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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ANDERSON BARNARD.) 



was elected to Congress from the 5th Kansas District 

 as a Republican, and he was 5 times re-elected. In 

 his last term he was a member of the committees on 

 Alcoholic Liquor Traffic and on Commerce ; and soon 

 after its close he was appointed United States consul- 

 general at Cairo, Egypt, where he remained till within 

 a few weeks of his death. 



Anderson, Joseph E., manufacturer, bom in Walnut 

 Hill, Va., Feb. 6,1813: died on the Isles of Shoals, 

 N. H., Sept. 7, 1892. He was graduated at the United 

 States Military Academy, second in a class of 68, and 

 was assigned to the Engineer Corps. His first service 

 was at lort Monroe, whence he was sent to Charles- 

 ton, S. C., returning to Fort Monroe in 1837, and was 

 detailed to assist Col. Crozet in important internal im- 

 provements authorized by the State of Virginia in 

 1838. He surveyed and superintended the general 

 construction of the great turnpike which was for 

 many years the only highway between Staunton and 

 the lower valley, and which remains an evidence of 

 high engineering skill. After completing this work, 

 he resigned his commission in the army ; was engaged 

 for a short time in the commission business in Rich- 

 mond, and in 1843 leased the noted Tredegar Iron 

 Works in that city for five years, beginning in 1843. 

 Soon afterward he purchased the entire interest of the 

 former firm in the works, and entered into the manu- 

 facture of general foundry products and rolled iron. 

 A large portion of the machinery for the sugar mills 

 in Louisiana was manufactured by him, besides ord- 

 nance, projectiles, and cable iron for the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. At the beginning of the civil war he was 

 commissioned a brigadier-general in the Confederate 

 army, with the understanding that he should be re- 

 called from the field whenever the interests of the 

 Confederacy required his supervision over material 

 being manufactured for it at the Tredegar Works. He 

 was several times thus recalled from the field to take 

 charge of the works. At the close of the war the 

 Federal Government took possession of the works as 

 Government property, but soon afterward released 

 them, and in 1867 a new company was formed, with 

 Gen. Anderson as president. From that time till 

 1873 all kinds of railroad materials were manufac- 

 tured there ; but in that year the company became in- 

 volved by the crippled condition of railroads dealing 

 with it, and in 1876 it was placed in the hands of a 

 receiver, Gen. Anderson being appointed to that office. 

 The original company was restored to possession of 

 the works in 1878, and Gen. Anderson was active in 

 the management till within a short time of his death. 



Astor, William, capitalist, born in New York city, 

 July 12, 1830; died in Paris, France, April 25, 1892. 

 He was the second son of William B. Astor, and a 

 grandson of the first John Jacob Astor. He was 

 graduated at Columbia College in 1849, spent several 

 years in Egypt and the East, became manager of 

 his father's estate in 1853, and applied himself to the 

 care of his own property after his father's death in 

 1875. Mr. Astor never held a public office, belonged 

 to but one club (the New York), and was a liberal 

 promoter of the interests of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. He gave largely to charity, but always with 

 his own hand and under an injunction of secrecy. He 

 had a great love for blooded horses, and for several 

 years kept a breeding farm and stables at Ferncliffe, 

 on the Hudson, where his most noted horse, "Baden- 

 Baden," was foaled. He preferred breeding to racing, 

 though for a time he was active on the turf? His other 

 recreation was yachting, not in speed tests, but for 

 pleasurable outing, and at different times he owned 

 the yacht "Ambassadress " and the steam yacht 

 I' Nourmahal." He bequeathed $145,000 to public 

 institutions, including $50,000 to the Astor Library, 

 and left an estate variously estimated at from $30,- 

 000,000 to $40,000,000. 



Ayres, Daniel, physician, born in Jamaica, Long Is- 

 land, M. Y., Oct. 22, 1822; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Jan. 18, 1892. He began his collegiate education at 

 Wesleyan University, and was graduated at Princeton 

 in 1842 and at the 'Medical School of the University 



of the City of New York in 1844. His entire profes- 

 sional life was passed in Brooklyn, with whose medi- 

 cal institutionslie was connected for many years. He 

 had long been identified with the Brooklyn City Hos- 

 pital and the Long Island Hospital and College, and 

 was a professor emeritus at the latter at the time of 

 his death. Throughout his life he was an earnest 

 promoter of the interests of Wesleyan University, and 

 at various times made gifts to it which aggregated 

 $275,000. He also gave $10,000 toward the endow- 

 ment of the Hoagland Laboratory in Brooklyn. Dr. 

