, died 

 August 30, 1912. He was born in Boston, April 12, 1830, graduated at the Harvard Law 

 School in 1853, studied divinity with Bishop Whittingham of Maryland, and was ordained 

 deacon in 1855 and priest in 1858. He spent 1865-72 in England where he founded in 1865 

 with R. M. Benson the Society of the St. John the Evangelist, better known as the "Cowley 

 Fathers," described in Hall Caine's The Christian. In 1872-88 he was rector of the Church 

 of the Advent, Boston. He established the St. Margaret's Sisterhood in Boston, the Sisters 

 of the Holy Nativity in Providence, R. I., and Grafton Hall, a school for girls at Fond du 

 Lac. He was a leader of the High Church party in America, and wrote Fond du Lac Tracts; 

 Christian and Catholic (1905) and The Lineage of the American Catholic Church (1911). 



Benjamin Henry Grierson, military officer, died September I, 1911. He was born at 

 Pittsburg, Pa., July 8, 1826, and entered the Union cavalry atthe'openingof the Civil War. He 

 captured Baton Rouge in May 1862 with forces from Tennessee, as a part of Grant's opera- 

 tions on Vicksburg, and the raids of his troops in Mississippi and Alabama in 1863-64, 

 among the most brilliant minor performances of the great conflict, won him the brevets of 

 brigadier and major-general, respectively. He became a colonel in the regular army in 1866, 

 and was retired in 1890 after reaching the rank of brigadier-general. 



Clement Acton Griscom, financier, died November 10, 1912. He was born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., November 15, 1841, and in 1857 entered the shipping business, in which he rose 

 to be general manager (1894) of the International Mercantile Marine Co. (originally Inter- 

 national Navigation Co.). This office he resigned in 1904, assuming the chairmanship of 

 the board of directors. He was a director in many financial and industrial corporations. 



Benjamin Guggenheim, capitalist, perished in the wreck of the "Titanic on April 15, 

 1912, aged 47. He was a member of the firm of M. Guggenheim's Sons and of the American 

 Smelting & Refining Co., with great interests in Colorado and Alaska. 



Benjamin Morgan Harrod, civil engineer, died September 7, 1912. He was born in New 

 Orleans, February 19, 1837, graduated at Harvard in 1856, served in the Confederate army, 

 becoming captain of engineers, and was state engineer in 1877-80, member of the Mississippi 

 River Commission 1879-1904 and of the Panama Canal Commission in 1904-07, city engineer 

 of New Orleans in 1888-92, and in charge of that city's drainage construction in 1895-1902. 

 In 1897-98 he was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 



