OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (TUTTLE VAN DEPOELE.) 



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u> th' charge of the department of power and ma- 



chinery employed in manufactures lor tlio tenth 



Hi- organized the collection ot' statistics for 



. an. I under his direction several impor- 



tant monographs pertaining to the subject were written 



mid appear in tin- census reports. Prof. Trow bridge 



likcwi.-e invented a coil boiler incorporating the 



lati-st knowledge in forced circulation ot water, auto- 



iiniiii 1 supply ni' teed water from a magazine, and the 



ding of the fuel. The degree ot A. M. was con- 



ferred 011 him hv Koche.-tcr in 1 -i.vj, and by Yale in 



that of Ph* D. by 1'rineeton in 1879; and that 



if I. !..!>.. liy Trinity in 1880, and the University of 

 Michigan ill 1887. He was a member of numerous 

 scientific societies, having served as Vice- President of 

 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in 1882, 

 when he presided over the section of mechanical sci- 

 ences, mid in 1878 he was elected to the National 

 Academy of Sciences. Besides public lectures, lie 

 ci nit ri! Hited to scientific journals and to the transac- 

 tions of societies of which lie was a member ; also ho 

 was an associate editor of Johnson's " New Universal 

 Cyclopaedia," with charge of the subjects on mechan- 

 ic>. mechanical engineering, etc., and was the author 

 if" Proposed Plan for building a Bridge across the 

 East River at Blackwell's Island" (New York, 1869) ; 



Heat, as a Source of Power" (1874); and "Turbine 



Wheels "(1879). 



Tuttle, James M., military officer, born in Summer- 

 tield, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1823; died in Casa Grande, Ari- 

 zona, Oct. 24, 1892. lie received a public-school educa- 

 tion, removed to Fannington, Iowa, and engaged in 

 agricultural and mercantile business in 1846, and was 

 elected sheriff in 1855, county treasurer in 1857, and 

 recorder in 1859. At the outbreak of the civil war 

 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 2d 

 Iowa Infantry, and on May 17, 1861, was promoted 

 colonel. In February, 1862, he led the charge of his 

 regiment on Fort Donelson, and his troops were the 

 first to enter the Confederate works. In this charge 

 he was wounded in his sword arm, but he continued 

 in command of his regiment. At the battle of Shiloh 

 he commanded a brigade, with which he fought at 

 the sunken road afterward known as the " Hornet's 

 Nest" because of the resistance offered the Confed- 

 erates by his troops. For gallantry in this engage- 

 ment ho was promoted brigadier-general, June 9, 

 1862. After the surrender of Corinth he commanded 

 for some time a division in that vicinity. During the 

 siege of Vicksburg he had command of a division in 

 the 15th Army Corps under Gen. Sherman, and at 

 the first capture of Jackson, May 14, 1863, he executed 

 a flank movement, which compelled the Confederates 

 er Gen. Johnston to retreat across Pearl river, 

 their artillery, which he captured. In the 



same year, while at home on a short furlough, he re- 

 ceived the Democratic nomination for Governor ot 

 Iowa, but was defeated. He resigned his commission 

 in the army in June, 1864 ; was a second time de- 

 feated for Governor ; served several terms in the Leg- 

 islature ; engaged in farming, real-estate operations, 

 and pork packing till 1877; and was subsequently 

 'nj-au'e'l in mining operations. 

 Ullman, Daniel, military officer, born in Wilmington, 

 \nril 28, 1810 ; died in Nyack, N. Y., Sept. 20, 

 fie was graduated at Yale, studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in New York city, where, 

 besides building up a large practice, ho was for many 

 Tears a master in the old Court of Chancery. In 1851 

 he was the Whig candidate for Attorney-General, and 

 in 1854 the American (or " Know-Nothing ") candi- 

 date for Governor. After the firing on Fort Sumter 

 he raised and led to the field, as colonel, the 77th 

 Regiment of New York Volunteers, which served at 

 Earner's Ferry, and in many of the early movements 

 in the Rhonanaoah and Piedmont regions. After the 

 battle of Cedar Mountain, and while the Army of 

 Virginia was retreating, he was prostrated with ty- 

 phoid fever, and, being left behind, was captured and 



confined in Libby Prison. On his liberation he wrote 

 a long letter to President Lincoln, MOOOUMOdilw tin: 

