618 



OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DoDD EDWARDS.) 



was re-elected to the State Senate, in 1862 was 

 elected Lieutenant-Governor, and in 1865 was elected 

 Governor as a Republican. One of his sons, William 

 P. Dillingham, also became Governor of Vermont, 

 and a daughter married the late United States Sen- 

 ator Matt.ll. Carpenter, of Wisconsin. 



Dodd, Edward, congressman, born in Salem, Wash- 

 ington County, N. Y ., in 1805 ; died in Argyle, N. Y., 

 March 1, 1891. He received a public-school educa- 

 tion, and was brought up in mercantile life. He was 

 elected clerk of Washington County in 1834 for three 

 years, and was twice re-elected for a similar term. He 

 was a member of the State Constitutional Convention 

 in 1846 ; was elected to Congress in 1855 and 1857 ; was 

 United States marshal for the Northern District ot 

 New York from April, 1863, till March, 1865, and 

 again from July, 1868, till April, 1869; and was a 

 Kepublican presidential elector in 1884. 



Bodworth, Harvey B,, musician, born in Sheffield, 

 England, Nov. 16, 1822; died in West Hoboken, N. J.. 

 Jan. 24,1891. He was a son of Thomas Dodworth', 

 a well-known musician and bandmaster; received a 

 musical education from his father; came to New 

 York with his father and brothers Allan and Charles 

 in 1826, and made his first appearance as an instru- 

 mentalistplaying the flute in New York in the 

 following year. He learned also the trombone, 

 trumpet, and violin ; and, besides playing in the brass 

 band organized by his father soon after settling in 

 New York, he was almost constantly engaged in the 

 orchestras of theatres till 1839, when he became leader 

 of his father's band. He continued at the head of 

 this organization the first formed in New York of 

 white men exclusively till October, 1890, niore than 

 fifty-one years, puring this period his orchestra 

 played in Niblo's Garden for fifteen years; he fur- 

 nished music at Daly's, Wallack's, and the old Park 

 theatres ; organized a cornet band for the 7th Regi- 

 ment; held engagements to furnish regimental music 

 for the 12th, 13th, and 22d Regiments; was for many 

 years bandmaster of the 71st Regiment, with which 

 he served in the first and second battles of Bull Run ; 

 supplied the national armies with fifty bandmasters 

 and 500 musicians ; introduced free park concerts in 

 New York ; and was for twenty -four years leader of 

 the band at Central Park. He also furnished the 

 music at presidential inaugurations for nearly thirty 

 years; was the first musician in the United States to 

 arrange Wagner's music for military bands; was the 

 first to introduce reed instruments in military bands; 

 and invented improvements in brass instruments. 



Draper, Lyman Copeland, historian, born in Hamburg 

 (now Evans), Erie County, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1815; died 

 in Madison, Wis., Aug. 26, 1891. He was brought up 

 on a farm and received a village-school education in 

 Lockport, N. Y. ; was a clerk for three years ; went to 

 Mobile, Ala., in 1833, and began collecting material 

 relating to Western history, biography, and geog- 

 raphy; studied in Granville College, Ohio, in 

 1835-'36 ; and began a systematic collection of histor- 

 ical material from living pioneers in 1838. In 1840 

 he was appointed editor of a newspaper in Pontotoc, 

 Miss. ; in 1842 he received a clerkship in the Buffalo 

 office of the Erie Canal j and in 1843-'53 he pursued 

 historical studies in Philadelphia. In the latter year 

 he was offered the office of corresponding Secretary 

 of the Wisconsin Historical Society at Madison, and, 

 excepting in 1858-'59, when he was State Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, he held the office till 

 Jan. 6, 1887, when he was chosen honorary secretary 

 for life. His publications include ten volumes of the 

 "Collections" of the society, personally gathered 

 a853-'87); "Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin" 

 (1857); "The Helping Hand," in conjunction with 

 William A. Croffut (1869); "King's Mountain and 

 its Heroes " (1881); and "Essay on the Autographic 

 Collections of^he Signers of the Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence and of,the Constitution " (1889). He also had 

 nearly completed " The Mecklenburg Declaration of 

 Independence " arid " Border Forays and Adventures." 

