OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Bayard, sister of Peter Stuyvesant. She, with 

 her four children, accompanied the last of the 

 Dutch Governors to New York in May, 1647. 

 Mrs. How's grandfather was a Revolutionary 

 patriot, and a personal friend of Washington, 

 Franklin, Hamilton, Lafayette, and Kosciusko, 

 of whom Bancroft says, "Colonel John Bay- 

 ard was personally brave, pensive, earnest, and 

 devout." Mrs. How's health had been grad- 

 ually failing for a few months, but her mind 

 remained clear and unclouded till within a 

 week of her death. Early in March, in conver- 

 sation with her nephew, General James Grant 

 Wilson, she mentioned having been present 

 with her grandfather at the funeral services 

 held in honor of Washington at New Bruns- 

 wick, in December, 1799, and of her having 

 seen and spoken with Hamilton on her first 

 visit to Mrs. Bayard, of New York, in 1803. 

 She spent a portion of the winter of 1811-'12 

 in Washington, where she became intimate 

 with President Madison and his family circle, 

 meeting most of the prominent people of that 

 period. On one of her last visits to New York 

 she saw a lady after a separation of seventy 

 years. They were girls together at a fashion- 

 able school, and parted to meet again as vener- 

 able women of more than fourscore. Mrs. 

 How was a philanthropic Christian lady. 



KELLOGG, ENSIGN H., died at Pittsfield, 

 Mass., 1882, aged seventy years. He graduated 

 at Amherst in 1836, and made the law his pro- 

 fession. He was prominent in local political 

 atfairs, and had been a member of the State 

 House of Representatives, of which he was 

 Speaker for two terms. He served also as 

 Senator, and was the American representative 

 on the late Fisheries Commission. 



KIMBALL, EUGENE, born in Rochester, N. 

 Y. ; died in the same place, August 2, 1882, 

 aged thirty-one years. He was formerly a fa- 

 mous base-ball player, and belonged to the 

 Cleveland nine in 1871 and 1872, as center- 

 field and short stop. For eighteen years past 

 he had been a professional billiard- player, and 

 won distinction at cushion-carroms, which was 

 his best game. He has played in private all 

 over the country, and was widely known and 

 esteemed as an upright, honest man, with many 

 amiable qualities. His first public appearance 

 as a billiardist was in a tournament in Roches- 

 ter ; his last games were played in New York, 

 in April and June, 1882. In the first-named 

 month he played with Sexton, who gave him 

 150 points out of 500 ; he defeated Sexton by 

 99 points. In June he played a match with 

 Daly on even terms, and was defeated. Slos- 

 son, the champion, who knew Kimball well, 

 pronounced him a first-class player, of great 

 promise, showing signs of rapid improvement. 



LELAND, GEORGE S., born in Lansgrove, 

 Vt., 1838; died in New York city, August 

 2, 1882. Mr. Leland received the regular 

 Eastern common-school education, and at an 

 early age became interested in the manage- 

 ment of hotels. Before he was twenty-one he 



came to New York, and opened the well-re- 

 membered Clinton Hotel, where the Nassau 

 Bank and Kelly Building are now. In 1852 he 

 went to the Metropolitan Hotel, and his talent 

 and ability were soon noticed in the energetic 

 management of that popular and profitable 

 hotel. In 1861 he joined the army, and served 

 in the war for the Union. He was well equipped 

 mentally and physically for the exacting duties 

 of the commissariat department, and sought 

 usefulness there. His ability was soon recog- 

 nized, and in a short time he was appointed 

 chief commissary for the division, then qua.r- 

 tered near Harper's Ferry, There he served 

 faithfully and zealously. His business integ- 

 rity was beyond question, and his usefulness 

 conspicuous. He was personally known to 

 President Lincoln, who sent him a major's 

 commission and a complimentary letter. In 

 1864 his interest called him to New York, and 

 he arranged to participate in the management 

 of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga. Mr. 

 George S. Leland and his brothers then had a 

 chain of hotels extending from Saratoga to 

 Albany, and from New York to San Francisco, 

 where the great Palace Hotel was established. 

 For a while Major Leland conducted the St. 

 Charles Hotel, New York, and eleven years 

 ago, with his brother Lewis, he opened the 

 Sturtevant House in the same city. 



LINCOLN, MARY TODD, born in Kentucky; 

 died in Springfield, 111., July 16, 1882. Her 

 father, Robert S. Todd, was a prominent Ken- 

 tucky politician. Mrs. Lincoln's marriage with 

 Abraham Lincoln was very much opposed by 

 her family. The parties each possessed strong- 

 ly-marked peculiarities of disposition and tem- 

 perament, and serious misgivings as to their 

 happiness were entertained. Their married 

 life was nevertheless marked by great affec- 

 tion and contentment. At the time of the 

 marriage, Mr. Lincoln was thirty-two years of 

 age, and " merely a prairie-lawyer," as he was 

 fond of describing himself in after-years. He 

 was naturally of a slow imagination, and need- 

 ed encouragement in the political field. It is 

 believed that to the energy and ambition of his 

 wife he owed much of his advancement, while 

 it is admitted that he could always rise to the 

 crest of the circumstances with which even his 

 high and critical position as Chief Magistrate of 

 a nation at war was surrounded. There were 

 those who unjustly looked with suspicion upon 

 Mrs. Lincoln, at the time of her entry into the 

 White House, because of the tendencies of her 

 family and her native State, but her life as the 

 wife of the President proved conclusively that 

 she was loyal to him and to the country of 

 which he was the chosen head. She was nei- 

 ther a woman of great refinement nor of a 

 high degree of intellectuality, yet she possessed 

 a strong faith in her husband as a man of great 

 promise, and recognized in him qualities which 

 were unseen and unsuspected by his fellow- 

 men for years after her openly-expressed proph- 

 ecies of his future. Mrs. Lincoln, like others 