 emancipation of slaves and the arming of tin; lre-d 

 men as soldiers. He was OOmmiMiooed brigadier- 

 gcneral of volunteers Jan. 13, 1863, and was specially 

 ordered to establish headquarters in New Orleans, 

 and to select and appoint the necessary white officers 

 for 4 regiments of colored troops and 1 regiment 

 of mounted scouts for duty in Louisiana. He rapidly 

 raised and equipped 5 regiments of colored troops, 

 which subsequently grew into a corps of 17,000 men, 

 and in April following he raised and organized in 

 New Orleans the Ullman Brigade, Corps d'Afrique, 

 which in July was engaged in the siege and capture 

 of Port Hudson. In the following year he was placed 

 in command of Port Hudson and all the troops in 

 that district, and he was in chief command at the 

 battle of Atchafalaya. In March, 1865, he was or- 

 dered to Cairo, and then to New York city, where he 

 was promoted major-general of volunteers, and mus- 

 tered out of service. After retiring from the army, 

 Gen. Ullman also retired from active life, and made 

 his home at Grand View, near Nyack, where he 

 passed his time in scientific and literary studies, in- 

 terrupting them by several trips to Europe. He had 

 been engaged for some time in the preparation of a 

 work on " The Philosophy of History as developed 

 by the American Rebellion," but had been obliged by 

 an almost entire loss of sight to abandon the work. 



Van Anden, William, inventor, born near Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., in 1815 ; died in New York city, May 

 21, 1892. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade 

 in the office of the Poughkeepsie " Telegraph," and 

 subsequently became known as the inventor of labor- 

 saving machines, including the railroad chair to hold 

 the ends of rails in place on the track, and the first 

 machines for making files and spiral springs for beds. 

 For several years he was interested in factories that he 

 established in Poughkeepsie, Montreal, Jersey City, 

 and Trenton, for the manufacture of bolts and rivets 

 and a variety of railroad appliances, many of which 

 were of his own invention. 



Van Depoele, Charles J., electrician, born in Lichter- 

 velde, Belgium, April 27, 1846 ; died in Lynn, Mass., 

 March 18, 1892. He first became interested in teleg- 

 raphy when a mere boy by seeing a line erected in 

 the neighborhood of his home, and applied his first 

 earnings, gained by running errands, to the purchase 

 of battery cells and instruments with which he ex- 

 perimented. Owing to the opposition of his father, 

 no was compelled to study secretly in the garret. 

 When fifteen years old he was apprenticed to a 

 carver of church furniture and fancy wood in Paris, 

 and he followed this business till 1871. though never 

 abandoning his electrical investigations. In 1871 he 

 came to the United States, and established a wood- 

 carving shop of his own in Detroit, Mich. When, at 

 the height of his success, his father and several 

 friends undertook to force him to abandon his experi- 

 ments and what they called his waste of money, he 

 declared that he would devote the whole of his time 

 and money to tho study of electricity. He placed his 

 father at the head of his shop, and erected a building 

 near by to continue his favorite study. In 1880 he 

 removed to Chicago and formed an electric-lighting 

 company, using a dynamo of his own construction, 

 and in the following year began lighting the street* 

 of that city. As soon as this branch of work began 

 to be remunerative he conceived the idea of attempt- 

 ing to run street-railway cars by electricity, and in 



1883 erected a short exhibition road in Chicago. In 



1884 he constructed a .conduit road at the Toronto 

 Exhibition, Ontario, and in 1885 made the tirst 

 exhibition of the overhead trolley system at the same 

 place, and completed the first commercial application 

 of his plan for propelling cars by electricity at South 

 Bend, Ind. During the next throe years he took out 

 numerous patents, further developed^ his electric rail- 

 way plans, and equipped 13 roads with the overhead- 

 wire system. In 1888 he sold out his patents and 

 business to tho Thomson-Houston Company of Lynn, 