 Dr. Draper bequeathed all his property to the His- 



torical Society, except a life interest in the homestead 

 and $1,000 per annum to his widow ; and the exceed- 

 ingly valuable books and manuscripts that he col- 

 lected during his life will remain in the society's 

 library, while the residue of his personal estate will 

 doubtless be used, as he desired, for the erection of a 

 fire-proof building for his treasures. 



Drayton, Thomas Fenwick, military officer, born in 

 South Carolina about 1807 ; died in Florence, S. C.. 

 Feb. 18, 1891. He was graduated at the United 

 States Military Academy in 1828; was on garrison 

 duty in Jefferson, Mo., and Newport^ Ky., for four 

 years, and on topographical duty for four years ; and 

 resigned from the army Aug. 15, 1836. After being 

 employed as a civil engineer in Charleston, Louis- 

 ville, and Cincinnati, he became a planter in St. 

 Luke's Parish, S. C., in 1838. He was a State Sena- 

 tor in 1853-'56, and President of the Charleston and 

 Savannah Railroad in 1853-'61. He entered the Con- 

 federate army at the beginning of the civil war, was 

 commissioned brigadier-general, and was given com- 

 mand of the troops on Hilton Head Island to oppose 

 the Federal naval expedition to Port Royal, in which 

 his brother, Captain Percival Drayton, commanded a 

 national vessel, in November, 1861. His mansion 

 stood a few yards from the beach and not more than a 

 mile from the Confederate Fort Walker. He had a 

 force of 625 men with him in the fort, which he was 

 compelled to evacuate, after a bombardment of four 

 hours, on Nov. 7. After the war he engaged in agri- 

 culture in Georgia, subsequently removed to South 

 Carolina, and in 1878 was appointed President of the 

 State Immigrant Association. 



Duell, Robert Holland, lawyer, born in Warren, 

 Herkimer County, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1824- died in Cort- 

 land, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1891. He received an academic 

 education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar 

 in 1845 ; settled in Cortland to practice in 1848, and 

 was district-attorney of the county in 1850-'55. In 

 1855-'59 he was county judge; in 1858, 1860, 1870, and 

 1872 he was elected to Congress as a Republican from 

 the 24th New York District; in 1869-'71 he was as- 

 sessor of internal revenue ; and on the expiration of 

 his last term in Congress he held the office of United 

 States Commissioner of Patents for one year. While 

 in Congress he was a member of the committees on 

 Revision of the Laws of the United States, on Expend- 

 itures on Public Buildings, and on Foreign Affairs. 



Eddy, Zachary, clergyman, born in Stockbridge, Vt.. 

 Dec. 19, 1815; died in Detroit, Mich., Nov. 15, 1891. 

 He was educated by private tutors ; was ordained in 

 the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1835; acted 

 as missionary in Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1835-'38; 

 and held pastorates in Springville, N. Y., 1838-'43; 

 Mineral Point, Wis., 1844-'50; Warsaw, N. Y., 1850- 

 '56; Birmingham, Conn., 1856-'58; Northampton, 

 Mass., 1858-'67; Brooklyn Heights (Reformed Dutch 

 Church), N. Y., 1867-'71 ; Detroit (Congregational 

 Church), Mich., 1873-'84; and Atlanta. Ga., 1884-'86. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Williams Col- 

 lege in 1858. Dr. Eddy was author of " ImmanueU 

 or the Life of Christ" ("Springfield, 1868) ; and editor 

 of "Hymns of the Church, compiled for the General 

 Synod of the Reformed Church in America" (New 

 York, 1869); of "Hymns and Songs of Praise," in 

 conjunction with the Rev. Drs. Hitchcock and Schaff 

 (1874) ; and of " Carmina Sanctorum," with the Rev. 

 Dr. Hitchcock and Lewis Ward Mudge (1886). 



Edwards, Henry, actor and entomologist, born in 

 Ross, Herefordshire, England, Aug. 27, 1830 ; died in 

 New York city, June 9, 1891. While a clerk in Lon- 

 don he studied for the stage, and made frequent ap- 

 pearances in private theatres. In 1853 he went to 

 Australia, where he remained for more than twelve 

 years, managing theatres in Sydney and Melbourne, 

 supporting Gustavus V. Brooke, Charles Poole, and 

 George Fawcett Rowe, and taking up the study of 

 entomology, which he pursued to the close of his life. 

 From Australia he went to Peru, Panama, and San 

 Francisco, where he spent twelve years as actor and 

 manager. His first Eastern appearance was made in 