 Ayres was a frequent contributor to medical journals. 



Backus, William Woodbridge, born at Yantic (Nor- 

 wich), Conn., Oct. 22, 1803; died there, July 13, 1892. 

 He was a descendant of the Backus who came from 

 Norwich, England, and settled and named the pres- 

 ent town of Norwich in 1659. He became wealthy 

 through real estate, was never married, and during 

 his lifetime gave much to charity, his most impor- 

 tant g_ift being $75,000 with which to build the Backus 

 Hospital in Norwich, which has since been endowed 

 with $250,000 by William A. Slater, of that town. 

 Mr. Backus bequeathed the following sums to Nor- 

 wich public institutions: Free Academy, $25,000; 

 United Workers, $20,000; Young Men's Christian 

 Association, $20,000; Otis Library, $15,000; First 

 Congregational Church, 1,000; Bean Hill Methodist 

 Church, $500 ; Grace Chapel at Yantic, $500. He also 

 liberally remembered the Connecticut Home Mis- 

 sionary Society and the State Society for the Preven- 

 tion ot Cruelty to Animals. The residue of his estate 

 was left to the Backus Hospital. 



Baldwin, Henry P., merchant, bom in Coventry, K. I., 

 Feb. 22, 1814; died in Detroit, Mich., Dec. 31, 1892. 

 He received a common-school education, engaged in 

 mercantile business in his native State in 1834, re- 

 moved to Detroit in 1838, and was engaged there in 

 mercantile business for many years. He was a mem- 

 ber of the convention that organized the Republican 

 party at Jackson, Mich., in 1854 ; State Senator in 

 1861 and 1862; Governor of Michigan in 1868-'70; 

 member of the National Eepublican Convention in 

 1876 ; and United States Senator from November, 

 1879, till March 3, 1881, being appointed to succeed 

 Zachariah Chandler. Gov. Baldwin was for many 

 years a director and President of the Young Men's 

 Literary Saciety of Detroit. He had been active in 

 political life since 1860, and was identified with the 

 improvements of the Sault Ste. Marie ship canal. 



Barbour, John 8., lawyer, born in Culpeper County, 

 Va., Dec. 29, 1820; died in Washington, D. C., May 

 14, 1892. He took a collegiate course at the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia, was graduated at its law school in 

 1842, and began practice in his native county. In 

 1847 he was elected to the Legislature, and by re- 

 elections he served through 4 consecutive sessions. 

 In 1852 he was elected President of the Orange and 

 Alexandria Eailroad Company, subsequently known 

 as the Virginia Midland, and' he held the office till 

 1883, when he resigned on account of the pressure of 

 his congressional duties. In 1880 he was elected to 

 Congress from the 8th District of Virginia as a Demo- 

 crat ; in 1882, 1884, and 1886 he was re-elected, and 

 on March 4, 1889, he succeeded Harrison H. Riddle- 

 berger as United States Senator. At the time of his 

 death he was a member of the committees on District 

 of Columbia, Education and Labor, Interstate Com- 

 merce, Potomac River Front, and on that to establish 

 the University of the United States. 



Barnard, Daniel, lawyer, born in Orange, N. H., Jan. 

 23, 1827 ; died in Franklin, N. H., Jan. 10, 1892. He 

 was brought up on a farm, and when seventeen years 

 old he began attending the Union Academy at Canaan 

 and teaching in the district schools in winter. He 

 was a supporter of the Free-Soil party, and soon after 

 reaching his majority he was elected' to the Legisla- 

 ture, being the youngest member ever elected to that 

 body, and was re-elected 3 times consecutively. 

 While serving in the Legislature he began studying 

 law, and in 1856 he was admitted to the bar.' In 

 1860-'62 he was again elected to the Legislature; in 



