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ward married. This was his first feat as a 

 life-saver. Up to Sept. 10, 1886, he had an 

 official record of having saved thirty-four lives, 

 although it was claimed for him that the actual 

 number was much larger. He received nearly 

 thirty medals for his heroism, one of which 

 was awarded by Congress, three were presented 

 by South Street merchants, and one by the 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 

 mals, for rescuing two horses from the North 

 river. In 1886, while Sir Alfred Goolis was 

 visiting the United States, he became ac- 

 quainted with John Hussey, and, impressed 

 with his record as a life-saver, endeavored to 

 secure for him the medal of the Royal Humane 

 Society of England. But in this he was un- 

 successful, owing to the fact, as communicated 

 to Mr. Hussey in April, 1887, that he had re- 

 nounced his allegiance to the Queen, and had 

 not saved the life of a British subject. On 

 June 2 he was shot by a policeman, and he 

 died from the effects of the wound nineteen 

 days afterward. 



Hutchison, Joseph C., an American physician, 

 born in Old Franklin, Howard County, Mo., 

 Feb. 22, 1827; died in Brooklyn, N". Y., July 

 17, 1887. He was educated in the University 

 of Missouri and the University of Pennsylvania, 

 being graduated at the latter as a physician in 

 1848. He practiced his profession in Missouri 

 till 1853, when he settled in Brooklyn, where 

 he resided thereafter. During the cholera 

 epidemic of 1854 he was in charge of the 

 cholera hospital in Brooklyn, on the disappear- 

 ance of which he resumed practice in his special 

 field, operative surgery, and soon attained high 

 rank among American surgeons. In 1860 he 

 was appointed Professor of Surgery in the 

 Long Island College Hospital, occupying the 

 chair till 1867. He founded the Brooklyn 

 Orthopedic Hospital, and was its surgeon-in- 

 chief for several years. He was appointed a 

 Health Commissioner of Brooklyn in 1873, and 

 served for three years, devoting his skill to 

 the sanitary improvement of the city. Dr. 

 Hutchison was a member of the Kings County 

 Medical Society and its president in 1864, a 

 member of the New York Medical Society, of 

 the New York Pathological Society, and a 

 Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, 

 and had been a delegate to the International 

 Medical Congresses in Philadelphia, 1867, and 

 London, 1881. In 1880 the University of Mis- 

 souri conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. 



Ingersoll, Elihu Parsons, an American clergy- 

 man, born in Lee, Mass., Sept. 20, 1804; died 

 in Springfield, Clay County, Kan., March 29, 

 1887. He was graduated at Yale in 1832, 

 studied for a year in Auburn Theological Semi- 

 nary and for a year in the Yale Divinity School, 

 and was ordained as pastor of the Congrega- 

 tional Church in Woonsocket, R. I., Dec. 22, 

 1834. The following year he accepted a call 

 to Oberlin College, remaining there nearly five 

 years, in part engaged as Professor of Sacred 

 Music. In 1840 he removed to Michigan, with 



the intention of founding an institution similar 

 to Oberlin College, but in this he was unsuc- 

 cessful, owing to the general financial depres- 

 sion. The ensuing thirteen years he passed in 

 home-missionary work at his own expense, 

 becoming regularly settled in May, 1853, as 

 pastor of the Congregational Church in Bloom- 

 ington, 111. He resigned this charge two years 

 later, and went to Kansas to labor in aid of 

 the anti-slavery cause. He was engaged in 

 this service at his own expense till 1861, when 

 he was induced to return to pastoral work in 

 Illinois, where he officiated for one year in Elm- 

 wood, and five in Maiden, returning to Kansas 

 in 1868. Of his published works u Lost Israel 

 Found " (1886) is best known. 



Jewell, James Stewart, an American physician, 

 born in Galena, 111., Sept. 8, 1837; died in 

 Chicago, 111., April 18, 1887. He was gradu- 

 ated at Chicago Medical College in 1860, and 

 two years later settled in Chicago, where he 

 continued in practice till his death. In 1864 

 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy in 

 Chicago Medical College, serving as such till 

 1869, when he resigned to devote his time 

 wholly to practice. In 1872, however, he ac- 

 cepted the professorship of nervous and men- 

 tal diseases in the college. His practice was 

 constantly increasing, and he was subject to 

 many calls from the courts as an expert wit- 

 ness, yet, notwithstanding this and his own 

 physical weaknesses, he occupied the professor's 

 chair till his death, conducted a quarterly 

 medical journal, the columns of which were 

 devoted to the discussion of his specialties, 

 and maintained corresponding membership in 

 many literary and scientific societies. 



Johnston, Archibald, an American composer, 

 born in New York city in 1831 ; died there 

 Aug. 31, 1887. In early life he was a mer- 

 chant tailor. On the outbreak of the civil war 

 he raised a company and went to the field as a 

 captain in the Sixty-Second New York Volun- 

 teers, serving under Gen.McClellan, and taking 

 part in the battle of Fair Oaks. On his return 

 from the army he established himself in the 

 business of selling horses and carriages at auc- 

 tion. He was well known as a musical com- 

 poser, many of his songs and compositions 

 obtaining wide celebrity. Among his most 

 popular works were the words and music of 

 "Alone, and Oh! So Lonely!" and "The 

 Toilers," the cantata " Ossian's Address to the 

 Sun," the musical score of a "Te Deum," and 

 the music of that famous song " Baby Mine." 

 He was treasurer of the New York Harmonic 

 Society for many years, and vice-president of 

 the Metropolitan Musical Club. 



Kolloch, Isaac Si, an American clergyman, 

 born in Rockland, Me., in 1832; died iri New 

 Whatcom, Washington Territory, Dec. 9, 1887. 

 He was a son of the Rev. Amariah Kalloch, 

 who established and officiated in the First 

 Baptist Church in Rockland, Me., for seventeen 

 years, and died near San Francisco in 1851. 

 Isaac was educated by his father for the minis- 



