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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Washington Training-School for Nurses, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Buffalo General Hospital Training-School for Nurses, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Training- School for Nurses at the Eochester City 

 Hospital, Rochester, N. Y. 



Brooklyn Training-School for Nurses at the Brook- 

 lyn Hospital, N. Y. 



Illinois Training-School for Nurses, Chicago, 111. 



Mount Sinai Training-School for Nurses at the 

 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. 



Training-School for Nurses at the Long Island Col- 

 lege Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Mary Fletcher Hospital Training-School for Nurses, 

 Burlington, Vt. 



Training-School for Nurses at the Orange Memorial 

 Hospital, Orange, N. J. 



Training- School for Nurses at the Charity Hospital, 

 New Orleans, La. 



Cincinnati Training-School for Nurses at the Char- 

 ity Hospital, New Orleans, La. 



Charleston Training-School for Nurses at the City 

 Hospital, Charleston, S. C. 



Training-School for Nurses at the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 



'-School, Chicago. 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 

 lospital Training-Sen ool, New York 

 city. 



Training-School at the Infirmary, New York city. 



St. Luke's Hospital, South Bethlehem, Pa. 



Besides these there is every prospect of the 



establishment of schools at Cincinnati, Detroit, 

 and elsewhere. 



Distinct from the training-schools, and yet 

 intimately connected with them, are the schools 

 of midwifery, of which the following are the 

 principal ones : 



Philadelphia Lying-in Charity and Nurse School. 

 Missouri School of Midwifery, St. Louis, Mo. 

 New York State School for Training Nurses at the 

 Homo30pathic Maternity in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 College of Midwilery, New York city. 



The aim of all instructors in the various 

 schools is to send out graduates with a high 

 sense of their responsibilities. The confiden- 

 tial nature of their duties is from the first im- 

 pressed upon them, and the endeavor is made 

 to inculcate a professional code like that which 

 is one of the most honored traditions of the 

 medical fraternity. The cultivation of cheer- 

 fulness, or at least all the semblance of it, with 

 the kindred virtues of patience and neatness, 

 are among the details that pupils are never per- 

 mitted to forget. As a result, the owner of a 

 diploma from any of the best schools is rea- 

 sonably sure of steady employment at fair com- 

 pensation, and of the grateful remembrance of 

 hundreds of her suffering fellow-beings. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Ackerson, Garret, Jr., 

 an American lawyer, born in Pascack, Bergen 

 county, N. J., Sept. 11, 1840; died in Hacken- 

 sack, N". J., Dec. 23, 1886. He was the eldest son 

 of Judge Ackerson, of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, and was admitted to the bar in June, 

 1863, practicing in Hackensack until his last 

 illness. In 1866 he was appointed prosecutor, 

 but resigned the office three years later, on ac- 

 count of his health and large private practice. 

 In 1879 he was appointed Judge-Advocate- 

 General of the National Guard of New Jersey, 

 with the rank of colonel, and subsequently a 

 Commissioner of the State Lunatic Asylum, at 

 Morris Plains. The office of Vice-Chancellor 

 of the State was tendered him in 1881, but was 

 declined. He was prominent in Democratic 

 political circles for many years, and performed 

 a great deal of work for his party as chairman 

 of its County Committee, but would never ac- 

 cept candidacy for any political office. 



Allen, Robert, an American soldier, born in 

 Ohio, about 1815 ; died in Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, Aug. 5, 1886. He was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy in 1836, and 

 was appointed a second-lieutenant in the Sec- 

 ond Artillery, Aug. 16, 1836; first-lieutenant, 

 July 7, 1838 ; and captain and assistant- quar- 

 termaster, May 11, 1846. He served in the 

 quartermaster's department throughout the 

 Mexican War, receiving the brevet of major, 

 April 18, 1847, for gallant and meritorious con- 

 duct in the battle of Cerro Gordo. At the 



outbreak of the civil war he held the rank of 

 major. In the volunteer- service he became 

 colonel, Feb. 19, 1862 ; brigadier-general, May 

 23, 1863 ; and brevet major-general, March 13, 

 1865. He was mustered out Sept. 1, 1866, and 

 accepted the appointment of assistant quarter- 

 master-general, with the rank of colonel, in 

 the permanent establishment, October 1 fol- 

 lowing. He served in this capacity until March 

 21, 1878, when, having completed forty years 

 of service, he was placed on the retired list. 



Andrews, Stephen Pearl, an American author, 

 born in Templeton, Mass., March 22, 1812; 

 died in New York city, May 21, 1886. He 

 was educated at Amherst, and after settling in 

 New Orleans, studied law, and became the 

 first counsel of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, in her 

 celebrated suits. In 1839 he removed to Texas, 

 where he advocated the abolition of slavery, 

 and converted many to his views. His impetu- 

 ous and logical eloquence gained him a valu- 

 able practice, but his seeming reckless and 

 fanatical opposition to slavery aroused an in- 

 tense feeling of opposition, and his life was 

 seriously endangered. In 1843 he went to 

 England, hoping that with the aid of the Brit- 

 ish Anti- slavery Society, he might raise money 

 to pay for the slaves, and make Texas a free 

 State. He was well received, and the scheme 

 was favoraby considered ; but the project was 

 abandoned. Mr. Andrews then returned to 

 this country, and joined in the anti-slavery 

 movement in Boston. In England, he learned 



