OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ADEE ANDERSON.) 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Adee, Daniel, 



publisher, horn in Pleasant Valley, Dutclmss County, 

 Is'. Y., iu 1M'.; died in Ka.st Wiilianubtuv. N. Y., 

 April :ij, l!i llo run away from homo when M v- 



i-nt. i-ii year- old, Hud, coining to Now York city, ap- 

 vn-uticed liini>i-!t' to Harper <fc Brothers, where no 



i tin; printer's trifle', ami then established him- 



:i printer and publisher, first in Fulton Street, 

 unil afterward, a* his business increased. in three 

 buildings in Centre Street. llo was the first pub- 

 lishcr in America of Braithwaite's "BetroBpeot" and 

 of N i- w ton's " Prineipia," and subsequently published 

 "The New York Press" and "The Merchant.-' li. , - 

 <>rd." About 1840 ho removed to Frankfort Street, 

 and in 1843 he was credited with having the largest 

 printing establishment in New York. Soon after- 

 ward he v.ius lumu-d out, and he then abandoned 

 printing and publishing and engaged in the manu- 

 facture of cast isteel. Ho established tlie New York 

 Cu.-t Still Works on Second Avenue, above Forty- 

 sixth Street, in 1M.~>, and was the tirst manufacturer 

 of that commodity in America. Some of his produc- 

 tion> won medals at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 

 London. He afterward removed his steel works to 

 Furnmn's island, on Ncwtown Creek, changed the 

 name to the Continental Steel and Iron Company's 

 Works, and engaged in manufacturing till 1870. when 

 shrinkage in values caused failure. He then returned 

 to the printing and publishing business, and followed 

 it till within a few years of his death. 



Agnew, David Hayes, surgeon, born in Lancaster 

 County, Pa., Nov. 24,1818; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 March 22, 1892. He was educated at Jefferson Col- 



.uionsliurg. Pa., and at Newark College, Dela- 

 ware. and was graduated in medicine and surgery at 

 the I'niversity of Pennsylvania in 1838. After spend- 

 ing two years attempting; to build up a practice in the 

 country, he removed to Philadelphia, and soon after- 

 ward was invited to deliver a course of lectures in the 

 Philadelphia School of Anatomy. His success here 

 marked that he became regularly connected 

 with the school, and at one time his class numbered 

 'Ji'i."> students. In ls.">} lie was appointed a surgeon of 

 the Philadelphia Hospital, where he founded the 

 Pathological Museum, and used unavailing efforts to 

 > lio>pital opened to clinical surgery. In 1862 

 he ceased lecturing in the School of Anatomy, which 

 closed soon afterward in consequence ; in 18ti3 he be- 

 came demonstrator of anatomy and assistant lecturer 

 in clinical surgery in the medical department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania; and in 1865 he was ap- 

 txiinted Professor of .Diseases of the Kye at the Wills 

 Ophthalmic Hospital and surgeon at the Pennsyl- 

 vania and the Orthopaedic Hospitals. Durillir the 

 civil war. while attending closely to the duties of his 

 various otlices, he was consulting surgeon in the irrcat 

 Mo\\er Army Hospital, on Chestnut Hill, where he 

 paid particular attention to operations made necessary 

 by gunshot wounds, and became widely known as a 

 darinir and successful operator. In l^Vo'lie wa.- elected 



">r of operative Surgery at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and in the. following year Pi 

 of the Principles and Practice of Surgcrv. He con- 

 tinued active as professor, operator, and writer till 

 1884, when he resigned his otjiee of surgeon at the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital. In April, 1888,- the jubilee 

 anniversary of his entrance into the profession in 

 Philadelphia was celebrated by a dinner, which was 

 attended )>y L'I>O physicians ana surgeons, and in Oc- 

 tober following he resigned his chair in the univer- 

 sity. Dr. Agnew was the consulting and operating 

 in the case of President (iartield in 1881. 



