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sight and a high state of nervous irritability, were spent in long cruises in his private yacht 

 on which he died in the harbour of Charleston, S. C. But up to the end he was most active 

 in directing the World. He founded the School of Journalism at Columbia University, New 

 York City, and made bequests of $500,000 each to the New York Philharmonic Society and 

 the Metropolitan Museum. 



Myrtle Reed, author, died August 17, 1911. She was born in Chicago, 111., September 

 27, 1874, and married J. S. McCullough in 1906. She wrote popular fiction, essays and verse, 

 including Love Letters of a Musician (1899); Later Love Letters of a Musician (1900); The 

 Spinster Book (1901); Lavender and Old Late (1902); Pickaback Songs (1903); The Shadow 

 of Victory (1903); The Master's Violin (1904); The Book of Clever Beasts (1904); At the 

 Sign of the Jack o' Lantern (1905); A Spring in the Sun (1906); Love Affairs of Literary Men 

 (1907); Flower of the Dusk (1908); and the Weavers of Dr earns (1911). 



Eugene Lamb Richards, professor of mathematics at Yale in 1891-1906 and a director of 

 the Yale gymnasium in 1892-1902, died at Beach Haven, N. J., August 5, 1912. He was 

 born in Brooklyn, December 27, 1838, graduated at Yale in 1860, and became tutor in 

 mathematics there in 1868. He wrote on college athletics and published text books of 

 Trigonometry (1879) and Elementary Navigation (1902). 



Maurice Howe Richardson, surgeon, died on Juty 31, 1912. He was born in Athol, 

 Mass., on December 31, 1851, graduated at Harvard College in 1873 and at the Harvard 

 Medical School in 1877, practised in Boston, and taught anatomy and surgery at Harvard 

 after 1879, becoming Moseley professor of surgery in 1907. In 1911 the post of surgeon in 

 chief to the Massachusetts General Hospital was created for him. 



Theophilus Francis Rodenbaugh, soldier and author, died December 19, 1912. He was 

 born in Easton, Pa., November 5, 1838; served as a volunteer in the Civil War, losing an arm 

 and^being made brigadier (March 13, 1865) for gallantry at Cold Harbor; entered the regular 

 army in 1866, and retired in 1870 with rank of colonel; and in 1904 was made brigadier- 

 general retired. He wrote: From Everglade to Canon with the Second Dragoons (1875), 

 Afghanistan and the Anglo- Russian Dispute (1885) and Sabre and Bayonet (1897), and edited 

 in 1899 the Journal of the Military Service Institution. 



Abbott Lawrence Rotch, meteorologist, died at Boston, Mass., April 7, 1912, where he was 

 born January 6, 1861. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 

 1864, and became professor of meteorology at Harvard in 1906. After 1885, he maintained 

 from his private fortune the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory near Boston. Here he 

 first introduced the use of kites in exploring the upper air. He also obtained valuable data 

 with registration balloons five to ten miles above the earth. He collaborated with Teis- 

 serenc de Bort (1905-06) in sending a steam yacht to explore the tropical atmosphere, and 

 took part in scientific expeditions to South America, Europe and Africa. He wrote Sound- 

 ing the Ocean of the Air (1901) and The Conquest of the Air (1909). Upon his death the 

 Blue Hill Observatory became the property of Harvard. 



Patrick John Ryan, Catholic prelate, died February n, 1911. He was born in Thurles, 

 County Tipperary, Ireland, February 20, 1831, and removed to the United States after 

 graduation from Carlow College and ordination as a sub-deacon in 1852. He taught English 

 Literature at Carondelet Seminary in St. Louis, was ordained a priest in 1853, and became 

 rector of St. John's Cathedral there. He was made coadjutor-bishop of St. Louis in 1872; 

 was promoted to an archbishopric eleven years later; and in 1884 was transferred to the see 

 of Philadelphia, where he remained for the rest of his life. President Roosevelt appointed 

 him to the board of Indian Commissioners in 1902. He wrote What Catholics Do Not 

 Believe, and Causes of Modern Religious Skepticism. 



Charles Robert Sanger, chemist, director of the Harvard laboratory after September 

 1903, died on February 25, 1912. He was born in Boston, August 31, 1860, graduated in 

 1881 at Harvard, where he was assistant in chemistry in 1882 and 1884-86 and (after teaching 

 the same subject at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1886-92 and at Washington University, St. 

 Louis, in 1892-99) assistant professor in 1899-1903 and then professor. 



Margaret Elizabeth (Munson) Sangster, editor and author, died at Glen Ridge, N. J., 

 June 4, 1912. She was born at New Rochelle, N. Y., February 22, 1838, and was married 

 to George Sangster in 1858. At an early age she began contributing to current periodicals, 

 and became one of the best known writers in the United States on topics of special interest 

 to women and girls. She was staff editor on many women's and children's periodicals. She 

 wrote Winsome Womanhood, Fairest Girlhood, The Queenly Mother in the Realm of Home, etc. 



William Lindsay Scruggs, diplomat and authority on South America, died in Atlanta, 

 Georgia, on July 18, 1912. He was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, September 14, 1836, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1858, edited the Columbus (Georgia) Sun in 1862-66 and the Atlanta 

 New Era in 1870-72, and was minister to Colombia in 1872-77 and (after being consul- 

 general in China) in 1882-87 and to Venezuela in 1889-93. In 1894-98 he was legal adviser 

 of Venezuela and agent for the settlement of the boundary dispute with Great Britain, arbi- 

 trated in 1897. He wrote The Colombian and Venezuelan Republics (3 ed., 1905), Origin 

 and Meaning of the Monroe Doctrine (1902), and several books on the boundary dispute. 



William Hall Sherwood, pianist and composer, died in Chicago, January 7, 1911. He 

 was born at Lyons, N. Y., January 31, 1854, the son of a music teacher, and studied music 



