7 6 4 AMERICAN OBITUARY 



rian independence under Kossuth in 1848 he came to the United States (1856) and engaged 

 in journalism until the Civil War broke out. In this he participated, first as lieutenant- 

 colonel of a New York regiment, and rose to be major-general of volunteers in March 1863. 

 He was prominent at the first battle of Bull Run, in Fremont's operations in the Shenan- 

 doah Valley, in Pope's Army of Virginia, and for a ^short jtime jhad command of the nth 

 Army Corps. In March 1863 he held a command in the defence of Washington. He was 

 American consul at Yokohama, and consul-general at Shanghai in 1884-85. 



Isidor Straus, merchant and philanthropist, was a victim of the "Titanic" disaster April 

 15, 1912. He was born in Rhenish Bavaria, February 6, 1845, went to the United States 

 when nine years of age and was educated in Georgia. In 1863 he went to Europe to assist in 

 purchasing steamers and supplies for the Confederate Government, and three years later 

 joined his father in New York City in the business of importing pottery and glassware. He 

 was also a partner in several large department stores in New York City. He was a strong 

 supporter of tariff reform and sound money, took a prominent part in the Democratic pres- 

 idential campaign of 1892, and in 1894-95 served in the Federal House of Representatives, 

 where he assisted in drafting the Wilson Tariff. He was connected with many charitable 

 and philanthropic institutions, notably the Educational Alliance of New York City. 



Ralph Stockman Tarr, geographer, died March 21, 1912. He was born at Gloucester, 

 Mass., January 15, 1864 and graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Univer- 

 sity in 1891. He was assistant professor of geology at Cornell University in 1892-97, pro- 

 fessor of dynamic geology and physical geography in 1897-1906, and thereafter professor of 

 physical geography. He had an international reputation through his work in geology and 

 geography, especially in the field of glaciology, in the study of which he made several expedi- 

 tions to Greenland and Alaska, one to Alaska under the auspices of the National Geographic 

 Societv shortly before his death. He was president in 191 1-12 of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Geographers, and was an associate-editor of the Bulletin of the American Geographi- 

 cal Society and the Journal of Geography. He wrote a number of valuable papers and mono- 

 graphs and was the author of a widely-used series of geographical text-books, of a New 

 Physical Geography (1904), etc. 



Denman Thompson, actor, died April 14, 191 1. He was born at Girard, Pa., in 1833, but 

 was reared in New Hampshire. He began his professional career with a travelling circus in 

 New England about 1850. His work on the stage was inconspicuous, until, in 1875, he wrote 

 a short play, Joshua Whitcomb, portraying characteristic types of rural New England, which 

 was immediately successful and was expanded by its author to larger proportions and 

 renamed The Old Homestead, This medium, peculiarly fitted to his abilities, was his sole 

 dramatic resource until he abandoned the stage in 1910, and it brought him a large fortune. 



Bradford Tprrey, naturalist, died at Santa Barbara, California, on October 7, 1912. He 

 was born in Weymouth, Mass., on October 9, 1843, and had a common school education. 

 He was an editor in 1886-1901 of the Youth's Companion (Boston), and among his books 

 were: Birds in the Bush (1885), A Rambler's Lease (1889), A Florida Sketch- Book (1894), 

 Every-Day Birds (1900), The Clerk of the Woods (1903) and Nature's Invitation (1904). 



Eugene F. Ware, lawyer and poet, widely known as "Ironquill," died at Cascade, Colo., 

 July I, 1911. He was born at Hartford, Conn., May 29, 1841 and was reared in Iowa. He 

 served in the Union cavalry in the Civil War and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1871. 

 He held public office as (Republican) state senator in 1879-84 and was U.S. pension com- 

 missioner in 1902-05. His newspaper verse was afterwards collected in the Rhymes of 

 Ironquill which has run through many editions. Among his other works are The Rise and 

 Fall of the Saloon (1900); The Lyon Campaign and History of the First Iowa Infantry (1907) 

 Ithuriel (1909); From Court to Court (1909). He also made translations of French and Latin 

 works, including Justinian's Roman Water Law. 



Henry White Warren, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Denver, 

 Colorado, on July 23, 1912. He was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, on January 4, 

 1831, and was a brother of William Fairfield Warren (b. 1833; president of Boston Univer- 

 sity, 1873-1903). He graduated at Wesleyan University in 1853, was ordained in 1855, 

 filled pastorates in Massachusetts in 1871, in Philadelphia in 1871-74 and from 1879 to 1880 

 when he was elected bishop. He edited The Study (1896-1900) and was a prolific writer, 

 publishing Recreations in Astronomy (1879), The Bible in the World's Education (1892), etc. 



Alexander Stewart Webb, military officer and educator, died February 12, 1911. He 

 was born in New York City, February 15, 1831, and was graduated from the U.S. Military 

 Academy in 1855. In the Civil War he served in the Army of the Potomac, being made 

 brigadier-general of volunteers in June 1863. He was wounded at Gettysburg, on the 

 Rapidan, and at Spottsylvania. At the time of Lee's surrender he was General Meade's 

 chief of staff. After the war he was brevetted major-general in the regular army. In 1870 he 

 was discharged at his own request because in the previous year he had been chosen president 

 of the College of the City of New York. Here he remained until 1903, when he retired. 

 He wrote The Peninsula, an excellent sketch of the McClellan Campaign of 1862. 



Frederic Cope Whitehouse, lawyer and archaeologist, died November 16, 191 1. He was 

 born at Rochester, N. Y., November 9, 1842, graduated at Columbia University in 1861, 

 studied in Europe, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1871. He spent much time 



