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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



praised at $2,000,000, for the founding of Tu- 

 lane University, an institution he designed for 

 the promotion of intellectual, moral, and in- 

 dustrial education among young white people 

 of Louisiana. Between this time and his death 

 he added a large sum in stock securities to the 

 endowment of the university. Mr. Tulane 

 never married, was eccentric in his manner 

 and habits, and would never give information 

 about his age, or the amount of his fortune. 



Upehnreh, John Jordan, an American engineer, 

 born in Franklin County, N. C., March 26, 

 1822; died in Steelville, Mo., Jan. 18, 1887. 

 As a boy he showed mechanical skill, and, 

 being obliged to support himself at an early 

 age, invariably sought employments requiring 

 the handling of machinery of various kinds. 

 As a young man he supplemented his mechan- 

 ical knowledge by a practical one of engineer- 

 ing, working for several years on various rail- 

 roads, and superintending the construction of 

 a number of large saw and flour mills. In 

 1873 he removed to Missouri under appoint- 

 ment as master mechanic of the car-shops of 

 the St. Louis, Salem and Little Rock Railroad, 

 superintended the building of the shops, and 

 purchased and erected all the machinery. Mr. 

 Upchurch was most widely known as the 

 founder of the American Order of United 

 Workmen, a benevolent institution with lodges 

 in nearly every city, town, and village in the 

 United States. He instituted the first lodge 

 in Meadville, Pa., Oct. 27, 1868. 



Vanderpoel, Aaron .1., an American lawyer, 

 born in Kinderhook, N. Y., in October, 1825 ; 

 died in Paris, France, Aug. 22, 1887. He was 

 a son of Dr. John Vanderpoel, the family phy- 

 sician and intimate friend of Martin Van Buren, 

 and was named after his uncle Aaron, the 

 " Kinderhook Roarer " in Congress and poli- 

 tics. Young Aaron was called Aaron Van- 

 derpoel, Jr., till his uncle married, when 

 he changed the Jr. into a middle initial, and 

 thenceforth called himself Aaron J. Vander- 

 poel. He took the preparatory course of study 

 at the Kinderhook Academy, and was gradu- 

 ated at the University of New York in 1842. 

 He studied law in Kinderhook and New York 

 city, and, after being admitted to the bar, 

 formed a partnership with J. Bryce Smith un- 

 der the firm name of Smith & Vanderpoel. In 

 1853 the firm was reorganized in consequence 

 of the death of Mr. Blunt and the withdrawal 

 of Mr. Smith, by the admission of Messrs. A. 

 L. Brown and A. Oakey Hall, the latter a col- 

 lege friend of Mr. Vanderpoel, and the name 

 became Brown, Hall & Vanderpoel, and in 

 this form remained till 1873. During this 

 period Mr. Hall was twice Mayor, and for 

 several years district-attorney, and the firm 

 were the recognized counsel of the sheriff, the 

 metropolitan boards of health and police, 

 many street railways, and corporations of a 

 public and private character. In 1875 the firm 

 became Vanderpoel, Green & Gumming, and 

 since that time has mainly engaged in vast cor- 



poration work. Mr. Vanderpoel was a mem- 

 ber of the council of the University of New 

 York, president of its alurnni, and its senior 

 law professor; was also a member of the Man- 

 hattan Club and St. Nicholas Society, and vice- 

 president of the New York Bar Association. 

 He received the degree of LL. D. from the 

 University of New York in 1880. 



Varick, Tbeodore Romeyn, an American phy- 

 sician, born in Dutch ess County, N. Y., June 

 24, 1825; died in Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 23, 

 1887. In 1846 he was graduated at the medi- 

 cal department of New York University, and, 

 after practicing for two years in New York, he 

 removed in 1848 to Jersey City, where he re- 

 sided until his death. He was eminent both as 

 a physician and a surgeon, but it is by his suc- 

 cesses in the latter field of practice that he is 

 most widely known. He was a vigorous and 

 original thinker, and made many valuable ad- 

 ditions to medical and surgical knowledge. He 

 was the first to prove the usefulness of cocaine 

 in capital amputations, and he introduced into 

 America Trendelenberg's method of amputat- 

 ing at the hip-joint. Being dissatisfied with 

 the results of the Lister method of dressing 

 open wounds, he perfected a system for the 

 employment of hot water in surgery, and there- 

 by secured the largest percentage of successful 

 operations known, but three deaths resulting 

 from fifty-four capital amputations. He also 

 was the first to use hot water to control oozing 

 in laparotomy. Among the records of his cases 

 which were read before medical societies, or 

 contributed to medical journals, are mono- 

 graphs on " Urticaria produced by Hydro- 

 cyanic Acid," " Complete Luxation of the Ra- 

 dius and Ulna to the Radial Side," "Subperi- 

 osteal Resection of the Clavicle," "Distal Com- 

 pression in Inguinal Aneurism," " The Causes 

 of Death after Operations and Grave Injuries," 

 "The Use of Hot Water in Surgery," "The 

 Protective Treatment of Open Wounds." and 

 " Railroad Injuries of the Extremities of the 

 Human Body." Dr. Varick was an incorpora- 

 tor of the District Medical Society of Hudson 

 County, president of the New Jersey State 

 Medical Society, surgeon-general of New Jer- 

 sey, president of the New York Medical So- 

 ciety, director of Morris Plains Hospital for 

 the Insane, director of St. Francis's Hospital, 

 surgeon of Jersey City Hospitnl, and a member 

 of the New York Academy of Medicine, of the 

 New York State Medical Society, of the New 

 York Neurological Society, and of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association. 



Vincent, Mary Anne Farley, an American actress, 

 born in Portsmouth, England, Aug. 18, 1818; 

 died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 4, 1887. She made 

 her first appearance on the stage in Cowes, Isle 

 of Wight, playing the part of Lucy in "The 

 Review; or, the Wags of Windsor," in 1835, 

 and in the same year married James R. Vin- 

 cent, a noted comedian of the day. After 

 winning high praise in England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent were, engaged to 



