OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



America when two years old, received a public- 

 school education, and was admitted to the bar 

 in New York city. In 1867 he was elected 

 county clerk as the candidate of Tammany 

 Hall, and at the expiration of his term was re- 

 elected. He declined a nomination for mayor 

 in 1870. In 1879 he became so indignant at 

 John Kelly's action at the time of the Sara- 

 toga Convention that he resigned his member- 

 ship in Tammany Hall, and held aloof from it 

 until shortly before the convention that nomi- 

 nated Gov Hill. He was a school trustee for 

 several terms, President of the Grand Central 

 Savings-Bank, President of the Iron Steamboat 

 Company, and a member of the commission to 

 consider various plans for laying telegraph- 

 wires underground. 



Lothrop, Samuel K., an American clergyman, 

 born in Utica, K Y., in 1804 ; died in Boston, 

 Mass., June 12, 1886. He was graduated at 

 Harvard in 1825, and at its divinity school in 

 1828. In 1829 he was called to the pastorate 

 of the Unitarian Church in Dover, N.- H., and 

 dedicated the church-building on the day of 

 his ordination. He remained in this charge 

 until 1834, when he accepted a call to the his- 

 toric Brattle Square Church, Boston, where he 

 officiated continuously until 1871. The demo- 

 lition of the building to make way for a busi- 

 ness block then forced the congregation to 

 seek quarters elsewhere. A new building was 

 erected, in which Dr. Lothrop continued 

 preaching until 1876, when he was retired, 

 and the society dissolved. He had been a 

 member of the Boston School Committee for 

 thirty years and chairman of the English High- 

 School Committee for twenty-six. In addition 

 he had held the place of Corresponding Secre- 

 tary of the Massachusetts Humane Society, 

 delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional 

 Convention of 1853, and a member of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Historical Society and the Society 

 of the Cincinnati. He received the degree of 

 D. D. from Harvard in 1852. 



Ludlow, N. M., an American actor, born in 

 New York city in 1795 ; died in St. Louis, Mo., 

 Jan. 9, 1886. He began his theatrical career 

 in 1815, his first appearance being in the melo- 

 drama " Forty Thieves." Shortly afterward he 

 joined, at Albany, N. Y., the first company that 

 undertook a tour of the Western States, Alex- 

 ander Drake heading the party. Their first 

 performance was at Olean, N. Y., where they 

 played by candle-light in a barn. They then 

 put all their effects on a flat-boat and descended 

 the Alleghany to Pittsburg, stopping at the 

 little settlements on the banks to give perform- 

 ances. In this way they introduced dramatic 

 art in many towns of Kentucky and Tennessee, 

 and then, descending the Mississippi, played at 

 all the towns within reach. They arrived at 

 New Orleans in 1817, and played there for sev- 

 eral months. In 1819 Mr. Ludlow took the 

 first regular dramatic company to St. Louis, 

 and gave three performances a week, merging 

 a rival company into his own in 1820, and 

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there presenting a series of standard dramas. 

 In 1834 he became associated with Sol Smith 

 and the Field Brothers, and they played to- 

 gether for twenty years, when he retired from 

 the stage and began compiling his memoirs, 

 which were published in a large volume en- 

 titled "Dramatic Life as 1 Found It" (1880). 

 In late years Mr. Ludlow reappeared occasion- 

 ally, but only in benefit performances. 



McCook, Roderick S., an American naval officer, 

 born in Steubenville, O., March 10, 1839; died 

 in Vineland, N. J., Feb. 13, 1886. He was 

 graduated at the Naval Academy in 1859 ; was 

 attached to the steam-frigate "Minnesota" in 

 1859-'61 ; commanded the steamer " Stars and 

 Stripes," North Atlantic blockading squadron, 

 1861-'62 ; steamer " Bienville," North Atlantic 

 squadron, 1862-'63 ; ironclad steamer " Ca- 

 nonicus," South Atlantic blockading squadron, 

 1863-'65; steamer "Tioga," Gulf squadron, 

 1865-'66; steamer "Kearsarge," South Pacific 

 squadron, 1868-'69; was commissioned lieu- 

 tenant in 1861, lieutenant-commander in 1865, 

 and commander Sept. 25, 1873. He was navi- 

 gation officer at the Brooklyn Navy- Yard in 

 1877-'78, and a lighthouse inspector in 1880- 

 '84. During the war he took an active part in 

 the operations before Newbern, Wilmington, 

 Fort Fisher, Charleston on the James river, 

 Forts Hatteras and Clark, and Roanoke Island, 

 and had performed a sea service of ten years 

 and eight months, and been on shore or other 

 duty fifteen years. 



McKay, Henry Kent, an American lawyer, born 

 in New Hampshire ; died in Atlanta, Ga., July 

 31, 1886. He went to Georgia when very 

 young, was there educated and admitted to 

 the bar, and at the outbreak of the civil war 

 was engaged in large practice, which he gave 

 up to join the Confederate army. At the close 

 of the war he became a Republican, and was a 

 conspicuous member of the reconstruction Con- 

 stitutional Convention of 1868. On the acces- 

 sion of Gov. Bullock, Mr. McKay was ap- 

 pointed a justice of the Supreme Court of 

 Georgia, and on that of President Hayes, Judge 

 of the United States Court for the Northern 

 District of Georgia. For more than a year 

 prior to his death he was totally incapacitated 

 by a mental malady. 



McKenney, Gerald, an American journalist, 

 born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1848 ; died in New 

 York city, Jan. 1, 1886. He was graduated at 

 Dublin University, came to America about 

 1868, and became a reporter on the New York 

 " Herald." He was naturally fond of travel 

 and adventure, and, after making several trips 

 to Central America in the interests of that 

 newspaper, volunteered in 1873 to accompany 

 the party that was being fitted out by the Gov- 

 ernment to search for the survivors of the 

 " Polaris " Expedition. He was appointed clerk 

 to Capt. D. L. Braine, of the ' Juniata," and 

 in that capacity went to the Arctic regions. 

 When the "Little Juniata" was sent from 

 Upernavik to a point beyond that which the 



