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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (WINCHELL ZABRISKIE.) 



ress : and in 1878-'84 was iudge of the 1st Judir 

 Hstrict of Maryland, which office he resigned on 



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being elected United States Senator as a Democrat. 

 At the time of his death he was a member of the 

 Senate committees on Civil Service and Retrenchment, 

 Claims, Post-offices, and Post-roads, Revision of > the 

 Laws, and on inquiry into all claims of citizens of the 

 United States against the Government of Nicaragua. 

 Winchell, Alexander, geologist, born in North East, 

 Dutchess County, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1824; died in Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., Feb. 19, 1891. He was graduated at 

 Wesleyan University in 1847; taught natural science 

 in Pennington Seminary, New Jersey, in 1848: and 

 in Amenia Seminary, N*ew York, in 1849 ; and was 

 engaged in educational work in Alabama in 1850-'54. 

 In the latter year he became Professor of Physics and 

 Civil Engineering in the University of Michigan, 

 and after a year was transferred to the chair of 

 Geology, Zoology, and Botany, which he held till 1873, 

 in the mean time holding a similar chair in the Uni- 

 versity of Kentucky for three years. He was also 

 director of the geological survey of Michigan in 

 1859-'61 and 1869-T1. In 1873 he was chosen "Chan- 

 cellor of Syracuse University, but he retired from the 

 office at the end of the year to take the chair of 

 Geology, Zoology, and Botany. lie held this chair till 

 1879, and in 1875-'78 -also held a similar chair in 

 Vanderbilt University, dividing his time between 

 the two institutions. In 1879 he returned to the 

 University of Michigan as Professor of Geology and 

 Palseontofogy, and remained there till his death. He 

 was a believer in the existence of a preadamite race. 

 Among his numerous publications are : " Genealogy 

 of the Family of Winchell in America" (Ann Arbor, 

 1869); "Sketches of Creation" (New York, 1870); 

 "A Geological Chart" (1870) ; ''Michigan," popular 

 sketches of its topography, climate, and geology 

 (1873) ; " The Doctrine of Evolution" (1874) ; " Rec- 

 onciliation of Science and Religion" (1877) ; " Pre- 

 adamites, or a Demonstration of Existence of Men 

 before Adam" (Chicago, 1880); "Sparks from a 

 Geologist's Hammer" (1881); " World Life, or Com- 

 parative Geology " (1888) ; " Geological Excursions, 

 or the Rudiments of Geology for Young Learners" 

 (1884) ; " Geological Studies, or Elements of Geology " 

 1886) ; and " Walks and Talks in the Geological 

 Field "(1886). 



Windom, William, lawyer, born in Waterford, Bel- 

 mont County, Ohio. May 10, 1827 ; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 29, 1891. He received an academical edu- 