His publications include " Practical Anatomy," 

 "Lacerations of the Female Perina'iim and \ 

 vaginal Fistula," a series of 60 papers on " Anatomy 



and its Relation to Medicine and Surgery," and a 



work in three volumes, " The Principles an-I Practice 

 of Surgery." He bequeathed his medical books and 

 instruments to Dr. Hulhert Agnew ; all right and title 

 in his books on "The Principles and Practice of Sur- 

 gery" to the trustees of the Univcrei..y of Pennsyl- 

 vania, the profit* to be used for the benefit of fho 

 Pathological Museum; his anatomical and surgical 

 specimens and illustrations to the medical depart- 

 ment of the university; and the following money 

 gifts: Trustees University of Pennsylvania, for use 

 of hospital, $50,000: Board of Home 'Missions of the 

 Presbyterian Church, $4,000; Board of Foreign Mi-- 

 sioiis of the Presbyterian Church, $4,000; to the 

 Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Animals, $1,000; Pennsylvania Orphan. 

 Kiiii/sessiiiL; Avenue and Forty-eighth Street. - 

 Pivsbvtcrian Home for Widows and Single Women. 

 $2,000; Presbyterian Hoard of Relief for Disabled 

 Ministers and Widows and Orphans of D> 

 Ministers, $2,000; University of Pennsylvania, for 

 benefit of Maternity Hospital, $1,000; Kensington 

 Hospital for Diseases of Women, $1,000; and the 

 College of Physicians, $1,000. His biography is being 

 prepared by Dr. J. II. Adams. 



Aiken, Charles Augustus, educator, born in Manches- 

 ter, Yt., Oct. 30, 1S27 ; died in Princeton, N. J., Jan. 

 14, 1892. Ho was graduated at Dartmouth College in 

 1846, and at Andover Theological Seminary in I-"-"., 

 spending three of the intervening years in teaching 

 in Groton and Andover, Mass., and two years in 

 study at the Universities of Hullc and Berlin. He 

 developed a fondness for the study of languages at 

 an early age, and while lie was teaching in Phillips 

 Academy, Andover, his linguistic knowledge attracted 

 the attention of many educators, who sought to in- 

 duce him to engage in educational work. The year 

 following his graduation at the theological seminary 

 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Chun-h 

 in Yarmouth. Me.; but in 1859 he accepted a call to 

 the chair of Latin in Dartmouth College, where he 

 remained seven years. He then filled the similar 

 chair at Princeton till 1869, when he was elected 

 President of Union College, Schenectady. In 1871 

 he resigned, to accept the professorship of Christian 

 Ethics and Apologetics at Princeton Theological 

 Seminary ; in 1882 he took the professorship of Orien- 

 tal and Old- Testament Literature there; and in 1*-S 

 lie took also the Stuart professorship of the Relation 

 of Philosophy and Science to the Christian Religion, 

 anil held the two last-named chairs till his death. 



Aldrich, Anne Beeve, author, born in New York city, 

 April -j;>, iMiti; died there June 29, 1892. She de- 

 veloped a fondness for writing while a child, and 

 when fifteen yea.s old began composing verses. Sub- 

 sen ueiitly she had several poems and short stories 

 published in " Scribner's Magazine." the ( Yntury," 

 and " Lippincott's Magazine." Her larger works com- 

 prised a volume of poems, "The Rose of Flame," and 

 a novel, "The Feet of Love," and she left a third 

 volume in the hands of her publisher. Her writings 

 were unconventional and realistic. 



Anderson, John A., clergyman, born in Washington 

 Countv, Pa.. June :!''.. l.v'>4; died in LivcnH>l. Kiur- 

 land. Slay is. ]v.ii>. He \yos graduated at Miami Uni- 

 versity in Is.").'!; was ordained to the ministry of the 

 Presbyterian Church in San Francisco in l*:>7;waa 

 elected a trustee of the State Insane Asylum in 1860; 

 served as chaplain of the ;>d Regiment California 

 Volunteer Infantry in l^r.-j; and was California corre- 

 spondent and agent of the United States Sanitary 

 Commission in 18!3-'67. During e was 



President of the Kansas State Airrieultural College, 

 and was also one of the judges (tiroup XXI i of the 

 United States Centennial Commission. In 1878 he 



