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died in Aigburth Vale, near Towson, Md., 

 Dec. 7, 1886. He was of Welsh parentage, 

 and was brought to America when three years 

 old, his father first settling in Baltimore, Md., 

 and subsequently establishing himself in the 

 drug-business in Philadelphia, Pa. John served 

 for some time in his father's store, from which 

 he went to a wholesale house, but remained 

 there a few months only. He made his first 

 appearance on the stage at the National The- 

 atre in Philadelphia, then under the manage- 

 ment of William E. Burton, in 1841, being as- 

 signed to a small part in support of Charlotte 

 Cushman. Having some difficulty with Mr. 

 Burton, he withdrew after a brief experience, 

 and returned to the drug-business. In 1846 

 he reappeared, taking the character of Jack 

 Humphries in " Turning the Tables," in a 

 benefit to D. P. Bowers at the Philadelphia 

 Museum. From this time he advanced rapid- 

 ly in his profession. In 1849 he became asso- 

 ciated with Mr. Hann in the management of 

 the Baltimore Museum, taking entire control 

 in the following year. At New Orleans he 

 made the acquaintance of Joseph Jefferson, 

 while playing in the farce "A Kiss in the 

 Dark," and they afterward played together in 

 " The Poor Gentleman." In the early part of 

 1852 he opened Brougham's Lyceum, New 

 York city, at the invitation of that genial co- 

 median, and was received with- enthusiasm. 

 In June of the same year he set out on a non- 

 professional tour of Europe, and while in Lon- 

 don declined a flattering offer at the Adelphi 

 Theatre, then under Mme. Celeste's manage- 

 ment. During his tour over the Continent he 

 made the ascent of Mont Blanc. Returning 

 in 1853, he gave with much success, in New 

 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities, 

 a panoramic entertainment illustrative of the 

 mountain, and again settled in Baltimore, sell- 

 ing the museum, and reopening the old St. 

 Charles Theatre. In 1858 he made another 

 trip to New Orleans, and remained for some 

 time as the principal comedian at the Varieties 

 Theatre, and then took the management, con- 

 ducting the house successfully until the be- 

 ginning of the civil war. On Aug. 29, 1864, 

 he began one of the most brilliant engagements 

 on record in Wallack's Theatre, New York city, 

 when he produced his inimitable " Solon Shin- 

 gle," a piece that held the boards until April 

 14, 1865. He appeared at the Adelphi The- 

 atre, London, with the same piece, in July of 

 that year, and in January, 1866, he began a 

 second engagement at Wallack's. His last ap- 

 pearance in New York was at the Madison 

 Square Theatre, where he occupied the season 

 of 1882-'83 with " Esmeralda," with which he 

 afterward traveled. His last managerial expe- 

 rience was in 1885, in Charleston, S. C., at the 

 Academy of Music, which he had owned since 

 1872. He died of cancer in the stomach, at 

 his beautiful conntry-house, which was named 

 for the village of his birth. He had amassed 

 a large fortune. 



Palmer, Edward, an American clergyman, born 

 in New England in 1802 ; died in New York 

 city, Feb. 25, 1886. He first attracted atten- 

 tion when a printer in Boston, Mass., many 

 years ago, writing and publishing a pamphlet 

 demanding the abolition of slavery, and the 

 suppression of capitalized monopolies. Re- 

 moving to New York city, he associated him- 

 self with the coterie of philosophers, under the 

 leadership of Marcus Spring, and promulgated 

 many eccentric social and political ideas. He 

 claimed that men should work for higher mo- 

 tives than that of pecuniary gain, and empha- 

 sized his teachings by refusing to accept money 

 for his services, confining himself to the barest 

 necessities of life. Although a prominent char- 

 acter forty years ago, he had passed out of rec- 

 ollection, as he lived in retirement for nearly a 

 generation . 



Paul, Gabriel E., an American soldier, born in 

 Missouri, April 13, 1812; died in Washington, 

 D. C., May 4, 1886. He was graduated at the 

 U. S. Military Academy, eighteenth in a class 

 of thirty-six members, in 1884, and was made 

 a second-lieutenant in the Seventh Infantry. 

 He served with his company through the Flori- 

 da and Mexican wars, sustaining severe wounds 

 at Cerro Gordo, and receiving the brevet of 

 major for bravery at Chapultepec. On the 

 outbreak of the civil war he was serving on 

 the New Mexico frontier as major of the 

 Eighth Infantry. He was appointed colonel 

 of the Fourth New Mexico Volunteers in De- 

 cember, 1861, and the next year lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Eighth Infantry, and in Septem- 

 ber brigadier-general of volunteers. In the 

 latter capacity he was assigned to duty with 

 the Army of the Potomac. He took part in 

 the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 

 and Gettysburg, and in the latter was again 

 wounded, a rifle-ball passing through both his 

 eyes and rendering him totally blind. He was 

 promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier-gen- 

 eral in the regular army, Feb. 23, 1865, and in 

 December, 1866, Congress granted him the full 

 pay and allowances of a brigadier-general, and 

 he was retired. Although blind, Gen. Paul 

 served for some time as deputy -governor of 

 the Soldiers' Home at Washington, D. C., and 

 as manager of the Military Asylum at Harrods- 

 burg, Ky. 



Pearson, Clement, an American physician, born 

 in Mercer County, Pa., Dec. 19, 1819; died in 

 Washington, D. C., Jan. 29, 1886. He began 

 the practice of medicine in Salem, Ohio, in 

 1850, and in March, 1857, was graduated at 

 the Western Homoeopathic College, Cleveland, 

 after which he removed to Mount Pleasant, 

 Iowa, being the pioneer of homoeopathy in that 

 section. In 1874 he became a resident of 

 Washington, D. C., where he soon established 

 a lucrative practice. He was a member of the 

 American Institute of Homoeopathy and of the 

 International Hahnemannian Association, be- 

 ing one of the founders and for two terms the 

 president of the latter. 