 cation, was appren- 

 ticed to the tailor's 

 trade, studied law at 

 Mount Vernon, Ohio, 

 and was admitted to 

 thebarof Knox Coun- 

 ty in 1850. In 1852 

 he was elected prose- 

 cuting attorney of 

 Knox County, in 1855 

 removed to Winona, 

 Minn., and in 1858 

 was elected to Con- 

 gress as a Republi- 

 can. He was re-elect- 

 ed four times, and at 

 the close of his fifth 

 term declined renom- 

 ination. In July, 1870, 

 he was appointed 

 United States Sena- 

 tor to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator 

 Daniel S. Norton ; in January following he was elected 

 to that office for a full term, and in'l877 he was re- 

 elected. While a member of the House he served on 

 the " Peace Committee" of thirty-three ; on the com- 

 mittees on Public Lands, on Public Expenditures, 

 on Indian Affairs ; and on the special committee to 

 visit the Indian tribes in the West; and also was act- 

 ive in promoting the passage of the homestead law 

 of 1862. In the Senate he was chairman of the Com- 



mittee on Appropriations, and in 1871 chairman of the 

 special Committee on Transportation Routes to the 

 Seaboard. He resigned his seat in the Senate on 

 March 4. 1881, to enter President Garfield's Cabinet as 

 Secretary of the Treasury, and with the rest of the 

 Cabinet resigned his office on the accession ot'President 

 Arthur, in September. On Oct. 26 he was re-elected 

 Senator to fill nis own unexpired term, and at its close, 

 on March 3, 1883, he settled in New York city and 

 became interested in financial enterprises. On the 

 inauguration of President Harrison, in 1889, Mr. Wiii- 

 doni was reappointed Secretary of the Treasury, and 

 x he held the office till his death. On the evening of 

 " Jan. 29, 1891, he attended a banquet of the New York 

 Board of Trade and Transportation, and responded 

 to the first toast, " Our Country's Prosperity depend- 

 ent upon its Instruments of Commerce." He con- 

 cluded a long and thoughtful address with the words : 

 "Give us direct and ample transportation facilities 

 under the American flag and controlled by American 

 citizens, a currency sound in quality and adequate in 

 quantity, an international bank to facilitate exchanges, 

 and a system of reciprocity carefully adjusted within 

 the lines of protection, and not only will our foreign 

 commerce again invade every sea, out every Ameri- 

 can industry will be quickened and our whole people 

 feel the impulse of a new and enduring prosperity," 

 and a moment afterward he fell dead in his chair. 



Witherspoon, Andrew Jackson, clergyman, born in 

 Waxham settlement, S. C., in 1825; died in Moss 

 Point, La., Oct. 25, 1891. He was educated at South 

 Carolina College, and after studying law abandoned 

 it for the ministry and settled in Alabama. During 

 the civil war he was chaplain of the 21st Alabama 

 Regiment, and by his bravery in action he hei-unm 

 widely known as the "lighting chaplain." On one 

 occasion, when the principal officers of his regiment 

 had been killed or disabled in the early part of an 

 engagement, he took command and led liitt men 

 through a hard day's fight. He was in charge of the 

 Seamen's Bethel in New Orleans for more than 

 twenty years, and in that time he built a commodious 

 church and dormitory tor sailors. 



Wood, Daniel P., lawyer, born in Pompey, N. Y., 

 Nov. 5, 1819: died in Syracuse, N. Y., May 1, 1891. 

 lie was graduated at Hamilton College in 1843, and 

 admitted to the bar in 1846, and was city attorney of 

 Syracuse in 1850-'53. In 1853-'54 he was a member 

 ot the State Assembly, serving as chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Colleges, Academies, and Common Schools, 

 chairman of the Committee on Salt, and member of 

 those on the Code and on Ways and Means. He ma- 

 tured and carried through the act creating the depart- 

 ment of public instruction. He was returned to the 

 Assembly in 1865, 1866, and 1867, and in that period 

 was chairman of the committees on Canals and on 

 Ways and Means. In 1871-'75 he was a State Senator, 

 and in 1874 was appointed major-general of the 6th 

 Division, N. G. S. N. Y., comprising the militia in 

 eleven counties. 



Young, Alexander, journalist, born in Boston, Mass., 

 May 19, 1836; died there, March 19,1891. He was 

 graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and 

 practiced law till about 1872, when he became assist- 

 ant editor of the newly established Boston " Globe." 

 He remained there five years, in the mean time con- 

 tributing to periodicals and adopting the pen-name 

 of " Tavemer." Subsequently he was the Boston 

 correspondent of the New York " Critic" and a 

 writer for the Boston " Post," " The Independent," 

 and" The Christian Union." He published" History 

 of the Netherlands " (Boston, 1884), and at the time 

 of his death had nearly completed a work on " Old 

 Boston." 



Zateiskie, Francis Nicoll, clergyman, born in Hacken- 

 sack, N. J., in April, 1832 ; died in Princeton, N. J., 

 May 13, 1891. He was graduated at the University ot 

 the City of New York in 1850, and at the Theological 

 Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church at New 

 Brunswick in 1855. In 1856-'59 he was pastor of the 

 Reformed Church at Livingston, N. Y. ; in 1859-'63 at 



